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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
South Africa recently avoided a country-wide banking sector labour strike [1]. The reason for the strike would have been to protest against retrenchments in the industry [2]. I suspect that we'll see an increase in white-collar workers
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
That sounds like the slippery slope fallacy. That kind of thinking doesn't necessarily _lead_ anywhere, and even if it did, that doesn't make it wrong. The argument itself is sound. No one suggested "the wholesale curtailment
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
The part I'm finding hard to wrap my head around is that gravitational waves _are_ the disturbances in the curvature of spacetime. Wouldn't that change how they're affected by the curvature of spacetime? Maybe I'm mixing
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
Disclaimer: not a quant but I've built a similar system. >some low latency twitter API that you can pay big money to access Yes. The twitter firehose is the big one, where you get a stream of _all_ tweets. Twitter doesn't publi
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
> But conversion losses will probably always limit those systems to 25-35% efficiency at best Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but the "alternative" energy storage systems you mentioned have about 80% or more round-trip energy
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
The risk that wind turbines pose to birds is already very small. Wind farms kill 440 thousand birds per year. Meanwhile, building windows kill about 500 million, and cats another 500 million. A standard wind turbine kills 4.27 birds per yea
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
>This was accompanied by an equally peremptory demand to finish the $100 billion International Space Station—another purposeless project... It's hard do take this article seriously when they casually assert that the ISS has no purpo
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
The addition of Tarnished to the headline is a bit much. I'm not sure what the complaint is. That it was a serious bug? That it took 61 days to fix?
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Microchess(en.wikipedia.org)
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
That's what a bot would say :) I'm not sure how HN's ranking algorithm works, but it seems similar to Reddit where there is a velocity factor. So all you need to do to boost your submission on to the front page is a decent su
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
A snapshot of what /newest looks like at the moment: https://imgur.com/hZkYX9h That's the kind of organic upvote rate you'd expect from something like "Alien spaceship lands in Times Square (nytimes.com)
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
Conversations about AGI always get really messy because it's so polarized. Everyone that's written a line of code, or watched The Terminator, or have heard about the singularity have an opinion on this topic. It's easy to fal
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
Omnipotent might be a bit too strong a word, I'll assume you meant omnipotent with respect to humans. > the first thing it'll do will be to short circuit its paperclip-driven pleasure centres to a permanent ecstatic state Assum
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
I think glenstein is already past that point, you might be talking about different things. Drexler's solution is pretty good but it seems like a stopgap measure. Sure, if the subsystem is bound and specific there's no AGI risk, bu
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
> I think any domain-specific intelligence, as it approximates "perfect", would independently discover and solve similar high level questions and be transferable to other domains There is a trap here, in the sense that we tend
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
> The reality is that no one has any clue what's going to happen and everyone is just guessing. This is one of the first sentences in Bostrom's Superintelligence; he was very clear that he's in no way claiming that AGI is
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
> they will get much faster and powerful in the years No one knows that, and we are extremely bad at predicting scientific and engineering breakthroughs. Yes, it's plausible that we'll have faster computers in the next 30 years
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
> Prior to today’s funding announcement, the company had taken just a $1.2 million seed round in 2014. Today, it reports 3,000 paying customers and that it has been profitable for the last several years Well there is something you don&#x
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Year Without a Summer(en.wikipedia.org)
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Twistor Space(en.wikipedia.org)
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
> Mississippi’s new law is sweeping: “Any food product containing cell-cultured animal tissue or plant-based or insect-based food shall not be labeled meat or as a meat product.” I can see the argument for the plant-based case and maybe
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
In this demonstration, the rooster doesn't even mind having its leg pulled and prodded. I wonder how much discomfort it will endure before snapping out of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ_Up5UdwG0
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
The "You Don't Know JS Yet" book was suggested in the fairly recent HN thread on the same topic: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/READM... https://news.yc
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
I don't like sleeping more than eight hours, unless I'm completely sleep deprived. Even then, I'll automatically wake up after about eight hours. This has been the case for as long as I can remember, including times of extrem
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
You make a good point. I was actually speaking about the general case, where you're simply pulling the bounds of x_min and x_max closer until f(x) reaches a target value or the bounds converge to the same value. f could be an array and
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
I didn't say it invalidates the point, because I honestly don't know what your point was to begin with. Which is why I asked the question originally. I'm still no closer to knowing, and it seems like you're not intereste
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
I assure you I'm being sincere.
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
The bug only manifests if the range you're searching is within MAX_INT/2 (or whatever numeric datatype you're using). I'm not sure I understand the point you're trying to make.
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
In the 2019 Stack Overflow developer survey, 27.8% of respondents said they encountered whiteboarding as part of their last successful interview process that resulted in a job offer. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey
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by luc4sdreyer 7y ago
> - Glyphosate-tolerant modifications leading to higher pesticide usage That might be true, but Glyphosate is less toxic than the alternatives, so the overall effect is positive: > On balance, herbicide-resistant GM crops are less dam

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