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by nohat 10y ago
The data is anonymized too. Numerai could be playing a shell game, but it would require submitting their own solutions, or publishing confidential information, both presumably illegal (and particularly indefensible if caught).
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by nohat 10y ago
Interesting that Obama is particularly concerned with specialized ai for cyber security/warfare applications. I thought he had a fairly balanced and knowledgeable viewpoint on these issues, though I think both he and Ito underestimate
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by nohat 10y ago
Humorously the poster of that clip is apparently using it to argue for his conspiracy theory about fluoride.
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by nohat 10y ago
I think Gawker was wrong, and deserved to be seriously damaged by this (and many other things), but lets not pretend that this wouldn't have hurt them if they weren't wrong. Defending yourself takes an enormous amount of energy, t
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by nohat 11y ago
I'm doing text (both word and character) models based on Karpathy's char-rnn using Amazon's gpu instances. It's not very expensive, but I would like to do hyperparameter optimization which takes a lot more computing powe
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by nohat 11y ago
It doesn't really sound like he was a professional foreigner in the sense that he was hired to be a foreigner, like some stories I have read[1]. He had a regular job, and being a foreigner gave him more attention. [1] http:/&#x2F
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by nohat 11y ago
That article was more suited for editorial than technology. Pao was hated mainly for things either done by reddit before her, or done by her before reddit. Unfortunately, as leaders often are, she was held responsible for both. That being s
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by nohat 12y ago
The fine tolerance coil made of kilometers of superconducting wire. All the care and material considerations needed for tight tolerance device that has to survive being cooled to a few degrees kelvin. On top of that the safety consideration
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by nohat 13y ago
I basically mean people with an interest in privacy and implications of information technology on society. If someone doesn't have that interest, I wouldn't expect them to assume the NSA is collecting all the info it can. With a b
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by nohat 13y ago
I tend to assume people pretend to be surprised because it allows them to be more outraged. This assumption could easily be egocentric bias, but I have difficulty seeing how any moderately informed person would be truly surprised by these &
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by nohat 13y ago
That makes sense - the ice cubes are below freezing, so it will take less melting to reach melting point equilibrium temp. In this case you are simply using the heat storage of ice rather than the phase transition energy required to melt th
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by nohat 14y ago
I hate to spoil the fun, but she may well just be someone the thief sold the laptop to. Unless there's some unmentioned reason to believe she's not innocent it shouldn't be acceptable to spy on her and post her activities online.
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by nohat 14y ago
How exactly is the military industrial complex related to DMCA? If you really mean special interests, then say that instead of recycling the 'military industrial complex' catch phrase.
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by nohat 14y ago
I agree that pretty much anyone who gave a cursory inspection would come to the conclusion that the attacks were from Chinese intelligence. There were still lots of defences of China claiming it could be patriotic hackers, or that the evide
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by nohat 14y ago
"Without establishing a solid connection to China, there will always be room for observers to dismiss APT actions as uncoordinated, solely criminal in nature, or peripheral to larger national security and global economic concerns. We hope
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by nohat 14y ago
True - if caffeine was interfering with his sleep then it was a problem. I didn't see any indication that he had attempted to fix his sleep schedule before he dropped caffeine, though it's certainly possible that he did. Sleep exercise and
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by nohat 14y ago
Exactly. The focus of the whole story is on caffeine, but dropping caffeine is quite minor in comparison to eating better, sleeping better, and exercising more. I think it's general consensus that caffeine withdrawal takes no more than a we
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by nohat 14y ago
With perfect efficiency a 10 kg weight lifted 2 meters would only output about a tenth of a watt over half an hour. That is indeed enough for a led, but not a very powerful one. I doubt this is worth it.
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by nohat 14y ago
You might want to keep the buttons at the bottom of the object they modify (for example on the 'update my list' page). That would make it more consistent on mobile or space constrained displays. It's also more common practice.
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by nohat 14y ago
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by nohat 14y ago
Always nice to know it's not just you.
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by nohat 14y ago
"There sure has been a lot of trouble lately for Reddit, and I'd like to talk about about that before I nip off for a spot of tea" Other issues aside, this sentence uses several British expressions. Wong does not seem to be British. Is Wong
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by nohat 14y ago
Citation might be difficult, but since we are doing anecdotal evidence anyway my experience is that most people use maps apps extensively.
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by nohat 14y ago
That was it, I needed to allow more than just the top page.
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by nohat 14y ago
Setting noscript to allow all on page worked - sorry for the bother. Edit: it did work the very first time for some reason (I wanted to have a work and personal account).
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by nohat 14y ago
Firefox 15.0, Fedora 17. I am using Lastpass for passwords so that may function similarly to autocomplete. I'll try typing in directly.
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by nohat 14y ago
I'm still having trouble signing up. I put in the information and click 'launch tent' and nothing happens. I assumed yesterday that the problem was overwhelming demand, but ~2500 users over 20 hr shouldn't overload the site.
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by nohat 14y ago
In that case you are criminalizing something other than the thing you actually want to stop. It's not walking across the street that's the problem, it's running into traffic. In this relatively low stakes problem people still run into the p
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by nohat 14y ago
But you could be. Universal crimes that are only prosecuted when the police want to get you are a large part of the problem. Everyone is guilty of something - see Three Felonies a Day.
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by nohat 14y ago
"on this planet." Maybe that would give people motivation to get off it. Regardless if you want to weigh counter-factual people against living people your moral system will have some curious implications which you might not like. If someone

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