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by feral 8y ago
I don't know whether you are right, but I don't find your argument persuasive. You could have made a parallel argument, before Youtube, about how people wanted only professional content, why a service for user created content woul
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by feral 8y ago
> (10,000 of agriculture is blip on the radar for our species) Just to point out, those 10k years of agriculture are actually the most recent 10k years, with potentially huge selection pressure for periods during that time.
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by feral 8y ago
Yeah; but I thought that was Dixie in Case's 'body', presumably so Linda thought it was Case. I.e. Dixie steals his identity in Neuromancer's virtual world. That wouldn't preclude the merge; if anything the merge pr
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by feral 8y ago
> The Neuromancer AI made a copy of Case to keep its copy of dead Linda company: A small detail - while it's left ambiguous, FWIW I always thought that was Dixie, not a copy of Case. That's why Case hears Dixie's laughter
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by feral 8y ago
In the Republic of Ireland we use single transferable vote with proportional representation (which I think is a really good voting system, although a bit complex to understand the operation of). UK is still first past the post for MPs. Aust
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by feral 9y ago
Nonsense, at least today. If 'massive IT education programs' had made engineers disposable, then salaries would be a lot lower. (If you need 'data' on this, Glassdoor says FB SWE salaries are >120k, total comp will be
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by feral 9y ago
Being bullied sucks. I will teach my kids to use any tools available to stop them being bullied. If resorting to authority solves the problem, then thats great. That's how you deal with bullies, by using whatever works; not by followin
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by feral 9y ago
You, and ideally everyone else commenting on this stuff on HN, should just have a very quick read of Turing's original paper before criticizing. It is very well thought-out: Alan Turing, 1950: "The game may perhaps be criticised o
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by feral 9y ago
But the "imitate human" part, as you put it, provides a simple framework & easy to validate testing protocol which is flexible enough to cover the above example and many others. That's why its useful.
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by feral 9y ago
Looking forward to listening to this recording; I'm always telling people interested in the philosphy of AI to read Turing's papers, as, like the author says, they are surprisingly relevant. Have to comment on this though: "
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Intercom on the product implications of AI and machine learning(blog.intercom.com)
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by feral 9y ago
I've seen a lot of articles about sitting but always have some questions: - I work with computers so sitting or standing a large portion of time is inevitable. - Is the real problem sitting/standing, or being unfit? If I don'
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by feral 9y ago
What are you trying to say here? That if a fact (such as that a particular field spins tenuous research into facts - let's assume that's a fact) happens to lead us to a conclusion we don't like, we should 'be careful&#x2
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by feral 9y ago
>What if someone cashes out before Bobcorp notices? People (exchanges etc) will be wary of accepting large transactions which have moved a lot recently from untrusted sources, whereas coins that have sat in the same wallet for a few week
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by feral 9y ago
You've got to imagine that in a future world this priced proportionally to the level of taint; addresses are devalued proportional to the degree of taint, maybe with some premium for completely clean addresses. I'm not saying a c
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by feral 9y ago
http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4524 (This is also in my profile.)
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by feral 9y ago
I was an author of one of the first papers examining bitcoin's lack of anonymity. People understand things a lot more now, but from this thread, in my opinion people still don't 'get it'. The traceability issue is not ma
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by feral 9y ago
It's a fair question. I don't know. But the causal ordering here shouldn't change how we feel about Twitter. As an analogy, it's a bit like if you have a candidate running on a racist platform in an election. Maybe you c
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by feral 9y ago
Fixed, thanks. Someone should comment about how autocorrect is destroying our civilization :) (I love autocorrect which I think enables us to concentrate more on meaning of communication than mechanics - occasional errors aside!)
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by feral 9y ago
Tech design choices can have profound social impact. This is just a personal theory, but I suspect Twitter's choices have done huge damage to Western Civilization, by forcing, as a medium, a very short 'soundbite' structure o
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by feral 9y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by 'expectation of one case' here, but just to clarify: rolling a ten-sided dice, 10 times, gives a 65% chance of rolling at least one 10. So you still have a 35% chance of zero 'wins'. I
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by feral 9y ago
A personal anecdote from a non-historian: Some years back I took a holiday in Malta. Taking the ferry to Valletta, climbing the ramp up from the dock, I was shocked to see the scale of the fortifications. I knew it was a strategically impor
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by feral 10y ago
>You never really explain how you can set that up easily and use it efficiently . Conesus, apologies if I'm wrong, but I suspect you might not have understood the core issue Daveguy is raising here. I don't think its about pai
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by feral 10y ago
Just to note, there's a tradeoff here - not publishing work until you are massively certain of it would also cause real life harm. Reducing the p value doesn't automatically reduce harm. Physicists require extremely low values be
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by feral 10y ago
Yes, I think that's true. Basically, the interfaces of the models/tools/abstractions people will use will be 'leaky'. For example, you can take a machine learning method from scikit learn, which works really well on
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by feral 10y ago
You can argue against Cuban's point that anyone who doesn't know machine learning will be "dinosaur in 3 years", while also being enthusiastic about deep learning. > "traditional" machine learning methods ..
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by feral 10y ago
Reading HN I worry that we're going to have the opposite problem - a glut of people will try and (badly?) learn ML and then realize there aren't enough ML jobs. I've a PhD and held ML-engineer positions in a few different c
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by feral 10y ago
> I assume dispersion of parking locations is the distance from parking location to destination? I would guess its the density of parking locations in a given area, rather than distance to destination?
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by feral 10y ago
> "AI run hedge fund blows up due to black swan event" Knight Capital, 2012: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-08-02/knight-sh...
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by feral 10y ago
>That's a good thing: No; that essay might argue that inequality is a necessary side-effect or condition of startups, but that is not the same as arguing it is a "good thing". For comparison: pollution might be a necessary

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