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Vibrational Modes, for Real(blogs.sciencemag.org)
1 points by etiam 8y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 8y ago
I'd be glad to see them finished. But, I know, plenty of claims on limited time.
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by etiam 8y ago
Interesting stories both. Did you ever get around to writing part 3?
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by etiam 8y ago
If one were to judge by the title, the commissioner and I are in excellent agreement over the gist of Facebook's character. The reasons may be different though. As much as I enjoy seeing people actually reacting to the atrocity rather
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by etiam 8y ago
Swedish railways have been staggeringly mismanaged and neglected since the 1990s. I wouldn't be surprised if they're one of the worst managed railway systems in the entirety of what used to be known as the developed world. But it
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Is AI as smart as a chimp or a lab rat? The Animal-AI Olympics aim to find out(technologyreview.com)
2 points by etiam 8y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 8y ago
"Deep Learning" group. https://plus.google.com/communities/112866381580457264725 Discussion as methods and questions emerged, often involving the pioneers of the field. LeCun, Bengio, Krizshevsky, Goodfellow,
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by etiam 8y ago
I spontaneously took it as a loose analogy to dominant male gorillas and the extent to which they need to be taken seriously.
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by etiam 8y ago
On a slightly related note, what do people use to save local copies of valuable Google+ groups? If I understand correctly we're less than a month from shutdown?
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Lavabit Pitches Dark Internet Mail Environment (Dime)(republic.co)
4 points by etiam 8y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 8y ago
I always figured the main point was behavioral profiling on mouse and keystroke trajectories.
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Nature Outlook: Tea(nature.com)
2 points by etiam 8y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 8y ago
Haven't been following Haidt on this topic. What's the hypothesis?
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by etiam 8y ago
As for low-level brain effects I'm reminded of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18385536 "Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain"
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by etiam 8y ago
> Books would cause the same withdrawal from actual people and the physical world No. "Also", but not "the same". And certainly not in the same way. rimliu made a similar point earlier https://news.ycombina
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by etiam 8y ago
Fair objection and, I think, true to some extent. But first off, most people didn't do that sort of reading (if ever) until they were a couple of years into school, because of the reading skill threshold, and second, the books tend to
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by etiam 8y ago
Tendentious language. Who actually worries about children's "well-being" (in the short term) being impaired by too much iDevices? I'm concerned about interference with learning and development needed to interact with act
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A Fundamentally Illegitimate Choice:Zuboff on the Age of Surveillance Capitalism(theintercept.com)
6 points by etiam 8y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 8y ago
Thank you! You're quite right that seems to match my description the best. Unfortunately I seem to have amalgamated two different presentations in my memory then, so I'm still missing one. Similar ones that were good?
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Ask HN: Video talk about leveraging unconscious mind for problem solving?
2 points by etiam 8y ago|3 comments
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by etiam 8y ago
"Arxiv Sanity Preserver: Because things are seriously getting out of hand" --Andrej Karpathy :)
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by etiam 8y ago
"Along with the original title, it is among the biggest and most successful games of all time, with players competing in esports tournaments for more than 20 years." ... Dear Mister Language Person: I am curious about the expressi
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by etiam 8y ago
In the very long run it's hard to see that we could compete with arbitrary scalability and lightning fast operations. In present and imminent situations, I thing Louis Rosenberg had an exceedingly important point in "Artificial In
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by etiam 8y ago
Wish they'd stayed away from LASER. That acronym's already taken...
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by etiam 8y ago
Here are a couple of the discussions on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18787086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16254760
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Never mind killer robots–here are six real AI dangers to watch out for in 2019(technologyreview.com)
4 points by etiam 8y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 8y ago
If so, it is fit only for Him, and it behooves us not to try to write in it. "Language" and "code" are shitty metaphors for what DNA does in living organisms, and it misses almost everything about what's needed to g
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by etiam 8y ago
Despite an oft-cited testimonial to the contrary, the Word was nowhere to be found in the Beginning. Sure you could device something to take written instructions and produce peptides according to it, but it won't be a "programming
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by etiam 8y ago
Nets used for practical machine learning today are too abstract to incorporate them in any meaningful way. When you reduce the whole "neuron" to a weighted sum wrapped by some nonlinear function, in discrete timesteps, you've
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We Have Given People Amyloid Disease(blogs.sciencemag.org)
123 points by etiam 8y ago|11 comments

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