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I think we are confusing two concepts: clear prose and ordinary words. It's right in the first sentence: > I try to write using ordinary words and simple sentences. They don't go hand in hand. Quite the contrary, I'm argui
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Tragedy of the commons. If you don't work to get noticed, people whose speciality is to scream and shout like babies while having absolutely zero technical knowledge are going to dominate. And there are a lot of them. You don't
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> since this aims at being a "foundations" book, the style of writing seems to miss the mark "Foundations" in the mathematical jargon doesn't mean "introduction to". It's an illustration of several
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by qsort 4y ago
They seem to be going for an embeddable engine, I'm not sure how you would do that for Julia with its LLVM toolchain.
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Also the question of whether or not a technology is neutral is separate from the question of whether or not a particular implementation of that technology is. Which is itself separate from the question of whether or not Mark Zuckerberg is b
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by qsort 4y ago
"Just know stuff" deeply resonates. Even much below the author's level, as is the case for me, technical knowledge dominates everything else by orders of magnitude. I'm still appalled at how people can manage to gather t
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by qsort 4y ago
The more simple counterargument, very well within the wheelhouse of any computer scientist, is that the question is completely irrelevant as it's entirely predicated on one's definition of "intelligence". Successful soft
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by qsort 4y ago
Sure, but then why if: -13 \equiv 5 \pmod 3 it is the case that: > -13 % 3 === 5 % 3 false I think it's better to use a convention where for all a, b, m, if a and b are congruent mod m, then a%m === b%m
789.
by qsort 4y ago
> Please God one day they will invent a therapy that will give me Einstein's IQ. Have you ever read Flowers for Algernon ? Your post reminded me of that story.
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by qsort 4y ago
Democratize creation and filling the internet with shitty articles are synonymous. Not that this is a problem or a particularly scary prospect, bookstores are already filled to the brink with garbage, it's just a game of numbers at thi
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by qsort 4y ago
You say this uses AI, which I assume means machine learning. What problem needs to be solved with machine learning that cannot be solved with ordinary constraint satisfaction methods? Sorry if I got technical, I don't mean to say your
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> that's been kept alive by extremely diligent moderation The unreasonable effectiveness of dang. > and a fucking shitton of venture capital. Certainly something that Y Combinator doesn't lack is money, but I can't imag
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by qsort 4y ago
This. There's a lot of babbling about how coding is the limiting factor, but it really isn't. What people struggle with is solving the problems in their head. Writing the actual code after you've done that is almost trivial.
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> AIs aren't oracles or omniscient purveyors of truth, and they will always carry the bias they're created with When people went nuts about matrix multiplication being racist I was the first in line to laugh them off. When peop
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by qsort 4y ago
We could reword it as "a fair society is when incentives exist such that self interest is sufficiently aligned with collective welfare", but what's so funny about it? It's a rather obvious observation.
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Any position where you'd be in zugzwang is a good example. A more interesting question is how do you search the infinite state space. Intuitively, many states that are formally different aren't meaningfully different from each oth
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Also true for some other little rules people often forget, like underpromotion, castling through/out of check, stalemate, perpetual, 50 moves, etc. Plus the general topic of how to use clocks. Chess is so popular that most people first
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by qsort 4y ago
I think a pretty tactful way to put it is "male | female | NULL", and I'm only half joking. Many people prefer not to say for whatever reason, and people identifying as anything other than male or female aren't going to
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by qsort 4y ago
Look, I don't want to get into a fight over that because it's completely out of topic, but to claim that "25.3% of individuals have perpetrated [violence]" and "80% (sic) of individuals have perpetrated emotional ab
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> Lots of people do in fact need to gain weight This is obviously technically true, but it's like reading "domestic violence" and thinking "ah, this must be about women beating their husbands". Yes, both directio
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From the abundance of people who are still after this "programming in natural language" nonsense, it seems to me like repetita iuvant .
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> It may be illuminating to try to imagine what would have happened if, right from the start our native tongue would have been the only vehicle for the input into and the output from our information processing equipment. My considered gu
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by qsort 4y ago
Dijkstra said that if we ever had the misfortune of having machines programmable in natural language, sooner or later someone would construct a formal language over it. Playing out in real time. We're living legendary times.
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> And insulting any religions is not acceptable and deserve to be punished. Why? I believe all religions are a bunch of bullshit. Almost all of them regard this belief as a mortal insult. Should I get punished for that? The only tenabl
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by qsort 4y ago
Just one more reason why we shouldn't care. A person's freedom to practice Islam does not imply an obligation from me to give any remote fuck.
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This is just a bad take which was artificially pushed for pseudo-political reasons. That we have no hard and fast rules for what is good science does not mean that anything goes. This is like saying that because it's impossible to writ
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by qsort 4y ago
It's true that the culture is different, but it's not my experience that employers are categorically against status-building, especially if it indirectly reflects well on the company. We recently got a paper accepted at a conferen
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If it's correct, then it's a wonderful approach. If it's not correct, then HN is the place to find where's the error. By elimination of disjunction, upvote ;)
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It's been 20-30 years in the future for several decades now.
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> I don't think any serious AI researcher would claim that their creations are close to actually thinking. I don't think anybody seriously believes that -- but setting reasonable public expectations from emerging technologies i

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