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by habitue 9y ago
It's not writing a new kernel in Rust, it's an OS course, where they touch on all the fundamentals. Instead of assignments being in C, they're in Rust.
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by habitue 9y ago
It really is cable news that's the problem. Local reporting is often way better.
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by habitue 9y ago
I don't think GANs are being used to do anything very serious at the moment (I would love to be corrected on this), but they're very exciting in terms of their capabilities and promise. Some good progress has been made over the la
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by habitue 9y ago
What are the tools you need that work in both Mac and Windows but not Linux?
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by habitue 9y ago
Yeah the benefits are mainly when you have many different consumers all of whom want to look at the data in different ways, or when you have many different data sources in your architecture and want to aggregate them on the fly based on the
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by habitue 9y ago
I don't see how captchas are "fundamentally cracked" if they only claim a success rate at best around 2/3rds. Nor do they give an explanation for what they mean by fundamentally cracked.
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by habitue 9y ago
I think the fact that it's no longer using Monte Carlo tree search is a huge step forward in the generalizability of the technique. But go is still - a perfect information game - with a relatively small input size (vs. arbitrary comput
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by habitue 9y ago
This version explicitly does not use tree search.
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by habitue 9y ago
We use point free notation in JavaScript most often with "fluent" apis like d3 or underscore, where instead of using an explicit compose operator like in haskell, each method in a chain returns the context with a ton of chainable
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by habitue 9y ago
> Would anyone advertise a company that doesn't have a "High Quality Codebase"? I think they can mitigate this by making the companies pick a limited number of "most important values". That way they're incen
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by habitue 9y ago
No, that's just how bad Trump is. Folks would gladly take Pence over him. Nobody has any pretense the election or primaries will be getting a do-over.
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by habitue 9y ago
Chesterton's Fence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AChesterton%27s_fen...
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by habitue 9y ago
You can almost postulate a sort of "memetic herd-immunity" where if a large enough proportion of the student population is inoculated against bad study habits, a few stragglers will be ok. But if the balance tips too far, the stra
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by habitue 9y ago
The contributor trying to remove 418 and the author of this RFC are the same person (Mark Nottingham[1]) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Nottingham
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by habitue 9y ago
So an interesting thing you could do as a game company with an "unbeatable" bot is to use it to balance a metagame. Let the bots all play each other and tweak character stats etc until they win a proportional amount of the time. (
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by habitue 9y ago
They released a headless Linux port you can download for free. This wouldn't be something they'd contemplate for a game in its prime.
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by habitue 9y ago
Let's say this is about the Google memo. And let's say, for the sake of argument, you're a person who thinks Damore had some good points and some bad points but you think the hysterically censorious response to him was way ov
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by habitue 9y ago
Yeah, but they weren't debunked for decades. Nobody thought to check that before demanding he be silenced
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by habitue 9y ago
> the "it" you refer to expands to "why women and minorities may be biologically less qualified for this job, and those that are here are illegitimate in some way." Accepting your characterization here for the sake of
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by habitue 9y ago
OK, that makes sense. Just using it as a ledger for a blob of text about the loan
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by habitue 9y ago
> but that's no worse than regular loans If the blockchain isn't enforcing payback, then it's just a normal transfer of money from one party to another. There's no smart contract needed.
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by habitue 9y ago
Saying programming isn't about code is ... insane? Maybe you can be a programming manager without knowing how to code, kind of? You'll likely be a bad one. This is the kind of thing you say after you've been coding for such
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by habitue 9y ago
So the gender differences he talks about are very obviously coming from this meta-study: http://sci-hub.cc/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00320.x He uses a lot of the same terminology as the paper, references big-5 personali
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by habitue 9y ago
Exactly. There is huge difference between a-religious but open to becoming religious if the right circumstances happen, and a-religious and inoculated against the idea of religion.
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by habitue 9y ago
Personally I think it's absolutely important for some people to be working on AGI and other to be working on practical applications. Trying to push the boundaries teaches you a lot about what tools you still need. Researching narrow ap
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by habitue 9y ago
In a control theory context, we're likely talking about inferring a small handful of parameters where the relationships between them are well known. In this paper they're inferring the entire dynamics of an environment from thousa
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by habitue 9y ago
> shouldn't the goal be to build a system that enables the emergence of these weird tricks without involving human design? Two comments: 1. Just because evolution came up with them for humans, doesn't mean if we run an evolutio
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by habitue 9y ago
> systems that can construct such a predictive model/imagination from experience I just want to emphasize this point as the crux here. We have many many techniques for AI that involve doing roll-outs once a smart human with domain k
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by habitue 9y ago
The human brain has specialized structures in it, it isn't a homogeneous mass from which all parts of human cognition emerge once you have enough brain cells (see elephant brain size vs. human brain size). If you've ever seen anyt
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by habitue 9y ago
No, in this case it is trained on all the games, but retains good scores on all of them. If you train basic AC3 in all the games, you'll get poor performance on all the games due to catastrophic forgetting

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