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by imranq 8y ago
I liked the old google of the 2000s, focused on search and being scrappy and quirky. Now it’s super corporate without any real identity as far as I can see.
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by imranq 8y ago
Is CMU trying to compete with Udacity? I personally couldn’t take a degree in AI seriously.
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by imranq 8y ago
Absolutely insane how this is actual reality. That millions of people have died from such a small object that seems to have more creativity and complexity than I’ve ever seen.
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by imranq 8y ago
I personally really like the design and looks super approachable. Can’t wait to try it out!
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by imranq 9y ago
Princeton Companion to Mathematics: this guide is phenomenal in introducing a wide array of pure math topics. Just going through a few pages is hugely inspiring and simultaneously ego-deflating
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by imranq 9y ago
Best course so far: AI from BerkeleyX Other great courses: Learning to Learn, Irrational Psychology by Dan Ariely, and Algorithms by Sedgewick Can someone recommend a good way to work with other students on MOOCs? I've taken many cours
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by imranq 9y ago
This reminds me of Enders Game, especially the ending. Don’t want to spoil it for anyone but distributed military intelligence is scary
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How America’s Quality of Life Imploded(eand.co)
24 points by imranq 9y ago|8 comments
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Should I take post-bacc classes in machine learning
2 points by imranq 9y ago|1 comments
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by imranq 9y ago
However a put must have an underwriter who must take the risk that it goes to zero
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by imranq 9y ago
Just peruse any upper level undergraduate math text. Flip to any proof and you’ll find “it follows naturally that...” The bane of my existence as a math undergrad.
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by imranq 9y ago
What I thought was a retrospective game review ended up being much less serious
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by imranq 9y ago
I’m surprised they don’t have a mobile app yet. I’m also jealous since I thought of this idea 5 years ago but did nothing with it! Great service.
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by imranq 9y ago
As an aside, even in mathematics some proofs can be turn out to be wrong. Like the many wrong proofs for Fermats last theorem even Wiles' original proof. Basically there is some level of uncertainty , e>0 for any statement.
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by imranq 9y ago
Live as if you were going to die tomorrow, learn as if you were going to live forever – Gandhi
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by imranq 9y ago
This is a great idea - it's like the medical demos they use ar/vr for but for engineers. Someone should make a VR version for mechanical motions like that How to Make a Car course that was posted here a while ago
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by imranq 9y ago
Books are just pieces of paper. They only add value when read by a person and add even more value discussed as by a group of people and add substantially more value when discussed by a group of highly competent people with experience. Anyon
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by imranq 9y ago
What's the benefit with a technology like this? Seems like it can only cause harm
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by imranq 9y ago
What would be Classic and what would not? I guess it would be a combination of votes, times posted, and a minimum age
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by imranq 9y ago
Any of us could inflict real damage or destruction on our surroundings especially while driving but that doesn't mean we have "control" over them.
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by imranq 9y ago
The cover for the seminal book on AI (norvig) has a chessboard and games are a fundamental training ground for AI so I'd say there's some truth there.
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by imranq 9y ago
But how much of that saving is because AlphaGo is so great vs a baseline machine learning algorithm?
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by imranq 9y ago
I mean you can argue that as nice as AlphaGo is, it has not accomplished any thing real outside of being better at some games.
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by imranq 9y ago
HN seems to be getting more popular as software "eats" up other industries. Topics on the site have definitely migrated away from pure programming and startups - not that that's a bad thing of course.
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by imranq 9y ago
MIT OCW has been incredible for me as well, but I always get stuck on a concept or wish I was in a structured setting. Any tools or tips that helped you along the way? I was thinking of starting some live study circles for the next topic.
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by imranq 9y ago
As someone with a mathematical background, I was wondering what were some motivations for wanting to "learn physics"? Not being argumentative, just genuinely curious on what drives people to self study textbooks on physics after c
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by imranq 9y ago
I would argue that memory is even more important now since it allows you to think of new things and connect things in your head. Even if we had a neural chip that gave us all of Wikipedia, it would not be the same as intentionally studying
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by imranq 9y ago
This is awesome
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by imranq 9y ago
When the steam engine was invented, we thought of the brain as a series of pressures. When we discovered electricity, we thought of the brain as wires. When we got the internet, we thought of the brain as a network. Now sure neural networks
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by imranq 9y ago
You mean like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%E2%80%93Feynman_absorb...

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