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by smeeth 4y ago
In practice I find that people who bemoan our "obsession with growth" or some such generally fall into one or more of the following buckets: - Wish they lived in a world we do not live in, such as one without violence or one where
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by smeeth 4y ago
> The real technological solution that would be helpful is still a few more major advancements away. It needs to handle grammar (ASL has radically different grammar than most spoken languages fyi). Going from a spoken language to a sign
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by smeeth 4y ago
Yeah, ANN algos provide a logical way to do blocking. It's not quite as simple as just running it though. First, you have to be able to actually run the server. Most ANN algos (not DiskANN or SPTAG, but basically everything else) are r
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by smeeth 4y ago
Caveat: just my personal hunch. My suspicion is O(kn), where k is both constant and rather large. This would be highly reliant on an extremely good blocking algorithm. Maybe trending towards O(nlogn)? I don't know. It's really tou
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by smeeth 4y ago
Yeah, totally, I get you. I'm not trying to do a takedown, ER is just hard. The point I was trying to make is that at scale one does not simply: > compare these embeddings with all the other embeddings you have You just can't,
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by smeeth 4y ago
Danger awaits all ye who enter this tutorial and have large datasets. The tutorial is fun marketing material and all but its FAR too slow to be used on anything at scale. Please, for your sanity, don't treat this as anything other than
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by smeeth 4y ago
You appear to be arguing that if you spend income in a productive way then the income was productive income. That's simply incorrect, it's not how economics works. For example, if I stole $2000 from you and used it to fix houses&#
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by smeeth 5y ago
Two thoughts. 1) Good, simple politics. Protecting kids from predators is about as cut and dry an issue as you will ever find. Harry Potter vs Voldemort might be a more complicated moral issue. 2) I suspect that a few very well connected ac
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by smeeth 5y ago
The economic profession developed some serious deflation PTSD from the great depression. I always heard deflation was bad. Nobody ever seemed to have a great case for why based on good historical data. This is a chart of the US annual infla
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by smeeth 5y ago
> Am I crazy? No. If I had your sensory sensitivity I’m sure I would react similarly. > Am I unreasonable? Yes. In good companies, products are not designed with the CTOs personal color preferences in mind. Yes, even when those prefer
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by smeeth 5y ago
I'm not a parent, but I was somewhat recently parented. Consider holding yourself to the same standard you set for your kid. My parents are mental health professionals and did this with me. I think it was incredibly valuable and I resp
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by smeeth 5y ago
It will never cease to amaze me how much people project their own feelings about work and life onto others. Just because ~you~ hate ~your~ work and can't see value in it beyond [money, status, narcissism, power, etc] doesn't mean
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by smeeth 5y ago
Not a big fan of this essay. I believe quite strongly that ~what you are~ is a product of ~what you do~ and not the other way around. In this framing, "Fierce Nerd" is nothing more than an arbitrary categorization of a set of exhi
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by smeeth 6y ago
+1, it can’t be said enough. Worrying about losing your hair is a significantly worse condition than actually losing your hair. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
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by smeeth 6y ago
The speed improvements are certainly interesting, the performance improvements seem decidedly not. This method has more than 2x the parameters of all but one of the models it was compared against. If I’m off-base here can someone explain?
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by smeeth 6y ago
>I can't think of ways it's seriously impacted my life, other than being an interesting challenge to pursue. What an odd framing. Are technologies only impactful if they result in a shiny new toy? Machine learning is a function
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by smeeth 6y ago
Public servants often do not make enough money in public service to make these kinds of ethically gray payments easy to turn down. I don't know about Yellen's personal finances, but the chairman/woman of the Fed makes $203k&#
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by smeeth 6y ago
It’s worth pointing out that the cost of a battery is effectively pre-paying for ~5 years of gas (how much you drive dependent). If you finance your used car (as many do when they buy used from a dealer) the lifetime costs and payment sched
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by smeeth 6y ago
I have three small things to add - your perspective is a very interesting one. 1) I think you are conflating America and the American opinion with the opinion of the political left. Not everyone cares about history and inequality here. The
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by smeeth 6y ago
I don’t think there exists a clean logical explanation for why any sort of ancestral background should grant rights over land anywhere - your confusion makes plenty of sense. In America this issue is tied to socioeconomic disparities in rac
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by smeeth 6y ago
I keep coming across versions of this comment. Why does it matter? It’s not like the validity or invalidity of Gary’s criticisms would be different if he had done other totally separate ML research.
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by smeeth 6y ago
FWIW while the statement might not come with a policy change it’s indicative of a larger bipartisan shift in views. There is increasing bipartisan consensus here about the importance of a US backed independent Taiwan. I fully expect the new
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by smeeth 6y ago
>Nicotine is not harmful This is simply not true, and demonstrably so. There have been numerous studies in both animal and human models showing adverse effects to the cardiovascular system and tumor promotion in particular [0]. The link
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by smeeth 6y ago
I know it’s not a popular opinion, but I’d like you to at least consider the possibility that spying between both allies increases peace and diplomatic cooperation. The outcome of spying is that we know what our allies are going to do. If o
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by smeeth 6y ago
You are correct, thank you. I updated another comment of mine to reflect this. Comparing them now though, Silver definitely changed the 2020 model to increase variance as a function of time to the election, which was Nassim's complaint
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by smeeth 6y ago
Edit: as pointed out in the replies, I was wrong that the model was "explicitly" a now cast, and I would like future readers of my comment to know that without deleting things. I would still like to note that there was clearly a c
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by smeeth 6y ago
Minor addendum, Silver altered his model to become more certain as the election drew near after 2016. In effect, it changed from a “what if the election were today?” Model to a “what will the outcome of the election on date ___ be?” Model j
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by smeeth 6y ago
Ok, I'm not heavily steeped in this, but at first glance this seems like total bullshit. Note that the original complaint was both 1) that the code of conduct people were being, well, total assholes, and 2) that the complaints were so
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by smeeth 6y ago
I couldn’t agree with you any more than I do. For the past 20 years western liberals have entered into the collective delusion that it is possible to reduce global GHG outputs to a level where warming will stop or reverse. This should be ob
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by smeeth 6y ago
I wish this anti-trust action was around their dumping of free services (mail, docs, calendar) and not search. But no, thanks to Reagan era hand-waving that monopoly power can only harm consumers and not companies we can't have nice th

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