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by romaniv 11y ago
There is another way of saying the same thing. A lot of seemingly groundbreaking progress in AI usually happens when people (people, not machines) discover a clever way of mapping a new unsolved problem to another - well-solved - problem. T
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You're not making an argument that Pikazo generates real art. You're making an argument that humans don't make real art. This notion has absolutely no interesting implications for AI. It's like saying "language is r
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Question for someone who has this app. Can this convert a photo to anime-like or cartoon-like rendering a-la A Scanner Darkly?
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If art for you can be replaced by this kind of mimicry, it begs the question of whether you really need or care about art in the first place.
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If a computer generates 100000000 unfunny jokes and one that seems funny, does that count?
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I do not think ACM article is very relevant here, because what is speaks about is, essentially, the fact that what we traditionally thought of "disks" is now getting as fast as RAM, because persistence is achieved via new technolo
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A library without physical books is called a server.
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> Anyone with access to your email account can simply reset any password on any site. The right solution is to make your email account very, very secure. No, the right solution is to stop using email as sole identification for password
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After reading several articles I came to the conclusion that every Wikipedia article on math concepts which are covered on betterexplained should start with the link to betterexplained. I know it's not going to happen, but it would b
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Out of curiosity, where did you hear about that research on false memories? Also, how do you know you can rely on your memories of yesterday or memories of things you've learned in school?
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You're comparing a currency + transaction network with a commodity. IMO, as long as people treat Bitcoin as a commodity it will not achieve its true purpose.
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We have millennia of experience in regards to estimating how people will react to various shock situations and what constitutes those situations. It's intuitive. The reactions of NN to unusual stimuli are likely to be counter-intuitive
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Paywalls do not work, but Kickstarter and Patreon do work. Also, hosting a website for several thousand people (as opposed to hundreds of thousands) it so cheap this days that the cost becomes negligible. It maintenance becomes the most &qu
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by romaniv 11y ago
Exposed to a wide range of topics for the low price of $23,410 per year ($46,272 in private colleges). No thanks. I'd rather go to the nearest bookstore, library or use the Internet for what's intended. http://www.colle
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> Now, universities by and large do not attempt to "prepare people for citizenship and democracy." Instead, they educate them to be members of a "docile, most skilled, working class." You need to go to liberal arts
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Whether the statements are true or not is what the journalists should care about This is a very naive view of journalism. It is trivial to do horrible, biased reporting while printing statements that are factually true or not falsifiable.
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Your comment highlights the shift in perception of search engines between around a decade ago and now. In the past "search" was something people did, while search engine was a tool that helped them. Right now "search" is
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Great comment. I would like to add that there is a world of difference between drudgery of tactile work and drudgery in office work. Tactile work is more engaging and less stressful. It does not require constant multitasking or context swit
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No need to mix then. Display it separately. On the bottom or on the left. Something has to be done with new submissions.
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AFAIK, code contracts in .NET still have all the issues they had several years ago. The absolute worst one being that you need to install something for them to actually work. This means different computers will have different code behavior.
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Yes, but there are a lot of people who are fed up with the kinds of online media you described. While clickbait works, it's not the only thing that does. It's just the cheapest.
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I'm willing to bet it won't bring them any new business. And in the long run, it will encourage their existing users to dump nginx and use Node.
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> So many better choices out there. For now. I get the feeling that soon enough a lot of them will start dying out. Trying to "sell" some language other than JS in a mostly-JS shop is already an impossible battle. Popularity
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You have to admit that after establishing its dominance Google started to dictate its own rules for web design, rather than adapting to the pages people already had. Google's algorithm that places incoming links above anything else for
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>An encrypted signal can't be "too random" It should if encryption is good. After all, security proofs for encryption define "secure" as "indistinguishable from random".
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> Is there currently human technology that does anything similar to this? Any sort of steganography tries to achieve something similar. I wouldn't be surprised if something similar would be used in military radio communications.
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Database and file updates can be treated as a part of page's output.
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For the most part, it is possible to remodel applications to handle stateful things outside of the main program. Consider a website. An entire website can be modeled as a function that takes headers, URL and request body as parameters and r
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The Secret of the Monkey Island is mostly a comedy game. And it's funny . There is satire, absurdism, meta-jokes. Something for everyone. But it also made very good use of interactivity for humor - something characteristic for adventu
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This is why we need effective media watchdogs that record past performance in a consumable fashion. I don't know (m?)any websites that do it well, though.

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