fizixer

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by fizixer 11y ago
Every time an existential post is made here, I have to remind people: As technologists you guys should have a little more confidence/faith/whatever in the progress we're making every passing day, than is evident from the tone
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by fizixer 11y ago
Any comparisons with: - minikanren - constraint logic prog - constraint solving - inductive logic ?
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by fizixer 11y ago
My response, as a minimum-wage hike supporter, to those CEOs who say "if you raise minimum wage, we'll automate": "Good! get off your lazy ass and make some technological progress!" That also means we should raise m
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by fizixer 11y ago
I guess what you're trying to say is that BayesDB and BQL are leaky abstractions?
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by fizixer 11y ago
Cites Schmidhuber besides Hinton and friends, so that is good. But where is mention of Marcus Hutter and his AIXI formalism? Any review of machine intelligence is incomplete without that.
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by fizixer 11y ago
Really great work. Thumbs up. As an experienced programmer who only recently got into compilers, I have a few, open ended, somewhat advanced, questions about the transformer phase (for anyone to comment, thanks in advance). It appears to me
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by fizixer 11y ago
Also, JakeVDP did xkcd-style plots [0] in 2012 (and I think now they're bundled as part of the IPython/Jupyter/Matplotlib/Anaconda package). [0] https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2012/10/07&#x
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by fizixer 11y ago
Data-driven decision-making to change the course of a business, is so internally disruptive it's unlikely to happen in an org-chart culture full of management layer. Because that's what it is: - It is attempting to question, criti
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by fizixer 11y ago
someone posted this comment in another thread [1]. (Also read the two parent comments of that comment). Essentially read and do exercises of ISLR (Intro to Statistical Learning, with applications in R). Will both give you a strong base, and
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by fizixer 11y ago
I know. I was half-joking. Also given the progress of DeepMind so far, it's very likely that whatever desktop setups they have, is working very well for them.
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by fizixer 11y ago
For anyone wondering, that's Ubuntu Linux (version most likely 14.04; Unity interface). off-topic: DeepMind should switch to a tiling window manager like i3 for increased keyboard-only productivity :)
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by fizixer 11y ago
I never understood in simple terms what terralang is actually about. Even in your sentence, if typed Lua is being "generated" (i.e., it's the target) how come Lua is being used as a metaprogramming language (i.e., a language
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by fizixer 11y ago
I'm desperately looking for a C preprocessor that dumps the AST (preferable in JSON format) instead of expanding the macros. And it treats the C/C++ code as just data. I plan to take the rest of the code and send it through clang
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by fizixer 11y ago
I'm starting to believe that every form of burial other than cryonics is unethical. As in you are taking away an opportunity from that human to have another shot at life.
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by fizixer 11y ago
It depends what you mean by hard to use. If it's an obsure architecture for which assembler, compiler, linker, the whole toolchain is not easily available, then the difficulty has nothing to do with the high core count. Also I'm n
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by fizixer 11y ago
My motto in this regard is 'simplify the hardware as much as possible and do your partitioning and structures and abstractions in the software'. So single address space or no? I ask 'which way gives the smaller chip footprint
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by fizixer 11y ago
I heard of Neural Turing Machines and now this is Neural Stack Machine. How are they same/different?
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by fizixer 11y ago
I'm an experienced programmer but I never got into the "flow of open source development". By that I mean some github users who's profile has consistent green squares for so many months in the past (meaning regular and fr
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by fizixer 11y ago
In support, I would mention the following: [1] Mike Acton's talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc [2] ZeroMQ article: http://250bpm.com/blog:4 [3] Cat-V harmful page: http://harm
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by fizixer 11y ago
Yeah right, and after 10-15 years you'll be able to perform tasks without a problem that a 2-year experienced programmer can perform in a scripting language if (s)he wants to be expressive, or C if (s)he wants to achieve performance. &
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by fizixer 11y ago
The scene is from Terminator 2 (1992) not The Terminator (1984).
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by fizixer 11y ago
Do they have 24-hour analytical sun+sky model? I'm obsessed with something like that ever since I came across Hosek-Wilkie model (unfortunately it is dawk+day+dusk only, no night time).
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by fizixer 11y ago
Not to mention, the question sounds like this: Is smartphone dying? You can use digital camera for photos, mp3 player for music, scientific calculator for math. Looks like a smartphone is being assaulted from all fronts.
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by fizixer 11y ago
> But now you're talking way more work, and yet another IR. What makes you think every abstraction layer has to be an IR? There's a reason we moved away from "assembly language" looking things: so we can think at a hi
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> You will spend forever eliminating undefined behavior. Wrong. You can build an abstraction layer above C code-generator which makes sure undefined C code doesn't get generated. > the debugging experience will be bad because you
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by fizixer 11y ago
Question to deep learning practitioners: Is there any research on comparing the 99.9% confidence about something wrong, to the human weakness of 'optical illusion'? If you watch a few minutes of this Dan Ariely TED Talk [1], we hu
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by fizixer 11y ago
Grey text is one of the silliest trend I have seen. If you've changed the background from white to light-grey, that's enough. Stop changing text from black to dark-grey (especially the non-bold text)!
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by fizixer 11y ago
Middle class tends to rise off of the redistribution of rich class's wealth. Like I said, the second part of my original comment. (which is a good thing, so maybe "worse" is not the best word).
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by fizixer 11y ago
Economy is pretty much a zero-sum game. The non-zero-sum game part (growth) is very small (2-3% even if that) if you consider a country's economy (or world economy) as a whole. I like to say if your income is consistently growing at ~1
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by fizixer 11y ago
Two sides to every story. What is not beautiful is that: - the people who conceived the original idea of the 'Actor model' were not appreciated enough, and their work had to languish in obscurity, during the OO (object-oriented) h

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