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Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets(economics.mit.edu)
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Ikea's Smart Home Makes Sense(wired.com)
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by jtraffic 9y ago
That's fair. But I guess I think of it as a somewhat continuous transition from human to machine manufacturing. Yes, currently manufacturing uses lots of humans, but that is changing, and the pace of change has not, AFAIK, reached an
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by jtraffic 9y ago
> Plus, modern factories rely more on automation than ever, so even if production comes back, it might be done by robots. I feel this is the most important sentence in the article. The important question is not about individual products
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by jtraffic 9y ago
Yeah. When I looked initially, I didn't go far enough into checkout.
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by jtraffic 9y ago
The article says $230, but https://www.ridecabin.com/ says $115. Am I missing something? This makes quite a difference.
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Constraints and Creativity(hackernoon.com)
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by jtraffic 9y ago
Philosophically, I wonder if it's better to just acknowledge the differences between AI and humans, and let them play to their strengths. It seems common to think that we need to constrain AI in certain ways to be more like humans, bu
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Diffusion Matters(hackernoon.com)
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by jtraffic 9y ago
Off topic: I posted this exact article four days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14813807 In the past, when I post exact duplicates, HN redirects me and automatically upvotes the original instead. I wonder why th
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by jtraffic 9y ago
I agree with others on the thread that "maintenance or innovation" is a false dichotomy. In particular, I think we need innovative maintenance. For e.g., this article about new ways to fix potholes: https://www.econom
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by jtraffic 9y ago
If I hadn't recently read Benoit Mandelbrot's book "The Misbehavior of Markets," I might dismiss this as empty cynicism. But I think there is some truth to it. Macro and financial economists have traditionally been the
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Agents that imagine and plan(deepmind.com)
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Quantum Computing Would Make Today’s Encryption Obsolete(bloomberg.com)
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Nintendo Looks Set to End Two-Punch Strategy(bloomberg.com)
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by jtraffic 9y ago
No, none. I suppose they want researchers to be motivated merely by the ability to contribute knowledge to the ML community?
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by jtraffic 9y ago
Here is an Economist article that explains it much more detail: https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21724368-recent-adva... Or if you want the relevant portion quoted, see this article: (halfway down, below th
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The young entrepreneur myth?(digitopoly.org)
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Medium Essays as Products(medium.com)
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Soup Over Bean of Pure Joy: Culinary Ruminations of an Artificial Chef (2012) [pdf](computationalcreativity.net)
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by jtraffic 9y ago
A workable solution for kids would really be something. It's much harder to get anything done with bored kids than with a bored adult. Maybe the bored adults can take care of the kids while the rest shop. ;)
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by jtraffic 9y ago
I could ask the reverse: "why isn't China more successful?" It's such a complicated issue that you could argue almost anything. I think any discussion must acknowledge Hong Kong, however, as an important data point. M
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by jtraffic 9y ago
When a photographer takes or edits a picture, she doesn't need to predict or simulate her own reaction. There is no model or training necessary, because the real outcome is so easily accessible. However, she is only one person, and p
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An Innovation Taxonomy(hackernoon.com)
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Games Help Poor Children Learn Math in India(povertyactionlab.org)
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by jtraffic 9y ago
> they embody two alternative models of capitalism, and the one that wins out will shape the future of the economy. Even in such a vague form, this is a touch sensationalist. The impact of 'the one that wins' may be negligible
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by jtraffic 9y ago
I see hindsight bias lurking. Now we see it as a "waste," but I dare you to make and publicly post predictions about a bunch of startups, and prove you are more accurate than VCs.
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Competition and Crowd-Out for Brand Keywords in Sponsored Search [pdf](home.uchicago.edu)
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by jtraffic 9y ago
I agree. I got hung up on this: "Wolfram|Alpha uses natural language processing technology, part of the AI family, to provide students with an academic shortcut" WA uses NLP for some things, but not for solving equations.
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by jtraffic 9y ago
The New Yorker is well-known for this, and its tradition for using obscure words is long-running. It goes at least as far back as 1969, when "Business Adventures" was written by John Brooks, a long-time New Yorker author. I had

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