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901.
by m12k 7y ago
As much I'm hoping there'll be a breakthrough in AGI, maybe the right approach is the one AlphaGo was using: DL not as the top level decision-making, but plugged into a traditional decision-making algorithm in specific places.
902.
by m12k 7y ago
The point about strategy vs culture reminds me of an article on here yesterday about how cephalopods have neural subsystems for controlling each limb separately, and they obviously have attention and intent - but it's still impossible
903.
by m12k 7y ago
I've heard good things about 'Ray Tracing in One Weekend' https://raytracing.github.io/
904.
by m12k 7y ago
I've seen many mobile developers be frustrated at constantly needing to ask the backend developers to make new rest endpoints for them because the existing ones were not exposing the data in the way they needed it exposed. And similarl
905.
by m12k 7y ago
The thing about VR is that pretty much anyone that's actually tried it will say it's too compelling to not have some measure of success. I don't think VR/AR/XR will ever be as ubiquitous a platform as smartphones ar
906.
by m12k 7y ago
I think practically speaking it means a VPN will be able to bypass it and that's ok.
907.
by m12k 7y ago
A better title would be "Our Brains Are Not Multi-core' - so multitasking, just like multi-threading on a single core CPU, will incur a penalty of context switching, cache misses, and so on.
908.
by m12k 7y ago
I hope this once and for all puts the nail in the coffin of the hand-wavy "we'll collect info that is super valuable to someone else and sell it to them" business model. Sure, if you can collect enough of it cheaply enough an
909.
by m12k 7y ago
Yeah, between the entrenched 2-party system, Citizen's United, gerrymandering, voter suppression (voter-ID laws, the war-on-drugs combined with felons not being eligible to vote, etc.), the politization of the supreme court and the com
910.
by m12k 7y ago
I think the EU is a good example of how the border as 'a thing that prevents people from moving about' has been eliminated (via the Schengen Agreement) while it still maintains them when it comes to nation states, voting and so on
911.
by m12k 7y ago
The Pro iPhones are definitely for 'prosumers' rather than actual professionals. You know, the type that has a semi-professional DSLR, but just uses it to take better pictures than anyone else when they're at a party or going
912.
by m12k 7y ago
Makes sense - streaming has won, so the people buying physical media might as well go full hipster instead of half-assing it.
913.
by m12k 7y ago
Personalized meme gif generation? Send your friend a gif with their face on Bruce Lee to tell them they are kicking ass
914.
by m12k 7y ago
I really enjoy these sort of step-by-step optimization posts with good illustrations. It's not often that I need to do something like this, but I like knowing how it's done if I ever need it.
915.
by m12k 7y ago
I don't think it's uncommon to have a 'lead of team leads' called an engineering manager. They're typically the people who were good enough at being team leads that they advance to making sure all the team leads are
916.
by m12k 7y ago
That was an interesting read! Interestingly, John Baez, author of the originally posted link is also quoted in it.
917.
by m12k 7y ago
This was an interesting read - reminded me of another article [1] I read in 2013 about using a high-dimensional 'jewel' to describe reality, which then turned out to be an extremely efficient way to do the calculations from a Feyn
918.
by m12k 7y ago
You don't seem to understand how transfer pricing and tax havens work. These companies are not paying taxes on profits from most of their foreign sales in their home countries - the home corporation pays taxes on their domestic profits
919.
by m12k 7y ago
Here's an example: A German company pays to advertise to a German consumer. It used to be that the money spent on that advertisement went to a German advertisement company, so that money would stay in the German economy, and the system
920.
by m12k 7y ago
I just finished the NYT article and it claims the move is because Russia doesn't have a 5G play, so they try to undermine everyone else's. I guess that might hold some credence.
921.
by m12k 7y ago
I can't see any way Russia benefits from the 5G hysteria directly. So I wonder if they use this as a way to screen for impressionable people in the West that they can then later use for spreading more 'useful' misinformation?
922.
by m12k 7y ago
It's my impression that the vanguard of the anti-vaxxer movement have long since moved on to 5G as their battleground of choice. And to be fair, of all the places they could try to incite another mindless panic, this is probably the mo
923.
by m12k 7y ago
Interesting. Are there any legitimate uses for third party cookies (i.e. functionality that you as the user actually care about) or are they only ever used for tracking?
924.
by m12k 7y ago
That story of how the doctors just dismissed her pain as delusion is terrifying. Doctors are supposed to be people of science, but one of the very fundamentals of science is to acknowledge that you don't know everything, that your curr
925.
by m12k 7y ago
A variation is "never replace/remove something if you can't explain what good it does". The classic example is the big code rewrite, where years of bugfixes and nuances get lost in the 'clean' reimplementation.
926.
by m12k 7y ago
How long does such a model expect the trees to keep the carbon captured? Most (non-rain-)forests burn eventually, so for a long-term solution, we need to make sure that the carbon that is captured stays captured. I saw some mention of speci
927.
by m12k 7y ago
Your variant 1) reminds me of the board game Hive. It feels like a hex-based, lightweight mix between Chess and Go (you win by surrounding your opponent's Queen Bee) where the pieces also create the shape of the board.
928.
by m12k 7y ago
What's HN's thoughts on IoT? To me it looks like yet another buzzword from the "wouldn't it be neat?" crowd (the same people who previously gave us a lot of hype about Semantic Web and P2P social networks) but as be
929.
by m12k 7y ago
In a similar vein, I never noticed how Half-Life 2's AI seems to have something in common with the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal from Hitchihker's Guide to The Galaxy - it believes that if you can't see it, it can't
930.
by m12k 7y ago
When I clicked the link I thought it would be about something that confused me for a while: What do people mean when they write a capital J in their emails? I eventually figured out that it's because Outlook automatically converts a s

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