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by orbifold 6y ago
Ironically SPJ doesn’t have a PhD. Basically this is more a question of interest and time investment and not whether you got a title.
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by orbifold 6y ago
Not to be too mean about it, but I feel like this is an instance of brilliant marketing more than anything. The founder of Numenta knows how to communicate to Engineers in a convincing way. Neuroscientists (and Science in general) has a wa
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by orbifold 6y ago
Bangkok also feels like a real life Gotham city. They have this elevated train line running between fancy shopping centers, high rise luxury apartments and office buildings. But just below it there is miles and miles of street prostitution
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by orbifold 6y ago
I can highly recommend Shadow aswell, a friend of mine uses it and for online multiplayer it is a really nice option. It I didn’t own a decent PC I probably would choose that to play my Steam games.
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by orbifold 6y ago
Those seem like fun people to be around.
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by orbifold 6y ago
The quote should be "The best minds that I know are thinking about how to make people click ads." There is a considerable number of exceedingly intelligent people in pure mathematics and (theoretical) physics that don't work
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EventProp: Backpropagation for Exact Gradients in Spiking Neural Networks(arxiv.org)
8 points by orbifold 6y ago|1 comments
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by orbifold 6y ago
She did a bunch of pretty corrupt stuff while defense minister. She pushed for internet censorship.
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by orbifold 6y ago
As someone that has invented novel algorithms I still feel Patents are a net negative especially for software. I just wish EU would be a better place for „startup“ innovation. My experience with the university infrastructure in that area i
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by orbifold 6y ago
Propping up China vis a vis the Soviet Union and Japan was a smart move. The State Department should have dropped them like a hot potato after the Japanese economy stalled in the 80s and the Soviet Union collapsed.
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by orbifold 6y ago
Go to a very expensive restaurant, your mind will be blown how good meat can taste. Food with lots of spices tends to hide the quality of the raw ingredients, but on their own tofu and meat are no competition in terms of taste.
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by orbifold 6y ago
I sometimes think that C++ is evaluated unfairly because it has a very fragmented ecosystem and painful package management. This leads to an enormous amount of code duplication and stylistic conventions, which further errode how pleasant it
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by orbifold 6y ago
Playing against a lot of AI opponents is part of the fun. I would start on some easy mode on a standard map with the standard number of opponents and city states . That will be much more representative of the actual game experience.
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by orbifold 6y ago
I think that has reversed for Europeans at least somewhat. I’ve talked to a German very successful Havard Professor, who considered a move back to Germany because of the situation in the US. I personally would have loved to work in the US a
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by orbifold 6y ago
Put it under an electron microscope then. That combined with carefully removing metal layer by layer should do the trick.
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by orbifold 6y ago
That is because there are no weights to begin with. In actual biological neurons synapses perform a rather complicated biochemical dance involving vesicles, ion channels, second messengers, whenever an action potential arrives. Some of that
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by orbifold 6y ago
86 billion neurons and ~1 trillion other cells, which interact with those neurons in non-trivial ways.
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by orbifold 6y ago
Store of value == be able to bury it in a grave for 5000 years and be sure that it will have kept its value when someone finds it. I am almost certain that bitcoin wouldn’t survive societal collapse.
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by orbifold 6y ago
Which means Facebook will be able to charge less money for it, so hopefully their relevance will decline over time.
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Hopfield Networks Is All You Need(arxiv.org)
2 points by orbifold 6y ago|0 comments
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by orbifold 6y ago
Hongkong == Danzig Taiwan == Poland
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by orbifold 6y ago
Qatar is a US protectorate, just as it was a British before ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Udeid_Air_Base ). The British still maintain planes there. They have no independent means of survival. Most of the oil and
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by orbifold 6y ago
A German, French and Russian alliance is probably the winning move and was thwarted more than once by Anglo-Saxon intervention. Right now the US actively tries to sabotage the Nordstream 2 completion ( https://www.dw.com/de&#
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by orbifold 6y ago
I think GP meant to imply that parts of the EU are effectively still US client states and not totally void of US influence on their politics. It's pretty common for top politicians in Germany to be part of some transatlantic organisati
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by orbifold 6y ago
Well Tesla's sentry mode and sensor suite that is connected to the internet could actually pose a massive security risk. I wouldn't be surprised if they were banned from entering military installations and other sensitive areas, n
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by orbifold 6y ago
It is relatively trivial to hook any new accelerator you develop into the popular deep learning frameworks. In the case of AMD there actually already exists a mature compiler framework for their GPUs and their cards are mostly on par with N
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by orbifold 6y ago
The stock price is in part determined by the discounted future Cashflow, the one of AMD is pointing upwards that of Intel seems neutral or declining. Intel had a long string of failures and bad acquisitions recently, which points to bad man
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by orbifold 6y ago
Well that is what governments are for, no-one really wants to pay for tanks and aircraft carriers either. But politicians have managed to convince the public that it is in their best interest to do so.
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by orbifold 6y ago
Once they figure out UV, there are lots of in house innovations in the pipeline that could prolong Moore's law for the next 10-15 years. This is according to Jim Keller, who gave talks about how there could be up to 50x density increas
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by orbifold 6y ago
A good example of that is adding boost to your code base. Once you've added boost to implement one simple feature, eventually someone will use boost to do preprocessor magic or other meta-programming. Then there is no going back, becau

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