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by habitue 10y ago
Big difference there! Applebaum blatantly crossed the line sexual harassment. Crockford... is kinda cranky?
842.
by habitue 10y ago
If you don't believe thoughts arise in the brain, then you're ignoring thousand year old results in basic physiology
843.
by habitue 10y ago
In this framework, treating popularity as a prior over all previous information, what do you make of groups that maintain irrational beliefs for very long periods of time? Specifically things like superstitions where accidental correlations
844.
by habitue 10y ago
Bayes theorem is quite the versatile hammer...
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Condorcet method(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by habitue 10y ago|0 comments
846.
by habitue 10y ago
But it is different! Used bookstores wont let you walk out with the book for free, they charge you :P
847.
by habitue 10y ago
A big distinction here is that different fields have different levels of dependence on prior results. In fields like psychology etc, you don't need the previous results to work in order to run your own experiment. In other words, if yo
848.
by habitue 10y ago
I think the issue is treating Knuth's literate programming examples as received wisdom, or the pinnacle of the form, rather than as a pioneering effort by someone very talented, but done without the benefit of a developed culture aroun
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by habitue 10y ago
He's talking about the operations needing to be differentiable. So like multiplication, addition etc are differentiable. tanh, sigmoid functions are differentiable. You need this because back propagation is an application of the chain
850.
by habitue 10y ago
Assuming your premises are true (Microsoft is done, LinkedIn is done), this isn't evidence for a bubble. The stock of these two companies could be priced perfectly right for their current and potential profits, and yet they might also
851.
by habitue 10y ago
this was hilarious when they got to how to apply the rules to javascript and half of them don't apply because they're about memory management.
852.
by habitue 10y ago
"just" sort of implies this is the most obvious thing to do, and for some reason he's eschewed this solution
853.
by habitue 10y ago
I would say they're already not competing on the assistant side. Siri is considerably worse than Google Now, even though it came out first
854.
by habitue 10y ago
This is on our list : https://github.com/rethinkdb/horizon/issues/23 The big piece remaining that will help is write timestamps in the database, which we're going to try to land in RethinkDB 2.4. If we w
855.
by habitue 10y ago
(Josh from RethinkDB here) The sibling comment by ubercore has the right link. And your concern is important, since without security, why not just expose your db to the frontend directly? At a high level, the permission system: 1. Is a whit
856.
by habitue 10y ago
I'd like to belatedly thank you for this lucid explanation :)
857.
by habitue 11y ago
Does anyone feel like taking a stab at explaining in non-poetic form what he means by "meaning games"?
858.
by habitue 11y ago
Check out who won the pulitzers in news this year: http://www.poynter.org/2016/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2016... Best investigative journalism: Tampa Bay Times & Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Ever heard of them? This
859.
by habitue 11y ago
Ok, I had assumed you weren't making such an insinuation since it was an April fool's joke. It loses a bit of its punch when there's no legitimate threat to a programmer's job
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Deep reinforcement learning lecture series by DeepMind's David Silver(youtube.com)
4 points by habitue 11y ago|0 comments
861.
by habitue 11y ago
Is this even more meta than that?
862.
by habitue 11y ago
I am going to assume this is a meta-joke about how April fools posts aren't very funny
863.
by habitue 11y ago
I like JavaScript a lot too, but "better than any other language" ?
864.
by habitue 11y ago
Thanks for the pointer to BADA55, I had not seen that. Do you think it's possible for constants (selected in the way the constants for ed25519 were selected) to be backdoored ala BADA55? It seems the vulnerabilities come from using has
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by habitue 11y ago
If you look at backdoored algorithms, there are red flags all over the place. A hallmark of DJB algorithms is that they use minimal constants that satisfy publicly declared constraints. If you look at the spec for DUAL_EC_DRBG, the backdoor
866.
by habitue 11y ago
To expand on this, part of what makes DJB's algorithms more likely to be the Right Answer in the way being discussed is that he chose curves for them that satisfy a number of security constraints, but that are also the simplest possibl
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by habitue 11y ago
I'm sure this will be panned in the comments since it tries to turn a creative process into an algorithm, but I like it! Usually naming things is such a freeform activity, it's hard to get started.
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by habitue 11y ago
Rust has macros, so boilerplate can be swept up pretty tidily. In the case of propagating up errors, there is the try! macro that encapsulates a match that returns early with the error
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by habitue 11y ago
My suggestion, instead of the elaborate avoidance system, is to make the robot act pitiful when it detects it is being abused. Whimpering, frowning, crying etc. You gotta make it engage those deep-seated emotion detectors. That's the d
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by habitue 11y ago
it's just grammar, not anything horrible

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