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by jlebar 8y ago
> >Pichai claims these two examples are actual phone calls to actual businesses. I’m saying I don’t think that’s true. Skepticism and calling someone a liar aren't the same thing...
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by jlebar 8y ago
So is Gruber eating his hat yet? https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/05/11/duplex-skeptici... https://twitter.com/gruber/status/995538518016487425
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by jlebar 8y ago
> In the spirit of dumping potentially dangerous clutter on the streets and leaving it up to the cities to pay for the cleanup ... In the same spirit, I was thinking of starting a car rental service. :)
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by jlebar 8y ago
This is consistent with e.g. std::vector::at vs operator[]. The former throws an out-of-bounds exception, the latter has ub on bad index. Like it, don't like it, that's cool. But it is consistent.
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by jlebar 8y ago
See e.g. https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/holden-karnofsky-ope...
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by jlebar 8y ago
However, to consider artificial intelligence to be a potential global catastrophe at all, let alone the single one requiring extra funding, is mostly unfounded. We currently can barely even define what the actual risk is, let alone how to
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by jlebar 8y ago
I think the extreme difficulty and indeed controversy that the committee stared down when removing trigraphs, which are a useless feature that the vast majority of C++ programmers will never once encounter, speaks well to GP's point th
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by jlebar 8y ago
There headline may be a slang reference, "out of control" = "awesome" or "dope".
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by jlebar 8y ago
> Nor is there any ambient noise in Google’s recordings, as one would expect in a hair salon or a restaurant. Second recording at https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natur... has very clear b
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by jlebar 8y ago
This article (from downthread) suggests that 60 comes from the Sumerians, who had a base-60 number system, and 24 comes from the Egyptians, who had a base-12 number system. Although it agrees that 12 and 60 are conveniently divisible in th
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by jlebar 8y ago
Wow, this is a lot of FUD, even for Gruber. Google does demo plenty of stuff at I/O that isn't available Today. In fact that might be almost everything shown at I/O. But utter fraud [0], as he suggests here? Is there any pr
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by jlebar 8y ago
> It's not ascribing ill will at all. They've stumbled on a canary or a "brown M&M," where regardless of how good they think they are, they've transgressed a boundary of the implicit agreement of who has fin
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by jlebar 8y ago
I agree that codes of conduct aren't an effective way of changing hearts and minds. I wonder if you think that CoCs -- or more generally, rules -- have other legitimate purposes?
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by jlebar 8y ago
It sounds like you're angry because you want the autonomy to choose not to think about social justice issues (at least at work), and you feel like that choice is being taken away from you by people who enact things like codes of conduc
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by jlebar 8y ago
Is this the email in question? http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-May/122934.htm... Are you saying this is authoritarian and indicative of his being triggered, or are you saying that this sort of f
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by jlebar 8y ago
It also used to be the prevailing practice in America that professionals were nearly exclusively male and not reflective of the broader racial makeup of the country. This still is the case in Google's industry. I claim that not talkin
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by jlebar 8y ago
receiving up to 1 petaflop of mixed precision hardware acceleration performance It's there, it's just slathered in marketing-speak. :)
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by jlebar 8y ago
Hey, this is a little too ad hom...
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by jlebar 9y ago
>> A social network composed entirely of incredibly smart, obsessive opera fans would deliver all the information I could want about the opera scene, but it would fail to clue me in to the fact that, say, my country had been infested
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by jlebar 9y ago
Here's a radical idea: let [gifted kids] have childhoods! As a child who experienced both "regular" and gifted education, I can say with some certainty that: My "childhood" began when I entered gifted school. Befo
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by jlebar 9y ago
Isn't the fear that if we don't have net neutrality, it will be harder for upstart sites (like videosofthingsthatgoboom.com) to compete with incumbents like YT? Net neutrality is largely about protecting the ability for small pla
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by jlebar 9y ago
Are these cars electric? They can be pretty quiet, even at high speeds.
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by jlebar 9y ago
we performed recordings with either subdural electrode strips (n = 4) or intraparenchymal electrode arrays (n = 5) in patients with devastating brain injury that resulted in activation of a Do Not Resuscitate–Comfort Care order followed by
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by jlebar 9y ago
There's some irony that this lives on...github. /git evangelism strike force
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by jlebar 9y ago
I always burn or undercook rice when I use a stove. For me, the rice cooker is amazing, because it comes out perfect every time with no trying on my part. I don't know how you do it without, you must be magic.
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by jlebar 9y ago
No, this whole blog post is about training models.
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by jlebar 9y ago
> I am surprised the TPU doesn't kick the ass of the NVIDIA chips. 30% cheaper e2e price for the company's first public offering, compared to the market leader's top-of-the-line chip sounds...pretty good to me?
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by jlebar 9y ago
What indication is there that [self-driving cars are] coming soon Not to be glib, but TFA? or that commercial applications will be commoditized? There are many companies working on specifically this. I find it hard to imagine an uncomp
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by jlebar 9y ago
> I imagine self driving trucks will be priced with the cost savings over decades of driverless service in mind. That's certainly not what I would expect to happen in the long run in a competitive market. For example -- in the early
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by jlebar 9y ago
> understand that Microsoft has a lot of customers who rely on our technologies. For their benefit it's often better to say less than to say more, especially when talking about security vulnerabilities. I'm also genuinely curio

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