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Error Handling in JavaScript (2014)(keybase.io)
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by shawn 8y ago
Toilet paper might also be causing hemorrhoids. Consider that our bodies were not evolved to use toilet paper, and that hemorrhoids are virtually unheard of in third-world countries that lack TP. (I haven't confirmed that latter claim.
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by shawn 8y ago
Think of a war that shaped the world, and whose outcome is generally agreed to be a positive one: "Good guys vs bad guys, and the good guys won." Suppose nerve gas had been the only way for the "good guys" to win that wa
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by shawn 8y ago
Interestingly, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_independently_targeta... The introduction of MIRV led to a major change in the strategic balance. Previously, with one warhead per missile, it was conceivable that
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by shawn 8y ago
But it seems to be working, right? Tesla has been hitting their goals, and the stock price has been going up. Musk's bizarre behavior is concerning, but his organization structure seemed to be working.
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by shawn 8y ago
I'm not sure this is as limiting as it sounds. You can import whatever modules you want from within a notebook, and most projects tend to be modular. (Those that aren't can usually be shimmed pretty quickly.)
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by shawn 8y ago
This might be another formulation of the "Chinese Room" argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room If every action is the same -- that is, if you produce some actions which would have been produced
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by shawn 8y ago
Could you give some references for an ML novice to learn these techniques? (Papers, books, anything.) I've been studying ML, but I'm not advanced enough yet to know effective ways to learn state of the art methods.
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by shawn 8y ago
This is an excellent time to ask for a counterargument to CGP Grey's stance that immortality should be invented: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY Suppose there were a technology X which was going to be inven
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by shawn 8y ago
Not to the bot, but rather write down the mistakes and decide (as an AI programmer) how best to address them. The solutions would probably take the form of adjusting weights, adding additional dimensions, removing or refactoring existing si
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by shawn 8y ago
This is `mkfilter` referenced from Trevor Blackwell's XAnalogTV project: https://github.com/GalliumOS/xscreensaver/blob/634aa34553f96... The way that new software was released in 1999 was so interesting
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Interactive Digital Filter Design (1999)(www-users.cs.york.ac.uk)
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by shawn 8y ago
Ah, that seems like an excellent system. It removes all of the guesswork of some formula-based solution. Empirical observations tend to be more accurate. It might be worth hiring one of the top dota pros to coach OpenAI's bots: they co
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by shawn 8y ago
Someone asked me, "How does OpenAI know the MMR of its bots?" I don't know. I assume it's similar to how AlphaGo measures its ELO ranking. But the strange thing is, this is hundreds of years of self-play, not a public po
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by shawn 8y ago
I'd like to. Do graduate programs accept devs who have been working the last decade? There are areas I feel I could be helpful with, e.g. creating reproducible experiments or ensuring a codebase could be open sourced in relation to a p
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by shawn 8y ago
Facepalm. I've filled my dumb comment quota for the week. Well, at least it was clarified. It got a couple upvotes, so I guess others misinterpreted it too. Sorry.
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by shawn 8y ago
This is really discriminatory and arrogant. I used to feel the same way. It’s worth changing.
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by shawn 8y ago
I have bad news for you. No one is good at security.
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by shawn 8y ago
As someone who has no knowledge whatsoever about Go, is there some way I could learn more about what you mention? I’m really curious to see how people are trying to learn from the bot, but I’m not too sure how to find out.
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by shawn 8y ago
Nope! (I meant formal security training, FWIW. Also I know that feeling of "Oh boy, I just pissed off the internet, didn't I?" and wanted to remind him it'll blow over soon. It's not a huge deal, and he'll come
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by shawn 8y ago
The good news is, if you're ever interested in a career as a pentester, this is an excellent portfolio piece. :) (Really!) Also, don't worry too much. I think everyone knows your heart was in the right place, and ultimately that c
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by shawn 8y ago
Ah, you’re right of course. I should have been more clear. To the author: an alternate ending to this story could have been “competitor found out; flipped out; forwarded this to their legal department; your next two years are very unpleasan
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by shawn 8y ago
Howdy, former Matasano pentester here. FWIW, I would probably have done something similar to them before I'd worked in the security industry. It's an easy mistake to make, because it's one you make by default: intellectual cu
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by shawn 8y ago
Are they doing fine? I’d like to make all of the software I write freely BSD licensed. If I do that, it seems with very high probability that it might turn out to be a time sink and a money sink with no benefit other than +reputation. Which
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by shawn 8y ago
Not at all. Throwaway accounts are for exactly this, and we're a community, so we're here to back you up. When I made a throwaway some years ago, I also made a gmail and put it in the throwaway's profile. I ended up getting a
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by shawn 8y ago
It's interesting to consider the similarities, isn't it? Exponential growth is a powerful incentive, and it causes everyone universally to overlook the downsides of a bet. Yet most of us do.
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by shawn 8y ago
Oh, I probably sounded identical to a certain common pattern. Don't read too much into it. :) I don't think they're anti-competitive. But they are monopolies. http://gsl.mit.edu/media/programs/south-
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by shawn 8y ago
The inverse question is equally interesting: In a monopoly, how do you determine when to put a stop to it? It's a tough question.
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9 points by shawn 8y ago|2 comments
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by shawn 8y ago
The point is, it's the same mindset. The level of craziness varies wildly, but the underlying goal of "I want to seek out exponential growth" is the same. And it's worth recognizing that.

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