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“Godfather of AI” urged to warn about risks(theguardian.com)
1 points by ranit 3y ago|0 comments
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New artificial intelligence tool can accurately identify cancer(theguardian.com)
2 points by ranit 3y ago|0 comments
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by ranit 4y ago
Nice and useful post BTW. Most programmers seem oblivious about what takes place "under the hood". A side note: I still plan to read your Geometry for Programmers, now that it is close to being finished. All the best!
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by ranit 4y ago
It cannot be toggled back to hide the explanation without refreshing the whole page.
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US releases footage of Russian jet crashing into American drone over Black Sea(theguardian.com)
9 points by ranit 4y ago|0 comments
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by ranit 4y ago
It is amazing it taught 10,000 students at once, but having 10 million books … at times when only handwritten books existed?!? Currently Indian National Library has 2.2 million books and British library has > 13 million. Something is mis
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No pain, plenty of gain: taking it easy can be key to getting fitter and happier(theguardian.com)
2 points by ranit 4y ago|1 comments
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by ranit 4y ago
I just realized (from this site) how minimal railway system is in Greece and South Italy.
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Barcelona shopkeeper fined €7,501 over job ad seeking ‘woman over 40’(theguardian.com)
1 points by ranit 4y ago|0 comments
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Court in Italy rules in favour of children who do not want to see grandparents(theguardian.com)
11 points by ranit 4y ago|5 comments
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BuzzFeed to use AI to ‘enhance’ its content and quizzes(theguardian.com)
4 points by ranit 4y ago|0 comments
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by ranit 4y ago
From the linked MS support document: > This works best with PDFs that are mostly text
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by ranit 4y ago
The opposite is included: doc to pdf.
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Scotland’s whisky industry went from bust to boom(theguardian.com)
2 points by ranit 4y ago|0 comments
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by ranit 4y ago
> Swiss Orange“. Which is so ironic because there was no access to Switzerland nor good Oranges. Perhaps this is what made it desirable.
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Wait, what? Wyoming lawmakers push to ban all electric vehicles by 2035(financialpost.com)
15 points by ranit 4y ago|5 comments
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by ranit 4y ago
> Common Lisp the hard way that was linked here not terribly long ago Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34326311
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by ranit 4y ago
> Vehicles drive on the left hand side in the UK. Except at the entrance to the Savoy, where road markings make it clear they must drive on the right. Similarly on Palatino bridge (Ponte Palatino) in Rome, vehicles drive on the left side
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by ranit 4y ago
Thanks for the link, good to learn more. Perhaps you are right. Mine was a genuine, layman question.
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by ranit 4y ago
> Even precision fermentation is an easier to implement fix for land use, which looks increasingly like it can reduce our need for land to grow grains. See Solar Foods for example What do you refer as "precision fermentation" h
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All South Koreans to become younger as traditional age system scrapped(theguardian.com)
56 points by ranit 4y ago|9 comments
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by ranit 4y ago
This is so easy, just interpret a few hundred words :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_of_Easter … and you would still be wrong, depending in which country it gets calculated.
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Bird Migration Explorer(explorer.audubon.org)
1 points by ranit 4y ago|0 comments
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Patagonia founder gives away company to help fight climate crisis(reuters.com)
3 points by ranit 4y ago|0 comments
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Heat pumps: What are they and how do they work?(dw.com)
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Barcelona school and residents create solar energy community(theguardian.com)
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by ranit 4y ago
I'm not talking about games. Imagine this technology being used by an autocratic state.
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by ranit 4y ago
> Perhaps it is time to claim fait accompli with regard to the Turing test and now train models to re-assure us, when asked, that they are just a sophisticated chatbot. Good luck convincing bad actors to follow this rule.
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by ranit 4y ago
And the actual HN comment link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15659076
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by ranit 4y ago
> but it does so in the same way as writing your programs directly in assembly > contains lots of magic numbers and very imperative code Well, we really don't know if the code was written in this form by hand, don't we. It c

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