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by textor 9y ago
I agree in principle that learning things can be tedious at times, but... learning, memory retention and reward system are very tightly integrated. It's almost laughably ineffective to learn despite pain, relative to learning with joy.
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by textor 9y ago
Not really. Cats do "spaz out" episodically but a typical human with the same amount of exercise would probably be a flabby sack of fat with cardiovascular issues. The activity isn't predictive of the rate of muscle atrophy t
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by textor 9y ago
> We don't have the computational power yet Certainly you do realise that this has been a moving goalpost for half a century? It seems that lately people started to avoid giving a concrete estimate of the power required, though. It
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by textor 9y ago
Non sequitur. You're having this conversation because the current political climate in the USA leads to conflicting opinions on this subject. How come you're so confident that "that’s not how things work"? Do you have an
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by textor 9y ago
This isn't about the number of examples. It's plainly disingenious to say that "TD has been referred plenty, not under that name". Basically, in such way one demands the right to reduce supply side theories – or, in popu
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by textor 9y ago
Well I know people who are perfectly fine with hinting bugs while laboring for another, who find some obscure pleasure in repetitive work that is normally considered boring. It's not incomprehensible. But yes, they are rewarded hands
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by textor 9y ago
Not trying to invalidate your larger argument, but it's worth noting that there is no such thing as "trickle-down theory" https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2015/04/sorry-but-trickle-down... . Never was,
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by textor 9y ago
At the risk of sounding banal, I believe it's worth checking to see if you have a severe depression. Because that's how depression feels. There are people out there who derive great pleasure from writing uninspired code. Not only
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by textor 9y ago
Hard to put into words how reassuring it is to see so many sane, grounded and critical reactions (both here and on hackernoon) instead of gullible hackneyed accolades that the author's tone implicitly demands. I feel like thanking ever
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by textor 9y ago
This is wrong. It's not needed because people are getting older, it's needed because the increase in productivity is not enough to cover expenses for long-lived retirees and other groups. If Sweden was 20% more productive, perhaps
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by textor 9y ago
Ironically, the article doesn't really discuss any legitimate reason as to why Sweden is – or indeed will be – fine despite automation. It's all about what Swedes expect and how much they trust their present society to hold. Also,
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by textor 9y ago
It's funny how nowadays (for a few iterations, actually) Apple's phones have bottom of the barrel battery life, even facing severe degradation in a few months, yet the reputation from 4S and earlier lives on. I know many people wh
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by textor 9y ago
Life is not a playing field full of fun and games, even though you could frame it in terms of game theory. People want to be successful, not to evaluate their "innate" performance against other people. Moral justification for dopi
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by textor 9y ago
There's also another, intrapersonal scale at play: if you get 20 "free" subscriptions, in 3-4 cases you'll definitely forget to unsubscribe before it starts charging, since it becomes impossible to track and optimize eve
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by textor 9y ago
The whole situation with attention economics is very illustrative of the neglected power of small things. Facebook can't really hack your dopaminergic pathways, however much they improve their feed AI. AdSense doesn't brainwash yo
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by textor 9y ago
Sometimes beautiful hardware design, questionable performance (in Mediatek models), great audio, poor battery life and camera, their OS is full of neat gimmicks. Meizu isn't on top of their game lately, their best phones were perhaps M
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by textor 9y ago
It makes no sense to discuss objectification in regards to the level of societal development that is implied by polygyny. Nobody there is seen as an individual being in a sense that no one's human rights are guaranteed or even promised
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by textor 9y ago
What is this "rest"? Are you really convinced this is a correct generalization? What about Mi 5, Mi Mix, 4C/A/X, can you show what they copied? Their first well-known phones barely had any design to speak of, and the sam
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by textor 9y ago
Xiaomi dynamics are about as unpredictive of its future success as a given cryptocurrency's exchange rate. At least there's less buzz here. Xiaomi has a reasonable average quality and a few consistently interesting product lines (
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by textor 9y ago
Prior to AZ, some competent people had doubts if self-taught NN could compete at all with a mature chess engine at its strongest setting. You know how that went. The improvement rate of subsequent Alpha revisions is incomparable to what sof
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by textor 9y ago
It could perhaps be said, then, that the Alpha series as a whole is a rolling breakthrough? Each new generation introduces changes that do not seem major compared to the ideas in the foundation of Deep Learning, but this actually allows to