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by nmca 8y ago
I skimmed this, found it troubling and started trying to make a checklist of does/don'ts to apply to my own work - https://github.com/N-McA/ml-paper-checklist/blob/master/READ...
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by nmca 8y ago
"Population Based Training" goes some way to sorting this out, if you have a fuckton of compute available.
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by nmca 8y ago
To be fair, if the goal was to craft a comment that would clash most egregiously with hacker culture, your man hasn't done too bad.
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by nmca 8y ago
So, I also really like it from a "cool statistics reference" point of view. However, I don't think it is informative, unique or google-able, and discoverability is pretty important imho.
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by nmca 8y ago
The poorly named but very interesting "hypothesis"[0] is a quickcheck implementation (extension?) for python that might provide the "easy" access to these tools that you're looking for. [0] https://hypoth
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by nmca 8y ago
Is there not a service in the US that does this on your behalf?
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by nmca 8y ago
> Simple teleology defeats it, in the sense that everyone who holds this view will probably die childless, and will not be very successful at spreading their views generationally. This is very silly, it plainly conflates truth and popula
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by nmca 8y ago
Ah, and indeed it seems like substantial (>10x) fleet size increases are planned. https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/30/16948356/waymo-google-fia...
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by nmca 8y ago
This paper consistently assumes a fleet size of 100, and 24/7/365 driving. These are silly in different directions, but I think the former invalidates a lot of their claims. As a slightly not-random example, GM produces around 30
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by nmca 8y ago
The latter of those two points is much more valid than the former. You're comment about generalisation difficulty is pretty accurate, but as for "sucks at variable length data", I think neural machine translation [0] and the
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by nmca 8y ago
If you dwell on these things, I strongly suggest reading "The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe" https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=th...
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by nmca 8y ago
This guy hacks.
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by nmca 8y ago
Clue: it is sarcastic.
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by nmca 8y ago
Aha, yeah I saw this in the news - pretty classic use of people horribly misunderstanding statistics and/or misrepresenting the facts. Let's say one person out of 60 million has sauron's ring. I use my DeepMagicNet to classif
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by nmca 8y ago
Moore's law (or at least, the diminishing one) is not relevant here because these are not single threaded programs. Google put 8x on their TPUv2 -> v3 upgrade; parallel matrix multiplies at reduced precision are a long way away fr
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by nmca 8y ago
Almost exact same situation here, except it was ~2004 and my library's copy of "QBASIC for Dummies"
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by nmca 8y ago
Can also confirm that this was easily done with uBlock using the "block element" right click option.
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by nmca 8y ago
So I do a lot of work with both vision and lidar data, and am pretty intimately familiar with the public state of the art in terms of perception systems that rely on each or both, if not planning. I don't think you need lidar. I'm
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by nmca 8y ago
This highlights an interesting general point - in many situations, there is no simple safe fallback policy. On a highway, an emergency stop is not safe. This is a general problem in AI safety and is covered nicely in this youtube video, as
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by nmca 8y ago
This is about the Debate paper, and is an idea that is being taken quite seriously - https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00899 The idea is that the given example (explained in more detail in the paper) is the first step towards
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by nmca 8y ago
In my .bashrc: # Logbook function lb() { vim ~/Dropbox/logbooks/$(date '+%d-%m-%Y').md }
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by nmca 8y ago
The wealth inequality is acute, visible and disturbing.
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by nmca 8y ago
Thanks for answering in so much detail - I think the last two points make a compelling case for not disabling the system, even in the true black box case, and the first two are very compelling in the real world, even if they don't appl
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by nmca 8y ago
Replying to your other comment here as well - the inclusion of conceptually simple safety mechanisms is important (eg I agree), as is the broader scheme of including both hardware and algorithmic redundancy to improve safety. I also agree t
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by nmca 8y ago
So I agree that the system was insufficiently tested to be operating on public roads and endangering lives, and that lack of testing was negligent; I also agree with your comment about their engineering culture. But those two points seem di
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by nmca 8y ago
This whole line of reasoning frustrates me somewhat. The story of "Uber Disabled the Safety System" paints Uber out to be negligent for doing so. Outside of consideration of all the other facts (which unlike this one, do indeed su
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by nmca 8y ago
Interactive theorem proving is an active area of research, but it's quite hard to do well, and the main area of focus is on theory atm, as opposed to UX
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by nmca 8y ago
Thoroughly deserved - Jupyter is helping push science forwards.
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by nmca 8y ago
This looks nice - as a regular latex user, I'd say it (latex) sits roughly between excruciating agony and the actual worst thing in the world. So the beginnings of an alternative looks great!
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by nmca 8y ago
This is actually an awesome idea.

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