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gbolcer
6y ago
What's the old saying? If everything is "special" then nothing is.
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6y ago
First thing I did was try to run this in Bash/WSL and display it to Xming on Win10. I couldn't get it to recognize the screen, so was upgrading. Will report back. If it works then that will be one of the most useful things ever.
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6y ago
BTW, Google Brain posted this on the subject of "brute force" solutions yesterday. I thought it would be of interest here. The big idea here is that enough brute force will lead to better compute-use techniques which will in turn
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6y ago
To your first question, yes it's just a style of solving a problem that can be implemented in software for 90%+ of the time. For your second, I think that's part of the problem. Most people confuse how a human brain learns with w
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6y ago
Technology Review summary of AI and ML adoption into business. It indicates, while you leading thinkers have figured it out, business is a long ways from being anywhere near peak ML. https://mittrinsights.s3.amazonaws.com/A
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gbolcer
6y ago
I like yours better.
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6y ago
Graduate Student Descent -- there's also the other saying: Every moment you spend writing, publishing, or working on your dissertation is a moment that you are getting behind on doing unique and cutting edge research.
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6y ago
I can't speak for them, but I took it this way: there are certain industries that are simply incentivized to produce more of their own industry. The criticisms of the financial industry where they are not really creating anything of va
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6y ago
It's just another tool. I have this saying: all machine learning is just clever tricks and techniques until someone learns how to brute force the solution. It's the same adoption/business technology tension that has existed
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6y ago
https://www.dankohn.com/health Though it hadn't been updated. There was a FoRK post on the 26th. http://xent.com/pipermail/fork/Week-of-Mon-20201026/066478.h...
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6y ago
I like the thrust vectoring part, but what I really need is that in the upper tube to do parachute steering with an automated "return to launch GPS coordinate" setting. I lose so many rockets because of that.
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6y ago
"total size of requested files (105 GB) is too large for zip-on-the-fly" Bummer, I was going to download and watch offline using a USB in my TV.
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6y ago
There are a couple of sites that auto-started video and when you scrolled down, automatically did picture-in-picture. In fact I think Facebook even experimented with it for a while. The problem with those implementations was that the user
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gbolcer
6y ago
He should just ban them for a year just to see what their reaction is.
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gbolcer
6y ago
He should just ban them for a year.
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7y ago
Nice! I did the same thing for ASR technologies a while back. Results here. https://drive.google.com/a/bolcer.org/file/d/1CJTHikHldMYTMv... (methodology: same parts of speech analysis on exact transcr
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8y ago
The most effective weapon on the modern space battlefield is boron-nanotube foamed concrete, though it'll probably work on earth too. (PhoamBCon)