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by op03 6y ago
Nothing is obvious in geopolitics. See US-Cuba, India-Sri Lanka-LTTE, Iraq-Kuwait etc. Being larger just means you can make risky moves. But those moves can blow up in spectacular unpredictable ways.
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by op03 6y ago
It's not a new level. Cognitive dissonance is an essential requirement to work in Wall St, the MIL complex, Exxon, big tobacco, the gambling industry etc etc. They all have their own stories about how it's okay to exploit weakness
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by op03 6y ago
Not an accountant or a mathematician, pt 4 reminded me of an issue I had dealing with numbers in a table. The annoying thing that happens with SUBTRACTION (i.e. the process that generates negative numbers) is 2 milion - 2 million and 2 - 2
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by op03 6y ago
2 is a very small number. Peoples personalities and needs vary wildly and are ever changing. And there will be some artist sitting somewhere catering to some unimaginable combo. Thats how we end up with a gazillion Youtube videos. On the ot
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ML in multi-agent planning and control of Drone Swarms(caltech.edu)
2 points by op03 6y ago|0 comments
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by op03 6y ago
The data is all garbage. Data in India has a long way to travel from village to town to district to state to the national level. At each stage all kind of errors intentional and unintentional enter the system. All these errors keep accumula
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A Walk Through the Rainbow with NASA's Pace Mission(nasa.gov)
1 points by op03 6y ago|0 comments
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by op03 6y ago
Given auto translate works reasonably well these days, how much commonality does Negative Content over different regions and languages have? Anyone know? Is it like 10%? 80%? There must be, by now, a whole lot of data on whats getting flagg
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by op03 6y ago
Yup thats a good point. Govt is a factor. Will be interesting to see what happens when interests don't align between the two.
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by op03 6y ago
Too much overconfidence in Reliance. This is the same firm well known for totally missing the boat on India's IT boom. It has done a great job deploying the network. Unmatched probably anywhere in the world. But that set of skills has
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by op03 6y ago
This is like watching parents talking about their kid develop over time and getting excited over their evolving writing ability. Doesn't mean we get Turing or Gandhi at the end of the story. Or that there is any control over what is pr
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by op03 6y ago
Its talked about a lot because the VCs are out there beating a drum, as they should. Drawing a crowd. Hopefully an interesting one. Once you get a crowd, everyone starts doing what the people around them do. Its natural. It takes some time
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by op03 6y ago
wow had no idea they eat the silk. They are so small that I only notice them because of the webs and long strands flying around. I'll keep an eye out for their prey :) Thanks for that interesting info filled comment!
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by op03 6y ago
I'd like a spider cam. I find it a great mystery how spiders survive in rooms which seem absolutely empty/abandoned etc.
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by op03 6y ago
Deep Blue brute forced that search space. With 1997 hardware. They didn't have to look at 10^120 to beat Kasprov. "The system could search to a depth of between six and eight pairs of moves—one white, one black—to a maximum of 20
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by op03 6y ago
Depends on the domain. Why did DeepMind pick Go as a challenge rather than Chess? Because with Chess you can store the entire search space in memory. With Go you can't.
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by op03 6y ago
Nothing like that. And its not either or. You can have both side by side or just one or the other. It depends on your Personality type and Needs. We are born unconscious of both. And take time to learn them. And learning about the needs and
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by op03 6y ago
Going from understanding the symptoms of cancer to the causes of cancer and then controlling it takes TIME. In the mean time what do you think happens? Lot of blundering about. If you focus too much on the blundering most cancer hospitals w
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by op03 6y ago
It will turn out the way everything else turns out in the age of fruit fly attention spans and everyone trapped in arms races for that attention - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race
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Robots can now give full body personalised massages(newscientist.com)
3 points by op03 6y ago|0 comments
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by op03 6y ago
Its all accounted for - https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/pent...
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by op03 6y ago
Mindlessly ambitious networks of people who care about themselves more than anything else exist in all countries. Google distribution of personality types within a population. They are weirdly similar across cultures. Where resources are lo
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by op03 6y ago
>You can't reach a lower orbit by accelerating Ah thanks this made sense. I guess if I was spinning something on a string I would have to slow it down for the orbit to shrink.
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by op03 6y ago
Interesting article thx. I dont get why the speed up works only towards the outer solar system though. Why does it have to loose speed to control direction?
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Powerless in a pandemic: Solar energy prescribed for off-grid healthcare(reuters.com)
2 points by op03 6y ago|0 comments
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by op03 6y ago
Well the hype is required to get your grandmom, older execs, or a strategy/biz dev team at a brick and mortar firm who can afford only 1 dev to gain confidence that they too can use ML.
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by op03 6y ago
Just hire better programmers and keep the scientists focused on science. It's just much more efficient. Its like wasting time getting your pitcher to improve his batting skills. Don't mix roles up.
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Demand for Robot Cooks Rising(sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com)
2 points by op03 6y ago|0 comments
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by op03 6y ago
Par for the course these days. And its getting worse. When you have 40 million users and a few hundred people running the system, all kinds of issues just sit in queues never seen by human eyes until a gigantic stink about it is raised.
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by op03 6y ago
I look at how Trump, Bolesanaro, Modi et al view Science. You don't see Merkel saying the stuff they say. They see admitting ignorance as a weakness. They don't do it as a rule. If you are a scientist and have to work in an instit

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