maverick_iceman

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Ted Chiang interviewed(infinityplus.co.uk)
2 points by maverick_iceman 9y ago|0 comments
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The Coming War on General Computation(joshuawise.com)
3 points by maverick_iceman 9y ago|0 comments
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7489605
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Intuitively, it seems that Uber committed fraud; but is there a specific law that they violated? It's not a rhetorical question, I'm genuinely curious to know.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
It's not necessary to apply sophisticated models like random forest/neural nets to cricket. It's a sports for which humongous amount of data is kept meticulously; also we're trying to predict pretty standard stuff like w
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Ray Junior's first name is Sandip, not Sanjit.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
I sometimes do miss the functionality of touching/swiping my laptop.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Can't you keep some fruits like strawberry or bananas handy?
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Don't know why GV would invest in Soylent after so much fiasco. Seems like they earn money so easily that they are content to throw it away.
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When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China(a16z.com)
1 points by maverick_iceman 9y ago|0 comments
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Or they'll do better jobs. At one point, 70% of US workforce was engaged in agriculture, now it is 1%. The 69% didn't become an unemployed underclass.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
This is a dangerous argument. Peoples' rights over their bodies must be absolute. Suicide, abortion at any stage, voluntary organ trade, drug use, prostitution - all these should be legal as they follow from one's right to her bod
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
No, that's wrong. Traditional hiring practices are good at separating the wheat from the chaff. Only the incompetents who are rejected bitch about it.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Evidence?
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
If his research is any good, then how can he not get any NIH funding? I'm skeptical that a missile defense researcher will suddenly achieve a breakthrough in AIDS treatment. Not that it couldn't happen, but it's unlikely.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
I doubt that Godel was indispensable for the discovery of the incompleteness theorem. It was one of Hilbert's problems so clearly people were thinking about it. Moreover, a few years later Turing came up with his notion of computabilit
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Martha Stewart went to jail for making ~$400,000 in insider trading, a far less serious offense.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Clearly he is a brilliant man. Too bad that he got so greedy. This is doubly sad when he was already a legitimate multimillionaire from his job at Google.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
One thing I miss in a physical book is the ability to look up a term immediately.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Why wouldn't the same argument apply to electric grid or internet infrastructure?
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
You do realize that the cost of air travel has become much less since the 70s?
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Your car already comes packed with software. If you're worried about hackers gaining access you should be worried right now.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Don't you think the engineers building self-driving cars would consider reaction times and make adequate safeguards? If your thesis requires a group of very smart people to be completely oblivious to a very basic issue for multiple yea
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
We already trust computers to operate all vehicles to some extent. Almost all vehicles sold today have large amount of software controlling them.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
>they will fail in surprising and inhuman ways It's an improvement as long as those are few percent of the unsurprising and human ways human drivers fail.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
This is not true. DeepMind has built AI that can understand the rules of the game just by looking at the screen and then play it perfectly.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Less parking space though, the self-driving car can drive off after dropping you off.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
It's wrong for the state to declare human driving illegal. I will prefer if we voluntarily adopt self-driving cars because of its huge benefits. I think that's the likely scenario, consider that horse buggies are currently only us
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
We'll manage. Already a lot of critical technology (electric grids, military weapons) is connected to the internet. Civilization hasn't collapsed in spite of that.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Humans will do stupid things. A self-driving car has to drive safely in spite of them.

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