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by svantana 13y ago
Do you know if that's been proven, or is it still an open question?
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by svantana 13y ago
Well if you read the article you'll see that it's only a technology demo, they're not releasing it as a product and their goal is not this but computer vision /brain mimicking in general. Even CAPTCHA inventor Luis von A
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by svantana 13y ago
Impressive, but surprising that it detected "sccpticism" - one would think that they would spend a few hours or so putting in a dictionary lookup for the candidate answers.
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by svantana 13y ago
Is it just me or this article pretty naive? The headline's use of the word "exact" would imply integer arithmetic only, but the computations are done with floating point. So basically (s)he is trading one rounding error for a
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by svantana 13y ago
This worries me though. I use AdBlock and get really annoyed when using friends' machines without it. But the system won't work if too many people use AdBlock. So if more ads -> more adblock -> then what? My nightmare scenar
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by svantana 13y ago
Sorry for the late reply. I'd love to be able to plot arrays of floats or ints as 2d or 3d graphs. If you've ever used Matlab, this is the sort of thing it excels at.
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by svantana 13y ago
It's real, it's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect. I've seen it plenty of times with real superstar-experts rate themselves as "slightly above average"... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%
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by svantana 13y ago
Remains only to figure out how to route the physical delivery via a US address... anyone know of such a service? I'd find that pretty useful actually. A lot of stuff on e.g. Amazon is only available for delivery to the US.
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by svantana 13y ago
In this case I think it means "trying out versions that isn't your optimal estimate a priori". If I were a comedian, I probably wouldn't dare do that, I would live for each performance and try to do each one optimally. A
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by svantana 13y ago
But university education is largely free in Germany right? So the messages seem to be: Germany: if you're not gonna make good use of this education, stop wasting tax payer money ASAP U.S.: we don't care too much if you drop out la
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by svantana 13y ago
Personally, I would prefer an IDE/debugger that allowed me to visualize my data really well. This ought to be a lot easier also - I've done some simple scripting with GnuPlot which has given me a lot of mileage. But imagine being
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by svantana 13y ago
Is it just me or does this sound pretty much like Robot Turtles on a computer? Personally, I prefer the offline (human to human) approach of teaching/learning, but this might be a good complement.
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by svantana 13y ago
I think they are referring to the possibility of reaching ALL markets including Africa, South-east Asia, etc. NES was a big hit, but only in Japan, North America and Europe.
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by svantana 13y ago
They are different types of pollutants. Wood fire creates a lot of carcinogens while (carburated) exhaust fumes are basically safe to inhale, although they do contribute to global warming it seems.
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by svantana 13y ago
While I applaud the effort, why on earth would anyone write a numerical library in obj-c? AFAIK, there aren't any platforms that support obj-c but not C/C++. I need stuff like this from time to time, but I wouldn't restrict m
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by svantana 13y ago
Just like with music, people prefer just the right amount of cognitive dissonance - noone likes to be told exactly what they already know, and hardly anyone likes to hear something that's completely the opposite of what they already kn
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by svantana 13y ago
> - Three percent of all cars sold in Norway are electric Even better, that number is already outdated - the article states that the Model S has a 5.1% market share already. It should be noted though that the Norwegians can afford to be
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by svantana 13y ago
> the job market would probably flip: You would have to pay people very well for doing unpleasant work, and not so well for fulfilling jobs. Isn't that already the case? Boring jobs = accountant, lawyer, engineer (to most people), f
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by svantana 13y ago
Really? What kind of jobs do you think people are not adapting into? Twitter hashtag analysts? I would that argue that since the 70's, technology has mostly improved the stuff at the top of Maslow's pyramid - entertainment, commun
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by svantana 13y ago
Good idea, but ideally it should use machine learning to try to show as interesting stuff as possible to each user, based on results of earlier answers. I.e., if I choose the non-kitten, show me something (statistically) related to that. (N
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by svantana 13y ago
>That's a hard pill to swallow, but we should let it sink in. We pour all our creativity, time, and passion into creating basically worthless products. What a weird conclusion. For me, the take-home is rather "why don't I
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by svantana 13y ago
On the contrary, for the stockbroker there's only a single bit of information in there - the answer to the yes/no question "should I short Dow?"
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by svantana 13y ago
My thoughts exactly. Especially since one of the headlines is "More Power, Less Weight", one could expect to find that weight somewhere.
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by svantana 13y ago
> a restaurant would still needs counter-help and clean-up help so further Why do you assume that those tasks won't be automated? To some extent they already are in some places (kiosk ordering at some fast food places, cleaning devi
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by svantana 13y ago
I find this quote ironic. One of the main purposes of fairtrade is to avoid poor working conditions (for humans). If a particular brand of coffee was produced without any human labor, that could probably be considered fairtrade.
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by svantana 13y ago
How is this argument any different from "please don't buy my books at a used book shop"? Apart from the fact that everyone loves used book shops, so that would look bad...
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by svantana 13y ago
Ironically, the author's first two buy-online links are for Amazon. But the book is $33 on there, so most likely there is some windfall.
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by svantana 13y ago
Err what? Are you not confusing averages with medians?
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by svantana 13y ago
You think so? How about this quote from the article: > As it is, "The Circle" is not great literature. Personally, I wouldn't pay for such a plug.
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by svantana 13y ago
IMO, the cloud only makes sense for data that you need to share with others. Your private data should be stored as close to you as possible - in your phone, or preferrably within your own body (hello Johnny Mnemonic).

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