jostmey

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by jostmey 12y ago
I know almost nothing about mine-craft. How many people played in that arena? I ask because it would be kind of sad if one person did all of that. However, it says something pretty cool about humanity if it was constructed by random people
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by jostmey 12y ago
Okay, so what if you built a huge artificial dam way above sea level? To store energy you would pump water uphill. Usable work could then be extracted when the water is allowed to travel back downhill.
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by jostmey 12y ago
Not necessarily. Because the underlying rendering engine of both Safari and Chrome are open source, there exists a pool of software developers outside the company that are familiar with code. This means that there are people that these comp
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by jostmey 12y ago
It is a good idea but a little late. It this had happened five or ten years ago it could have lead to a standardization of web-browser code. As it stands now, if I wanted the source code to a web-browser I would stick to WebKit or Gecko.
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by jostmey 12y ago
Look, if Evolution can give rise to intelligence, which is nothing more than a drawn out process of trial and error, then perhaps creating intelligence is easy. The major roadblock standing in our way is a lack of computing power. The Human
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by jostmey 12y ago
The authors comparison of intelligence to biological systems is absurd. Biological systems are more complicated than necessary. Let me say that again. Biological systems are overly complicated. This is because Natural selection has no regar
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by jostmey 12y ago
After listening to the entire article what struck me hard was the secretive nature of the "fed". Their behavior was the exact opposite of what I consider to be a transparent and corrupt free government agency.
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by jostmey 12y ago
I popped open the original study --- I cannot find where they mention how many mice were used in the study. If it was a small number, the results are meaningless. And as far as testing marijuana on cell lines, that can be problematic too. J
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by jostmey 12y ago
Don't get me started.
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by jostmey 12y ago
Cut the company some slack. Space flight is hard. There are physical constraints imposed by the laws of Nature that have to be carefully weighed. It is easy to forget this fact when all you ever do is software design or whatever.
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by jostmey 12y ago
I always enter in my final destination when requesting a pickup. Avoids any confusion. Seriously?!
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by jostmey 12y ago
I don't it really matters all that much. The real bottleneck is testing it. Then worry about finding a more representative sample if it works.
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by jostmey 12y ago
I up-voted this article just because of the video of Neil deGrasse Tyson. His little rant was that good.
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by jostmey 12y ago
I've observed a huge performance boost over python -- I wrote a simple artificial neural network trained using backpropagation in both languages and my Julia code ran orders of magnitude faster. Something is clearly screwed up with you
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by jostmey 12y ago
I've been using Julia for a few months and I love it! Being able to process arrays in a function as if it was a single variable is super awesome, and as a result my code uses far fewer for/while loops.
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by jostmey 12y ago
It is creepy that it is so easy to spy on people. Perhaps this is a good representation of what it is like for the intelligence agencies.
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by jostmey 12y ago
A generative model, although computationally expensive, would not suffer this problem. Essentially a generative model can run in reverse, which means that if you feed values into the output you get inputs that could explain the output. Chec
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by jostmey 12y ago
Does this increase the chances that Microsoft will try to buy Dropbox in the future?
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by jostmey 12y ago
I failed to find anything concrete in Koch's argument. Its funny because at some level he is right - there is this thing called consciousness, but even when the most rational people try to describe it they inevitably sound unscientific
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by jostmey 12y ago
Social media websites to me are like TV series. They are entertaining for a few years and then a new series comes out. It is my guess that the most popular social media websites have the staying power of the longest running TV shows (~20 se
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by jostmey 12y ago
FYI, here is a link to a list of the scientist's manuscripts and comments posted about his work. https://pubpeer.com/search?q=sarkar&sessionid=D22576A13D18340AA731&adv=true
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Scientist suing website for whistle-blowers(news.sciencemag.org)
1 points by jostmey 12y ago|1 comments
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by jostmey 12y ago
It sounds to me like the Philly cab drivers would be better of as Uber drivers. You said they go into debt to pay for the medallions. Where does that money go? Do these fees collected by the city provide a service for the community or does
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by jostmey 12y ago
The energy function for a Boltzmann machine is usually E = v^T x W x h, where v are the visible units, W contains the weights, and h represents the hidden units. The form of the energy function defines the activation function of each neuron
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by jostmey 12y ago
I am glad he pointed out that most artificial neural networks bear only a superficial resemblance to our own biological ones. But I think he failed to appreciate the power behind Boltzmann Machines - a type of neural network designed to cre
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by jostmey 12y ago
"It just works" used be Apple's slogan. Funny, because the only computer that ever "just worked" was the chromebook I bought my wife.
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by jostmey 12y ago
This is just stupid - totally preventable. It is important to ask why this is happening here in the United States. Our medical system is FUBAR (acronym from saving "Private Ryan"). I guarantee that those nurses were concerned abou
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by jostmey 12y ago
In every generation there have been great minds that could reshape the world. Tesla & Edison gave the world electricity, Von Braun & Goddard brought us to space, and Oppenheimer unleashed the atom bomb. The question has always been
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by jostmey 12y ago
Second that. I would have no problem taking it.
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The Replicating Antidote(docs.google.com)
2 points by jostmey 12y ago|0 comments

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