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by jebarker 2y ago
Babies don't know language. They know some words. Dogs recognize some words too associated with what they see. Have they discovered language too?
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by jebarker 2y ago
It's a stretch to call this discovering language. It's learning the correlations between sounds, spoken words and visual features. That's a long way from learning language.
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by jebarker 2y ago
Well deserved. "Hell is the absence of God" is my favorite of his stories. It's one of the few short stories I find myself repeatedly re-reading.
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by jebarker 2y ago
> without interpolation … It's kind of like playing a modern console exclusive. Ouch. It’s sad to see console gaming no longer be the place to go for highly tuned software.
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by jebarker 2y ago
It's not only nauseous to read but it's also too speculative, e.g. how do you know the trick is impressive? How do you know the skateboarder is exhilarated?
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by jebarker 2y ago
This isn't a text to image model it's an image captioning model. The images in the figures are confusingly labeled since it's the caption that's generated, not the image I think.
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by jebarker 2y ago
The Silver Line is fantastic. I visit the DC area several times a year to see family. Used to rent a car or pay $$$ for Uber into the city from Dulles. Last time I paid $2 on a Sunday for me and my daughter to get into the city. When I live
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by jebarker 2y ago
Yes, I think academics are susceptible to defining themselves by their work, truly being to devoted to their subject and it's open ended so you can spend as much time as you choose on it. I think these things can all be true in industr
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by jebarker 2y ago
After reading lots of biographical material on Feynman it seems like he was a very loving father and husband (especially to his first wife) but obviously devoted to physics. I would imagine it's very difficult to find the balance betwe
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by jebarker 2y ago
I'm not sure where this letter was first published, but Feynman's daughter edited a book of many of his letters private and professional: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfectly_Reasonable_Deviation... I foun
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by jebarker 2y ago
Does Keller's experience suggest that awareness of a self is a prerequisite for abstract thought and an inner dialogue? If so, it's interesting that (based on my layman interpretation) many forms of mindful meditation are oriented
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by jebarker 2y ago
It's sad that's the case. Math academics require very little funding relative to other subjects.
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by jebarker 2y ago
> Math is so competitive. Most people are struggling to get access to very limited resource Does he mean academic positions and funding or community attention? Hard to be sure based on the rest of the interview.
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by jebarker 2y ago
I think this idea is true of all human endeavors. You have to enjoy the process as the appreciation of an individual achievement will fade very quickly and you're just left with doing the process again. So in a way, nerd sniping is gre
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by jebarker 2y ago
> yet guiding them towards a consistent goal You mean on a per project basis or as an overall strategy for the org?
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by jebarker 2y ago
I drink, probably too much, and feel like I enjoy the flavors of many different drinks. But I don't think that's evidence that it's not really just a chemical dependence. I certainly remember there was a time when I didn&#x27
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by jebarker 2y ago
Sure, but maybe it's a really powerful drug that has a small effective dose for some people?
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by jebarker 2y ago
I honestly wonder whether people would drink alcohol if there weren't intoxicating effects. What I mean is, does anyone really believe that alcohol is pleasant to drink or is that purely a trick of the mind/body to get you to sati
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by jebarker 2y ago
I agree, the most interesting thing about the paper is the default behavior of the network as it tries to compress the data.
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by jebarker 2y ago
Ah, thanks for the explanation. They key thing I didn't realize is that it'd only be 3km!
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by jebarker 2y ago
I'd like to see a simulation of what that would look like. I mean, if by magic the sun was replaced with an equivalent mass black hole in an instant would anything be visible from earth before the inevitable freeze?
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by jebarker 2y ago
I am about to get battery backup and solar installed in an already electrified house. Seems like the best thing I can currently do to reduce my carbon footprint. However, I can't help wonder if I should be worried about the finite reso
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by jebarker 2y ago
Lots of people ask about running custom code on other appliances. I think they call them hackers.
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by jebarker 2y ago
Yep. We heat our house through Colorado winters (pretty cold, but not really cold) with just a high efficiency heat pump and resistive backup in the air handler. The resistive is rarely needed. This is beside the point though which was that
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by jebarker 2y ago
This problem isn't unique to heat pumps though. Obviously resistive electric has the same problem, but also gas furnaces are useless if you also need the fan running to distribute air through ductwork.
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by jebarker 2y ago
People in glass houses...
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by jebarker 2y ago
Did you transition so that you were programming in c in your day job or was it enough to do that on the side?
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by jebarker 2y ago
> Every job has stuff like this And many jobs have much worse stuff like danger, filth, hard manual labor, no social standing etc
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by jebarker 2y ago
40 to 57 is a huge increase in a year - kudos!
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by jebarker 3y ago
I have never heard that in either country!

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