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by thedailymail 9y ago
How about Eeny, meeny, miny, mo Is deterministic, so To make the outcome more elastic Let's try a rhyme that's more stochastic (Optimally, the speaker would add a variable number of nonsense syllables in the last line. "Let&#
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by thedailymail 9y ago
Another major change not mentioned in the article is the revisions to Japan's labor law that now makes it a requirement to hire any "fixed-term" (=yearly contract) worker who has been at the same company for five consecutive
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by thedailymail 9y ago
George Church's group at Harvard is proposing using similar technology in their attempt to clone a mammoth by replacing the DNA in an elephant egg with DNA from a mammoth. They want to grow it extracorporeally for its entire developmen
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by thedailymail 10y ago
Litotes would be a good adversarial challenge to this algorithm.
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The person on the other side of the trade also likes to make money and hates losing it.
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Great to see a reporter do so much digging into an unknown person's life, but the writing style was so sparse and dumbed down it actually made the article less readable. There were several captions longer than entire paragraphs, which
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by thedailymail 10y ago
Does anyone who doesn't stand to profit from high-ball guesstimates believe in "the market in [A] will grow from [B] billion to [C] billion in just [D] years" projections?
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by thedailymail 10y ago
Seoul definitely has the cyber but is a bit light on the punk. Same goes for Japanese cities, IMO. Old Kowloon had the right vibe. If you could put Akihabara on Gunkanjima, that would be a new contender.
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by thedailymail 10y ago
I agree that the current excitement over medical AI seems wildly optimistic, but the problems with Watson at MD Anderson were more due to gross mismanagement on the MD Anderson side. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017
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by thedailymail 10y ago
How has your company's interaction with regulators been so far? From your description and the animation on the top page of the Gyant website, it looks like the chatbot is claiming to diagnose medical conditions, which in most cases wou
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by thedailymail 10y ago
Similar experience as a college grad in a field where everyone is expected to have a Ph. D. After a while people just started adding a "Dr." to my name.
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Fat Man and Little Boy would like to have a word with the F-35 about who was more expensive.
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Tim Caulfield, a health policy professor at the University of Alberta, wrote a book titled "Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?" You may be surprised to learn that the answer is "Yes." https://thinkpro
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Bill Gates isn't getting any heat for meeting with Trump because: 1) he has a track record in philanthropy that speaks for itself, 2) he has been a public critic of Trump's policies, 3) he has at least 10X more money than Trump, w
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For whatever reason, Sutton's was the first serious book I read in any area of AI. The balance between explaining the history, the concepts and the code is handled really well.
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Toward the end of his life, Foucault delivered a series of lectures in which he described the emergence of free-market/ neoliberal societies [1]. Many of his admirers are surprised when they learn that he seemed pretty enthusiastic abo
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by thedailymail 10y ago
BBC Worldwide radio has a 30-minute investigation into a different clinic, which has also been damaging peoples' vision by injecting "stem cells" into their eyes as part of a "clinical study" which they have to pay
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by thedailymail 10y ago
The quote "Ours is the only profession in which any transgression, big or small, means the end not of your career at a certain outlet—it means the end of your vocation” made me think that what happens to hoaxsters in journalism in is v
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by thedailymail 10y ago
Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schüll is an excellent book about the video slots industry in the US, its behavioral engineering principles, and the effects it has on the lives of the people it hooks into pointless and expensive dopamine
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by thedailymail 10y ago
In many conceivable scenarios, the AI trillionaire's riches will represent a transfer of wealth from millions of people whose jobs got eaten by algorithms and automation. If AI is going to deliver maximum benefit to humanity, we should
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by thedailymail 10y ago
An excellent question, but one the article makes no serious attempt to answer.
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Not the Danes apparently. "The number of children born with Down Syndrome (DS) in Denmark has fallen drastically in recent years – so much so that the disorder could be a thing of the past in 30 years. Since 2004 all pregnant women hav
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Advances in speech-to-text technology like the Bing Speech API https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/speech-ap... should definitely prompt a challenge to that precedent.
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Enjoyed the article, as someone just starting to get into reinforcement learning. Maybe you plan to cover this in the second part of your explainer, but I've been curious about how systems like WaveNet and Deep Voice make phonemes out
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Anyone interested in how the gambling industry makes their billions mainly from slot machines, and how they engineer them to hijack people's dopamine systems should read Addiction by Design (MIT Press, 2012).