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by fvdessen 8y ago
> how can you tell that it is not self-aware ? Let the algorithm run for a while and see if it starts asking itself existential questions on the nature of consciousness.
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by fvdessen 8y ago
The philosophical distinction between deterministic and random is not that clear as the randomness itself could be determined by a hidden process, as in "god is rolling the dices". Likewise the distinction between deterministic an
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by fvdessen 8y ago
> The way to do this well is to break down a feature until they’re at about half-day sizes tasks. I have never seen that work in practice.
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by fvdessen 8y ago
Is poverty really linked to food scarcity in western countries anymore ? The statistics show that overall, the poor are fatter than the rich.
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by fvdessen 8y ago
I am a french speaking Belgian, google translate / DeepL lets me follow Flemish politics
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by fvdessen 8y ago
On the other hand Deepl gives translations for news articles that are of such quality that it allows me to read international news as if it were local. Definitely useful.
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by fvdessen 8y ago
> No, but you are the de-facto DPO The GDPR requires that the DPO must be independent from the organisation, so you can't be 'your own DPO'. On the other hand the DPO is only required when sensitive or large quantities of
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by fvdessen 8y ago
Maybe the EU is doing better than ever on some metrics, but I find it quite scary how over the last 20 years, Europe has completely missed the train on technology. We are now in a vassal position where we have to beg foreign CEOs to have so
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by fvdessen 8y ago
I don't really see the threat considering how much cheaper and more effective it is to give that weapon to a young man rather than mounting it on that expensive robot.
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by fvdessen 8y ago
> warn hapless human when they ended up in conversation with an AI pretending to be human. If people can't make the difference, what do they gain by knowing, and if they can, how does the warning help ?
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by fvdessen 8y ago
Does anybody knows what is the autonomy of this helicopter ?
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by fvdessen 8y ago
> While not cost effective in the slightest I looked it up, and underground storage seems to cost about the same as launching into space with falcon heavy launches, at about 1700$ per kg. [1] https://www.smh.com.au/busine
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by fvdessen 8y ago
I had the opposite experience. We had a large client application that was too slow, with no obvious bottleneck on the flame graph. I replaced all the functional iterators by for loops among other similar optimisations, and improved the perf
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by fvdessen 8y ago
> The issue is that racial categories are completely arbitrary to begin with It's not entirely arbitrary. If you run a clustering algorithm on the human genome you get clusters that match quite well the usual definition of races and
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by fvdessen 9y ago
They make it easy to communicate to a lot of people at once. Whether those communications are good or bad is in the eye of the beholder. Expecting our communication channels to sort out the good from the bad is how we get to Chinese levels
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by fvdessen 9y ago
And your body and worries are just tools that help your genes reproduce.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
- Self-driving cars - Camera that make better looking pictures - Better looking movies / videogames - Better medical diagnostics. - Face recognition - City surveillance; finding criminals, lost children.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Yes we have, and while the various new JS frameworks may be a bit more complicated they are also vastly more productive environments. For example webpack's development server let you develop your app with real time updates with hot rel
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by fvdessen 9y ago
> A very modest improvement to this system, known as PIN and chip, came to the U.S. recently after years in Europe and Asia. Chip and PIN is a private initiative. I don't know why it took off in Europe/Asia and not in the USA,
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by fvdessen 9y ago
This somehow makes me really curious about which construction techniques make the longest-lasting buildings.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
AFAIK web assembly is not much faster than native javascript for general purpose code. I think the main usage of web assembly will be in optimising hot paths in math libraries, codecs and various performance sensitive code, but those are no
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by fvdessen 9y ago
What exactly do you think that the propaganda divisions of the various national spy agencies are doing ?
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by fvdessen 9y ago
JavaScript ES6 is actually a very pleasant language to program in. JS already had good foundations with first class JSON, closures and event based asynchronous programming. Now it has a modern syntax with await, classes, destructuring, defa
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by fvdessen 9y ago
> Do you genuinely think that the GIMP developers don't want or don't try to make it usable or to improve it as much as they can? Ten years ago they made a call to artists to find out what they could improve, then didn't l
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by fvdessen 9y ago
People already did that for years only to be completely ignored (or worse) by the GIMP developers.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
There is also vast amount of astroturfing by the USA & NATO Spy agencies, although I suspect it's a bit more risky for tumblr to report on those.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
Because I find in AI's candid responses to the questions we ask a fascinating opportunity to understand humanity better. When we try to conform those answers to our desired biases we learn less from it. But now I understand that such a
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by fvdessen 9y ago
I read the Bolukbasi paper and I now see where you are getting at. I think that the problem is not one of bias but rather that words vector embed the whole meaning regardless of the context. And that debiasing is rather stop-gap solution as
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by fvdessen 9y ago
That's because what's called 'debiasing' is not actually removing bias but adding another opposite one at the superficial layers we can actually notice.
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by fvdessen 9y ago
IIRC, if you remove the 'uh' and 'hmm' from audio samples to train for speech recognition, you get lesser performance than if you leave them in. So it is not that easy to differentiate a-priori between actual data and no

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