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by erostrate 11y ago
JetBrains products are very powerful, well designed, customizable, and overall awesome in my experience (ReSharper and PyCharm). Looking forward to this! And really hoping they will have a free edition, although I doubt it.
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Isn't this counterargument similar to the reply labelled (1) in part 4? Quoting the text: (1) Some critics concede that the man in the room doesn't understand Chinese, but hold that nevertheless running the program may create some
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Furthermore the know-it-all tone undermines credibility for me. Societies are complicated systems. People who claim to have a simple model to explain many events are more likely to be deluded than correct. By deluded I mean suffering from c
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by erostrate 11y ago
Indeed, trendmicro doesnt say anything about that. Let's Encrypt says "The concern most commonly expressed is that having valid HTTPS certificates helps these sites look more legitimate, making people more likely to trust them.&qu
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I agree. More generally I have often wondered if pure mathematics (and theoretical physics [1]) will reach such a level of abstraction that it becomes impossible to digest all the established ideas in order to build on it. The mathematician
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by erostrate 11y ago
Anybody knows if there is any chance of OpenAI sponsoring H1B visas? I love the idea but being in Europe my options for doing serious AI research outside of academia seem pretty much limited to Google and Facebook.
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by erostrate 11y ago
There are dozens of papers attempting to prove the Riemann Hypothesis. Here is a list [1]. A joke from the author of the list: "It's easier to prove the RH than to get someone to read your proof". [1] http://empslo
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"Linux is a cancer" Microsoft's CEO, 2001 (Steve Ballmer) Source: http://slashdot.org/story/01/06/01/1658258/ballmer-calls-lin...
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by erostrate 11y ago
> At least in finance you can get to a number where you can finally say 'fuck it', and go do what you really want to do... I recently quit my job. I was working for a large investment bank. Many people talk about leaving to do
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I don't know if Apple actually means that, but the EFF gives Apple 5 stars out of 5 when assessing which companies protect their customers from government data requests: https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-
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by erostrate 11y ago
Into eternity is a documentary on a long term nuclear waste storage facility in Finland. It is fascinating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)
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Division by three (2006)(arxiv.org)
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My first thought was the same as number 3, the scientific method. But looking at history, many important discoveries were made long before the scientific method was formalised. It seems some weak, intuitive form of the scientific method cam
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The code is online if you want to play with it. https://sites.google.com/a/deepmind.com/dqn/ If you're interested, one of the main authors (David Silver) teaches a very good and intuitive introductory cl
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by erostrate 12y ago
An interesting stat to keep in mind about imposter syndrome: about 2/3 of people accepted at Stanford Business School feel they don't really deserve to be here. Source: "The Charisma Myth", Olivia Fox Cabane.