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by fault1 5y ago
In some sense, the people doing "unpaid work" can be seen as trying to improve their own brand, name, or following. Very few of these influencers are able to monetize directly through this type of work though, unless it's thr
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by fault1 5y ago
It basically was the anti-Yahoo Answers. Over time, it became just like Yahoo Answers.
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by fault1 5y ago
I thought this critical paper about the original paper (and maybe rather the news or marketing about the original paper) was fair and helps put things into perspective: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04324 So a relatively
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by fault1 5y ago
Another way to see the it is to explore it from the matrix exponential structure and the link with trig (esp odd/even functions) or example this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWrt9Fj80Kc&list=PLlXfTHzgMR...
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You certainly do not need to have a phd in geometry and algebra for this. For example, the exp map is used all the time in robotics particularly in rigid body dynamics and kinematics. Here is a free book made for undergraduates that teaches
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by fault1 5y ago
I think what you are describing is the AI effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect 'AI' has always almost been a marketing term, anyways. I would call all of this pattern detection btw. But so would i
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by fault1 5y ago
per wikipedia (hence the interest in twistors, spin spaces and clifford algebras in physics): Quaternions also capture the spinorial character of rotations in three dimensions. For a three-dimensional object connected to its (fixed) surroun
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by fault1 5y ago
i've played with some libraries recently in julia that followed this strategy; https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-cliffordalgebras-jl/71... and I was surprised at how high dimensionality you could go. I&#x
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by fault1 5y ago
you also see the variations from the group structure; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion_group
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by fault1 5y ago
i wish i was taught in terms of euler' formula, which is probably the most useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_formula
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by fault1 5y ago
But in many industrial control systems, there is inherent adaptation required to deal with exogenous shocks or noise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-driven_control_system see also the last few chapters here; http:
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by fault1 5y ago
many formulations of RL systems and optimizing feedback control both have origins in for example, in optimal control theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontryagin%27s_maximum_princip...
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by fault1 5y ago
One problem is Julia is just ahead of time compiled, so you need something like JET to iteratively run stability analysis via abstract interpretation if you intend to run it for a top level program: https://aviatesk.github.io&#x2
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by fault1 5y ago
Yup. I did some hacking on khtml before Apple's announcement in my attempt to make the early 2000s the year of the Linux desktop. To be fair, every browser engine was kind of a mess at that time because everyone was trying to reverse e
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by fault1 5y ago
> closer we get to artificial intelligence, the more we raise the bar for what qualifies as AI (as we should). This is true, and in some regard, how it has always been. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect Alread
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by fault1 5y ago
Well under way? Some variation of a vector space model is what pretty much every IR model since the .com bubble has been based upon. Even before Google, Excite's technology was based upon this. PageRank was based on spectral graphs ess
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by fault1 5y ago
In essense, what the original Alexa did seems to have been internalized into Amazon ads (or their b2b analytics division), which is coincidently the fastest growing part of Amazon. Wonder why they used the Alexa name for their home assistan
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OTOH, it may cause companies to invest in creating a well maintained Rust frontend for gcc. People have already done much of the grunt work for this, so it seems like it's just a matter of manpower, and something that acceptance into t
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by fault1 5y ago
I would say for lower level code, when C++ is used, it's a C-like dialect of C++ that is used. This is even true with something like clang and llvm. Certainly the /more/ low level you go, the less C++-isms you see. These days
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by fault1 5y ago
> "The specific settings matter a lot.". Yes, and in the case of deep RL, the ability to to get "lucky" random initialization seems to (still) matter a lot. I work in real time control systems, which are roughly deci
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by fault1 5y ago
math at least has __nowhere__ near as much jargon as something like biology or the life sciences. I think a larger problem in reading math might be polysemy. Symbols have multiple meanings, so context has to be used to infer what meaning is
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by fault1 5y ago
Personally, I think Facebook's largest problem in this situation is that they were overly reliant on "AI" systems to flag hate speech, which is against their terms of service anyways. The problem is that Myanmar up until rece
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by fault1 5y ago
In this case, Meta was most definitely complicit for other reasons. - they started operating in a country but had no Myanmar-language human moderation, in a place where FB quickly became synonymous THE internet. - the AI-powered content mo
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I'm also surprised that XLA.jl doesn't seem to have had continued development: https://github.com/FluxML/XLA.jl When in doubt, piggybacking on (or at least interoperating with) what the large technology compa
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by fault1 5y ago
Yeah, but ecommerce is just one of amazon's (many) businesses.
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It may take a while, however. 15-20 years ago, you kind of had to use Python on the sly in the scientific setting vs the incumbents (MATLAB, C++, Fortran). Julia seems to be in a similar phase. That being said, Python does have some structu
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I think the audience would appreciate Mathematica because the two languages are both Lisp. Perhaps he should have accentuated the Lispyness of it though.
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They can always contract it out, and in some cases they do. For example Meta has (used to have?) large deals with Accenture to handle a lot of the interaction internationally.
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Sounds like the old metacrawler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCrawler The problem is that the indexes (google, bing, yandex) won't let you freely aggregate them anymore. DDG is a client of Microsoft just like
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by fault1 5y ago
> when Google decides what's good ("credible") for you. One of the problems is that black hat SEOs (among other people) have huge economic incentives to spread misinformation, including about the election. This is of cours

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