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by lostdog 5y ago
Unfortunately it only helps your anxiety if you KNOW that it's low stakes.
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by lostdog 5y ago
The point still stands. School doesn't teach you to handle stress and anxiety. It just creates some for you.
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by lostdog 5y ago
Here's Tesla's AI day presentation on how they are going to use AI in their planning system because traditional methods aren't scalable enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0z4FweCy4M&t=4392s (1:20:
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by lostdog 5y ago
How about LOReL, where a robot manipulates objects and open drawers when given text instructions: https://sites.google.com/view/robotlorl
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by lostdog 5y ago
> Also notice that in some domains ML is still behind symbolic A.I., for instance a lot of robotics and autonomous vehicles. Classical AI has failed in robotics. There's practically no field where it does worse than in robotics. It&
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by lostdog 5y ago
Great answers. If we check back in a couple years, I'm sure we'll see good learned approaches to most of these problems. Robotics is already on its way there. Is this program induction https://paperswithcode.com/ta
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by lostdog 5y ago
Don't work for bad startups. When a founder hides basic information that matters to their employees, what do you think they'll do when it's time to negotiate an acquisition or an IPO? Sometimes the founder want to tell you, b
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by lostdog 5y ago
> IBM managed to beat Garry Kasperov using symbolic AI did they not? So in what way does it not work? Ok, I should be clearer. ML approaches are way way better than symbolic approaches. Given almost any problem, it is much much easier to
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by lostdog 5y ago
Money represents immediate value, and basic science is long term value, and it's very difficult to get money to jump that temporal gap.
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by lostdog 5y ago
It is simple, but not easy. Just replicate DARPA+NIH+NSF, and increase the total research budget by 100x, and ensure there are stable career paths to be a researcher until retirement.
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by lostdog 5y ago
The difference between ML and symbolic AI is that ML works and symbolic AI doesn't. At my job, dropping the computational load of our ML models is heavily invested in, and every success is celebrated. Everybody wants it to be easier an
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by lostdog 5y ago
Blackrock bought the 3 houses because they believe they will make money on them. If that's true, then even if you remove Blackrock, then someone will fight to buy the house because of the positive return on investment. Any solution req
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by lostdog 5y ago
I mean you could be sitting around in the '70s making up reasons that women aren't interested in being doctors or lawyers, and boy would you turn out wrong: https://twitter.com/familyunequal/status/116424
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by lostdog 5y ago
There should be a way to go after the medical licenses of "doctors" who put profits above health. I don't have any suggestions for you. The only people happy with their insurance are those who have never tried to use it.
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by lostdog 5y ago
Because they worked more hours, or because they chose to build something less stupid?
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by lostdog 5y ago
Yeah, for this whole case we have to choose whether Google or the Texas AG is being more honest.
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by lostdog 5y ago
You found one event from 2007 where the driver didn't exercise control of their vehicle "According to police, Ferrando had allegedly tapped one of the cyclists' tires." And one from 2015 where the driver endangered the c
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by lostdog 5y ago
You could also set fees to fix the problem. Dropping off an [empty?] container at the port? Pay $1000. Loading an empty container onto your ship? Get a bonus of $900. Now you have a feedback loop that brings the empty containers back to whe
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by lostdog 5y ago
Say you're teaching a robot to walk, but the joint constraints in the simulator aren't quite right. It would be possible for the policy to exert more torque on the joint than it's supposed to be able to in real life. Take tha
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by lostdog 5y ago
Here's a use case: I was training a neutral net, and wanted to do some preprocessing (similar to image resizing, but without an existing C function). Inputs are batched, so the preprocessing is trivially parallelizable. I tried to mult
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by lostdog 5y ago
Omitting AMT's effect on exercising in a post about equity is pretty much blogging malpractice. Other than that, very good post.
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by lostdog 5y ago
If you can, route at least one (polite) message around the recruiter. At the least, it can create pressure on the recruiter to promptly answer email in the future.
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by lostdog 5y ago
Funny to look back. Here's Intel's HQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrZrTJqK7ys All I can think is "Wow, I bet I could really focus on something difficult in that cubicle!"
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by lostdog 5y ago
Every time we get a bad President, we get a slew of bad judges. It's very difficult to get a set of rules and practices that are better than the political system they came from.
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by lostdog 5y ago
Wow! What companies do you like right now ;)
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by lostdog 5y ago
Yes, AirBnB support is terrible. I booked a place in a major city, but the queen bed turned out to be a twin bed. We complained, and at midnight they told us that the host wanted us gone. We booked an emergency hotel, and the next day AirBn
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by lostdog 5y ago
[Thanks to all the brits for educating me! I did not realize there where bands of SWE pay that were relatively well compensated. I have also learned a lot about perceptions of the U.S. Later tonight, when I don the armor I constructed from
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by lostdog 5y ago
I did mean the USA, but now see that it was implicit (sorry. I probably enforced a bunch of stereotypes right there). I'm very curious if "it's a right-wing dystopia" is a common viewpoint, and whether it comes from dire
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by lostdog 5y ago
Everything I read on the internet suggests that UK tech salaries are extremely low, and that the profession has a low level of respect overall. I have many many foreign or first generation immigrant coworkers, but almost no one British. I&#
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by lostdog 5y ago
We used to say that AI development should be "embodied," because only the real world was complex and structured enough to train up an intelligence. Funny how the tables have turned! My experience matches the author's exactly.

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