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by sacado2 7y ago
It's not revolutionizing everything in the field of AI. It's "only" good at prediction in domains where data is poorly structured, such as images, audio, video, text and some games (which is a lot to be fair, hence the p
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by sacado2 7y ago
As a rich art collector, you can buy a real Van Gogh for a fraction of its price. Can you risk jail? Sure, but who will know you own it anyway? It's not like you're going to expose it in your living room anyway. Not only that, but
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by sacado2 7y ago
They have very different design philosophies and were announced more or less at the same time, that's why people always compare them and feel like they have to pick a winner, despite them targeting very different niches.
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by sacado2 7y ago
Since we're talking about non-classical logics, I also like modal logic, which deals with uncertainty too, but in a very different way. Here, facts / assertions are not associated with a numeric value, but with a modality, a symbo
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by sacado2 7y ago
> Yeah it is kinda cool that we can use 10 lines of TF to spin up huge computation, but I guess that a simple linear regression would have provide results that are at least similar to the one of the neural network. Plus, LR is not a blac
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by sacado2 7y ago
Interestingly, AFAIK, when it was told the Finnish epic, the Kalevala, was not even memorized. Well, parts of it at least. Rune singers were improvising some/most of it as they were singing the story. And they were improvising lines th
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by sacado2 7y ago
The problem is "intelligence" is not a very well defined concept. Usually, we define it (consciously or not) as "something the human is good at, and animals / artificial tools cannot". So, of course, as soon as a ma
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by sacado2 7y ago
What I mean is it only weeds out a few true negatives, but produces a ton of false negatives and false positives.
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by sacado2 7y ago
Let's say you're just out of a divorce / long-term relationship that lasted for 15 years or more. I wouldn't trust a testimonial from your ex-wife (because either she will hate you or, if you're such a great person
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by sacado2 7y ago
That's still a very low barrier to entry: sure, they managed to get married, but they apparently can't commit to a long-term relationship.
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by sacado2 7y ago
> It seems to promote verbosity just for the sake of so called "simplicity". I don't think simplicity is the goal, I think simplicity is a mean to an end, and that end is readability. I remember reading some C++ code I did
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by sacado2 7y ago
Readability. I never ran into go code I couldn't read.
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by sacado2 7y ago
> the poster made many points that could be used to argue that go does not promote developer productivity. I think go promotes maintainability rather than developer productivity. IMO, go authors favored ease of code reading to the expens
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by sacado2 7y ago
Small native binaries don't have to warm up when you start / restart a server.
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by sacado2 7y ago
l := list<int>(lst) vs l := x < y When it reads the "<" sign, the parser doesn't know whether it is in the first situation (an instantiation of a generic type) or the second one (a comparison).
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by sacado2 7y ago
Nope. Alpha-beta (which I'm talking about in my post) is definitely not mahine-learning, for instance, and yet it is definitely an AI technique.
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by sacado2 7y ago
You're taking my sentence a bit too literally there. Take it as a heuristic, not as a formal definition. Anyway nobody's able to give a compact definition of AI that cannot be destroyed by a ton of counter-examples.
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by sacado2 7y ago
"Plain" compilers are just translating from one notation to another, so they aren't. But optimizing compilers that analyze your code and find that portion of your code can be rewritten to make the produced executable more eff
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by sacado2 7y ago
The guys who coined the term "AI" strongly disagree.
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by sacado2 7y ago
It's because "artificial intelligence" is a very broad expression and doesn't say a lot when you're in the domain. You won't find the expression "computer science" a lot either, it doesn't mean &
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by sacado2 7y ago
> If I write a decision tree algorithm, is that AI? It depends how that decision tree is produced. If you wrote it all by yourself, it's not. I mean, you just wrote a plain algorithm by yourself. A decision tree is a program, and vi
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by sacado2 7y ago
> It's grammatically incorrect to write "s'inscrire à une salle de sport" and should indeed be "dans une salle de sport" and so it was warranted to correct that. I'm not even sure. If you consider a &qu
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by sacado2 7y ago
Provided code written 14 years ago wouldn't compile on current compilers, I think it's fair to consider today's Rust is a fairly new (i.e 5 years old) language.
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by sacado2 7y ago
Problem is, the more intrusive an ad, the more likely it is to get blocked. Google is a pretty big player in the ad industry, and their ads are far from distracting. "animated SVG blocker" seems like a very easy plugin to develop.
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by sacado2 7y ago
It's going to kill his following among people who want to follow him for free, but by definition they don't bring him any money. If you have enough paying users, meaning your business gained momentum, you don't really care ab
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by sacado2 7y ago
And it's obviously not the developers' fault, but the clients/customers'. You want a 100% bug-free web browser? OK, so let's define precisely and formally what the browser is supposed to do. Then, you'll sign a
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by sacado2 7y ago
That's a very good point.
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by sacado2 7y ago
Too bad the try proposal didn't make it. It was a good improvement on the great but too verbose error management system.
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by sacado2 7y ago
Thank you! I didn't understand what the issue was with just 1 bathroom. Of course, if your bathroom is also your toilets...
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by sacado2 7y ago
You can fly rockets without heap and function pointers, and that is definitely non-trivial. More precisely, however, heap allocation is usually accepted during the initialization phase (the moment when you can still abort the process with n

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