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The reason the Web needs rescuing is because it's not a particularly well-designed system that has been patched over and over again for the last quarter century. And now it has been degraded to a delivery layer for JavaScript apps, a p
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Love it. It's one of the most well-designed electronic devices I ever owned. Rally fun to use. I think it's worth studying as an example of great user experience and designing for "emergent" features - even if you don&
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This doesn't make sense. Computers do stuff that people don't "comprehend" all the time. In fact, in the past, one of the fundamental appeals and drives behind AI was to make systems that could explain themselves, not re
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Radios are still sold in stores. Also, Phones and MP3 players often have FM radios. Heck, my best radio is probably my OP-1 synthesizer. The real "magic" of FM radio that it something that Just Works. You don't have to pay, y
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> Like, how does AlphaZero optimize for “how to slow Climate Change”? I think that's a bit ambitious. GAI is not obliged to solve all the world's problems. But I would ask a more modest question: how could AlphaZero approach
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What I'm reading: an existing chess engine that runs on much poorer hardware and for some weird reason was deprived of its usual initialization data achieved 73% draw rate against a ridiculously hyped "deep" neural network&#x
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I think this is a very interesting idea. Except I would probably use a random forest instead of ANN for something like this. It is trivially parallelizable, you can train on subsets of features, you can slit and merge your ensembles/fo
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> Recomputing the AlphaGo Zero weights will take about 1700 years on commodity hardware We're seeing the reversal of PC revolution and most people don't seem to notice or care.
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Those languages are simple to learn. And it's not necessarily about the language anyway. Also, two of those three operating systems were developed by couple dozen people at most, so you shouldn't need hundreds of programmers, as l
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One would think that in 2017 we would be using an OS that takes the best ideas from Xerox Park/Star, Oberon and Cloud 9. At least on new devices (like tablets) which don't have to keep backward compatibility.
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Smaller files are never a bad thing in themselves, but increasingly complex toolchains have a maintenance cost that people don't seem to notice. And I'm not just talking about making them work. I'm talking about everything, i
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If you want an example of clear thinking about the future, I highly recommend reading Summa Technologiae by Stanislaw Lem. Instead of predicting low-level tech advances he speaks about what drives technology development in general and draft
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>To use progressive JPG, you have to pre-recode (if you don't have money to dish out for FPGA to recode on the fly) and store recoded images. Not sure why progressive JPG isn't the default. It's not any larger.
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>There are legions of people that watch these streams, just to watch someone doing something that they could do themselves (but maybe not win as much). This is an interesting comment. I watch couple of streamers regularly, but not in r
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IE can account for a fraction of total traffic , but it still can affect large percentage of users . The same person can use several devices (work, home, mobile) to browse the web at different times. I can't recount how many times I
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Pretty amazing. It seems today people write off those demos as showy, shallow and misleadingly optimistic. But if you think about it, the exact same thing can be said about modern ML demonstrations. A lot of them hint at nearly human-level
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On the other hand, there are countries that use national IDs to restrict the freedom of their citizens. You can't base your reasoning about something like this solely on what's happening in some countries right now. That's
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> They are only "essential" properties according to the limitations of your particular perceptual system. To a bee that can see UV light, a stick bug may look entirely different from an actual stick. An animal that hunts by sc
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The thing that horrifies me about all of this is that instead of criticizing or fixing issues most people adapt what they do and even how they think to match all the deficiencies in software. Often, users simply can't imagine systems
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The comparison in disingenuous. This illusion has nothing to do with image classification and heavily relies on adding misleading context to the object to alter the perception of one of its properties. Most optical illusions are like that.
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Problem is, mimicry involves copying essential properties of the target object: color, texture, shape, movement dynamics and so on. It relies on true ambiguity. Adversarial examples against neural networks (the interesting ones, anyway) inv
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Yeah. Almost every time I watch a Marvin Minsky or Alan Kay video of any kind I'm surprised with info on some awesome technology or research from the 60s or 70s.
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This just illustrates that surpassing "human level" performance is a silly and arbitrary benchmark, because there is no such thing as general human level performance. But I bet Kasparov would be pretty good at Go, and Sedol would
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> They have a new reinforcement learning algorithm that should be generically applicable to anything where a long sequence of moves results in a specifically gradable outcome. Statements like these always make me wonder why certain obv
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>It's honestly very difficult to imagine how a small group, no matter how talented and driven, can possibly succeed where open source giants Canonical and Mozilla couldn't. How many people worked on Xerox Alto? They had to do
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Didn't they restrict the game to a single hero and a subset of all items to make it tractable for AI? And didn't people find a way to break that bot?
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>Pretty much all attempts at AI are pattern recognition systems. All attempts in modern AI. Most interesting research from the 60s and 80s wasn't based on pattern recognition.
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. - If I mis-enter information into a form, your error handling forgets all my information and I have to re-enter it. Funny that you mention it. Loosing form data on page refresh or clicking "back" button was a problem on the We
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. - If I mis-enter information into a form, your error handling forgets all my information and I have to re-enter it. This was fixed in browsers years ago when they started keeping form state along with page history. I can refresh this pa
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I don't have a favorite research paper, but there is a long Ph.D. thesis I've recently read in its entirety and found a lot of interesting ideas: Programming with Agents: http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~mt/thesis

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