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by randcraw 5y ago
I would agree that these authors are speaking to a different audience and a different purpose than most authors of pop sci books. I think they want to reach political leaders, businessmen, and regulators to forewarn of the many impacts of
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by randcraw 5y ago
Great. Another reference to Skynet as the inevitable outcome of advancing automation. Despite all the facts to the contrary. Will technology, including AI, inevitability be used to improve weaponry? Yes. Will AI inevitably lead to Skyne
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by randcraw 5y ago
I've had more problems with Catalina than any earlier MacOS back going back past Lion. Like many others have reported, Catalina drops my ethernet connection once or twice every day, regardless what adapter I use. (I've tried thre
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by randcraw 5y ago
These are the biggest universities in America today. None of them existed 50 years ago. They are the future of college education in America. #1 Western Governors University (WGU) North Carolina 121,437 #2 Southern New Hampshire University
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by randcraw 5y ago
28 business days of vacation per year? More than 5 weeks? I know of no company in America that offers that, not even informally. Few US companies offer most of the benefits Europeans expect, from free/cheap health care to child care
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by randcraw 5y ago
And you're going to take the drug for only about 7-10 days. It's unlikely that such a short exposure will introduce lasting toxicity.
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by randcraw 5y ago
So no business can exist that seeks something other than money? Non-profits and not-for-profits are not businesses?
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by randcraw 5y ago
I've had eye injections three times now and never saw the needle. I can't imagine you you could, since the eye can't focus on the needle since it's inside the lens which is necessary to focus what you see outside the
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by randcraw 5y ago
Phobias are very common. Almost everyone has one, like fear of heights or being trapped in a small space. The fear is not rational, and the phobic is well aware of that, but simply knowing it's irrational doesn't help rid you of
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by randcraw 5y ago
Have you tried watching videos of surgeries to see if you can acclimatize your fear? Starting with something trivial like a skin suture or mole removal might be tolerable. Exposure therapy is an established way to gradually inoculate your
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by randcraw 5y ago
The needle they use is short and does not extend very far inside the eyeball. (No, you can't see the needle.) If the eye jerks while the needle is inserted, it won't move far. Eyeball tissue is thick and strong and the presence
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by randcraw 5y ago
The point of the article is that wages should inflate too, yet increasingly fail to do so. And this needs to be acknowledged and then addressed.
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by randcraw 5y ago
This design came from an amateur architect, someone who has never designed ANY building before and is surely clueless about safety laws and even basic physical structural limits. To imagine the design has seen anywhere sufficient review by
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by randcraw 5y ago
Agreed. I work for a large US pharma. We tried outsourcing 10-15 years back and learned two things: 1) you will lose IP by the bucketsful if you outsource to certain countries, and 2) you will have a tough time retaining any kind of insti
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by randcraw 5y ago
I find that wearing hearing protector earmuffs (like the 3M Peltor Optime, which cuts 30 dB) cuts out so much sound that I feel almost stone deaf and the rest of the world goes away. It takes a little practice for them not to be disquietin
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by randcraw 5y ago
And the US' two-party-only political system, most of all.
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by randcraw 5y ago
But few are pills. Most require daily injections for a week or more. That's a lot more inconvenient and (usually) more expensive, especially for folks who live far from a clinic.
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by randcraw 5y ago
This article should be required reading for every student considering college. Most students choose majors as a path to career. Knowing that some majors are entirely unsuited to that end, or that for-profit schools are very inferior to no
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by randcraw 5y ago
There are many ways to REDUCE the number and severity of accidents. It starts with increasing the cost of causing one — fines, jail time, loss of license — there are many ways to discourage stupid driving, and the US absolutely does not ta
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by randcraw 5y ago
My guess: repeatedly zooming out and in again -- to look at the many parts of the whole to see how they all interconnect and interact to then wonder why and why not.
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by randcraw 5y ago
I think emphasizing opportunity is putting the cart before the horse. I believe opportunity follows from initiative, imagination, and boldly asking and exploring great questions. Game-changers like Einstein differ from other geniuses like
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by randcraw 5y ago
I'd find Rudin's argument a lot more convincing if she offered an existence proof, like using the same number of examples to train an equally discriminative SVM or random forest (or hybrid) that can equal the performance of AlexNe
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by randcraw 5y ago
"Explainable" just means you didn't build your app/service using any technology that isn't interpretable. Her argument is that the strategy of reverse engineering a method to convert it from inexplicable to explica
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by randcraw 5y ago
Reportedly, Ilya Sutskever was offered upward of $2 million/year to remain at Google as he departed for OpenAI. By many accounts, he's not alone at earning over $1 million/year as an independent contributor. When Hinton, Kris
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by randcraw 5y ago
The article is intriguing, but is the objective of the mathematicians of more than theoretical value? It seems to me that proving DNNs to be equivalent to SVM kernels won't improve them appreciably -- they won't become more accura
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by randcraw 5y ago
Of course that depends on what you mean by "real accomplishments". It seems to me that that deep nets have effectively maximized the potential of using gradient pursuit to model patterns. But if you remove gradients from your dat
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by randcraw 5y ago
No, some DL architectures are unquestionably superior to others especially for some tasks. In the first few years of deep CNN development, several limits quickly became apparent (sensitivity to scale, vanishing gradients, gradient signal l
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by randcraw 5y ago
Frankly, the agenda of this book puzzles me. Is there political counterflow that compromises integrity in some parts of science? Of course there is. For millenia this has been so. From Gallileo to Darwin to Haber to Einstein, the politic
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Alas, the people most willing to draw bold conclusions from science also put the least effort into being scientific. Ted Cruz is a good example. He argues that he's a scientist not because he has done science, but because his parents
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by randcraw 5y ago
I suspect US Intel staff who browse fear being identified, tracked, and their interests monitored more than they fear being attacked. The host from which they browse should be free of any sensitive data and easily disposable if hacked.

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