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by karpierz 5y ago
True. I was trying to say that hiding your face in a dating profile picture is an easy way to get ignored, but I went too far with it.
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by karpierz 5y ago
If you read the paper, you'll notice that the photos they use look nothing like dating profile pictures. Namely: 1. The faces are covered with a black box. 2. Standardized clothing. 3. The photos are straight shots (and for one dataset
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by karpierz 5y ago
I hate this kind of research. Scrape some data, observe some correlations, and then imprint your view of the world onto it to draw some ad-hoc conclusions. For example: > In this study, researchers asked two different groups of women to
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by karpierz 5y ago
The transaction is basically a function call like this: flash_loan(int amount_borrowed, func arbitrary_trades) 1. give LOANEE_ADDRESS amount_borrowed 2. call arbitrary_trades() 3. give LOANER_ADDRESS (amount_borrowed + interest) When 2. is
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by karpierz 5y ago
That's a pretty cynical take. Everyone is trying to get their work done, it's more of a question of whether remote work makes that easier or harder. - People whose productivity is based on regular social interaction will work fast
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by karpierz 5y ago
I always found getting something running to be the hardest part, so I'm starting by getting a simple client/server running and then iterating from there. Here's how I'm doing it: 1. Follow these two guides on setting up
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by karpierz 5y ago
That seems true by definition, as each layer is a functional transformation of the previous layer. I think want they want to imply is "Each layer is a semantically meaningful representation, changed from the previous layer" which
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by karpierz 5y ago
Of course it was realistic to resist, there are many examples of people that did. Ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Schindler Is it realistic to resist and live comfortably? No, but you have the choice, and the c
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by karpierz 5y ago
Even white toast is flavourful to someone who's tired of gruel. You should share a list of your own recommendations!
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by karpierz 5y ago
This reads like someone who only watches Marvel movies complaining about how they've lost interest in movies because they all feel the same. If you don't branch out and expand beyond the bog-standard, yeah, eventually it'll a
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by karpierz 5y ago
> placebo that turned out to be escitalopram, an SSRI antidepressant. How is this a placebo?
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> It turned out that either visual stimulus—the grating or moving dots—resulted in the same patterns of neural activity in the visual cortex and parietal cortex. The parietal cortex is a part of the brain used in memory processing and st
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by karpierz 5y ago
Landmines are autonomous killing robots; start one up and it'll kill of its own accord.
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by karpierz 5y ago
The alternative to "evidence based medicine" is "biological plausibility", where you'd construct a model (say "humans have 4 humors") and reason about how the symptoms are caused via the model. So you migh
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by karpierz 5y ago
This is less of an explanation, and more of a fan-fiction. No data to back up the conclusions, no analysis of the survey methodology. Just speculation about mechanisms that aren't even validated to exist.
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by karpierz 5y ago
It depends on whether you want it to show what someone would expect a nurse to look like, or show what a nurse. Nothing in the definition of a nurse implies female. If you ask for a female US president, should the application simply return
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by karpierz 5y ago
Learn to care about the world around you; find something you want to fix in the world, and fix it. Given that you're able to hop fields easily, you can learn the tools required to do it. The rest is just a matter of will and focus.
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by karpierz 5y ago
The protagonist is so addicted to the Internet that he's willing to do literally anything to be able to use it again. If that's not a relatable motivation, I don't know what is.
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by karpierz 5y ago
Yes, if the people researching it aren't subject to pressures that humans are normally subject to. If have any desires beyond 1/2, then there's a conflict of interest. For example, if you need money to eat. Or, if you want to
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by karpierz 5y ago
All science is poisoned by conflicts of interest, as the authors are always incentivized to have people believe the results of the paper, regardless of the validity of it. Whether that be because they want to get tenure, enact change in the
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by karpierz 5y ago
They don't mean that it's technically difficult, they mean that the language on the pricing page has legal consequences, and they need to be precise with their updates to that page.
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by karpierz 5y ago
I think the question I need an answer from you on is: What do you think will be the computational requirements for the first AGI? Specifically, to emulate the equivalent of a minute of arbitrary-human behaviour (in the worst case, so if the
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by karpierz 5y ago
> An AI that is truly generally intelligent could figure out how to free itself from its own host hardware! Why is this true of an arbitrary AGI? You assume that the AGI is a low storage, low compute program that can run on general purpo
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by karpierz 5y ago
Neither, humans weren't designed. I don't think the winning design approach to generating AGI will be to randomly mash chemicals together until intelligence comes out.
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> Scale is not the solution. Agreed, I don't think any modern AI techniques will scale to become generally intelligent. They are very effective at specialized, constrained tasks, but will fail to generalize. > AI will design AGI.
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by karpierz 5y ago
That's like saying "standing still" isn't a human-level sprinter's task. In principle, yes, nothing in the 100m sprint requires that you need to be able to stand still. In practice, I would be very skeptical of some
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by karpierz 5y ago
I can't tell if this is trying to demonstrate how HN users don't have a solid grasp of social sciences via parody, or a genuine post.
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That's not true, here's an example where it's billiard balls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_princ...
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by karpierz 5y ago
Buying a car from a dealership instead of mining metal from the ground and building it from scratch is a cost cutting measure. Buying my food from a market instead of foraging for it is a cost cutting measure.
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> It's been proven that music piracy is _positively_ correlated with sales Which makes sense, things that sell well also are more likely to be pirated. Has it been shown that piracy causes sales to increase? I've looked around

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