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by torbjorn 9y ago
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Antifragile by Nassim Taleb
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by torbjorn 9y ago
3blue1brown is great. I also recommend Siraj Raval's Youtube course the Math of Intelligence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRJCOz3AfYY&list=PL2-dafEMk2...
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by torbjorn 9y ago
You can only assume these people are more about $$$ than what they are building. Bingo.
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by torbjorn 9y ago
using google's "takeout" feature you can back up all of your gmail/google acct data.
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by torbjorn 9y ago
anyone know of something like this for bash?
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You are right there is a large gulf between the deep learning theory hype and the measurable improvements in physical quality of life that the hard sciences have proved themselves capable of. However I submit a notable exception! The vision
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by torbjorn 9y ago
I don't mean to come off as dismissive, and yes my comment is a sassy one. Machine Vision systems are proof that neural networks and other machine learning techniques are revolutionary. I really believe that. But the notion of "Ex
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by torbjorn 9y ago
this is a pretty cool idea actually... if we just spent some time manipulating their chemical reward systems such that their amoeboid population densities opened and closed circuits on a piano key we could make them produce music. and i thi
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by torbjorn 9y ago
this is a fool's errand. today's statistical inference based "AI" is a probability distribution that squishes itself through cracks in data to "learn" a path of least resistance. subject-object reasoning system
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by torbjorn 9y ago
I just did an jupyter notebook on Naive Bayes for Siraj Ravel's Math of Intelligence YouTube course. https://github.com/NoahLidell/math-of-intelligence/blob/mast... I used naive bayes to classify raps fr
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by torbjorn 9y ago
Early adopters of technologies, platforms and financial products tend to benefit more than later adopters. Is everything a pyramid scheme? (Assuming the product or platform succeeds rather than fails)
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by torbjorn 9y ago
Every day I write 750 words on 750words.com, it keeps my content generation muscles strong and keeps me journaling. I have a script that maintains local copies of what I write.
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by torbjorn 9y ago
How did you enumerate this list of algorithms to do in your self challenge?
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by torbjorn 9y ago
mother earth is pregnant for the third time...
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by torbjorn 9y ago
Another great podcast from the Marketplace team is Make Me Smart with Molly Wood and Kai Ryssdal
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by torbjorn 9y ago
The History of Rome - An excellent 191 episode series covering, well, the history of Rome by Mike Duncan.
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by torbjorn 9y ago
tensorflow has tensorboard, a great application that allows your to explore your models in depth. it makes neural networks less of a black box.
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by torbjorn 9y ago
How many millions around the world are lost in the form of dropped pennies no one will ever bother to pick up? Is cash eating itself?
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by torbjorn 10y ago
Siraj has great material.
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by torbjorn 10y ago
I completely agree. The human tendency toward partisanship is holding all of us back.
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i nominate you to run for office
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by torbjorn 10y ago
Americans are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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They only care about states rights' when they don't control Congress or the presidency
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by torbjorn 10y ago
Is there some kind of letter to your congress person type thing that can be done for this? I would gladly sign a petition or write an email as part of a campaign to demonstrate public support for making access to crispr as open as possible.
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by torbjorn 10y ago
>Unicode [ISO/ISC 10646:2014] characters SHOULD be accepted as well. So, can passwords contain emojis under these guidelines?
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by torbjorn 10y ago
sudo apt upgrade
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by torbjorn 10y ago
So if you have nginx 1.7 or higher you're ok?
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by torbjorn 10y ago
To use google authenticator you do not need to give out your number. Most sites will have a qr code you can scan with your phone and the google authenticator app uses that to generate 2fa codes that are valid within a certain time frame.
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I am always amazed by how many discussions of MBTI go on without any consideration of the Jungian cognitive functions that the 16 MBTI types are based on. Without seeking to understand the function stack associated with a MBTI personality t
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by torbjorn 10y ago
Go, machine learning, and dip my toes in various introductory computational biology/biochem topics.

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