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by grumpopotamus 4y ago
Hmm, I think that is a non-sequitur. How does the brain's use of electrons say anything about the efficiency of photons for computing?
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by grumpopotamus 4y ago
https://coconut-lang.org/
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by grumpopotamus 4y ago
Any benchmark comparisons to mypyc yet?
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by grumpopotamus 4y ago
Maybe word for word translation is the phrase we're looking for? As opposed to an idiomatic translation. Transliteration means phonetically translating from one alphabet to another, in order to p reserve the pronunciation.
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by grumpopotamus 4y ago
The top chess engines are now much much stronger than humans, and they will find some moves that grandmasters are unlikely to even consider. One recent example was Kf8 in the recent Patrycja Waszczuk cheating scandal: https://www
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by grumpopotamus 4y ago
What is your definition of sentience? I've seen it defined as "having feelings" or as "having feelings and self-awareness". I don't see why the ability to add numbers should have anything to do with that. Some
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by grumpopotamus 4y ago
> GPT-3 is known to fail in many circumstances which would otherwise be commonplace logic. (I remember seeing how addition of two small numbers yielded results - but larger numbers gave garbled output; more likely that GPT3 had seen simi
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by grumpopotamus 4y ago
It's unclear if we can ever know. How can you tell if the neural net is having a subjective conscious experience, or if it's just outputting words in the dark? Clearly they are already capable of very sophisticated communication,
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by grumpopotamus 4y ago
We can definitely simulate things approximately, but exact simulations are another matter entirely, and how much do you lose in the approximation? PBS spacetime discussed the intractability of simulating even one atom exactly: https:/
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by grumpopotamus 4y ago
2013-present: Through action, inaction, and failure to cooperate Facebook plays a critical role in enabling genocide in Myanmar. 2020-present: Facebook enables ethnic cleansing in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
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by grumpopotamus 5y ago
I never see this one mentioned: Google crawls the web at a high rate and is able to index new content rapidly. This is possible because every site lets googlebot through. But if you are not already an established search engine everyone will
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by grumpopotamus 5y ago
http://wiki.c2.com/?QuantumBogoSort QuantumBogoSort a quantum sorting algorithm which can sort any list in O(1), using the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics. It works as follows: 1. Quantumly rando
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by grumpopotamus 6y ago
What is the inference set up here? How does it remember what the previous question was?
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by grumpopotamus 6y ago
The last AMD laptop I bought froze randomly every few hours on Ubuntu, and there is no way to turn on my keyboard backlight on my Thinkpad T480 on Ubuntu. I gave up trying to fix these problems a while ago, and last time I checked nobody ha
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by grumpopotamus 7y ago
I think he tries to make his sponsor messages as awkward as possible as a joke.
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by grumpopotamus 8y ago
Beyond the annoyance of the ads themselves, there is a serious problem of misaligned incentives in the current environment. Online content platforms are incentivized to show me content that will get them the most clicks so that they can get
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by grumpopotamus 8y ago
>Maybe, but Python is still quite easy to pick, the only one that can do Deep Learning and Machine Learning well, etc. This is such a terrible state of affairs. There are so many times I've wanted to generate synthetic training data
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by grumpopotamus 8y ago
I also recommend Andreas Antonopoulos's talk "Blockchain vs Bullshit" which can be found on YouTube.
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by grumpopotamus 8y ago
Is getting an iPhone the only reasonable path? I tried this briefly on Android, but various other apps started complaining that Play was not installed.
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by grumpopotamus 8y ago
Recently there was some very interesting work on solving ambiguous inverse problems with Invertible Neural Networks: https://hci.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/vislearn/inverse-problems-... >We can for example say that this
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by grumpopotamus 8y ago
Please see the Hacker News guidelines! >Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
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by grumpopotamus 8y ago
Yes! This is the domain of Reinforcement Learning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning
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by grumpopotamus 8y ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_computing : Edge computing is a method of optimizing cloud computing systems "by taking the control of computing applications, data, and services away from some central nodes
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by grumpopotamus 9y ago
Great, thanks! I'm mainly on Ubuntu anyways, so I'll still have to see how I'm affected when I update my microcode.
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by grumpopotamus 9y ago
Haswell and older will see more-significant slowdowns, Skylake and newer will see less-significant slowdowns... what about Broadwell? I have a 6850k.
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by grumpopotamus 9y ago
I disagree. Computers have been outplaying the best humans at chess for two decades, but they only recently beat the top players at 2-player NLHE and only with the aid of massive computational power during training. Furthermore, techniques
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by grumpopotamus 9y ago
The Stockfish engine provided by lichess on the game you linked doesn't seem to mind those moves - it has most of them in the top few lines after a few seconds of thinking time. Qe1 and Kh1 are fine if the plan is to prepare f4. 35. Nc
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by grumpopotamus 9y ago
>it only takes 4 hours of training to beat Stockfish In that time I figure they used the equivalent of about 1000 cpu-years. Imagine the things we'll be able to achieve as we can do more and more computation in less and less time.
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by grumpopotamus 9y ago
I went through all the steps to "permanently" delete my account in 2010, did not log in for 4 years, then tried to see what would happen, and my account and all its data was fully restored.
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by grumpopotamus 9y ago
Same problem here, but good shoes and off-the-shelf orthotic inserts have made a big difference.

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