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Fastai founders on why everyone should wear a mask(youtube.com)
4 points by nohat 7y ago|3 comments
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by nohat 7y ago
Has no one tested putting it in a plastic bag and boiling it? At the very least they ought to explain why that's a bad idea if it is, because I can't be the only one to think that's the obvious solution.
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by nohat 7y ago
Yes, its infuriating but hardly surprising. This is what happens when you don't have a responsible adult in charge during a crisis. The economy does matter, but the longer we wait, the longer we'll have to endure a crippling lockd
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by nohat 7y ago
It's exponentially easier to respond to an outbreak the earlier you act, but our early response was hamstrung by the CDC and FDA (and complete apathy from the white house). We could have slowed or halted this in the early stages with b
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by nohat 7y ago
Koch (or perhaps just the reporter quoting him) contradicts himself. Even in his own definition of consciousness a machine architecture merely needs a feedback loop to be conscious, something hardly unheard of in computer programs. Now argu
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by nohat 7y ago
You argue that because it is impossible for an algorithm to do some tasks perfectly, and humans can do "quite a decent job at these tasks," thus human minds are doing something beyond computation. Firstly this just doesn't lo
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by nohat 8y ago
According to one theory presented they were simply trying to use up the coal in the smoldering bunker, thereby putting out the fire.
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by nohat 8y ago
I agree most of the time, but sometimes watching someone actually do something lets you observe the little things that the teacher would take for granted or forget to mention in a written format.
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by nohat 8y ago
> Another phrase which means the same thing refers to getting enough data, or declares that data is king. The latter often implies that what's happening is an automation and repackaging of human intelligence. I think you are either
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by nohat 8y ago
I get that was his claim, but saying that this is now accepted is just not true. Saying that it is 'smart talk' implies that smart people are talking about it? Saying that the value in the Chinese Room argument is in showing how w
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by nohat 8y ago
What do you mean the 'smart talk' is exactly what he said? That needs clarification and citation to be a meaningful statement. Inventing the chinese room argument is a point against taking him seriously. It's a very confused
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by nohat 8y ago
What percentage of your networth is considered socially acceptable to spend on preparing for disasters? For a billionaire buying a new zealand vacation home is like most of us spending a couple hundred bucks on, eg a water filter, first aid
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by nohat 9y ago
A social media footprint on Facebook in particular, conveniently enough.
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by nohat 9y ago
The feed quality drops in a way that makes the shaking antennae explanation seem plausible. I doubt the announcers knew then (why not just say so unless there was some ambiguity?), but it must have been a distinct concern, hence their &#x27
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by nohat 9y ago
Serious question: why are senior discounts not illegal then? Does anyone know? Quick Google search was unenlightening.
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by nohat 9y ago
Normally moral hazard is a concern for charitable activity, but in this case it would be a good thing because it isn't really encouraging negative behavior. If countries intentionally go into debt to eradicate critical diseases with th
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by nohat 9y ago
The speed of bootstrapping would be greatly increased by the knowledge we have. Even a very serious nuclear war would leave significant caches of scientific and technological knowledge. Galactic timescales are so large that we could easily
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by nohat 9y ago
Cowardice in the form of running away from battle was definitely a cause for decimation.
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by nohat 9y ago
> Both Newegg and ASI were in on the scheme, the banks say, because Moneual priced the computers that were supposedly ordered at 300 times their actual market value. If true, this does sound pretty bad, though depending on the percentage
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by nohat 9y ago
I feel like Scott Alexander's thoughts on openai when it was first announced are still relevant now. I can think of strategic reasons for what openai has done, but I also feel like their tactics and 'democratization of AI' cr
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by nohat 9y ago
Meditations on Moloch. In which coordination problems are incarnated as Ginsberg's Moloch. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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by nohat 9y ago
I'm actually nostalgic despite not using Theano for all that long. Theano really was groundbreaking and excellent, though, like many, I've moved on. Thanks to the developers!
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by nohat 9y ago
Honestly 'data wrangling' is indeed an unfortunately large part of ML work, so I'm interested. I have wondered how tractable making a data transformer that simply shaped and filtered the data based on example and a few constr
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by nohat 9y ago
To potentially clarify: the test is just a form. It's a form with some questions about mood, and is currently being used to diagnose bipolar disorder (inappropriately, the author believes).
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by nohat 9y ago
In at least a few cases most of terrorism's damage to a society is from the auto immune response.
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by nohat 9y ago
Bostrom is in no way in charge of people who happen to agree with him wrt ai risk. For the book he mostly collected and organized a lot of existing thought on ai risk (not that he hasn't made his own novel contributions). That's v
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by nohat 9y ago
Better quality than most such posts, but still seems to be missing the point. The remarkable thing about Bostrom's book is how well it anticipated the objections and responded to them, yet no one seems to bother refuting his analysis,
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by nohat 10y ago
Is it just me or is this actually genius? Mutually assured destruction has been the name of the game for big companies for a while now, but that wasn't practical for small players. If Microsoft is willing to take small companies under
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by nohat 10y ago
>Using automated tools to search the whole database, as security researchers subsequently did, turned up no hits. This sounds so serious and involved, but probably took 10 seconds and just involved ctrl-f or (even) grep.
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by nohat 10y ago
It's a reasonable heuristic for when you just don't have the time or energy, but if you are giving a 45min keynote speech on the topic I think you are expected to make the effort to judge an idea on its merits.

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