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Obama's team sought NSA intel on thousands of Americans during the 2016 election(circa.com)
3 points by neuralk 9y ago|0 comments
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by neuralk 10y ago
Cyberpunk headline of the day!
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by neuralk 12y ago
I was thinking the same thing until I scanned through the paper linked above. While neural networks are indeed non-linear, some NNs can still exhibit what amounts to linearity and suffer from adversarial linear perturbations. Example of lin
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by neuralk 12y ago
I never said that. I think karpathy (also an AI researcher) summed up my feelings, particular the Ryan Adams quote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9109140 edit: apologies about the 'no background' part
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by neuralk 12y ago
Why are all these people (Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, now Sam Altman) who have no background in Artificial Intelligence coming out with these alarmist messages (particularly when there are more plausible imminent threats such as nuclear war
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by neuralk 12y ago
The definitive word on the Star Wars canon was given earlier this year: only the six films, Star Wars: The Clone Wars series, Star Wars: Rebels, and new content are considered canon. Also, Wookiepedia is doing an excellent job differentiati
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by neuralk 12y ago
They cover slightly different territory. The post you linked is more about the aesthetics of good UI, with a little bit about functionality and UX. The solutions there do not solve or address the problem brought up in the OP here, which is
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by neuralk 12y ago
Very fun, and the gallery is a nice touch. Here's my contribution: (r *(2*sin((-A*time)/10))^100) * ((r * r ) % 2) http://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#KHIgKigyKnNpbigoLUEqdGlt...
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by neuralk 12y ago
Fantastic article, even better than the first. This is exactly what I enjoy discovering on HN. I hope he suffers no repercussions with respect to his trespassing, although it seems the worker who left the tower open and unattended might hav
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by neuralk 12y ago
For Windows devs: remember that some tools and libraries come with bash (and some may not even tell you explicitly). For instance, msysgit has the vulnerability[1]: $ env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this i
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by neuralk 12y ago
Of course research is iterative -- you wouldn't say other fields of math or science haven't had success/breakthroughs just because they are relying on old techniques. That said, some more recent work comes to mind. In terms o
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by neuralk 12y ago
A third and important viewpoint is academia. In that realm, you'll often hear people give the definition: "AI is search," which would encompass reasoning algorithms, knowledge bases and ontologies like the Semantic Web. Deep
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by neuralk 12y ago
You linked to the wrong thread. I believe you meant this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8161586
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by neuralk 12y ago
Serious question: could they be sued by Hemingway's family for using his name on their product? I mean, if I made an app called "Tolkien" I might realistically run into trouble with his estate.
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by neuralk 12y ago
If you liked this, you may also enjoy Foursquare's visualization of checkins, which shows the pulse of the city and the change in human activities (and which areas are populated) as the day progresses: New York City http://v
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by neuralk 12y ago
Actually it would be the reverse, since Buddha predates stoicism. Though it is possible Buddha was partially influenced by pre-Socratic Greek thought and, in turn, later Greek philosophers were influenced by Buddhism (to put it in perspecti
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by neuralk 12y ago
It seems the two issues are: - people rushing to make an Idea Sunday thread/post at midnight - people unable to find the main Idea Sunday thread The former issue can be solved by having the whoishiring bot post Idea Sunday, and the lat
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by neuralk 12y ago
I can't believe this is (currently) the top post. You've made an egregious false equivalency here. I don't care if the people I interact with individually or personally know that I am pregnant. I care that some company I&#x27
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by neuralk 13y ago
This is a great idea. I would use it. In fact, I want to build it! I've been reading about sentiment analysis as part of my research, and I had this idea literally the other day: I was looking for laptop batteries and I did not have th
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by neuralk 13y ago
>farm to plate automation I'm not sure what you mean. Are you referring to a specific technology (like Soylent) or just automating the process of growing, harvesting, and distributing food?
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by neuralk 13y ago
>My children are doing GCHQ sponsored mathematics work (cryptography challenges) at the age of 10 probably in the vain hope that they will eventually see this as normal and be recruited before they have a chance to question the ethics of
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by neuralk 13y ago
In some sense, he is right. With writing, people did not develop memories as powerful as they did when traditions were oral -- there was no need. How many people can recite epic poems or plays from memory, let alone the Odyssey? Extremely f
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by neuralk 13y ago
Has there been any political action in the UK yet? I'm American and hadn't heard of any British politicians speaking out against GCHQ.
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YaCyPi – Turnkey Raspberry Pi based Internet Search Engine(kickstarter.com)
1 points by neuralk 13y ago|0 comments
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Blimplike surveillance craft set to deploy over MD heighten privacy concerns(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by neuralk 13y ago|0 comments
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by neuralk 13y ago
> By contrast, the parallels to fascist Italy and Nazi Germany and living in a turnkey fascist state are most unpersuasive. Why? The possibility of a turnkey fascist state is very real. You need only look to history to see how many leade
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by neuralk 13y ago
As the person whose comment was singled out, can you explain how was my comment "defending spying that is clearly out of control"? I wasn't intentionally. As pointed out below, I assumed the GP knew of a story that I didn&#x2
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by neuralk 13y ago
I just thought he was referencing something I was not familiar with, not paraphrasing something I was. > are you playing some kind of semantic game ... because if so, i'm thinking you might be keith alexander? You are reading too mu
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by neuralk 13y ago
Funny, that doesn't answer my question. I was already aware of the letter released by Senator Grassley[1] and none of the stories in that letter match those referenced by the GP. So, again, can I get a link to that story? [1] http:&#x
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by neuralk 13y ago
>Hence the guy who spied on his ex for years without being caught. Can I get a link to that story?

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