mizzao

54 ms·

721.
by mizzao 11y ago
Microsoft is actually trying out all sorts of stuff lately. Ubuntu for Windows? VS Code? OSS, cross-platform build tools? Lots of interesting things.
722.
by mizzao 11y ago
Yep, running a Surface Book with this setup and it's fantastic.
723.
by mizzao 11y ago
Agreed. I currently have an Ubuntu guest VM on a Windows host and use both simultaneously for day-to-day work.
724.
What's a boss worth?(hbswk.hbs.edu)
1 points by mizzao 11y ago|0 comments
725.
by mizzao 11y ago
Or, on the other hand, this actually wasn't obvious and now we just have thousands of Captain Hindsights saying it was.
726.
by mizzao 11y ago
When your AI system is data-driven, you can't simply filter out words and expect not to have oversights. Something will always be overlooked, and someone on the Internet will inevitably say "that was obvious". For example, co
727.
by mizzao 11y ago
I think that Tay could both be a great anti-troll with infinite patience, and have a positive and uplifting influence in its personal conversations with people. That could potentially have a huge effect on social well-being.
728.
by mizzao 11y ago
Something like this was bound to happen at some point; I think it's much better that it happened with a chatbot than an AI system that could actually control (physical) things other than a Twitter account. I think it's a landmark
729.
by mizzao 11y ago
Microsoft Research was started in 1989, to replicate the Bell Labs model. (I work there.)
730.
by mizzao 11y ago
The motto of my alma mater is "leges sine moribus vanae" --- laws without morals are useless. Laws are just a codification of a moral system. But it is an imperfect one, and you can't enforce morality in the form of laws. Hum
731.
by mizzao 11y ago
I think a bot like Tay could be incredibly supportive and encouraging to people when trained on the right data (see Xiaoice.) Hopefully they will give it another chance.
732.
by mizzao 11y ago
I agree that given an agreeable set of data, the training isn't hard. That's why I don't really see this as a technical problem. If humans can't even agree on what is right and wrong, moral or immoral, how can we come up
733.
by mizzao 11y ago
That was instantiated a while ago as the trolley problem [1], and there's renewed interest in variants of it for self-driving cars. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
734.
by mizzao 11y ago
Although in this case only words were slung, I think this scenario illustrates a potentially huge problem: horrible people combined with an AI system that can't tell right and wrong (perhaps call it morality) could result in terrible c
735.
by mizzao 11y ago
Sendhil Mullainathan (econ prof at Harvard) is doing some work on using machine learning to predict whether people should be granted bail. The machine discrimination (no pun intended) issues here could be quite terrifying. Not published yet
736.
by mizzao 11y ago
I don't think the problem here can be solved purely through programming. It's an issue of teaching the bot right and wrong (maybe even call it morality) and I don't think that's easy at all. Even humans wouldn't be
737.
by mizzao 11y ago
Although in this case only words were slung, I think this scenario illustrates a potentially huge problem: horrible people combined with an AI system that can't tell right and wrong (morality) could result in terrible catastrophes. Wha
738.
by mizzao 11y ago
Agreed. It also wouldn't be very interesting to watch a human-AI game where the human is better at planning and tactics but the AI just wins even uphill battles due to insane micro.
739.
by mizzao 11y ago
Another way to look at this is just how efficient the human brain is for the same amount of computation. On one hand, we have racks of servers (1920 CPUs and 280 GPUs) [1] using megawatts (gigawatts?) of power, and on the other hand we have
740.
by mizzao 11y ago
Where is the link to this exactly? I only see things like the following, which still require rolling a VM and setting it up yourself: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/vir...
741.
by mizzao 11y ago
Ironic how videos are such low-bandwidth ways to communicate compared to good writing. You have to wait for them, you can't scan through them to gauge whether they are good quality, sometimes you're not set up to listen to audio,
742.
by mizzao 11y ago
Accidentally melting your power electronics doesn't activate your smelly, smoky, aggressive, obnoxious monster senses?
743.
by mizzao 11y ago
It seems like at least one of the problems mentioned here is going to be common to many cars in the future: more and more of the vehicle will involve software rather than hardware, and as such is less transparent to the end-user. It's
744.
by mizzao 11y ago
One premise of this article bothers me right off the bat. I don't understand why, as an application developer, we wouldn't want to offload some of the computational load to clients instead of our own servers. That is a resource th
745.
by mizzao 11y ago
Is monkey-patching other people's web apps really the right way to get this done? It's very brittle and it seems that the policy-driven (i.e. convince HN to do it) method is better than the vigilante programmer method.
746.
by mizzao 11y ago
It's not satire; that's just the sad state of scientific experimentation. A similar finding was widely publicized for psychology studies: http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-f...
747.
Don’t create a sense of urgency, foster a sense of purpose(medium.com)
6 points by mizzao 11y ago|0 comments
748.
by mizzao 11y ago
There was an article about how that MBP model is still very popular: https://marco.org/2016/01/04/md101ll-a HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10840227
749.
by mizzao 11y ago
> Kahneman and Granger are recent Nobel Prize winners that didn't have a PhD in economics. I don't know about that--it was really a chore to christen the field of behavioral economics, previously considered to be "psycholo
750.
by mizzao 11y ago
Economics is a highly inbred field, which makes it very difficult to transmit cross-disciplinary information. The recent popularity of machine learning in the field might be a rare exception. Economists only cite other economists. One of my

More ›