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by rspeer 10y ago
> That's not really a premise. A better version would be "a likely path to super-intelligence will be a self-improving agent". If I understand your claim, it's not very relevant. You seem to be saying that, given th
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by rspeer 10y ago
The observation in the linked video is that, when the browser is incrementally rendering the page, a traditional "grid" layout will put the content in its final location, while a flexbox will render a box of content that's bi
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by rspeer 10y ago
A way to preserve your session is essential so you can do experiments that involve long-running computations. They provide one. It's tmux. Why would it matter if one of their students prefers something else besides tmux? The course i
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by rspeer 10y ago
"Illegal refugees". What a lovely phrase you've come up with. I'm sure people will stop fleeing a war if you tell them that it's illegal.
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by rspeer 10y ago
And you think human beings should be acting on instincts, or what? Where are you going with this analogy, besides comparing people to animals in a zoo?
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by rspeer 10y ago
I use NFKC form for scripts that seem to require it, such as Arabic, and NFC for others. If I used NFKC for English, for example, then encountering a brand name with a trademark sign on it would add the letters "tm" to the end of
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by rspeer 10y ago
This is a great start, but as you get more serious about NLP, keep in mind that a Web crawl from 2006 is not the same as ground truth about language. The top 100,000 words in this data include a lot of ephemeral spam. If you're looking
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by rspeer 10y ago
That's amazing. Finally. I don't suppose I should get my hopes up too much that that option is going to be more prominent than the terrible default of saving as Mac OS Roman, right? (Whoever decided that Excel on OS X should expor
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by rspeer 10y ago
What are the other choices? PLOS ONE is the only open-access journal I know of that has a good reputation, isn't limited to a narrow field, and isn't just a trash-heap of unpublishable nonsense. This reputation, at least, is an in
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by rspeer 10y ago
It's hard to get rid of the conspiracy because you have to become them to fight them. The journals promote a self-fulfilling number called an "impact factor". The people who boycott the gatekeeping publishers end up with publ
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by rspeer 10y ago
I remember earlier versions of Anki that implemented the algorithm so literally that it would tell you that you couldn't learn new cards until you had reviewed the 500 cards in your backlog, a seemingly insurmountable task that would j
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by rspeer 10y ago
I recently read Greg Egan's previous trilogy set in an alternate-physics universe, the Orthogonal trilogy, and it was excellent. (In Orthogonal , time is a space-like dimension, and relativity, optics, and chemistry change according
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by rspeer 10y ago
No, Pixel is not exclusive to Verizon. Verizon may be the only carrier with a promotion for the Pixel, but on other carriers (or on Google Fi) you can just buy a Pixel from Google and put your sim card in it.
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by rspeer 10y ago
I don't understand what you mean by "your API endpoint that you are scraping wants to serve to all peoples in all locales in all situations". That would mean to me that the API endpoint could be sending me Unicode, in which c
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by rspeer 10y ago
> The "horrible hacking" already exists bundled into libraries and tools like Six and Future. Only for the simplest cases. How is Six going to help you write a regex that matches emoji, for example? On Python 3 you write a rang
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by rspeer 10y ago
Particularly for local and state elections (where all of those issues besides war and torture will primarily be decided).
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by rspeer 10y ago
This is essentially true, and I'm sad that someone is so caught up in the hype that they'd downvote a simple description of the actual state of the field. What we have right now is a boom in AI engineering , with AI research fa
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by rspeer 10y ago
And that would even make sense if it only included the part with the White House, the Capitol, the Mall and stuff. But it turns out to also include a city where a half million disenfranchised people live. (I think DC statehood does sound li
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by rspeer 10y ago
That is true. So the only reason for disallowing plus signs in addresses is ignorance, not malice.
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by rspeer 10y ago
> Guess what? You can't tax something that's not controlled by the US government. Uh... you might want to be a little less brazen and loud about your tax evasion.
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by rspeer 10y ago
That doesn't tell us very much, and the word you mean is "biased".
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by rspeer 10y ago
If you're still reading this: could you please allow + in the e-mail address? I understand why you want me to sign up, but I have no idea how much e-mail you're going to decide to send me, and sending it to a plus-address allows m
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by rspeer 10y ago
I hope so, because nvidia's cudnn is an awful black box of brokenness and we only use it because there's no reasonable alternative.
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by rspeer 10y ago
No, and I don't know where you're getting your certainty that the answer is wrong from. How about this: find me a published scientific paper with only Bayesian results in it, no frequentist statistics at all. Argue for its superio
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by rspeer 10y ago
You can justify that you did everything "by the book" and you don't have to make up priors. Now. You might read this as me saying that Bayesian statistics is all made up, and that's not what I'm saying. I'm sa
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by rspeer 10y ago
On the other hand, didn't moot auto-edit people's 4chan comments all the time? I'm told this is where the current meaning of "weeaboo" came from, because moot was sick of the word "wapanese". Although this
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by rspeer 10y ago
It would fix the problem by making commenting require insane amounts of computation, thus making it require transaction fees, thus making nobody comment, thus making there be no comments to edit, right?
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by rspeer 10y ago
So what's the solution? When other people keep making and buying products that communicate over the Internet, because it's easier, what do you do about it?
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by rspeer 10y ago
Is it because if the crew could choose the flag order, they could have it spell something unfortunate?
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by rspeer 10y ago
Estranges?! You must not be talking about John Conway. This article honors a mathematician who is utterly devoted to teaching, whose research focuses on making interesting mathematical results more accessible, who can have a half-hour conve

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