scottlegrand2

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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I'm going to disagree here. I have enough understanding of AI to have built a deep learning framework from first principles. That deep learning framework makes a pile of money for Amazon to this day. That I know how it works because
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
It's mostly magical thinking because it's so very unlikely, but in the odd event of a mass shooter this would come in handy.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Sez you... https://youtu.be/ZqCOeECBfR8
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Apparently Paul Allen's Experience Music Project has been a secret weapon against malevolent AIs all along! Or if you're no fun, it's an electromagnetic pulse.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I'd be more interested in the immediate application of improving cochlear implant technology with these threads. But then I'm deaf in one ear so I'm biased.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I know too many guys intensely personal about their six-figure jalopies. They don't seem particularly healthy to me but maybe I'm missing something...
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I'll just drop this here... https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-think-we-should-star...
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I'm not poor and I think crickets are tasty. I've had them fried I've had them as flour and I've had them on pizza. All they really need is their Impossible Burger moment to go viral because it's not the taste it&
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Seems to me like a perfect opportunity for a simple neural network or machine learning model to predict the next song to play based on the last k songs having been trained on a bunch of existing playlists.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Cavorting in SF, bottling wine, or occasionally taking classic muscle cars out for a spin apparently.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
The best way I have seen to handle this was by a former manager who made sure we ate lunch together most days as a team. It wasn't mandatory, but it was informally expected to happen. That team had zero communication problems.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Seems ludicrous to ban vaping without banning smoking. I wouldn't ban either personally, but if you're going to ban one...
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
In my opinion you can just limit yourself to all the episodes written by Darin Morgan if only because Alex Trebek.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I suspect you and I need to agree to disagree here. You seem to believe the stock market is strongly efficient. Whereas I think it is weakly efficient. We're not going to change each other's minds but I stick to my belief that
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
If one manages to drop the value of Facebook stock I believe very strongly it will affect him personally until the stock goes back up. I have yet to meet the CEO of a big tech company who hasn't invested quite a bit of ego in the succe
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Great, then clearly your own personal benefit from owning Facebook stock outweighs any of your dignified moral outrage at Zuckerberg's conduct? I suspect that's why big tobacco is still around as well. I have been at multiple big
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
It's a lot easier to liquidate one's stock in a company like Facebook than it is to find another position in the valley. And I suspect that a lot of people are leaving Facebook over its conduct and they will continue to do so but
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
So if they dumped all their Facebook stock I wonder how that would affect Zuck? I don't like what Facebook is doing right now either, but I also don't own any Facebook stock. if they choose to continue owning the stock despite h
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
This seems unnecessarily pessimistic. I mean they're still funding amazingly dumb ideas like pogo sticks as a service right now. One day, a startup will resist getting acqui-hired just like Google resisted getting acqui-hired by Yaho
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
And yet no efforts at fecal recognition...
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I prefer what you may have written up before you got yourself a lawyer. and especially the comments from fellow cyclists on your behavior that day... https://sfist.com/2012/04/05/cyclist_who_struck_pedestrian
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
You're right it shouldn't be a death sentence but neither should pointing a gun at your head with only one bullet in it and pulling the trigger. They're both different versions of the same game to me. I think people who run
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
It's not the cyclist's fault when he/she runs a stop sign or a traffic light? Explain? It would certainly be my fault if I did that in the car.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I think you ought to compare a driver running a red light vs a cyclist running a red light to make this point. I might even agree with you, but speeding is conceivably even safer than going the speed limit if everyone else around you is do
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Or SF... https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Bicyclist-sentenced-for...
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I find watching all of the machine learning courses that are posted to YouTube to be a good way to keep up and to get insight into the thinking of the authors of recent papers. It has more or less become my morning ritual to watch one lect
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
What happens to this rift if it's operating on an equation with a derivative such as the gradient of a neural network? I'm a huge fan of deterministic computation, but we seem to be doing okay without it in deep learning with resp
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
You are preaching to the choir here. I loved when Micah Posner, one of the chief NIMBYs of Santa Cruz, turned out to be an illegal ADU slumlord. That in my opinion explains a lot about how Santa Cruz really works. Or as I refer to it to
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Yeah they're already doing that in Santa Cruz and it sucks across the board. Evidence: I live there and I like to go to open houses just to gloat at how badly people have f *ed up otherwise perfectly workable floor plans to make a lit
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Then you should have sublet the space to someone who needed it, no?

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