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by laughingman2 8y ago
Yeah, I was referring to that thread. Without explicitly stating what's wrong with the study (in which many factors could go wrong), Or stating how/why environmental factors could still derail the study despite twin control, the t
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by laughingman2 8y ago
This study measures academic performance in non-identical twins with identical twins as the control group. It finds a significant difference in outcomes between non-identical twins than identical twins suggesting the role of genes in academ
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The genetics of university success(nature.com)
97 points by laughingman2 8y ago|122 comments
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by laughingman2 8y ago
There is this anime called psycho-pass, that explores how an AI assigns jobs based on psychological profile aka Psycho-Pass, identify criminals for police to execute or jail etc. Very good take on how things might be.
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by laughingman2 8y ago
I have read articles that as incomes rise, people in India a significant percentage of whom were traditionally vegetarian start to consume meat more often. I think this is also the case for other developing countries, as incomes rise meat c
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Earthlings 10 year anniversary edition – Documentary on Animal Farming(vimeo.com)
3 points by laughingman2 8y ago|3 comments
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by laughingman2 8y ago
Well, the difference is the "actual monopoly" here can be voted out democratically. Give the workers of Amazon and other companies the same power to influence the board through one person one vote or a liquid democracy, then we ca
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by laughingman2 8y ago
They don't teach Ethics in AI for skynet scenario, but for analyzing ethics in real use cases like Automated targeting in military applications, manipulating people, biases in AI models etc
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by laughingman2 8y ago
I think legal contract analysis is an area where machine learning is actually needed for core features to work. Some products like https://www.contractstandards.com/ are beginning to appear. They need document classificatio
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by laughingman2 8y ago
Though not the same exact problem, the current machine learning research in nlp to remove unrelated bias is facing trouble in removing demographics from learnt representations. Vector representations of textual data of users encode demograp
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by laughingman2 8y ago
With all the productivity gains, if the wage growth has been far less, it's clear who is to take a huge part of the blame, hint hint, big corporations who also evade paying taxes. Its almost as if they don't want a vibrant middle
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by laughingman2 8y ago
Exactly, this is why extending scope of democracy (workplace democracy, more decentralization, liquid democracy, direct democracy etc) is important, intellectual/political/economic/corporate elites with power however much &qu
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by laughingman2 8y ago
I think its done out of malice however they dress it up. Ignoring history of how stolen wealth from colonialism and protectionist policies of the west during the colonial era etc when its convenient to do so is nothing but malice. https:&#
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by laughingman2 8y ago
There is this interesting paper that evaluates role of luck and talent in outcome. https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07068 " The largely dominant meritocratic paradigm of highly competitive Western cultures is rooted
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by laughingman2 8y ago
Corporations have ruined most of asian nations. East India Company British exploited India, looting it from a country having top wealth in world to the bottom, Dutch East India Company destroyed indigenous asian trade. Fruit companies and o
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by laughingman2 8y ago
>Linux may be free as in freedom, but it's not free as in beer, not if time is money Open source project developers which are not funded are also spending their valuable time to create something. Giving them grief for not supporting
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by laughingman2 8y ago
Even if the power of individual vote seems very small, It can be used to instigate change. One can argue that in order to increase the power of people, one has to reduce the power of corporation lobbying etc. Corporations are vast entities
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by laughingman2 8y ago
One can argue that the end result for the reason they did it is a resounding success. So their strategy was not focused in regulating behavior.
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by laughingman2 9y ago
There is this quote by Jürgen Schmidhuber, director at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA , creator of LSTM Neural Nets that power many of our current machine learning applications. " General purpose quantum computation won’t work (my prediction o
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by laughingman2 9y ago
Then please petetion your senator to deregulate tanks, fighter jets, nuclear warheads, ballistic missiles, submarines etc. If you are serious about arming civilians as protection to overthrow tyranny, do a better job.
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by laughingman2 9y ago
The defenders of american military in this thread have forgotten that for the past half century, the american war machine has commited war crimes across the world. If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president w
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by laughingman2 9y ago
https://brilliant.org/ has practise modules. Other than that I think https://www.khanacademy.org/ has practise sessions too.
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by laughingman2 9y ago
It's highly disingenuous to portray the researchers in machine learning as some sort of sell outs . Hinton was working in neural nets even in the time when they were uncool and fringe area of research. They didn't sell out AGI f
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by laughingman2 9y ago
Yes, recent work on transfer learning https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06146 " Fine-tuned Language Models for Text Classification" suggests that training a lstm on a large corpora for language modeling, then using
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by laughingman2 9y ago
>Natural language philosophy constitutes legitimate dialectics, not pedantry. In the former you add precision by first synthesizing an agreement of terminology and introducing relevant definitions. What you describe is not the only view
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by laughingman2 9y ago
Your view of rigorous language is debatable. In wittgenstienian sense Language is its use. So one might argue you are playing different language game (aka legal language) in a informal conversation game in a internet forum.
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by laughingman2 9y ago
Cooking at home may seem "uneconomical", but directly interacting with the food you take in, act of cooking etc are valuable in qualitative way, which is hidden by economic reductionism. I think E. F. Schumacher nailed it in his
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by laughingman2 9y ago
Thank you for the effort to free knowledge.
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by laughingman2 9y ago
https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/11/01/deepxplore-automated-whi... Check this out
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Zoho One – A suite of 35 cloud business apps at 1$ per employee per day(zoho.com)
3 points by laughingman2 9y ago|1 comments

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