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by fchollet 13y ago
Ah, mathematics. Most of it is absolutely useless, and yet, Physics and engineering won't stop finding new applications for the most abstract mathematical concepts. Modern physics would have been impossible to develop without the usele
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Map of cultural values across the world(upload.wikimedia.org)
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by fchollet 13y ago
Fascinating story, but that article reads like the journalist took troll stories from 4c as sources. Seriously, whoever wrote this appears to be clueless. > "a robotic voice told them to find the prime numbers in the original image.
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by fchollet 13y ago
Correct, expect arbitrage is risky in illiquid markets. Here your BTC will take a while to get into your wallet after buying them on Coinbase or BTC-e (about 10 days on Coinbase). Your wire transfers will also take a few days to clear. Duri
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by fchollet 13y ago
Wouldn't BTC lose all value if there was a majority attack? Because surely such an attack would be quickly detected.
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by fchollet 13y ago
I would tend to agree with you: the Bitcoin client looks like the work of a developer, not that of an academic. So it would not have been created by Szabo. The author of the blog post mentions that Szabo could have had technical collaborato
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by fchollet 13y ago
If Rossi had a device that actually worked as advertised, the first thing he would do would be to set up multiple peer-reviewed demonstrations that would prove his claims in an undebatable way. As soon as incontrovertible evidence was provi
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by fchollet 13y ago
Elon Musk just clarified what happened: "Saw pressure fluctuations on Falcon boost stage liquid oxygen tank. Want to be super careful, so pushing launch to Thurs." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/4051
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by fchollet 13y ago
You should have kept reading --it's every other word. I liked the "Reopened on Novebmer 6th 2013". The rigorousness of the argument and research is comparable to that of the proofreading.
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by fchollet 13y ago
Being familiar with Dileep's past research: the algorithm used by Vicarious here is very likely based on the Hierarchical-Temporal Memory (HTM) technology developed by Hawkins, Dileep and the folks at Numenta [1]. HTM is documented in
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by fchollet 13y ago
Even assuming that the human brain somehow "works better" in a state of hunger (which this study does not prove), I would still do better work in a state of satiation. The number one factor for doing good work is to sit down, get
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by fchollet 13y ago
But this couldn't be introduced in the US, and maybe not even in Europe. In the US you would definitely get instantly sued (and lose) for discrimination on physical fitness.
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by fchollet 13y ago
In that case then what is the added value compared to Mahout, the Hadoop-based ML framework? I'm always extremely skeptical of such initiatives, because ML is not a magical black box where you put your data in one end and you get resul
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by fchollet 13y ago
While the intent is laudable, this is ridiculous. If you are serious about Internet freedoms, then act serious about it. Take example on the EFF. Information freedom is a major social and political problem --I would say it qualifies as a
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by fchollet 13y ago
Dell laptops are assembled by cats. Incontinent cats.
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by fchollet 13y ago
But of course they're not allowed to. If a thug beats you up, they don't "allow" you to talk about it either. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't go to the police --or in this case, to independent, foreign medi
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by fchollet 13y ago
I never thought of SV as a monoculture, when it comes to nationality and race (it does suffer from a bad case of groupthink though...) In SV you will find engineers, designers and managers from all over the world --Russia, China, Europe, et
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by fchollet 13y ago
With AI and advanced automation, and possibly crowdsourcing, it becomes credible that any type of economic value could eventually be produced in a decentralized fashion. And one can imagine that such autonomous corporations would evolve to
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by fchollet 13y ago
If Google could detect this behavior, wouldn't they kick the culprit out of AdSense?
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by fchollet 13y ago
I lived in NYC for a year, working right next to Hell's Kitchen. While the food is great, it's certainly not "incomparable". Paris has better restaurants. Tokyo has better restaurants (cheaper too in that case). Even San
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by fchollet 13y ago
Now that's a position I would envy: busting your ass working 80 hours a week developing world-changing products ("WordPress plugins and iPhone apps like Santa Strike") so that somebody else, who doesn't respect you as an
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by fchollet 13y ago
I made something similar for a webapp of mine (demo at http://www.wysp.ws/practice/course/1057894/ -- it's meant for painting so the functionality is a bit different, you control opacity) A difficulty I
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by fchollet 13y ago
The fact that some very individually distinctive features are still present on some pictures (why do some of these faces smile, and some don't?), I would guess that the number of pictures that was averaged was ridiculously low, 10 mayb
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by fchollet 13y ago
Yes, it seems it supports several fingerprints.
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by fchollet 13y ago
A quick search turns up Bucculatricidae as a good candidate. Example cocoon: http://bugguide.net/images/raw/Y0BQZSBQF0AQJ08KLSBQTK5KCK4K9...
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by fchollet 13y ago
I second this, I would love to see EFF in the list.
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by fchollet 13y ago
Two remarks about taking the booth lady as an example: 1) Her job has already been automated, thus validating the automation thesis. Her job has/used to have two aspects: ticket sales, and information. Tickets are now being sold by a
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by fchollet 13y ago
Thank you, I didn't know about this. Very helpful.
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by fchollet 13y ago
Right after I buy one, awesome.
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by fchollet 13y ago
That was like a perfect storm of self-obsession, self-indulgence, self-aggrandizement and self-pity. Then again, kudos to her for making a tough decision that made her life better. Now I sincerely hope that her increased freedom will allow

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