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by simsla 5y ago
Do you know a good source to learn about the FIM? (Postgraduate level stats/maths, mostly applied, tiny bit pure.)
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by simsla 5y ago
I've found that people also respond to thoughtful comments on blogs.
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by simsla 5y ago
It's a DB. So you use it for storing data. And merkle trees are what give "blockchains" their tamper protection: each state has a hash which includes the previous state's hash. (Although it'd be a list instead of a
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by simsla 5y ago
Funny, that. In my psychology 101 class, I was thought that random and intermittent rewards work better for conditioning behaviour than consistent rewards. So in a way, the inconsistency might've pulled more people in.
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by simsla 5y ago
There's also cost. My company gives me access to a few journals, but at home I have no such thing. $20 is ridiculous for a paper, given that (a) the authors rarely see anything of this money, and (b) you often need to skim 10 papers be
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by simsla 5y ago
I expect I'll get infected eventually. I'd prefer not to get infected at a point when the system is (about to be) overloaded. Omicron can't be meaningfully stopped, but it can be rate limited.
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by simsla 5y ago
Today was my last day. I moved to the UK for a pretty awesome job. These last few years have led me to re-evaluate my priorities, and I'm moving back home to be closer to family and old friends. Many of my international colleagues (esp
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by simsla 5y ago
> and especially on ability to fund companies easily via labor Not sure I'm following. How would that work, and how would crypto facilitate this?
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by simsla 5y ago
In the EU industry PhDs are fairly common. In this case, the PhD student does R&D work for a company, and gets paid through an EU PhD grant. For some companies, it's an indirect way to get funding, because it provides for cheaper h
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by simsla 5y ago
Dang is a Vietnamese surname (I know more than one "Dang"), which is why I also assumed he was Asian.
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by simsla 5y ago
Could still be due to search personalisation. I get programming results even for non programming terms. I am pretty confident that's not the case for my mom. It stands to reason that people's search results could be wholly uninfor
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by simsla 5y ago
The problem with this (very popular) argument is that you can't give a CS course to a baby and expect them to get at programming. By the time we see our first line of code, most of us have seen a ridiculous amount of data. We've b
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by simsla 5y ago
TL;DR: making industrial (e.g. manufacturing) robots easier to use, by improving sensing, planning, etc. I suspect that Dr. Chelsea Finn's work in meta-learning (affiliated with Stanford and GBrain, when I saw it last year) might play
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by simsla 5y ago
Dang, just wanted to say thank you for all you're doing for the HN discussion boards. Hope this doesn't break the rules for constructive responses. :-)
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by simsla 5y ago
I'd only mention it if I could be considered biased, or if it's relevant to the conversation. Disclaimer: it would indeed be silly in this comment
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by simsla 6y ago
Instead of the "puzzles" thing, which doesn't seem to resonate with a lot of people, I think you're getting at a certain inquisitiveness. People who say "huh, that's weird, I wonder why?"
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by simsla 6y ago
I do agree that a top-down approach is preferable, but in the meantime I still see self-organising and collective bargaining as a good thing.
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by simsla 6y ago
It's not just about wages. I think Amazon has actually made great strides by raising their minimum wages to $15/h. According to US stats the monetary benefit from unionising is about +11% on average. By offering twice the federal
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by simsla 6y ago
I hope enough people vote yes. The way FC workers are treated is not ok. It's the main blemish on a company I otherwise respect. "Other companies treat FC staff like shit too" is not an excuse. Disclaimer: Work for Amazon (co
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by simsla 6y ago
I really liked mother of learning. If anyone knows anything similar, I'd really like to hear it.
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by simsla 6y ago
My point is that if Amazon e.g. directly integrated with any one of those solutions you'd enter an adversarial scenario, and all of the scammers would try (and almost definitely succeed, even if just by brute force chasing false negati
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by simsla 6y ago
I suspect that most of these problems are being actively worked on. Unfortunately, while it's relatively straightforward to e.g. detect fake reviews in a static dataset, it's a constant arms race when you're doing so in an on
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by simsla 6y ago
Interesting. When I take Concerta (54mg) it makes me unable to sleep for the next 12 hours. It doesn't make me any more awake/less tired than I normally would be, and I can lie down and kind of zone out, but I never completely dri
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by simsla 6y ago
It was a fake zoom link. Zoom wasn't involved in any stage of this hack.
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by simsla 6y ago
Most of this is a discussion about semantics, which is silly. In 99% of industry, AI is used as a synonym for Machine Learning. The remaining 1% refers to Artificial General Intelligence, which is a long term vision for what might be achiev
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by simsla 6y ago
Point still stands. UK software engineer median wages are above UK national median wages.
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by simsla 6y ago
In my experience, it's more a mark of "do do" than "can do". i.e. how far along are you in the progression of... - being given clearly defined tasks - self-guided work on feature level - self-guided work on project
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by simsla 6y ago
To an extent. But a human isn't trained from scratch. Babies go through huge amounts of unsupervised learning to build up a basic vision and language framework. Training a neural network to recognize dog pictures is like connecting ele
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by simsla 6y ago
On the other hand, my university was in the habit of using the best professors to teach the intro / first year courses. Because those are the courses where you tend to lose the most of your students.
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by simsla 6y ago
In a limited timeframe, sure. Beyond that, I'm genuinely scared. Murphy's law comes to mind. A small probability of badness + enough time = a near inevitable disaster. It only takes one person to overreact for us all to start nuki

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