myaso

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by myaso 9y ago
To get AI you have an interface problem you need to solve since reality is a bitch to parse; this is just the start, what about the formulation of goals? How would you even make that in code? You would need to start with a certain kind of d
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by myaso 9y ago
It's HN, it's like a mandatory one liner to toss out -- the equivalent to "that's what she said" on here. A healthy diet of HN reinforces the reality from a couple of years ago when things actually seem to look more
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by myaso 9y ago
That's the price you pay for having a big country, there are quite a few benefits you enjoy from this -- carve it up into more easily manageable jurisdictions or deal with it. A bigger fraction of your tax dollars being absorbed by the
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by myaso 9y ago
Doing what is right isn't the same as "good feels" -- does conceding your own personal self interests on behalf of a group feel good? Trying to empty the ocean with a bucket is "good feels". You present a theoretic
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by myaso 9y ago
Is medical care something people need ? That's how you tell if the government needs to provide it or subsidize it -- the market like US politics has schizophrenia which doesn't lead to a terribly efficient mechanism for allocatin
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by myaso 9y ago
That territory is the price for being in bed with the Germans -- it's like people conveniently seem to forget why it is so; my mother likes to talk about history when she has had too much wine, it's surprising there is anything le
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by myaso 9y ago
This is an utter fantasy. Small scale limited scope tools being rolled out to augment diagnosis -- Yes. AI doctors -- No :( Also the data is probably mostly shit -- physicians are fallible and like all people potentially incompetent or negl
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by myaso 9y ago
This is load of reasonable sounding horseshit. This tech is excellent at extracting every drop of potential value that flows through organization boundaries and little else (self driving cars aren't reality yet, when my mother is in a
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by myaso 9y ago
This Singapore comment needs to die before someone else ever repeats it again. Lee Hsien Loong (2004-now) is the son of Lee Kuan Yew (1965-1990) -- compensation has nothing to do with it in this case. Past a certain compensation range you a
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by myaso 9y ago
Who knows what the future will bring -- on a 10 to 20 year horizon anything can happen. US prestige is waning and China's role is growing. Middle East is all fucked up and so is most of Africa. Russia will do something if somebody does
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by myaso 9y ago
The populations of these countries is significantly smaller than the US. Apples and oranges dude, things are always simpler when your bureaucracy doesn't have to cover 330m people -- you get a combinatorial explosion from all the addit
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by myaso 9y ago
Most places don't work like IT where workers have easily transferable skills across a large market -- getting rid of somebody who you can't easily replace is not rational, suboptimal is better than none. It's not the people
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by myaso 9y ago
Sure it's technically possible. If you were a woman would you want to have sex with Henry Kissinger? Drugs, alcohol, and whores are cheap compared to the value you can extract from people using them. This article was fun to read; there
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by myaso 9y ago
How would take the guns out of circulation already? There are millions of them out there and a whole tribe of diehards who will never give them up, and on top of this an entire industry around it -- the amount of people that die from this p
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by myaso 9y ago
Out of curiosity what is the state of the art today for extracting text or other data from scanned documents (forms, legal docs, receipts, etc) ?
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by myaso 9y ago
How is keeping data local a good idea? Given how often there is a major breach reported, everything points to this being the opposite -- there aren't enough security specialists to go around for every company. Why not take advantage of
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by myaso 9y ago
You have a problem discovering people in real life if you have niche interests -- I was talking to a gay grad student and he explained how isolating it is outside major cities. Relying on organic social dynamics to do their job will get you
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by myaso 9y ago
Take a look at crimereports.com. You might get lucky and find a good source on a per city or county basis, it's too fragmented overall too try this. Different countries might have different documentation standards and publishing guidel
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by myaso 9y ago
Popular in Canada too.
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by myaso 9y ago
Swartz is dead. Nobody to rally behind now, no real leaders. Online communities are older and more mainstream and are getting ossified. Much more brutal competition in the web space now, can't afford to voluntarily bleed + content is n
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by myaso 9y ago
Likely will happen at some point. It's the next logical extension of consumer devices after the smart phone. It will happen eventually, except there isn't a clear time table as to when. The concept is general purpose enough that i
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by myaso 9y ago
There is nothing to manage at least from the perspective of monetary assets, things would disappear too fast for you have a chance to 'manage' them; also it's the opposite, the poor are very efficient with the limited resourc
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by myaso 9y ago
Agreed again. Starbucks coffee being over roasted is a common complaint, also I find the atmosphere unappealing usually. Most coffee shops I frequent have to hit the sweet spot of having decent coffee + price and being a pleasant place to w
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by myaso 9y ago
Pick a single thing to focus on and maintain sustained effort on it. Pump brown noise/ambient noise into your head at 3 to 6 hour intervals while you study. Tell other people to go hell if they bother you. Disconnect from the internet,
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by myaso 9y ago
It assumes a math background implicitly. I feel like you need some context already to get value out of it. I wouldn't bother reading it without doing something hands on or going through another course like cs231n or fastai first. It&#x
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by myaso 9y ago
Lock in. You won't be able to quit. Much more powerful motivator than telling yourself 'i keep an account to keep in touch'. Basically ensures continuity of Facebook across however many years you would expect to work and prev