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by espeed 7y ago
Many people have eyes on this. This is not about an investment.
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by espeed 7y ago
Some things are more significant than others. Like giving someone fire for the first time. Epochs mark the era before and after. Gifting the gap changes the game.
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by espeed 7y ago
How many NYT op-eds has Thiel written? He's only written one tweet [1]. It's rare. The significance of that should tell you something. [1] https://twitter.com/peterthiel
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Yes, especially when other armies were still on horses, food was fast to spoil and foodlines were hard to maintain. Planes were too, so were satellites. Still are. Any sufficiently advanced technology gives you an advantage and serves as a
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by espeed 7y ago
This is not about NIPS proceedings. It's about advanced nextgen chip hardware capability, something China does not have. It would be like giving someone a rocketship when they don't know how to build and pilot a plane. Inorganic
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by espeed 7y ago
China currently does not have the capability to design and make advanced hardware microprocessor chips. The Google/IBM OpenPOWER Foundation is simultaneously researching nextgen chips and teaching China how to do so. Giving China this
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by espeed 7y ago
Eric Schmidt chairs the Defense Innovation Board (DIB) [1], the US government knows about the Google/IBM China relationship. One big concern is with the China/Google/IBM OpenPOWER [2,3] collaboration. Advanced hardware chip t
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by espeed 7y ago
NB: Proof announcement thread from a few weeks ago... Sensitivity Conjecture Resolved https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20338281
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Knuth on Huang's Sensitivity Proof: “I've got the proof down to one page” [pdf](scottaaronson.com)
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Kevin Scott: Microsoft CTO – MIT AI [video](youtube.com)
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by espeed 7y ago
Not all of it is US sanctions [1]. The US will protect its networks and will not allow a foreign adversary to use US platforms to target US citizens, but the US has no incentive to restrict the Iranian people's access to information or
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Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams – CMU (2007) [video](youtube.com)
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Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company(theverge.com)
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Galaxy Network Embedding: A Hierarchical Community Structure Preserving Approach [pdf](ijcai.org)
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Google unveils advanced G Suite protection for high-risk employees(engadget.com)
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by espeed 7y ago
Why? is the hyperlink of the mind -- the unifying link between domains of knowledge know-how and true understanding. It's the most important question in the world. Truth is optimal, and why? is how you get there.
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Not only is it encrypted -- in transit and at rest -- Google uses its own silicon and has its own fiber.
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Google Should Acquire Lyft(forbes.com)
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by espeed 7y ago
Phi is hiding in there too ... succ(x) = (x^2 + 2x) / (x^2 + 1). Newton's method [0] ~> Decimal expansion converges quadratically 0.618... = [0;1,1,1,1,...]. Continued fraction grows by (+1)/ 0.618..., 1.
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Julia and MIT Reveal Differentiable Programming System Bridging AI and Science(medium.com)
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by espeed 7y ago
How does that work? ... Explanations invited. Hold the 1 fixed. Notice in both sequences the remaining numbers are 3 interleaved ordered sets, in multiples of 2. Then watch this (just happened to post it two hours ago too)... "Times
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Times Tables, Mandelbrot and the Heart of Mathematics [video](youtube.com)
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by espeed 7y ago
See comments in this previous thread from 31 days ago [1]... Google Safety & Security Blog: An update on state-sponsored activity (2018) ... Detecting and terminating activity on Google properties "Actors engaged in this type of in
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by espeed 7y ago
Yes, some of it is. See previous thread... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20302844
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by espeed 7y ago
Yes. He wrote The Cuckoo's Egg for one. My uncle gave me the book when I was a kid. The first Java program I wrote was a sequence generator for the Morris Number Sequence [2] given to Stoll by Robert Morris Sr at the NSA: "What
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by espeed 7y ago
Notice the relationships between Dempster–Shafer theory -- AKA the theory of belief functions / evidence theory -- for reasoning with uncertainty... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dempster-Shafer_theory
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MIT Fellow Says Facebook ‘Lifted’ His Ideas for Libra Cryptocurrency(coindesk.com)
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Polyscope: a C++ viewer and UI for the rapid prototyping of geometric algorithms(polyscope.run)
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During periods of transition, it can help to take the meta perspective. Fox began its remake first. It began during the Obama administration. Hollywood is being tested now. Some have been late to get the memo.
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Texas has its own grid too. In the summer it's hot, and air conditioning consumes a lot... "Power demand is highest in summer, primarily due to air conditioning use in homes and businesses. The region's all-time record peak h

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