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by jeromebaek 7y ago
“This software may not be sold or published in printed form without written permission from the copyright holders.“ This is almost certainly because parts of the source code appear in the textbook, and publishing laws apply.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
Great post! Informative and interesting
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
A little-discussed issue is that big tech cos tend to do better on diversity and inclusion. Obviously it varies by startup, but when you’re in a survival mentality it is difficult to be open to people of different sexualities, races and exp
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
P vs NP is also distinguished in that many people think it has profound philosophical implications. Nick Land seems to think this ( http://www.uf-blog.net/crypto-current-021/ ), and so does Scott Aaronson (“if P=NP, the
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline...
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
> Information theoretically speaking, how do you generate a "synthetic" dataset (as the article calls it) with the same fidelity as an original dataset without having access to a critical basis set of the original? Information
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
Simulated data is provably more vulnerable to adversarial attacks. It only gives the illusion of more data (quite literally), and should not be used for mission-critical debiasing. A NN trained on mostly simulated minority faces and mostly
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
Very useful, thanks
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
I know this.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
You are making a shallow, angry, generic, and therefore boring low-threshold indignation against the commenters.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
Also known as hailstone problem from GEB
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
it's a philosophy grad student making a point about economics. clickbait.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
source?
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
There's a limit to the "meanness" one can stomach, however, without some aspect, such as mental health, going awry. In short bursts it may be useful, but in the long run, meanness is not sustainable.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
it's really simple. the world is exponential, not linear. wealth grows (or decays) exponentially. that's it. too bad very few understand exponentiation.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
This. The right way to think is that each component, in parallel, have a chance of succeeding, so chance of total system failure is exponentially small in the number of components. Not: oh if this layer fails, the next one will catch it...
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
tell me how to transition from pow to pos
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
Doesn't matter; there are no technical details for this, and so far nobody has a solution on how to do this. Yes, permissionless networks exist; but no network has transitioned from a permissioned to a permissionless network. Whil
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
Sure, but that’s a problem way down the stack, a problem for language designers, not application developers.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
It’s a great book.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
Something about your comment rubs me the wrong way, and I think it’s a kind of toxic idealism that doesn’t acknowledge how software isn’t a mathematical object but situated in the real world. You realize 48 years ago is the Unix epoch? Circ
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
> Nick Bostrom argues that the only way to defend against a global catastrophe is to employ a universal and invasive surveillance system, what he calls a “High-tech Panopticon.” I suspected as much since the simulation argument but looks
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
I got a 1000/1600 on my first try of the SAT. Then I went through a $6,000 SAT summer camp, and got a 1600/1600. I used this score to tutor privileged children charging upwards to $100/hr. The conclusion, for me? The SAT has
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PowerShell on Linux/macOS(github.com)
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
Sorry, who in their right mind thinks the Cloud is decentralized? It is literally the opposite.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
i believe this was called WordPad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPad
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
These cameras will be connected to the internet to drive profit. They will be used for mass surveillance and they will be mass hacked.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
Sounds like Hegel's (incoherent) idea that China has space but no time.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
There is a premise in this deduction, which Randstad made: 1. We need darker faces in our training data. 2. Therefore, gather training data from homeless people. How do you go from 1 to 2? With the premise "darker-faced people tend to
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
The fact that these photos are so beautiful makes me uncomfortable. Without context, these are simply beautiful pictures of nature. With context, it's terrifying.

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