mach1ne

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by mach1ne 5y ago
I find that it's disingenuous to propose attributes of consciousness when consciousness hasn't even properly been defined. There is not a shred of evidence that something like our concept of consciousness even exists.
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Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?
166 points by mach1ne 5y ago|353 comments
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by mach1ne 5y ago
Numenta probably has got some things "right", some things wrong and some things missing. The problem with finding the neural code for training a network is that there are so many functional ways to encode data within a network.
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by mach1ne 5y ago
I don't remember where I got the quote, but it fits: "Competition in academia is so dirty and brutal because the stakes are so low."
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by mach1ne 5y ago
I wouldn't use the word 'charlatan' as leniently. Without commenting on the validity of their work, the 'mainstream opinion' about them is most certainly negative. Yet instead of pivoting elsewhere, they stick by th
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by mach1ne 5y ago
This comment could well have come from Chief O'Brien's mouth.
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by mach1ne 5y ago
Whether the vent is bad for others depends on whether the air from your breathing goes through any filter. COVID spreads with aerosols, and the more aerosols in the environment, the higher the chance of infection. You actually need to breat
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by mach1ne 5y ago
This was the case some 10 years ago, but Chinese labor is no longer cheap. The wealth brought in by making China the factory of the world drove the income level of its middle class up and now there are few advantages in manufacturing your p
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by mach1ne 5y ago
At the end of the article
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by mach1ne 5y ago
I believe graph theory is the next significant iteration of mathemathics. There are so many ways to efficiently encode data into a graph, yet out current mathemathical notation is poorly suited to grasp it.
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by mach1ne 5y ago
If a human from 41,500 years ago asked how humans look like nowadays, I guess the answer would be that we still like food, sex and power, but have developed to acquire all of those things more efficiently. Ultimately practically everything
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GPT-3: It can't resist a list(aiweirdness.com)
3 points by mach1ne 5y ago|0 comments
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by mach1ne 5y ago
Without commenting on the validity of the article, it is true that the data in circulation about China in the West is highly distorted due to barriers in language, culture and the internet. While this does not mean that China would necessar
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A fungus that uses chemicals to trick male flies into mating with dead females(phys.org)
3 points by mach1ne 5y ago|0 comments
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by mach1ne 5y ago
The CIA has at least tried this in the modern times with 99.9% probability. They try everything, and this is a low-risk high-gain setup.
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by mach1ne 5y ago
Honestly, there could be a malicious actor deliberately creating division among the populace. As with so many other topics, vaccination and COVID has been politicised to fanaticism. Then again, the more probable explanation is that what we&
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by mach1ne 5y ago
Probably from breath. It jumped from humans to deer in the first place, meaning that such encounters do occur. And since COVID is hardly recognizable from normal flu without a test, even one such encounter is enough to restart the pandemic.
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by mach1ne 5y ago
Google must have done A/B testing. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they mentioned an increase in total consumption in the article. If they did not mention it, the test results were likely not promising, meaning tha
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by mach1ne 5y ago
That's one argument, but on the other hand if you can't vet the videos by yourself before watching, the average quality of the videos you watch will drop, decreasing the incentive for you to spend time on the site.
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by mach1ne 5y ago
Politics and profit tend to go hand-in-hand. I don't see how removing the dislike count will in any way increase the click rate. Be the true reason whatever, but this is another concrete step into the direction of censorship initiated
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by mach1ne 5y ago
If I would hazard a guess, I'd say it's possible that the region of the brain processing language has developed elsewhere than with your average human, leading to less connections from language (Broca's region) directly to au
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by mach1ne 5y ago
That's odd. Can you silence the voice? Do you exert influence over it?
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by mach1ne 5y ago
Quite so. The old rule holds true: When quality of life is rising, no matter the regime, populace is happy. When quality of life is dropping, populace will revolt.
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by mach1ne 5y ago
It's rather difficult to say what prompted this. First intuition would be that it has something to do with NSO not giving backdoor access to certain US organizations, but it could be an actual political shift away from supporting stuff
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by mach1ne 5y ago
Very recently they added their first closed-source component to their code, supposedly a spam filter. This sort of went by HN. I can't help but think that the timing with all these requests is rather coincidental.
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by mach1ne 5y ago
This sort of makes sense, as unnecessary movement drains energy. It seems counterintuitive, then, that sleep has survived for so long, but the forces pushing for it must be strong. It does seem rather coincidental that we sleep for 7-9 hour
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by mach1ne 5y ago
I don't think the risk is that high. It's a surprisingly high threshold to plan and kill another person if you aren't already used to it. There is more than sufficient reason for madmen to kill every world leader, yet this ha
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by mach1ne 5y ago
I think the big value from presenting valuable ideas in the form of a book instead of a slide deck is that the reader is more likely to remember and implement the ideas they read from a book versus a slide deck, simply due to span and depth
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by mach1ne 5y ago
The thing is, academia has always been rather dumb at its main job; analyzing the validity of research. Meaning that, even if the research proves its validity on its own, academia fails to pick it up, preferring to wait for secondary proofs
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by mach1ne 5y ago
Some sources claim that about one star per year in Milky Way dies. We have about 100 billion visible galaxies, so roughly 3000 stars per second die in our visible universe - however, most of those are small stars which aren't really vi

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