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by ericjang 7y ago
It's not super clear yet what the mechanism of Chloroquine (and derivatives like HCQ) is in combating COVID-19 / Coronavirus, and I imagine people are not sure about Remdesivir either, except that it was previously developed as an
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by ericjang 7y ago
I'm talking about starting a crash program to produce masks and tests, organizing a national system to redirect resources like masks and ventilators, etc. Pretend for a second that you're Andrew Cuomo on January 1, 2020. What in
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Having this level of foresight and the guts to risk millions of unemployed workers for a "maybe scenario" is rare. If you were running the country, or were the governor of a coastal state like NY/CA, at what precise date woul
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The macroscopic transformation is time asymmetric (the balls will not sort themselves back again) even though the microscopic transformations are time symmetric (elastic collisions and frictionless movement). I agree with your observation
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Thanks! I had a chat with a mathematician friend today, and we came up with a fairly simple resolution actually that I'm pretty satisfied with: the trick here is to stop thinking of particles as T-symmetric billiard balls, and just to
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by ericjang 7y ago
Hummingbirds actually proves my point here, on how life and death solve the symbol grounding problem. What is a "stable grasp"? An entire body of classical robotics literature is devoted to answering this problem. I work on roboti
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by ericjang 7y ago
I agree with Searle insomuch that Life and Death is the real contingency with which gives a reality meaning. If the simulation had some arbitrary cellular-automata ruleset, there is no guarantee that the simulation would ever evolve into
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by ericjang 7y ago
OP here. I agree these 3 are not the most important problems of collective society; these are just ones that I have a personal interest and curiosity in :)
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Three Questions That Keep Me Up at Night(blog.evjang.com)
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I agree with you on tariffs, IP, currency. But I disagree on journalism: provoking China to expel American journalists is the last thing one wants when trying to serve American interests.
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by ericjang 7y ago
I'm a ML researcher: if you have video data/footage for this "spot the drowning child", I'd be interested in helping build a ML system for detecting this.
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by ericjang 7y ago
I am curious if anyone has called Mark Millard and requested what BRK's bid quote for >$20M shares is.
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PDF to non-paywalled article: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Olivia_Judson/publicati...
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Yann was not making a statement about deep nets' ability (or lack thereof) to fly a plane in a way that matches expert design. He's making the point that the ML field's obsession with causal inference (and causal discovery) i
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by ericjang 7y ago
If you believe that Tesla as a company is a reasonable capital allocator, and that the Cybertruck will end up being a flop, then you should expect that investing in Tesla will mean investing in the successful segments (Model Y per your pred
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by ericjang 7y ago
Might be simpler just to accelerate a small un-crewed ship to approach the speed of light, and strike the planet with it as a kinetic weapon (causing an extinction event but not enough to actually disintegrate the planet). Closely following
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by ericjang 7y ago
I, for one, thought it was an excellent title. It's always fascinating to read about the eccentric Peter Thiel, and this gave me some inspiration for how to structure my own future writing. Thanks :)
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A lot of the comments are rightly pointing out the logical fallacy of survivorship bias in the article, but I don't think Garry intended to say that "choosing to work for Palantir in 2003 was the expected-wealth maximizing career
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by ericjang 7y ago
Are large tech companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook considered to have good "work life balance"?
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by ericjang 7y ago
Thanks for the fascinating explanation. Which finance professor is this, and do you have more links/further reading on 1) 51% controlling interest chains 2) how corruption is typically structured in South Korea?
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by ericjang 7y ago
Thanks, you are correct :) I chose the spectral reflectance distributions by tuning the values manually until it looked correct. And yes, I didn't do gamma correction (I deliberately ignored photometry related conversions) so that coul
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by ericjang 7y ago
Thanks, your comment made my day :)
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by ericjang 7y ago
Thank you for this AMA, it was eye opening and made me think a lot about the organizational/tech debt barriers to creating AGI (or creating an organization that can create AGI). I'm a ML researcher working on Deep Learning for r
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by ericjang 7y ago
Self-Plug: If you're interested in a Jupyter notebook tutorial on implementing a basic differentiable path tracer (a physically based rendering algorithm), I wrote up a tutorial here: https://blog.evjang.com/2019/1
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by ericjang 7y ago
This is incredible. I've never seen LaTeX render so fast; it almost feels like WYSIWYG editing.
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by ericjang 7y ago
"I have nothing to do with startups but everything to do with my original statement." Source: https://www.parrot.vc/-LumCfM7z4sQiNiXMJIU
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Alphabet's Dream of an 'Everyday Robot' Is Just Out of Reach(wired.com)
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Self-Supervised Representation Learning(lilianweng.github.io)
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This sounds pretty advanced! What lab do you work in?
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Robinhood, Leverage, and Lemonade(blog.evjang.com)
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