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by koningrobot 7y ago
This reminds me of Squire & Trapp[1] which seems to be a special case. That paper provides a way of estimating Jacobian-vector products (aka forward-mode autodiff) by adding a tiny imaginary noise vector to the input. The complex output
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by koningrobot 7y ago
It doesn't sound so bad when you put it like that.
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by koningrobot 7y ago
Another option is to use plotnine, which is intended to be a ggplot2 clone. It uses matplotlib under the hood, so if something isn't right you can tweak it. That was the main drawback I found with Altair: your declarative code is almos
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by koningrobot 13y ago
Stephen Fry should speak for himself. People can have very good reasons to want to die. Reasons that are so good that, besides outweighing the value that their life has to them, still have enough oomph to carry one over the high doorstep
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by koningrobot 14y ago
Yes. To say people and the connections we build to them are what ultimately matters is an applause light. People and the connections we build to them are only means to the end of happiness. That isn't cold or selfish. Surely we would all
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by koningrobot 14y ago
Math is a model of reality. Math does not exist in your DNA; DNA exists subject to the rules of that which math models.
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by koningrobot 14y ago
I don't understand what bearing this should have on the probability of AGI succeeding. What we (should) care about is not whether the system is conscious or even human-like. What matters is that it performs well on the tasks it is assigne
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by koningrobot 14y ago
The point of AI is not conscious machines but machines that can do useful things. Consciousness is not useful except to the extent that it helps a machine do useful things.
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by koningrobot 14y ago
This is because you're not after money but after welfare (whatever that is).
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by koningrobot 14y ago
Keto absolutely works for lots of folks. Protein is filling and delicious. I've spent some time among "ketards" and they ate much more fat than they did protein. I think the recommended ratio was around 80% fat vs 20% protein.
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by koningrobot 14y ago
I agree. Death is always an option, and sometimes it's the best (equivalently "least bad") one. Despite the title, the article actually argues from the point of view that death is never an option. This is a harmful black-and-white view.
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by koningrobot 14y ago
Possibly, but I doubt that that is ever the reason for choosing one over the other. These productivity claims only serve as rationalizations of choices already made.
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by koningrobot 14y ago
What a karma-whoring red herring. But I'll bite. There's nothing fundamentally special about humans. There's also nothing fundamentally special about love. Not even if you use the word "love" to mean three different things in a single c
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by koningrobot 14y ago
I think you need to read the post that lays out the argument -- the lack of purpose is not considered a negative. Also, I think your assertion that life is awesome would carry more weight if the things you listed were things you experience
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by koningrobot 14y ago
FWIW, I do not agree entirely with the author's conclusions, but his intentions are good and I thought the entrepreneurial/change-the-world nature of his project would make it a good fit for HN.
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Say No to Reproduction: Your declaration of your stance(saynotoreproduction.blogspot.com)
1 points by koningrobot 14y ago|5 comments
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by koningrobot 14y ago
The winning move was not to become the Ideal Male Seen On Magazines, but instead to grow into my identity. Sounds like you've traded one mythology for another. I doubt there was any "identity" that you pin-pointed, decided you wanted to
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by koningrobot 14y ago
How is that bad treatment? I for one would welcome an instant, painless death.
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by koningrobot 14y ago
If everyone is happy, then nothing is broken.
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by koningrobot 14y ago
I would agree that it's unnecessary, but it seems that your problem is not so much with its NSFWness but with its misogyny.
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by koningrobot 14y ago
I think the most profound lesson to be learned in programming is how complex everything is. Computers aren't "dumb" -- they just don't share our language, culture, biases, etc. You have to specify everything exactly. If anyone has to be
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by koningrobot 14y ago
Is there a list somewhere of concrete things that we know about software engineering?
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by koningrobot 15y ago
You can tell yourself some story that whatever happens is "beautiful" in the end, or that accepting the present moment is somehow "virtuous". Or you can acknowledge the truth, which is that reality sucks, that we weren't made for it, that
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by koningrobot 15y ago
The one thing that's always skipped over in this kind of article is... Why? The universe doesn't care whether we're around or not. It sure as hell doesn't affect us whether people are around even as nearby as a thousand years from now.
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by koningrobot 15y ago
For those looking for a keyboard-driven browser, try http://conkeror.org/
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by koningrobot 15y ago
That first they get on the high horse of respecting everyone, and then they slam a particular minority. They even came up with a condescending word for it: misogynerds.
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by koningrobot 15y ago
Remember, a classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. Spending time with family/relatives/friends is something that everybody wants to have done and nobody wants to do. Hard work is something that ev
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by koningrobot 15y ago
From the "About Us" blurb: The Border House is a blog for gamers. It's a blog for those who are feminist, queer, disabled, people of color, transgender, poor, gay, lesbian, and others who belong to marginalized groups, as well as allies.
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by koningrobot 15y ago
The context for the control quote is here: http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/202526_re-insight-venezuel...
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by koningrobot 15y ago
Well, I don't think their concept of perfection is in line with mine. Theirs is more like "perfect despite the fact that it still leaves a lot to be desired". See http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ObjectBrowser to get an idea of what the perfect b

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