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by robertk 8y ago
I am glad that the advice is not unusual and refers to the usual suspects: judicious A/B testing of SEO keywords, personalized correspondence with early customers, and leveraging media and coaches. It gives confidence that anyone can d
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by robertk 8y ago
Great stuff. Say hi to Scott! Are you both at MIRI now?
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by robertk 8y ago
Hey man! I hope you know we are there for you, and some of us haven’t been in your shoes but strongly sympathize. Reach out to rkrzyzanowski at gmail if you ever need a chat. Sounds like things were very rough but you’re in a much better sp
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by robertk 8y ago
I believe you are wrong, if I am to believe my trader friend to whom I showed this thread and answered: “Trivially true in the 'of course does behaviour of others matter' sense and in the 'could my actions influence others&#x
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by robertk 9y ago
We usually dockerize outputs of our Syberia projects as well. We have several dozen internal packages consumed by the root projects. With many contributors working on constituent packages daily, we've found frequent changes to packages
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by robertk 9y ago
One of the lead developers on the Azure suite wrote a blog post that might explain some of the differences: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/06/syberia.html . A rough analogy is that Rails is to AWS/He
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by robertk 9y ago
Author here. Philosophically, Syberia can be thought of as an extension of caret with hopefully clearer abstractions in large projects. In particular, all of the packages supported by caret can and will eventually be parametrized into the m
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by robertk 9y ago
Tick tock, my dear friend, the fruits of a mathematical harvest take long to grow; but the rewarding bounties may be enough to feed the walking earth. Or at least the probability of that is higher than Magnus Carlsen providing gain to human
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by robertk 9y ago
That sounds like killing the poor but with extra steps. Or the South Side of Chicago.
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by robertk 9y ago
You don't get what I'm saying. If you're advocating for X and another group advocates for not X, you should ensure both sides have representation. Otherwise your action is equivalent in sanity to Trump cutting global warming
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by robertk 9y ago
Advocating a Manhattan Project for General AI without corresponding propaganda for AI Safety Research is unfair and reckless, even if you disagree with the premises of AI safety research. Edit: see below. Especially if you disagree with t
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by robertk 10y ago
R is a LISP. I would disagree heavily with it being domain-specific. It is as capable and Turing complete as any language. The only argument you can create is about performance and the judiciousness of putting stats functions in the base li
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by robertk 10y ago
Given that the R interpreter is written in C and admits trivial FFI bindings, as demonstrated by libraries like glmnet or gbm calling out to it, I don't see how this is an inherent advantage of Python.
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by robertk 10y ago
Python suuuucks.
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by robertk 10y ago
Popularity and truth are correlated but sometimes orthogonal.
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by robertk 10y ago
What if someone was raised without ever having seen an insect?
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by robertk 10y ago
It clearly can't be. The genetic SNP delta between humans and other primates is too small to record sufficiently complex cortical changes for something like all of neural symbolic representations.
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by robertk 10y ago
Very similar to what I wrote years ago: https://deconstructinggenius.wordpress.com
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by robertk 10y ago
That's exactly right! The first 5-10 times an interesting story is fun to tell but eventually it sinks into your bones and it becomes a performance, even robotic. Better to share the general picture once and discuss the details that ar
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by robertk 10y ago
Conversely, I was off all social media for 5 years and it's surprising how pleasant life can be when you re-introduce FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. I no longer have to fill in someone when we grab a coffee, there's a lot more shared
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by robertk 10y ago
Can someone explain why I should use Java? Over literally any other language? Why is the lobster still alive? EDIT: on my phone and meant to write monster.
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by robertk 10y ago
Can you explain? Why higher taxes? Can't it be a mixture of private enterprises replacing some equivalent public institutions from the Swiss setup? Even non-profits if you can reach critical mass on tithes, cf effective altruism. Seems
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by robertk 10y ago
Not AI.
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by robertk 10y ago
This seems recursive or insipid. How do we compute what it is we focus or attend to? Isn't that the real answer?
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by robertk 10y ago
What was up with the non-sequitur bags of water link?
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by robertk 10y ago
The point stands that one can probably reduce the necessity for many daily actions when attention and willpower is unlimited. Even if you get an idea in the shower, you're still "wasting" time not being able to write a paper
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by robertk 10y ago
I don't think the comparison on their site is fair. The Ettus B200 series uses an Analog Devices chip that has a 640MSPS sampling rate, the Limemicro chip can sample at 61.4MSPS at most. Even if the RF bandwidth is the same, the Limemi
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by robertk 11y ago
Factually disputed. The concerns raised in this area originated in the 90s, conceived prior to release of the first Terminator film.
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by robertk 11y ago
It's 80TB. You don't clone, just ask for views.
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by robertk 11y ago
The problem is you're using "supernatural" as a semantic stop sign ( http://lesswrong.com/lw/it/semantic_stopsigns/ ). Would it help if I rephrased it as: given this natural phenomenon reported

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