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by nisuni 8y ago
The article is published in Nature, not in Nature Machine Intelligence. The names may sound similar, but there’s a big, big difference.
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by nisuni 8y ago
If you tax the alternatives high enough, every consumer choice can become the preferred one!
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by nisuni 8y ago
Never believe HR, they neither represent your interests nor are impartial, even if they’d like to appear impartial. HR represents your employer interests. Period.
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by nisuni 8y ago
That’s a misleading comparison. Stockfish would still be an extremely strong engine even without the training. Alphazero couldn’t even move a single piece without having been trained extensively.
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by nisuni 8y ago
Shouldn’t we take into account the computing power used to train Alphazero? I feel the comparison is a bit unfair...
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> the ability to keep calm under pressure. Sure, but by playing on rapid time controls you are not giving the players the opportunity to evaluate lines as deep as those on longer time controls. You add something, but you lose something.
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by nisuni 8y ago
I am nowhere near you score, but I have heard many strong players stating that blitz is bad for you, and actually creates bad habits for classical.
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by nisuni 8y ago
> Today's first few games changed my mind. Carlsen remains the better player, because he does better where it matters; time pressure. This is completely wrong. Top players (Carlsen included) acknowledge that chess on rapid time cont
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by nisuni 8y ago
Two candidates for a position in the academia are not evaluated in terms of historical bias, they are evaluated looking at their CV, track record, publications, etc... That’s meritocracy. And there’s no place for this “historical biases” in
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> There's no such thing as an absence of identity politics. Sure there is! Its name is meritocracy.
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Academia is not perfectly meritocratic but is most likely the most meritocratic environment in the world, particularly in science.
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Science is probably the most meritocratic field in the world.
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I believe that identity may affect a person’s ability to do science, since there’s a correlations between identity and economic status. That said, science is about equality of opportunities, not about equality of outcomes. This means that w
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As a scientist from a minority I would say that I found no barriers in science, except for merit. Talking about today’s science of course, no 19th century one. I can accept that maybe there are still some barriers in some situations I am no
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by nisuni 8y ago
I welcome the choice of moving the conference to a place where there are no logistic problems. As a scientist, however, I abhor organizations such as BlacksInAI: in science there’s no place for identity politics.
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by nisuni 8y ago
> Sadly the best you can hope for these days is Apple Mail, and that's also just "fine". Ever tried Mailmate?
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by nisuni 8y ago
For me the problem with Firefox on Mac are random CPU spikes, the average idle usage is OK. Or some tab getting stuck and skyrocketing to 100% CPU, killing 10% of my battery if I don’t notice it in time. If you check on Bugzilla, there are
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by nisuni 8y ago
The blank slate theory is one of the standard assumptions in sociology. From there, it follows that all differences are societal. So, to reply to your renark: many people in the social sciences think genders are equal at birth, and many oth
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by nisuni 8y ago
Your are conflating two different things: speaking in favor of one particular policy of President Trump is NOT speaking in favor of supremacist or hate groups. I am myself in favor of a couple of Trump’s policies, and I am pretty sure I am
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A question for all the “my business, my rules” crowd: do you also support a cake shop refusing to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple?
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Was he a Facebook user? Comcast customer? Did you use US Post? Maybe he used to drive a Ford... Should all of these businesses close?
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You used the word 'related', implying statistical correlation. My point is: a feature which is statistically correlated with gender is also statistically correlated with sex, since for the vast majority of people sex and gender co
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Since gender and biological sex are extremely strongly correlated, stating that there are no gender-related neurological differences it's substantially equivalent to saying that there are no biological sex-related neurological differen
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> It's absurd to think that there would be no gender-related neurological differences Surprisingly enough, that's a widely accepted hypothesis in sociology.
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> Among U.S. progressives, the complexity of sex differences seems to very important The problem is that (some) progressives tend to have the extreme opinion that all differences are due to societal influence, the so-called blank slate t