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by fnl 10y ago
But the whole argument in "casual calculus" is based on the assumption that you have a situation where controlled, randomized experiments are impossible. So why/how is that route not possible to design into recommender engin
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by fnl 10y ago
Berlin has become a lot more expensive recently, the cheap housing there is mostly historical now. And, income in Europe is much lower on average than in the US (except London, most parts of Switzerland, and such places), so you first have
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by fnl 10y ago
I actually disagree with both of you. SMMRY/AutoTLDR does an acceptable job when pasting URLs of the latest news, but its not something I would actually want to consume. More of a showcase that summarization AI has made some huge progr
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by fnl 10y ago
Isn't that precisely the way cities are built in Europe? If so, housing isn't necessarily cheap/affordable there, either.
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by fnl 10y ago
Which begs the question: Is modern's "occupied with crap" better, equal, or worse than the ancient "struggle to survive"? While in the measurable numbers game, the world certainly has become a better place (less chi
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by fnl 10y ago
Sorry lad, but most people I know of (and basically all use WA, are not privacy fanatics, or IT experts) saw the article, shrugged, and happily kept messaging (over WA). And even itsec guys I know did as much, after switching the notificati
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by fnl 10y ago
> text summarization are examples of NLP in real-world products Can someone point me to a satisfying demo of a professional text summarization software?
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by fnl 10y ago
That depends on your POV. Is iTunes phoning home legitimate traffic? Maybe for some/most, but I certainly block those attempts, to me iTunes is just a nuisance app, like GarageBand and a few others. LS does an excellent job at selectin
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by fnl 10y ago
Agreed; My favorite mobile option still are 13" notebooks, but that isn't exactly an Utra-book. But I do wonder if I could do with 11", sometimes at least.
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by fnl 10y ago
Have you considered getting something like a mobile beamer to get a bigger screen? Particularly if the ultra-book is already HD capable. Yes, it would require a "free" wall, but maybe that's OK. A bigger problem might be powe
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by fnl 10y ago
And make every one-liner a two-liner?
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by fnl 10y ago
Agree. Even better, though: # 4 def length(): return math.sqrt(.x**2 + .y**2 + .z**2) Ambiguity and "pseudo-keyword" are both gone! [EDITED code for better readability]
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by fnl 10y ago
Hmm, but that gets us back to "stage one": For that to work, you have to ignore your URL-bar...
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by fnl 10y ago
Thanks for the details, very enlightening! But its a bit one-sided, still: What are Schmidhuber's arguments on this issue?
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by fnl 10y ago
May I remind you that luck includes bad luck, too? ;-) (In other words: the "luck phenomenon" happens at both ends of the spectrum, not just the ones that got or were born rich and wealthy.)
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by fnl 10y ago
If you can't see luck as deciding factor in being extremely rich or poor, your world-view will dictate that hard work and discipline can get you out of poverty. Therefore, there is no need to help other people and the only tax you need
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by fnl 10y ago
Not necessarily. Just tax things that are not needed for daily life with a VAT that grows progressive in proportion to how far removed from "life support" it is. For example, tax yacht's and private jets, and fancy cars with
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by fnl 10y ago
I think this part of the discussion is really interesting. After all, this is about discussing an actual solution to the problem of "extreme luck" (good or bad). I don't see your point, however. The authors explicitly say it
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by fnl 10y ago
This thread is very important to the discussion, because it highlights an apparent opposite mindset of the article. As I posted elsewhere in this thread already, I think the real issue is that the ideas of Robert Frank are not about these &
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by fnl 10y ago
If your assumptions were true, then software engineers, medical doctors, or persons with whatever well-payed jobs there are at a given point in time should always end up on the bright side if they are hard working and disciplined. To that I
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by fnl 10y ago
While I agree that you can increase you "luck surface area" (e.g., by taking more chances), that doesn't mean it will help. It implies you also are increasing you "unlucky surface area", so if you "somehow&quot
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by fnl 10y ago
Assuming you implemented UBI, and changed nothing else, what would prevent the market from adjusting overall price levels (upwards) until those living only on an UBI again end up below the (now increased) poverty line? In other words, I bel
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by fnl 10y ago
Not citing prior work is a grave issue in the academic world. Papers can get accepted/rejected based on their novelty status. Missing citations of central topics of a work can therefore lead to retractions. I am not an expert on the is
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by fnl 10y ago
> They capture the 2FA code How can that be done? That's between my phone and Google, so how can they "listen in" on that?
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by fnl 10y ago
Anecdotally, one astonishing observation I often make is that "breakthrough" papers [1] are nearly universally among the most accessible, clear and easy to follow. From Watson and Crick on DNA in MolBio, to Backpropagation by Hint
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by fnl 10y ago
Sure, but I take it the original comment wasn't exactly by someone with some ML background. And getting to grips with log likelihoods, (cross-) entropy, linear/logistic regression, evaluation metrics, and maybe even some Bayesian
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by fnl 10y ago
Starting with DL? That's like learning calculus before geometry... YMMV?
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by fnl 10y ago
> I agree that people should ask questions, but my advice remains for employees which is to consider shares, or rights to shares, held for a private company to have zero value. That matches pretty exactly what three independent US (Calif
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by fnl 10y ago
Actually, the issue about continuity the article addresses is just the same for word embeddings, namely when there is an ambiguity. If the word has more than one meaning, the correct mapping is context dependent and the "one mapping fi
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by fnl 10y ago
The translation isn't "only nonsense", and in many cases even grammatically correct, but mostly semantically wrong, or rather weird. In any case, a long shot from a human translation. But I wouldn't agree that it's

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