orthoganol

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by orthoganol 9y ago
According to that Vice interview it's a fraction of a penny, and some giant corporations like Walmart were the only ones who actually stood to lose anything, which maybe helps explain why our corporate-controlled media was quick to por
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I think you're exactly right, it's a form of stress management primarily. What bothers me is when meditators act like they've seen the matrix. Like they go on a Vipassana retreat and then talk about how changed they are and d
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Right or wrong, this appears to be a scientifically framed way of arguing "the problem's in your mind"... dealing with subconscious emotional issues, etc.. Reading between the lines it sounds like you're saying it's
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I respect your work as a moderator dang, but when it has a healthy amount of upvotes and is just bluntly stating that religion is not going to be around in the future, I find that pretty sad that it's being censored. I did not speak in
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by orthoganol 9y ago
"Learn AI the Hard Way". It's actually just reading a bunch of papers and trying to implement them, and anytime you don't understand something spend as much time as needed until you get it.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I was watching a twitch livestream where he was coding an RL thing. His code was just wrong (I paused it and looked through it), but it compiled anyways and started outputting stats, so he declared "I'm such a baller! It's le
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by orthoganol 9y ago
> absolutely You don't know that, and I get little impression of such from his Bloomberg appearance today: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-08-10/fired-engin... Even so you are aware the Quo
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by orthoganol 9y ago
You realize she does lead her comment/ TL;DR with "He's secretly pushing an alt-right agenda"?
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by orthoganol 9y ago
From someone who's done both, they are not comparable, directly, but they have a complementary relation: The DN (digital nomad) life is absolutely an engine for the kind of creative and free thinking that engenders killer startup ideas
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by orthoganol 9y ago
And many would not? Do people who don't like religious institutions have an obligation to be more respectful than the average person or else their arguments are invalid?
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by orthoganol 9y ago
That's funny because if you look at my recent past comments, one is a review on Sapiens. It's a very preachy low-citation work whose interesting parts are the early chapters, but which you would already know the content of if you
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I didn't mean to say they are slacking, just that it's funny over here the first thing we would think is 'slacker', but the idea of interpreting it as slacking just doesn't cross their mind.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Apparently in Japan napping at work is honorable because it proves you are working hard and late. Funny that the idea of "slacker" isn't the first thing that crosses their mind. East Asia is a different land.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Sapiens is a very preachy, low-on-citations work... the Goodreads reviews are interestingly divided ("Dude it changed my whole world!" to "This is not a serious work."), but the early sections on pre historical humans ar
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I'm thrilled to see apps like these, because I believe the greatest potential AI has is to help people be really smart and educated with better judgment. Whether it improves critical thinking by asking challenging questions, or it has
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I had to lookup the name because I just remember his "Go Fucking Do It", which is one of the more ridiculous, low-effort, ingenious ways of making money from foolish first worlders enticed by a pretty landing page. "Set a goa
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I remember when this guy was the moderator of the very large, r/digitalnomads, where his digital nomad products were copiously promoted. Most people didn't know this (I didn't), until I guess an inevitable backlash one day. I
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I can understand why a profit seeking venture wants to get a patent if they can (even though I viscerally disagree with high level, low-effort software patents), but to advertise it on the footer, while sharing to the tech community that ca
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Wow. Presence of mind in dangerous situations was what I was going for, but sure, let's not think and throw out the crude 'sociopath' label.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
The idea that police should be conscripted is crazy when you consider that the vast majority of the population just doesn't have the nerves to stop that person in the sketchy car or dark side of the sidewalk, knowing there's a pro
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Guess I'm just used to scoffs from elitist, self-loathing devs who look down on Rails people :)
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I've always just assumed Musk knew something we didn't know. About a stealth project or startup that already developed some form of what could be described as 'general intelligence'. If not, if he just knows what AI prof
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Oh how I love Rails, the framework and language (Ruby) of developer happiness. But now working in AI, it's a Python game. This is maybe embarrassing to admit but I prefer having the Python pipeline, TensorFlow, numpy, etc. living on it
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Oh God no. The last thing in the world I want is to all of a sudden have to be publishing a ton of marginally useful crap or spend time reviewing others' marginally useful crap being sold as contributions because they have to publish.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
IMO what would actually drive AI breakthroughs is to support people on a large time scale so they can quit their applied AI/ NLP/ Computer Vision jobs and focus full time on their moonshot research endeavor. For example, I work in
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by orthoganol 9y ago
This feels a little hit or miss, for example: > One way to decrease the risk of vanishing gradients is to clip their maximum value But probably helpful for a general picture if you're new to this stuff.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
There's nothing tricky going on. You should have things that are comparable to what your clients will pay you to build. Mine paid me for their startups, and my portfolio has multiple, complete startup-like prototypes.
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by orthoganol 9y ago
Honest feedback: those "one day" sites are not impressive, and they will not enable you to win decent contracts. I get what you said, but if you really do have 5+ years experience it confused me why you, someone who want to win cl
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I'm excited about the latest developments in AI too, but RL and consciousness are pretty extreme apples and oranges. I agree with Searle that it's a bit insane to wave away the role or even existence of consciousness ('metaph
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by orthoganol 9y ago
I wonder how many power devs or consulting shops use their own version internally? I've built something like this over the course of a couple years for client projects (it now has 12, also BEM-style Sass templates from well-designed st

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