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by imh 10y ago
These things are always so interesting in their totally inhuman failure cases. It can tell me George Washington was born in 1732, but doesn't know which planet America is on (much less which planet George Washington was born on). Also,
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by imh 10y ago
That sounds like a ton, but for the estimated 7k-10k homeless people in SF, that's $24k-34k per person annually. A lot of money, but not an insane amount given the high local costs of absolutely everything.
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by imh 10y ago
I disagree. With anything technical, there's going to be many ways to explain it, and the best way depends on the audience. I don't think every article should be written for the same audience. Some pages will likely be visited by
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by imh 10y ago
The funny part is the suggestion that you go through each and every one of the 9 million images and verify their licenses. It's basically impossible. It's funny that, by suggesting we do the impossible, their butts are covered.
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by imh 10y ago
Lawyers are funny: >Today, we introduce Open Images, a dataset consisting of ~9 million URLs ... having a Creative Commons Attribution license* . Then the footnote below: >* While we tried to identify images that are licensed under a
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by imh 10y ago
I really want real-world speech data. I think speech-to-text could open the doors to lots of creative tech to help hard of hearing folks, but the dataset barrier is so massive :(
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by imh 10y ago
Nope, you aren't missing the question. That's just a lot of stuff I didn't know to do (or how to do). Thanks!
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by imh 10y ago
I was wondering about illegal content in a totally different sense. I know from personal experience that overfitted generative models end up just memorizing the data set you trained it on. Say I overfit a model on Shakespeare, and you ask i
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by imh 10y ago
I'm not the person you posed the question to, but what's the secure, convenient way to do that? If I want to ssh into my desktop from within my house? If I want to ssh into it from elsewhere?
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by imh 10y ago
This article was near the top of HN a few days ago http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/opinion/sunday/am-i-introv... (discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12573173 ). I find
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by imh 10y ago
>The mediocre “cogs” (9-5ers that just want a paycheck) outnumber us and I suspect 40% or less of them might benefit from pair programming, which I suspect is where all the buzz about pair programming comes from. I don't think I&#x2
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by imh 10y ago
Do any of the big ad companies sell your data? Google? Facebook? It's the same thing. I don't want them to need to learn everything about me. What they want to do with that info is secondary.
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by imh 10y ago
I don't know. If I were self employed, and you buy a thing from me, is that your consumption (taxed) or my income (untaxed)? This stuff is complicated. ... thinking about it further: A truly crazy idea would be a consumption tax that
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by imh 10y ago
Would it become a tax shelter, though? You could just tax the difference between what goes in and what goes out on the date that it comes out. If it never comes out, it's worthless and that's the point.
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by imh 10y ago
How does the expected value of the log of your net worth deal with the possibility of a negative net worth? Any finite probability of zero net worth will weigh infinitely in the log domain, right?
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by imh 10y ago
If the data backs it up, it isn't a misconception. If it doesn't fit the story you want to tell, you are being misleading.
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by imh 10y ago
What did they define the metric as prior to this 3 second revelation?
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by imh 10y ago
>4) Learning "technologies" is not enough imo, you need to couple that with theory to produce really powerful systems. This is HUGE. I'm able to keep up to speed and learn more ML and stats comparatively quickly because I
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by imh 10y ago
Proof and problem solving (It's not always taught in its own course). These assumptions about this code lead to these conclusions about its validity. If you can't prove your code works (to a human level of proof, not a machine&#x2
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by imh 10y ago
Autonomy will be great. We aren't there yet. Tesla is/was deceptively marketing their capabilities so they can risk their customer's safety with the opposite of informed consent (mislead consent? [0]). They are doing it in or
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by imh 10y ago
Most people who have flown don't even know what a Cessna is, much less its capabilities. It's totally irrelevant. Same with dealing with collisions, which aren't analogous challenges between flying and driving. To a non-engin
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by imh 10y ago
I fully expect self driving cars to arrive before BART goes all the way down the peninsula. It's total crap, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't true. Same for more frequent/faster/more reliable caltrain with room to
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by imh 10y ago
Autopilots in planes can take you across the world. The car analogy would be only having to pull into and out of your driveway. And while they don't use it so frequently, aren't most of the planes most people fly in (big commercia
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by imh 10y ago
I don't like the implication that you have to choose between excellence/"supreme intellect" and niceness. It excuses all sorts of assholes who believe that about themselves. What's wrong with being someone like Terr
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by imh 10y ago
It simply sounds really hard to do it right. In the short term, it would be really easy to resolve disputes by just taking the IP, but that could lead to long term troubles as people drop out of the market. Disagreements between the best sh
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by imh 10y ago
My grandpa had one of those, and I thought it was the so cool. For a general commuter car, it worked perfectly for him.
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by imh 10y ago
They don't ask permission. They offer a cool service don't tell you what they'll use that information for. Go through [0] and [1], and you'll probably find at least one thing you didn't explicitly opt into. That fit
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by imh 10y ago
This is a frequent pattern with their privacy controls. There's no granularity and services become all or nothing. I just did the privacy checkup thing they offer and for the "Web & app activity" part there's just a
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by imh 10y ago
It's similar to Waze (another Google owned company). On my iphone, most apps allow you to give location permission with three tiers of access: 1) Always, 2) Only when I'm using the app, 3) Never. I'm ok with them using my dat
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by imh 10y ago
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke Set in the near-ish future, a big asteroid comes whizzing into the solar system. Looks weird, so we investigate. It's a total page turner, and reads like an adventure/mystery. Highly recomme

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