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by ewjordan 9y ago
The median family income in Portland (the city proper, not the metro area) was $77k in 2015 according to http://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/oregon/portland/ . $1500/month is totally within the bounds of
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Yes, but a lot of people, for various reasons, either believe that econ 101 arguments don't apply in this situation or that even if they do, the effects of building market rate housing are still undesirable. Their actual stated argumen
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Not sure whether that was a jab at Numenta or not, but I do think the combination of these two comments cuts to the heart of the PR problem for Numenta: they're neither trying to do 0.1% better on the classic perception benchmarks th
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Only in strict GR - when quantum effects are taken into account, the entire black hole will evaporate into Hawking radiation in a finite time.
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In this article they're using the word "dendrite" to mean a bit more than just an input to a neuron (which does exist in NN models) - one of the often criticized simplifications of most neural net models is that they don&#x27
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Do you think removing the option of working for Uber would make things better for the steamrolled? If so, then why are they choosing to work for Uber instead of doing whatever they'd be doing if Uber wasn't around? Are you saying
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by ewjordan 9y ago
"the most ergonomic keyboards are those that require the least amount of repetitive motion" Not sure I can agree with that. I was using one of the Apple keyboards for quite a long time while running liveops on an online game (whic
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by ewjordan 9y ago
I'd recommend making at least three games and shipping them on existing engines before trying to write your own. That's the best way to figure out what is and isn't a must-have feature. Beyond that, if you're interested
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Is there actual research that shows that the sleep/eat/exercise approach works by itself for everyone that is compliant? Most of the psychiatric community would absolutely agree that it helps, or couldn't hurt, but (anecdotal
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by ewjordan 9y ago
No, that's a misunderstanding of what hypercomputation is. If you can write down or talk yourself through a proof of why a program will halt, you have solved a computable problem. By definition. When you say "we can decide a whole
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by ewjordan 9y ago
I think I tend to agree (and actually, the author does, as well), the interesting question is whether we've been underestimating the number of artificial "neurons" we'll need. If each biological neuron is actually essent
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Please at least read the Wikipedia articles on computability ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computability ) and hypercomputation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercomputation ) before making argum
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Nobody has ever established that human intelligence is not computable. Human intelligence can't solve any of the well-defined problems you mention, or transcend the limitations of any of those theorems. Don't mistake the idea of a
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The key to the claim that other computational estimates are way off is essentially that there's a lot of data crunching happening within a single neuron, rather than it being something we can model as collecting a bunch of inputs and e
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by ewjordan 9y ago
We all just click through cookie popups, the specific text doesn't make any difference to 99% of users, if not more. The only thing legislation like that does is make companies pay people like me a little more to implement popups that
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by ewjordan 9y ago
The scientific misunderstandings are extremely offensive at times, too: a philosophy professor teaching metaphysics at Yale a long while back once offered a completely serious argument against relativity of simultaneity by snapping his righ
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by ewjordan 9y ago
So...it's evil for Google to not want to fund a group that has people actively working towards hurting Google's business interests? Meh. Find a hand to feed you that's not the one you're currently trying to bite. There a
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by ewjordan 9y ago
That we don't acknowledge every drug addict that we walk by does not mean that we don't care or are not acting in many ways to attempt to help them. It just means that stopping and giving cash every time we pass them is not a help
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by ewjordan 9y ago
I actually think the next comment is more meaningful as an explanation: One other key factor that hasn't been mentioned yet: Harvey Mudd requires all first-year students to take their intro CS course I've been arguing for a long
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by ewjordan 9y ago
When a good is in limited supply, yes, it's trivially true that increasing supply will allow more people to use that good. That is not the same as saying that more supply will drive up demand or prices, merely that more of the existing
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Google's hiring rate between men and women does seem to match the relative rates that men and women graduate with CS degrees, which suggests that they're at least not discriminating at that level. There are still arguments to be
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Documentation effort towards OSX would help vastly more people than similar efforts for any flavor of Linux, which nobody plus epsilon uses (except amongst devs). Impact is a big factor in how useful an activity is, even if it's tied t
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Just to clarify, my comment is not meant to defend poor hiring practices in any way, I'm very much in favor of agressive efforts to improve diversity numbers (including heavy affirmative action). I just get bothered by the use of the t
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Without digging too deep into the rest of this issue, do you consider Asian men white? Or is the situation a little more complicated than white men only choosing their own?
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I don't follow this stuff closely, so I'm clearly missing an important detail here: how can several different entities simultaneously have the ability to "easily" control 51% of the hashrate?
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Given that you're all over this thread, do you have any connections in the farm industry? Or is this just an issue that you randomly feel strongly about?
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There's a ton of overlap with the people that stop taking antibiotics once they feel better rather than finishing the course (and thus have them sitting around, and decide to take them the next time anything at all is wrong). In some c
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by ewjordan 9y ago
FWIW I'm totally with you here: this particular family was who I was aiming the "scum" comment at, not the entire culture. I'm never going to do a song and dance in favor of that culture, though, because it is pretty m
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by ewjordan 9y ago
The Turkish situation referenced ( http://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two... ) is not an indictment of bad tech, but of a fucked up honor-based patriarchal culture. "Ramazan went to the family&
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Fair enough, I'm very sorry about the crisis and hope it works out okay. I 100% agree with your calling out constant sexualization of women as a major problem that permeates the industry, so I don't think we're really that fa

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