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by randcraw 3y ago
As Flexner was recounting to Eastman the many contributors to Marconi's unification of threads that led to radio, I was reminded of the recurring theme of James Burke's great TV series 'Connections' in recognizing the mu
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The market for heirloom quality products has always been tiny, and ever will be. But the availability of "good enough" products has never been better than it is today. You just have to put in more effort to find them since 95% o
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Those two were my favorite mags during the heydays of computing. To them I'd also add the first decafe of Wired. No other mag captured the computer revolution and the infinity of possibile worlds that might ensue better.
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Prince's other writings have been outstanding. Based on the relative opacity of Bishop's venerable PRML, I'd turn to Prince's book before I would Bishop's newest.
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My current fave book to introduce DNNs is "Deep Learning: A Visual Approach" by Glassner. He's crystal clear, covers a lot of ground, and the book is up-to-date on everything but LMMs, which is moving so fast that no book co
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It's worth noting that NONE of the objectives of this group are defensive, like detecting or disabling 'the enemy'. They're entirely offensive. Big red flag.
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This. Symbolic AI (AKA GOFAI) died about 1985. But task-oriented AI will never die, because the need for intelligent agents with cutting-edge experise in niche skill areas costs too much to embed all the available info on Earth into every
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by randcraw 3y ago
And Jeff Duntemann's outstanding "Complete Turbo Pascal".
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The topic sentence was the mantra of nearly all AI research back in the days of good-old-fashioned-AI, AKA symbolic AI. Understanding how reasoning is implemented by our brains was a much more compelling prospect than being able to impleme
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5-10% of those taking GLP-1 agonists discontinue treatment citing nausea, diarrhea, indigestion, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Patients often must change not just how much they eat but what they eat, especially, reducing fat intake, eating
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I've found Harper's and The New Yorker educational for good composition and writing style.
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"HawkEye’s current constellation of 21 satellites is trained to locate the sources of electromagnetic emissions with wavelengths ranging from roughly 2 meters down to 2 centimeters, with “Signals of Interest” including satellite phones
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In other words... you become educated by the other people who populate your world -- family, friends, coworkers. Thus its their words and opinions that form the basis for your beliefs and your world view. You don't shape your world vi
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If you want to segment images, classify objects, and extract metrics from the objects, you'll want to learn several deep learning methods (like YOLO, Mask R-CNN, or Segment Anything). Such tools are almost always implemented in Python
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I wonder if this policy will also prohibit the use of violent/war metaphors, like "loaded for bear" or "another weapon in his arsenal". If so, the average sports commentary will throw dozens of red flags.
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The article suggested that GPF-4 FAILED between 42 and 86 percent of the time. So its success rate would be 58 to 14 percent, which compared to the novel NN's 80 percent, seems significant.
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Basically the same story from Electrek, dated Oct 12 (no paywall): https://electrek.co/2023/10/12/toyota-joins-race-to-try-and-...
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I wish they sold BOOKS. My local B&N (15 miles north of Philly) has converted 25% of shelf space to toys. The tradeoff: just 2 shelves of computer-related books, now titled "Technology", most of which are about using Windows
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I upvote comments that add information to the topic and it's coherent, and especially if its source is documented. I downvote comments that are mere opinion, not constructive, or are off topic to the point of irrelevance.
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The debate over whether LLMs are "intelligent" seem a lot like the old debate among NLP experts whether English must be modeled as a context-free grammar (push down automaton) or finite-state machine (regular expression). Yes, an
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This is the true 500 pound gorilla in the room. Somehow, as we all become ever more dependent on AI, we also need to become ever more aware of the biases built into that AI. Without constant vigilance, we risk becoming obedient stereotype
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Actually it is the same bias. People care about bias when it's deemed unfair to people or animals, but not when bias affects inanimate objects, like buying shoes or choosing what to eat. But bias is at the center of every choice or o
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All ML-based AI is biased. It has to be. Otherwise the data presented to the learning algorithm would be random noise and nothing could be learned. Bias in learning data is essential to detecting patterns, by AI or by humans. ML's d
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Indeed. Too Pointless; Didn't Read.
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It's also the geographic center of the flattest most boring region to ride in America -- the midwest and great plains. The right place for a cycle museum is where it's fun to ride: near mountains like the Rockies or the Appalac
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Try buying a half gallon of ice cream or a proper sized roll of toilet paper. Corporate greed, especially that is intended to cheat the consumer invisibly, always deserves to be called out.
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Yeah, I've found that generating (scientific) hypotheses is easy. But generating more than combinatoric variants of existing hypotheses is hard, and harder still is to propose an insightful interpretation of results or a creative mode
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I wonder if it makes sense to generate a combo of instruments rather than individual voices and then combine those with an arranger DNN. I would think it'd be much easier to capture each instrument's transients and dynamics that
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Nope. Still there at 2:17 pm EDT.
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So have undeveloped land prices risen as much as existing houses? It seems like the obvious solution is to add new housing outside of town to serve the unmet demand, as every metro area in the US has done for over a century. With so much

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