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by suchow 9y ago
By asking this question, I assume you are being sarcastic and indirectly suggesting that legislation or other means of enforcing AI safety is impossible because it would refer to matrix multiplication and gradient descent and therefore be u
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Artisan sorts(artisansorts.com)
1 points by suchow 10y ago|0 comments
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by suchow 10y ago
UC Berkeley | Software Engineer | Berkeley | Full-time, REMOTE, ONSITE, http://berkeley.edu UC Berkeley is hiring a full-time software engineer to work on a DARPA-funded project to build next-generation methods for social scienc
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by suchow 10y ago
The application is back up.
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by suchow 10y ago
There's an issue with the posting on the HR site. The university is on academic and administrative holiday until tomorrow, so this won't get fixed today, but should be back up tomorrow. Happy to answer questions here or by email i
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by suchow 10y ago
Looking into this now. If you email me at suchow (@berkeley.edu), I can send you an email with a working link once it's back up.
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by suchow 10y ago
No clearance is required.
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by suchow 10y ago
UC Berkeley | Software Engineer | Berkeley | Full-time, REMOTE, ONSITE, http://berkeley.edu UC Berkeley is hiring a full-time software engineer to work on a DARPA-funded project to build next-generation methods for social scienc
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by suchow 10y ago
When institutions die, they take some of our memories with them. Without any cues to recall the old memory, it becomes a sort of neural dark matter that lingers within us but can never be accessed. Because people strongly tie their identiti
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by suchow 10y ago
Here is a well-considered riposte from Brett Glass: https://www.quora.com/Hacker-Culture-Who-was-Brett-Glass-nam...
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by suchow 10y ago
The premise that scientific progress has been slower in the past 50 years than in the 50 before that, and incremental in a way that it was not in the past, seems untenable to me and consistent with the authors being nostalgic for an earlier
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by suchow 10y ago
Yours is a definition of contrast, but not the one used in design or vision science [1, 2], where contrast is defined as a difference in luminance or color between regions of an image that makes objects and textures visible. If an image h
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by suchow 10y ago
I have a slight correction to my earlier comment, in which I said "Using this design, a bias that systematically selects one response more often than the other will lead to performance below chance." A bias of this kind will drive
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by suchow 10y ago
It's reasonable to be skeptical, but it is even more reasonable to evaluate a peer-reviewed publication in one of the most rigorous subfields of psychology (sensation & perception) after having read at least its abstract, ideally t
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by suchow 10y ago
You might be interested in Elizabeth Kiersted's work with Denis Pelli (NYU) about a circumstance where people can see their own "internal" noise, based on Ramachandran and Gregory (1991)'s phantasm illusion: http:/
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by suchow 10y ago
In the typical psychophysical study on perceptual thresholds, participants are given a two-alternative forced-choice test: a stimulus (here, a photon) is placed in one of two intervals at random, and the participant guesses which interval h
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by suchow 10y ago
You might find this 1996 Nature paper by Olshausen & Field interesting. In it, they describe how a coding strategy that maximizes spareness when representing natural scenes is enough to produce a family of localized, oriented, bandpass
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by suchow 11y ago
Similarly, in the U.S. there is the Plain Writing Act of 2010 ( http://www.plainlanguage.gov/plLaw/ ).
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by suchow 11y ago
Thanks for the feedback. These are issues we've thought about, and we came to different conclusions: re 2, you'll see at http://proselint.com/approach/ that one of the guiding principles of Proselint is that
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by suchow 11y ago
It's out of scope for now, but only because we don't have any native speakers of other languages helping us out with the project, and this stuff is hard enough to get write in your native tongue; otherwise it's on the table.
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by suchow 11y ago
Good idea. If you run `proselint` without specifying a document, it'll run on the demo text, which you can also access here: https://gist.github.com/suchow/c7856f21128aee89ad55 . Also, there's a live demo avai
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by suchow 11y ago
We are. Even so, opening issues on Github and submitting PRs is appreciated.
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by suchow 11y ago
You're right, but the problem is much worse than that. Examining 200 entries from Garner's Modern American Usage at random reveals that half of them are easy to implement, the kind of thing that could be assigned as a homework pro
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by suchow 11y ago
See our discussion of this at http://proselint.com/approach/ . I'll note that we do not consider Proselint a complete product — it's in its earliest stages, perhaps at 2% of its final capacity. That number has
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Obama's CV(github.com)
4 points by suchow 11y ago|1 comments
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by suchow 11y ago
How then do you explain the popularity of SF, where the cost of living is higher than in NY?
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by suchow 11y ago
Done: "Colloquial salutational oral gesticulations in Ibero-Romance languages".
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by suchow 11y ago
This logic is similar to that of Larry Summers in his remarks about diversity in science and engineering, http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2005/nber.... .
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Two tests of motivation(suchow.io)
2 points by suchow 11y ago|0 comments
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by suchow 11y ago
The parent's claim was not that changing the wordmark was easy to do, but that it wasn't worth doing.

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