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by nilkn 9y ago
An example that comes to mind is that Apple's chief of diversity (a black woman) was recently fired and replaced by a white woman for the following comment: > "There can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blonde men in a room and they’re
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by nilkn 9y ago
Keep in mind the DS/3DS has an extensive library of excellent third party games. A lot of folks tend to overlook just how overwhelmingly successful the 3DS is and has been -- Nintendo basically prints money with it. It's actually
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by nilkn 9y ago
Another way of looking at it is that it would be inappropriate to give Stockfish an opening book but not AlphaZero, and I'm guessing the latter doesn't have one since that goes against its whole premise. With that said, whether it
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by nilkn 9y ago
This was one of my favorite books as a math undergraduate. I'm sad to see the highly legible and clear layout has been replaced by something so gratuitous and distracting. For better or worse, the 3rd edition formatting and styling is
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by nilkn 9y ago
I don't think this is really about free speech in the sense of the First Amendment. Universities are supposed to be about the pursuit of knowledge, and it's pretty unlikely that conservatives are wrong about everything and liberal
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by nilkn 9y ago
I don't see how it's controversial to say that we should strive for a world and economy where people can easily afford healthy food for themselves. I already suggested that the best route is probably to avoid cows altogether for t
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by nilkn 9y ago
I don't fully understand what you're asking. Could you clarify? Are you suggesting they might go extinct? Or something else?
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by nilkn 9y ago
> it's just supporting people who aren't shitting on everyone's future. If all dairy cows were treated exactly the same as the cows you're getting milk from, would milk be sufficiently plentiful and affordable for eve
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by nilkn 9y ago
He should have come forward with it immediately while still conducting the internal investigation. Not only do customers deserve to know as soon as possible, but it would have established trust in him as CEO and cemented that Kalanick neede
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by nilkn 9y ago
Perhaps we should just ask for clarification on what the person said at the dinner table before engaging in this sort of speculation.
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by nilkn 9y ago
Most other wealthy countries subsidize the cost of medical education to some extent. This article didn't touch on the possibility that the extra $100 billion the US spends on doctor salaries is just being spent on education subsidies i
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by nilkn 9y ago
What is an earlybird? Is it someone who is unambiguously physically hardwired to get up early? Or is it someone who has made the choice to implement the sequence of changes in their life necessary to facilitate comfortably getting up early
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by nilkn 9y ago
The reason tipping keeps popping up in new markets (like Uber/Lyft/Instacart/Doordash) is largely the same reason it's so hard to get rid of in existing industries: it allows businesses to advertise lower prices and lets
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by nilkn 9y ago
I think what Trump himself did is actually irrelevant to the point I'm making. If Trump did many negative things and few positive things, then all news publications need to do is simply report on what he's doing and leave it at th
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by nilkn 9y ago
> The US media thought they were doing everybody a favour by giving Trump loads of airtime to expose his awful views. Isn't this just an example of the same phenomenon I was describing? Sure, they gave him airtime, but it was virtua
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by nilkn 9y ago
Open platforms for discussion are actually one of the best ways to prevent something like the Nazi party from coming into power. And if the Nazi party did come into power, you would not expect there to be impartiality in any major discuss
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by nilkn 9y ago
Google is also responsible for creating many of the success stories for deep learning. So I think this might be a little unfair to them. They created the bandwagon more than they jumped on it, and they've gotten phenomenal results so f
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by nilkn 9y ago
Living conditions have a large impact on productivity and general mental wellbeing. For introverts, I think there's an argument to be made that splurging a bit on more space for yourself could lead to better performance in many areas o
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by nilkn 9y ago
I'd say Austin is actually a pretty good place to be a software developer. Texas has several other big cities, including Houston, which have reasonable opportunities as well.
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by nilkn 9y ago
> The curious thing about Zero is that usually with Gradient Descent you run a huge risk of running into a local maximum and then stop evolving because every evolution makes you not better than the current step. Deep networks have many p
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by nilkn 9y ago
Are you sure AlphaGo Zero even uses temporal difference learning? The Nature paper suggests it does not and merely references some older programs that did. I think it just uses a somewhat custom form of self-play reinforcement learning comb
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by nilkn 9y ago
I recommend this as well. The bouldering community is also great. It's really easy to make friends and people are incredibly helpful. It's really cool to see really experienced climbers go out of their way to give tips and help so
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by nilkn 9y ago
> So you disagree with TDD, but you need to rebuild your system from scratch every 5 years? I feel like this is an argument for TDD. Not necessarily. If the rewrite is only addressing issues that would have been prevented with tests, the
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by nilkn 9y ago
To add to what others have said, local extrema are actually quite rare for "random" high-dimensional functions. This is suggested by a simple heuristic based on the Hessian matrix. As the dimension increases, it becomes exponentia
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by nilkn 9y ago
Personally I really do find the sound quality to be quite good on the AirPods. When I'm at home I'm often using a much more expensive pair of open Beyerdynamic headphones so it's not like I haven't experienced high quali
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That makes it even more interesting. I think it would be very notable and significant if a neural network with MCTS and self-play reinforcement learning could surpass Stockfish, which has superhuman strength but was developed with an utterl
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by nilkn 9y ago
During one of the happier periods of my life, I lived by myself in a small but very nice apartment. I had a girlfriend, but we didn't live together. We'd hang out on the weekends a lot and maybe one weeknight out of the work week.
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It's just a few cases in 10 years. I don't think there's much of a pattern there. It's certainly not a perfect company, and conflict management is one of the hardest parts of being a manager. But overall the situation yo
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I don't really trust any Glassdoor reviews. I've always figured many positive reviews are fake, and the problem with negative reviews is that they're often written by disgruntled employees who are unable to reliably assess th
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I recently picked up an Acer Predator X34 34" ultrawide 21:9 1440p monitor. And I have to say playing games on it is a lot more enjoyable to me than playing VR games on the Rift with Touch. Even playing simple 2D games like Stardew Val

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