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by neolefty 8y ago
Except that it's not random, noone is being killed, and they are getting severance and stock vesting.
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Or 70% of Nevada. I for one welcome our paving-the-deserts-with-solar-panels robot overlords.
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by neolefty 8y ago
My guess: Those "new secrets" would be in the category of "unknown unknowns"[1]. We don't even know where to look for them, so we looked somewhere we hadn't before—in higher energies. And we used a "known
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by neolefty 8y ago
I'd put the causality the other way around—Sergei & Larry's parents and other mentors taught them to seek greater meaning, so they created a company that embodied that. Likewise with the employees they sought out. "Goog
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It's vague but real. Maybe someone who makes the experience miserable for other users? Or is destructive / harassing / mean-spirited?
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by neolefty 8y ago
Wikipedia does well with a periodic fundraiser. Hi Jimbo! Could Reddit do similarly? Style itself as mostly a service and not especially profit-driven? Hi, I'm @spez. By Creddits this week to help Reddit meet its quarterly fundraising
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by neolefty 8y ago
I think this is the more important part of the quote: > Racism, bigotry, and misogyny are not political topics. Is there gray to any of those?
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by neolefty 8y ago
Could ML's open peer review practices be adopted by researchers in other fields?
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Human-granted rights, in contrast to: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights ..." Perhaps it's time for an update to our gl
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4 billion years, but also massively parallel. Trillions of simultaneous random walking hill-climbers.
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How much of your objection has to do with the technology, and how much with the conflict itself? In other words, which question is more appealing: * Given that we're in this conflict, what should we do? * How can we prevent these kinds
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by neolefty 8y ago
including habitat loss It's not quite that simple—in many places increasing yields means using less land. In particular, leaving marginal land fallow. But the factors are pretty complicated, in the US especially dominated by policy
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by neolefty 8y ago
Are these improvements applicable to Android?
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by neolefty 8y ago
Missed the most important points. For example: I’m extremely happy with the how things have turned out. We’ve got a lot of great feedback and some average reviews on Amazon (please leave us a review!). I’m grateful that people are reading
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by neolefty 8y ago
I doubt they're writing the whole chip—instead, a statistical sampling seems sufficient. And wouldn't most controllers already handle accumulating errors, including any introduced by the testing process? I understood that a portio
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by neolefty 8y ago
True, nothing in nature guarantees fairness. But I believe that one purpose of civilization is to make life fair. Not to give everyone an equal slice, but to give them an adequate slice so that they have a fair shot at having a healthy,
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by neolefty 8y ago
Serverless doesn't mean there isn't a server—it just means you don't have to manage server instances. You can treat all of AWS as your server. Which means there must be a way to separate your work from everybody else's
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by neolefty 8y ago
Maybe view it as art that assigns meaning to an abstraction. A failing build is pretty obscure to most people, but giving to charity makes sense. As a programmer I can sympathize with wanting to get my head out of the clouds once in a while
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by neolefty 8y ago
Ah, I was wondering who was subsidizing my free shipping. Thank you!
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Why?
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Because it's not fair. The effort to feed and house yourself in reality only takes a few hours a week. The rest is rent (in the economic sense--no value provided; just paying someone who got there first and put up a gate). https:&#x2F
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by neolefty 8y ago
> According to Hawking's "no-boundary proposal," before the Big Bang, when the entire universe was compressed into a single, infinitely small point, there was no directional time as we experience it. Time was a closed, bou
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by neolefty 8y ago
But eventually a region runs out of fusable (fuseable?) matter (Hydrogen / free protons). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptical_galaxy
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by neolefty 8y ago
Well explained! And I wonder: Does the existence of our universe require that something else "exist" outside of time? People claim it as a proof of "God" or a creator, and I used to be skeptical of that logic (albeit I a
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by neolefty 8y ago
Personally I define AI as software that you "train" rather than "program". In the sense that neural nets and other ML tools function as black boxes rather than explicit logic. By that definition, AI is a real thing—it&#x
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by neolefty 8y ago
Is there a link between morality and adherence to process? For example, if you know something is wrong but you do it anyway, are you going to then generally avoid process because you have an internal conflict?
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by neolefty 8y ago
Does that mean they're comparing people who do all these things: > followed a healthy diet, controlled their weight, took regular exercise, drank in moderation and did not smoke ... > ... Compared with people who adopted none o
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Any insight about whether it will survive, and effect on rates?
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> But NPR did not contact the alleged author. Upon review, NPR cannot say for certain who the author or authors were or what their motivation was. In fact, in court proceedings, the people listed as "staff editors" of the site
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by neolefty 8y ago
Hahaha you said "strategy". As far as I can tell Google is one big hackathon. Okay, not really. But if I had to choose a culture (since we're on the subject of false dichotomies), between a cutthroat stack-ranked empire and a

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