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by mjn 9y ago
One group of people it can work a bit better for, in terms of living somewhere you have a real connection rather than living an expat lifestyle, are people who are themselves from somewhere with a lower cost of living, but can't find g
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ICFP Programming Contest 2017(icfpcontest2017.github.io)
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Depending on where you live, some academic libraries give membership (possibly for a fee) to people living within a certain distance, as a kind of local outreach/PR gesture. May be worth a look at a few universities near you to see if
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by mjn 9y ago
Although some academics (like myself) are intrigued by them, APL-like languages (APL, J, K, Q, etc.) have very little to do with academia historically, and were developed pretty much isolated from the academic programming languages communit
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I noticed that as well. I think it may have been manual in this case, going by what I've observed in the past. YC has some idea of what it doesn't want on the front page of its forum, and has paid staff who remove it. There are al
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Zuckerberg and Musk Are Fighting About Their Personal Brands, Not AI(theatlantic.com)
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by mjn 9y ago
Reminds me of an article from 5 years ago, "The Cigarette of This Century", comparing cigarettes and smartphones. Although that one is looking more at their social roles than their health effects. https://www.theatlanti
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Some advice for journalists writing about artificial intelligence(togelius.blogspot.com)
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Mostly just at home. My dad is American and mom is Greek, so they each spoke to me primarily in their native language and I grew up speaking both natively to some extent. The Greek side's grandparents also lived with us for about a yea
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> He learned the language primarily from us parents, there are almost no Russian friends around, so his language is very adult, I'd even say academic. For instance, he normally does not use the word "круто", Russian equiva
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Weird, yeah. Seems like a roundabout way of trying to preemptively answer the "why not deep learning?" question omnipresent among ML newcomers. The bits identified aren't really wrong: you could argue that gradient boosting&#
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> outperform I think that remains to be seen, at least in the general case, since we haven't yet agreed on a measure of performance. The debate around adversarial examples can be interpreted as arguing over the proper measure of per
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From what I can find online, it seems to be fairly common in California too, at least in the larger cities, though some require you to call to schedule a pickup rather than it being a regularly scheduled day. Usually googling for "[cit
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by mjn 9y ago
Everywhere I've lived in the U.S. has a periodic oversized/miscellaneous waste pickup day where they will pick up almost anything that doesn't go in the normal trash, for free. Well, by free I mean for no existing charge abov
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by mjn 9y ago
Parts of computer science are not too bad either. In my field, AI, the top-tier journals and conferences are all open-access and run by nonprofits. I mention conferences because in computer science they are important as well; the top peer-r
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by mjn 9y ago
I don't see how it's a windfall on the part of the state, it's just collecting what's owed to them in arrears. It's not required that you defer the taxes. You could pay them up front. It's simply an option, t
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In my opinion, Texas gets this right (as a left-winger who's lived in Texas for a number of years, I don't get to say this that frequently). If you're over 65, you can defer property taxes on the home you occupy as long as yo
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by mjn 9y ago
Automation is already being explored essentially everywhere, so I'm not sure motivation is a big part of it. The question is more whether it's feasible, both technically and economically, in a given case. In principle, yes, a mini
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> The userland can mostly remain unchanged as long as you expose the expected interfaces. In principle yes, but Linux exposes a lot of interfaces, not all of which are that well documented in all their corners, and some of which are le
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Huginn is one option: https://github.com/huginn/huginn
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Also a common naming scheme in music, which is where APL got the terms from: one note is a monad, two simultaneously is a dyad, three is a triad, four is a tetrad, etc. Fwiw APL's use of monad in this sense predates the FP use of the t
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Enough with the dead butterflies(emilydamstra.com)
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Human-Level AI Is Right Around the Corner, or Hundreds of Years Away(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Answer-set programming (ASP) is another direction to go in w.r.t. this relationship. It takes a Prolog-like semantics (and syntax), but rebases the solving process on top of a solver-style backend that shares some general similarities with
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by mjn 9y ago
Some previous blog posts on this topic, from a few years ago: "Who Killed Prolog?" by Maarten van Emden. https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/who-killed-prolog/ Posits that the huge hype p
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by mjn 9y ago
Herb Simon is perhaps better known in tech circles for his role in artificial intelligence, but he had some interesting writings on economics and organizational theory as well.
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Organizations and Markets (1991) [pdf](people.ds.cam.ac.uk)
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The article does discuss why there isn't a significant decline in price. Its two proposed explanations are increased demand from Chinese buyers, and increased demand from the relatively new lobster-roll phenomenon: > This leaves th
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In the case of the University of California system, it's almost 1:1 substitution, declines in per-student funding being matched by increases in tuition. Partly due to actual cuts to the UC budget since 2000, and partly due to funding n
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Glancing at the bibliography, I notice that the author of this article, B. Jack Copeland, also wrote a book entitled Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine: The Master Codebreaker's Struggle to Build the Modern Computer . It ma

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