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by moxious 9y ago
And here we see the problem with 4-word summaries of very complex instruments. Any summary will be sort of true from one perspective, but missing a lot, and probably wrong from other perspectives. Cryptocurrency, like rocket science, is co
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by moxious 9y ago
Privatization was mostly done under Clinton in response to the fact that federal workers were even less effective, often more expensive, and impossible to fire. contractors aren't all wine and roses but before you knock them you need
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by moxious 9y ago
Why would they do this? It doesn't seem to make much business sense other than to be PR for the grocery company. They've given Musk $5k x 25 trucks ordered, on promises of trucks delivered in a year or more, from a company that u
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by moxious 9y ago
If the autonomous stuff works (HUGE if) it would completely change the core business. I can't see why they'd spin it off. Why sell your future unless you think it won't work out.
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by moxious 9y ago
This article mainly addressed his politics. Crazy or not in the political world, he's a superb software engineer.
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by moxious 9y ago
It's going to be a loooooooooooooooong goodbye. COBOL is still around for what it's worth. The dominant OS (Linux) is written in C. I'd assert that any language used to implement a widely deployed operating system has at l
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by moxious 9y ago
I doubt that was the goal of series C as any investor in that round would have been throwing good money after bad. If you're the VC in that case you're probably better off investing in a growth operation that trying to salvage a
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by moxious 9y ago
The severity of this persons claims are why arbitration was invented. If he's right, complaining on the internet isn't enough of a remedy. And if he's wrong, there ought to be some attempt to hear the other side
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by moxious 9y ago
How is it that the business is pushing the costs off? If you have a job, you're selling your labor. The commute is part of what you have to do to get your goods to market. Are you, as a purchaser of bananas, "pushing off the cos
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by moxious 9y ago
It is not true that whatever a human can do, a machine can be taught to do. The human must have insight into HOW they do it in order to teach it, or otherwise come up with some new algorithm. There are a large class of things humans do th
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by moxious 9y ago
There's clear sampling bias. I read the article as a data irrelevant advertisement for the app
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by moxious 9y ago
Would the CIA really do tha...oh.
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by moxious 9y ago
The longer they hold it, the less likely you'll ever get it if things go bad.
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by moxious 9y ago
If you live in a society where credulous people will accept stories like this, it's no wonder people wouldn't know or spend time with their neighbors. I can't help but see it as one grain of sand on a bigger beach.
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by moxious 9y ago
Wanting to do something and doing it are just totally different. Ask any alcoholic.
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by moxious 9y ago
So many layers are now built on top of the OS that it seems the most obvious way it will continue to grow is by gradually subsiding abstraction layers above that are so common, you'd never not want them. This has already happened with
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by moxious 9y ago
> while making one long argument from ignorance Ignorance of what? You're saying his argument is lazy and ignorant, but you're not backing that up. I think he is willfully refusing to "imagine potential problems" - b
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by moxious 9y ago
Generalize does need to be more specific in order to make sense. In current ML work, generalizability means something else than what it typically used to mean in AI work. One way to look at what generalizability is would be like this: pro
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by moxious 9y ago
#2 is definitely wrong. We aren't a collection of similar hacks; we are qualitatively different because we include the ability to gain new heuristics and to cross apply the ones we already have. No clever library of strung together h
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by moxious 9y ago
As someone who has been into AI since the mid-90s, I continue to be deeply disappointed with the overall rate of progress, this includes with all of the machine-learning and stats based recasting of what's meant by AI. The big fundamen
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by moxious 9y ago
This is a good exercise too to point out all of the tiny little elements of car UX which you just expect to be right. Things like, placement of the sideview mirror in such a way as you can see the mirror, and not placing it behind a pillar
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by moxious 9y ago
There's not going to be a next one, there's going to be 10. 20 years ago the web was a much smaller place, and a few billion people currently online weren't even aware that the place existed. Now, the population has exploded
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by moxious 9y ago
The Byzantine generals problem doesn't address malicious nodes, just failure prone ones. That's a pretty big difference
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by moxious 9y ago
Blockchain seems like a brilliant solution when multiple anonymous untrustworthy parties need to get together and agree. But to the point of this article, most situations aren't like that. You have identities, contracts, and trust at
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by moxious 9y ago
I'm sure the paranoid prepped is there. But the nature of being a paranoid prepped is that he or she is holed up and not coming out to talk/share. Now probably wouldn't be a good time to go wandering across other people&#x27
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by moxious 9y ago
On the contrary it's a wonderful test because it establishes indistinguishability; namely if you pass it, the whole point is that a person can't tell the computer from the intelligent thing. Meaning that you can't really ar
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by moxious 9y ago
The unrestricted Turing test has been around since the 1950s as a test that hasn't changed. No one is moving the goalposts, I think it's rather the opposite. Every ten years computers learn a new trick or two and people rush to
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by moxious 9y ago
What do you see as the basic design of modern AI? The 30 year old discipline of symbolic AI doesn't have much to do with today's statistical AI.
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by moxious 9y ago
At first I was going to agree with you, but I think this largely may be an artifact of where and how you started (and me too). Text-based console editors I think are fundamentally unintuitive and make you learn a lot of different bizarre ke
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Anthony Levandowski founded a religion (2015) focused on a “Godhead based on AI”(wired.com)
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