tariqali34

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by tariqali34 10y ago
This is the type of content that appeals to the sterotypical HN user. Not clickbait, highly technical, very informative, potentially useful trivia. It is absolutely boring for a normal person though.
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Architect: A Postmortem of a Short Story Generator(tra38.github.io)
3 points by tariqali34 10y ago|1 comments
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by tariqali34 10y ago
While I upvoted you, it is still possible to pivot to another industry. Nintendo after all started out by selling playing cards.
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by tariqali34 10y ago
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intel... Here is an article about how some scientists taught robots how to protect themselves from sadistic humans (i.e. little kids). That being said, robots
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by tariqali34 11y ago
Netflix used humans to tag movies for their recommendation system. Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-ne...
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by tariqali34 11y ago
The interesting question is what would you call these humans who are serving as your training set. Do you call them "Machine Therapists" (trying to coax the AI to proper behavior)? "AI Educators" (providing the material
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by tariqali34 11y ago
To my knowledge, no such program exist, but each of the stuff you mentioned has been done before. INPUT Quick character description - Users specify some character traits to be associated with a character. The program then will pick wo
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How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger(wikihow.com)
1 points by tariqali34 11y ago|0 comments
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by tariqali34 11y ago
I hope that wink is a realization that sponsored content (in the form of "Show HN" and the linkbait submitted by heavily interested parties) has already arrived.
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by tariqali34 11y ago
One man's utopia is another man's dystopia.
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by tariqali34 11y ago
The next step is to generate the article itself.
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by tariqali34 11y ago
>I really do think that there is a very important distinction to be made between what intrinsically makes people who they are and what is just their opinion, a matter of choice. I really don't think people actually choose their opin
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by tariqali34 11y ago
Nah, it can handle the Internet just fine. It just can't speak on the Internet.
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by tariqali34 11y ago
And I think that's a pretty good compromise that I'll accept. I could also suggest a manual deletion process as well in case you accidentally released security credentials or something very private that really shouldn't be op
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by tariqali34 11y ago
"If the software is open sourced, we can legally continue to redistribute the software even though author may not want us to." Right, you can legally redistribute the software, but can you ethically do so? Some people have compl
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by tariqali34 11y ago
Actually, since Red Hat is a public company, its "market cap" valuation is actually at $13.28 billion. The article merely claims says Red Hat has made $2 billion in revenue. That being said, the company does seems overvalued (P&#x
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Essential Copying and Pasting from Stack Overflow(gitbook.com)
111 points by tariqali34 11y ago|27 comments
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by tariqali34 11y ago
I don't believe in "education for its own sake", though that may be because I still associate it with the "publish or perish"/mindless research attitude. I still like learning stuff for fun though, and I may ev
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by tariqali34 11y ago
But "should" does not at all mean "will". We live in an imperfect world, and must deal with reality..or find some way to change that reality. Maybe the real solution is for us to create a "new academia" to comp
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by tariqali34 11y ago
>>" Freed from the pressure to teach industry-ready but highly transient skills, universities could be preserved as places to learn deep, ready for students who have a knack for academic work, or have become interested in the the
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by tariqali34 11y ago
I think most people would probably not like your approach, and think of it as way too sci-fi and idealistic given the limitations of current tools. They would suggest studying AI a lot more before you attempt to really think of anything. Th
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The Case Against Artificial Intelligence(tra38.github.io)
1 points by tariqali34 11y ago|0 comments
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by tariqali34 11y ago
Larry Tesler (source: http://www.nomodes.com/Larry_Tesler_Consulting/Adages_and_Co... ) "Tesler's Theorem (ca. 1970). My formulation of what others have since called the “AI Effect”. As commonly quoted: “Artif
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by tariqali34 11y ago
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. And while risking another AI Winter is no fun, it's possible that AI researchers are probably going to be sorely tempted to participate in the hype cycle as well. In
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by tariqali34 11y ago
Many of these businesses may make better sense as "non-profits", out to improve the welfare of the general community and funded purely by donations. I'm not sure whether donors would appreciate writing fat checks for programm
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The programming language cycle (2006)(quoderat.megginson.com)
1 points by tariqali34 11y ago|0 comments
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by tariqali34 11y ago
Entirely so. Non-linear regression sounds like a tool that can be used without any ethical repercussions or philosophical angst about human obsolescence in the face of machine capabilities. It also sounds like a tool that anyone can use...e
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by tariqali34 11y ago
Legacy software is successful software. What's the point of building a program that will be discarded after a few months because its users fled to the next big thing? That just means more lines of code being written overall, needlessly
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by tariqali34 11y ago
...until the computers shut down because of a simple power outage or an DDoS attack. Then the Luddists and their looms will definitely win. When you rely on technology, you rely on a single point of failure. There's also the question o
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Quotes from “Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C”(tra38.github.io)
3 points by tariqali34 11y ago|1 comments

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