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USENET had an entirely different set of users than today's anonymous trolls, which minimized flame-fests. Sure, disagreement drove much conversation on the groups, but it was generally topic-driven and constructive, targeting ideas mu
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So everything real real or imagined exists. Equally? But to equate objects that physically exist with those that do not is fantasy, and fabricates extensions to the physical universe that exist only in Nagel's mind. Imagination does
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> It's the same problem I have with self-driving cars. We are teaching cars to behave around (and like) humans, instead of just fencing off the highways and inventing an autonomous system of vehicles ... to redesign existing systems
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That's why most uses of AI in medicine that I've seen have focused on performing a sanity check on the physician (e.g. checking a new prescription for contraindications like conflicting meds or maladies). Medical insurance compan
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Breast cancer isn't political. But there's continuing debate in the US medical establishment over the proper way to screen for it -- how to test, how frequently, at what age range, what constitutes a positive result, and how shou
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Stanford's Symbolic Systems is a noteworthy example too. https://symsys.stanford.edu/
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Richard Southwell has published over 50 hours of video lectures on CT: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCTMeyjMKRkoS699U0OJ3... And he wrote a textbook on CT with Naman Gupta: https://www.amazon.com/C
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Check out this section of the SEP entry on Category Theory: 3. Philosophical Significance https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/category-theory/ I suspect a lot of the formal work on ontology involves CT.
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As a music-theory-unsophisticate, I foresee a lot of potential for deep learning in creating musical arrangements for existing compositions using all kinds of available instruments. How might a Beethoven symphony be arranged for a typical
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I think a major takeaway from reading is to see inside the mind of another person. That's something that I suspect most criminals do badly, since crime, especially violent crime, requires the person to NOT understand the impact of the
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Inoculation with an mRNA vaccine provides recognition of few antigena (e.g. RBD). The size of the vaccine dosage and the delay of a month between doses is designed to create a strong recognition of the chosen antigens. Infection's res
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“IDEs considered harmful”. That's exactly the thesis of Nicholas Carr's book, “The Glass Cage”. He claims the more we employ cognitive-enhancing tools like IDEs to help us perform tasks that require mental effort, the less engag
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https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/ Wallace says it himself in the speech: " Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché
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Yeah, "incapacity" is the wrong term, since more learning should never decrease your capacity to do something. He's against the overlearning of a skill in a classroom, especially since you won't really learn how to do mo
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I'm a T2 diabetic, and though I don't (yet) take insulin, I'm pretty sure this could be a very big win for other T2s who do. Dosing insulin is clumsy with an insulin pump, and always hit-or-miss without one (insulin arrives
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Not a pair. The number of possible perturbations of each example image in deep learning are enormous. This blithe quote implies that a hash code somehow can provide a flexible match against the billions of perturbations even a single imag
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Or if you make a film about child abuse in which a child actor pretends to be abused, can you arrest the actor who abuses? If any depiction of the act is a crime, then you can. This issue came before the US Supreme Court about a decade ago
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In the real world, exact matching of image hash values won't work. It's routine for images to change in small ways over their lifetimes as they're shared. According to the model you suggest, modifying a single pixel in the i
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You presume Apple and the DoJ will implement this with human beings at each step. They won't. Both parties will automate as much of this clandestine search as possible. With time, the external visibility and oversight of this practi
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Nude pic ID is routine online. Facebook developed this capability over 5 years ago and employs it liberally today, as do many other net service providers.
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So your argument is, if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about. Really? Will you feel the same when Apple later decides to include dozens more crimes that they will screen for, surreptitiously? All of which are s
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The value of tribal knowledge is even more apparent when 'engineers' describes a) traditional engineers (EE, mechE, chemE, civilE, etc), or b) software types with deep specialized skills that grow with domain experience (e.g. imag
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In monkey studies, when a subordinate monkey is removed from the presence of the alpha male, its stress level goes down and it shows clear emotional signs of 'thriving'. I wonder if that might help explain this improved outlook on
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And brighten your light. A well aimed lamp does wonders to ease eyestrain, especially for high-mileage eyes.
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Is it my imagination or has the quality of BBC's reporting diminished in recent years? Their BBC America news show appears to be operating on a shoestring these days, with commentary emanating from only a handful of reporters who are
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Totally agree. To that end, I'd like to propose a new inverse model for advertising in America where every consumer gets to sell airtime on their eyeballs. Each time an advertiser wants to promote something to me, I get to charge the
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If you're pairing samples that you have decided share a sameness, then implicitly, you're labeling. I would not call that unsupervised.
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It's probably like Google's office in Ann Arbor -- 450 people in advertising, marketing, and sales.
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Exactly. This is overlooked to an insane degree when extolling the accomplishments of the FANGs and their founders.
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Assuming your kids are in HS now, and will depart for college soon, it'll be interesting to see how you like working from home when your home occupancy drops to only two (or to one, if your SO is often away). I'm a soloist, and I&

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