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by myffical 6mo ago
Some DeepMind researchers used mechanistic interpretability techniques to find concepts in AlphaZero and teach them to human chess Grandmasters: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2406675122
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by myffical 8mo ago
Another appropriate analogy would be be HeLa / Henrietta Lacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa
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Show HN: 2025 California Wildfire Satellite Images(california-wildfire-satellite-images.org)
1 points by myffical 2y ago|0 comments
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by myffical 2y ago
https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2024-economic-we... > When faced with a hypothetical expense of $400, 63 percent of all adults in 2023 said they would have covered it exclusively using cash, savings, or
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by myffical 5y ago
Thanks for link; this post is indeed a dupe of that one.
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by myffical 5y ago
Note that OP of the tweet has since successfully got their Facebook profile unblocked: https://twitter.com/KikiDoodleTweet/status/14064498487699415...
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Facebook: You're temporarily restricted from posting until December 4, 219250468(twitter.com)
2 points by myffical 5y ago|3 comments
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Former UChicago Student President: Uni's Disavowal of Safe Spaces Is “a PR Prop”(twitter.com)
5 points by myffical 10y ago|0 comments
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Windows Messenger to be migrated to Skype(windows.microsoft.com)
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Google Maps for iPhone is here(theverge.com)
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Kindle Edition of Effective C++ for $2.99 (US)(amazon.com)
1 points by myffical 14y ago|1 comments
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Berkeley Computer Vision Class(vision-class.org)
136 points by myffical 15y ago|16 comments
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by myffical 15y ago
Add musician Jonathan Coulton to that list: makes ~$500,000 a year without having ever signed on to a major label.
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Stanford Free Class: Computer Security(security-class.org)
144 points by myffical 15y ago|16 comments
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Stanford's Machine Leaning Class (January 2012)(jan2012.ml-class.org)
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by myffical 15y ago
This is a good lesson for everyone who builds online communities: Some design decisions that are acceptable to the majority, like the real-name policy, harm groups of people who are already marginalized.
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by myffical 16y ago
The Kelvin problem: what is the optimum way to partition 3D space into identical cells, such that the surface area between them is minimized? Lord Kelvin conjectured that the Kelvin cell gave this optimum partitioning. This conjecture stood
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by myffical 16y ago
Maybe. One of TED's purposes is to bring together people with ideas and people with the capital and influence to make them happen.
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by myffical 16y ago
You need to massage your data to get more meaningful results. It might be interesting to compare your word counts with the word counts from a general-purpose word corpus, then pick out words that appear more frequently by a statistically-si
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by myffical 16y ago
World of Goo, another excellent indie game, also reported a 90% piracy rate two years ago. The developers calculated that percentage from the number of users on their high score board, which were much more than the number of actual online s
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by myffical 16y ago
My hunch says that this is a culture-specific study. The findings might break down in some Asian cultures, especially those in which it is polite to speak highly of everyone, regardless of one's true feelings.
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by myffical 16y ago
Given the nature of this community, if HN runs ads, I'd expect to see links to user-made alternate front-ends and ad-blocking extensions, right on the same page.
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by myffical 16y ago
Similar thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1518619 Start by helping software projects that you already use. You will have personal insight as to where the bugs are.
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Amazon, Apple accused of anti-competitive e-book pricing(ct.gov)
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by myffical 16y ago
Start with projects that you personally use and enjoy! You'll have more insight in the project, and you'll feel more motivated. (e.g."I'll write a patch for feature X becuause I want to see it in the next release.") Look for projects that a
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by myffical 16y ago
http://www.asmallorange.com/ Friendly, starts small and scales up, run by smart guys who answer tech support within minutes (literally).