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by gerash 5y ago
Even though the study looks very clear and crisp but the paper talks about theory of mind, etc. whereas dogs IMO are body language masters. It's not obvious that they need to model what the other animal (us) are "thinking" wh
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by gerash 5y ago
Depends on the dog but this is a relatively easy context to recreate so I'd recreate it (starting with low level stimulus and working your way up) in order to desensitize and counter condition the dog.
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by gerash 5y ago
Looks like a reasonable change. Individual cookies are website implementation details that's only useful to the website developer.
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by gerash 5y ago
It's nice seeing these well paid VPs of a comfy company choose to take the risk and go work at a startup but this company has too many "former VPs" so who's doing the actual work?
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by gerash 5y ago
Apart from the "evil" cliche you're right. It seems like all these executives are trying to do some growth hacking when a product hasn't gone viral. This guy probably promised significant user growth to his manager by
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by gerash 5y ago
Tesla FSD might end up getting good enough after a hardware upgrade in 5 years or so. The humanoid seems at least a decade or two away. That said, I truly enjoy that he's investing time and money in these futuristic sci-fi projects rat
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by gerash 5y ago
I agree that completely solving self driving is not feasible but a constrained version is. That said, there is also the factor of the car brake system. My hybrid car has a fairly rough transition from regenerative brake to the friction one
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by gerash 5y ago
If someone is ok with Apple handing over iCloud keys to the Chinese government to comply with local laws then scanning for CSAM is no different. Basically, if you have issue with this go change the law rather than ask large corporations t
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by gerash 5y ago
The money spent on the military does trickle down to create a set of jobs and funds some research work. That said, it doesn't seem like the best capital allocation. Spending so much human capital, time and effort on trying to put toget
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by gerash 5y ago
I doubt most think this is malicious but Apple did preach "what happens on an iphone stays on the iphone" which aged terribly given this feature. Apple has also benefited from the perception that Google (their smartphone rival) s
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by gerash 5y ago
I agree. NCMEC is the root cause. It's very much like the war on drugs. There are a lot of horrendous crimes out there and this level of overreach isn't deemed necessary for any of them. Child sex abuse seems to have become the ex
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by gerash 5y ago
gmail (and any other web based email) needs to "read" the email content to provide a search function. If the same program also uses the content to pick some ads from the inventory then I'm personally ok with that. That is dif
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by gerash 5y ago
It is a pretty dumb law IMHO for the mere fact that two teenagers sexting on snapchat when they are 17 years and 355 days old are committing a fairly serious crime that can completely mess up their lives if caught but doing that the next da
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by gerash 5y ago
By that logic, can we send in someone into your house every day to look through every corner for child porn in digital or print form? In fact there are a lot of heinous crimes out there some much worse than child porn IMHO. Singling out chi
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by gerash 5y ago
Are you claiming GMail looks through the emails to match them with crime keywords and reports you to the authorities? citation needed
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by gerash 5y ago
There are some points mentioned in https://youtu.be/l9SHUSP_LJ8 to tame everyone's expectations for this SOC.
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by gerash 5y ago
Lidar could make this false prediction less likely. That said, the computer vision is still far from human level. It lacks a common sense around how the world works.
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by gerash 5y ago
Neural nets esp. those than can run several times a second on a car (not in datacenters) are still very far from human level of perception. A human disambiguates by looking around, lots of prior knowledge about how the world works, etc. Tha
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by gerash 5y ago
I can't understand why instead of using all the possible senses: vision, auditory, radar, lidar they want to only use vision as if there's some sense of "purity" in doing that.
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by gerash 5y ago
It's meant for when you have a flight ticket in your Gmail or a restaurant reservation then if you search the name of the restaurant or flights on Google it'll display a link to your email among the search results. I think it&#x27
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by gerash 5y ago
BD focus has been mainly on control and locomotion whereas what Goog wants is neural net-ification of perception and control altogether.
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by gerash 5y ago
I remember that. Every other post on HN used to be how bad AMP is for the future of human civilization and how Google should have used page performance in their ranking instead. Well, Google did just that and now eli et al. moved the goal p
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by gerash 5y ago
I agree. From my experience, there are fewer fake and anonymous accounts on FB than on Twitter. Also a friend of mine had their home address, phone number and real names leaked to social media without his consent. He was able to take it dow
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by gerash 5y ago
Phone lines have this solved. You don't need to be on ATT to call someone on ATT. I don't get what's the deal with the messaging platforms. I hope some regulation forces interoperability.
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by gerash 5y ago
Tools like Twitter have turned into an outrage sharing machine, perhaps unintentionally. Everything is a snippet, a short context and evidence free photo or video followed by lots of anonymous outrage. There is also this virtual lynching on
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by gerash 5y ago
A friend of mine was targeted by a fringe group. They were doxxed along with some stolen private family photos and their real PII circulating around in Twitter with lots of threats from the dumpster fire that are Twitter accounts. It was a
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by gerash 5y ago
Are you implying that US worries about human rights when Saudi Arabia is the ally?
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by gerash 5y ago
It's interesting that DDG runs on Azure and uses Bing as its backend. That makes me wonder if this whole privacy theater of DDG is the new iteration of Microsoft's "scroogled" negative campaign. As much as I hate corpora
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by gerash 5y ago
Linux on desktop sucks because no one is maintaining it. Yes there are freelancers and volunteers but they can take it only this far. Linux works on the servers because lots of companies don't wanna be locked into MS offerings and pay
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by gerash 5y ago
SV has a momentum due to a number of factors. One of the ways they have been able to maintain the momentum has been the fact that CA allows employees freely move to a competitor and work there. This keeps the companies competing.

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