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by shahbaby 9y ago
Idiotic to compare systems on which human lives depend to everything else. There's no one-size fits all. Speed and accuracy tend to have an inverse correlation.
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by shahbaby 9y ago
This is spot on. The value in university education is in Connections and Credentials. Getting good at what you do is something that occurs on your own time.
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by shahbaby 9y ago
I wouldn't trust bro-science or profit driven companies with my mental health. Train your body and you will also be training your mind.
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by shahbaby 9y ago
How is paying with money any more fair than paying with time? I'd personally prefer random distribution over selling to the highest bidder. Does every single thing really have to be for sale?
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by shahbaby 9y ago
It "worked" because people paid or found an alternative? Who's going to quit their job over parking? Seems like the standard formula for a business news article now is to repackage common sense ideas as something new and exci
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by shahbaby 9y ago
Kind of like worrying about airline safety before we had planes. Don't believe the hype, we're nowhere close to human level learning. We also probably won't know where/what the threats really are until we get there. Just
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by shahbaby 9y ago
I think it's a bit too early to worry about that. Don't believe everything you read.
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by shahbaby 9y ago
"After 90 hours of playing first-person shooter games..." 90 hours in the gym @ 3 hours / week = 7.5 months of exercise At this point one expect to see physical changes in the mirror. Why would it be any different in the brai
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by shahbaby 9y ago
Serious strength training (ie the starting strength routine) + Scientifically proven to be good for your brain + Quantifiable progress every time you workout + Relatively low cost in terms of time and money How is it that a middle aged per
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by shahbaby 9y ago
if there was such an answer to your question, everyone would be doing it, and then it wouldn't work but of course there are many people who will try to sell you turn-key business solutions programming is hard, it takes a lot of time an
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by shahbaby 9y ago
This article is actually pretty accurate in that it identifies that neither academy nor industry is well suited to solving AGI. Suppose that a real solution to AGI will actually take 10 years to solve with minimal milestone achievements alo
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by shahbaby 9y ago
You're correct in identifying that credentials and networking opportunities are the real value but 4 years of your life is a heavy commitment. Only you can decide if it's worth it. I would say go for it but make sure you leverage
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by shahbaby 9y ago
Seems like a marketing piece; hackerrank trying to appear as the defacto standard for online coding tests. The best developers in Silicon Valley probably aren't trying to prove anything on sites like this.
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by shahbaby 9y ago
The point is that when mainstream ML begins to realize that there are limitations to the current cartoonish representations of neural networks, they then go back to the biology to see what they're missing. However there are other compa
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by shahbaby 9y ago
Even DeepMind says that future advances will come from neuroscience. https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/19/15998610/ai-neuroscience-... In the field of AI, our "great engineering" is not even a wo
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by shahbaby 9y ago
I went through a similar experience last semester and decided to change my approach. From now on I'm going to be taking fewer classes and no longer worry if it delays my graduation date. Why? What matters most in undergrad is what you
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by shahbaby 9y ago
"Thus, there seems to be little upside to laptop use in class, while there is clearly a downside." Thanks to bs articles like this that try to over generalize their results, I was unsure if I "needed" a laptop when retur
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by shahbaby 9y ago
One thing I wish I realized earlier in regards to strength training: It's very easy to do at home if you have the space for it. You don't need an expensive machine. A used power rack and bench can be found for cheap. I now get my
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by shahbaby 9y ago
non paywall link?
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by shahbaby 9y ago
It's still useful to some people (works offline, quick/easy access to important info, less to cram in your head during the course) but it's a small part of an already small niche. Population of Canada is 10x smaller than the
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by shahbaby 9y ago
To own a firearm in Canada you have to pass a certain test. I made a simple quiz app ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca2.testprojec... ) that would help people prepare for that test. My main goal wa
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by shahbaby 9y ago
"A thorough revision of the current education system is the only way to ride this tide." Not really convinced by this. Sure education is a bit slow but it's never been easier to fill in the gaps yourself.
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by shahbaby 9y ago
Pretty much the same as it is right now except more competitive. A degree will be even less valuable but even more necessary as a requirement. MOOCs will grow more popular but they won't replace traditional education.
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by shahbaby 9y ago
I know it's cliche but...exercise. - Keeps one mentally sharper - Increases self discipline - Feels good - Anti-aging benefits - Increase self esteem - etc. However, it goes deeper than that. What drives people to get up and go to wo
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by shahbaby 9y ago
“How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli
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Ask HN: How do you find a worthy startup idea?
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by shahbaby 9y ago
What you do during your degree matters more than how quickly you finish it and enter the rat-race.
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by shahbaby 9y ago
This guy should not be down voted. For better or worse, College is the new high-school. Of course a degree in of itself won't get you far but it's an easy filter that many companies use to quickly weed out candidates. There are al
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by shahbaby 9y ago
The problem is in defining intelligence by behavior. What we see as intelligence in insects most likely originates from an entirely different process. Jeff talks about this exact issue in this speech he gave, 10 years go. He mentions it aro
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by shahbaby 9y ago
Strongly believe that if anyone is going to solve human level intelligence in our lifetime, it's going to be Numenta. 'But we can't even figure out worms!' - Worms are made up of neurons but they perform a different func

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