randcraw

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by randcraw 4y ago
Unfortunately, the worst days of the cold war were appreciably less likely than we are now to immolate all of mankind. In 1963, the two nations capable of global annihilation were run by “company men” who acted with caution and tons of inp
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by randcraw 4y ago
I think the metaphor of doorknobs doesn't really capture what it is that motivates people to converse. To my mind's eye, an door that's ajar is more compelling since it provides a glimpse of myriad untold imaginings that may
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by randcraw 4y ago
Derek Lowe of “In the Pipeline” blog. He's informed, rational, and knows when to stop talking. John Oliver. I used to enjoy Christopher Hitchens.
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I'm very sympathetic to Marcus' point that AGI requires both symbols (discrete forms of semantic abstraction) and logic, neither of which is likely to emerge gracefully from deep learning or other forms of probabilistic reasoning
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Unusual gigs are just outliers. I think odd jobs don't necessarily have much in common that would bring them together under one umbrella listing agency. But interesting jobs depend on the eye of the beholder. What's interesting
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What does Tesla use this for, other than full self driving? Other FAANGs would use such a beast to serve myriad tasks, from vision to text to speech. But Tesla likely licenses all their non-FSD AI tech from 3rd parties since it doesn&#x27
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by randcraw 4y ago
I second Karpathy's version of cs231n (2016). He's an amazing lecturer. A good alternative to Goodfellow is "Dive into Deep Learning" ( https://d2l.ai ), which is free and more up-to-date, interactive, and pra
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A contrasting opinion from Derek Lowe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32370893
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First, the Yammer Communities (inside the Teams app) disappeared, but the rest of Teams was unaffected. Then I was able to access the communities through a native Yammer app, but then Yammer objected to my access as being forbidden, it shu
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by randcraw 4y ago
> I have a mostly Pinkerian view of the modern world, which is to say that by nearly all metrics, the world is better today than it has ever been, and is continuing to improve. I think that's what most of us forget: the world has VA
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Because the pendulum swings both ways. The past decade is not so different from 1973 to 1983, which sucked. US inflation ran high (12% in 1974, 13% in 1979), unemployment high (11% in 1982), we had two rounds of gasoline embargoes and rati
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> It’s good to have an open mind. Is it? That's the very basis for error that begat this article. In fact, Turing's and Kahneman's minds were too open. They didn't express sufficient reservation by demanding more r
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Karpathy Is Leaving Tesla(bloomberg.com)
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Outstanding interview, regardless of what you think of Gehry. Well prepped interviewer, few softball questions, good give-and-take. Gehry's impressively sharp for his age. Ever contrary.
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On a more general note, I wonder how much enforcement of patents will be rendered moot by two trends: 1) the rise of algorithms (which can't be patented) in replacing physical IP, and 2) the rising practice internationally of IP theft,
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BTW, my 2019 Honda 'vehicle' config menu lets me enable/disable remote start. It's been possible forever to unlock most cars by replay. I care a lot more about the crim driving it away. This news implies only that an e
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I agree. I know many who were driven away from appreciating biology due to its excess of nomenclature and memorization thereof. It's made worse because few terms reveal much depth of meaning about what it labels. Biology is made sup
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Biology is incomparable to computers, or to any other man-made machine. In computers the components interact in well-defined separable and independent roles. In a biological organism, all components depend heavily on not just one or two o
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Yeah, I think programmers would better appreciate the complexity and subtlety of biology much better if they had to evolve their programs rather than code them up explicitly. (I say this as someone with degrees in both subjects.)
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Nice. Sounds like these self-assembling subnets could be the basis for a viable model explaining the mechanisms behind early evolution.
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Knowledge Distillation is a related concept in deep NNs, as are the concepts behind the compression of data in signal processing.
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Having driven Twitter's value down by $15B, I can't imagine Musk won't be sued by shareholders for it, since his claims of fake accounts are as yet unproven. The same goes for the damages this little venture has inflicted
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Conversely, the EU is one of the few economies where citizens are protected from abuse by corporations. In America, mostly we're not. Choose your poison. Does that make the EU exceptional too?
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White men of property, you mean. Nobody else was exceptional. Of course, Jefferson's words established no basis in American law. It was signed before America existed. The Treaty of Paris ending the war established America only as a
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A better search engine (esp for used books) is BookFinder: https://bookfinder.com . Between it and Goodreads, which has better ratings anyway, you can avoid Amazon entirely.
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Romney's right, but incomplete. Our current problems are made cataclysmic by our also becoming unable to function anymore except by groupthink. I think our lifeblood is not tribalism — we aren't that alike to divide into only two
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by randcraw 4y ago
I agree. There are zillions of stories like this every day. This one does not belong on HN.
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These examples spring to mind: 1) high performance computing (vector processing / SIMD), 2) deep neural nets, 3) graphics. Each of these computation models process a small number of large blocks of data whose efficient movement is jus
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I appreciate the primacy of the mother's opinion over the father's or the courts' (since pregnancy affects only her body among those three parties), but I hate to dismiss the father as if he were just a bystander. But surely
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True, but of the three topics you mention, one clearly dominates the others: when does human life begin. Bodily autonomy and privacy will always be secondary matters that cannot decide the legality of abortion. It's curious that the

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