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by tree_of_item 8y ago
The fact that it is a hole is relevant to this discussion. The physics and safety of a large object passing through a relatively small hole are the entire thing in question.
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
Turing completeness is often too coarse-grained of a view to be meaningful. The interesting thing here is that convolutional nets and cellular automata perform a similar kind of spatially partitioned computation, so connections between the
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
Cannabis is a relevant comparison because the only reason people are using this stuff is due to cannabis prohibition. Are you really not getting this part? Cannabis being illegal is a large part of why they are making spice in the first p
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
> Okay, why there are using cannabis as an example and not other substances that react with those receptors, like chocolate? Because these substances are obviously and explicitly marketed as substitutes for cannabis. Cannabis is the rele
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
Yes, you will want to research "program induction" and "program synthesis". For a review of recent work in both, see https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02353 For program synthesis applied to the "Atari
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
They're very difficult to use and they make code more complicated.
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
It's completely nostalgia. BASIC doesn't have any redeeming features except being in the right place at the right time.
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
I don't see what there is about C that forces things to crash early. It's more like the difference between full of bugs that no one sees (C), and get the problem with your approach highlighted by the type system (Rust).
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
How would we get accurate information on the number of lives Tesla's "autopilot" has saved?
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
Is this just a fork of Mastodon?
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
No, because his behavior really is over the top and is going to draw attention every single time.
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
> capital-L Librarians I didn't know they had a stake in this.
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
WebAssembly is a better choice today. This thing is interpreting C, so just embed wasm instead so people can use stuff like Rust too.
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
What a strawman. Adding a basic PL feature means we're gonna rewrite the STL? Come on.
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
The problem here is not notebooks, it's Python. Notebooks don't have tons of hidden state, Python does . Fix the language and notebooks are incredible.
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
Go's approach? Go has the same extreme BDFL approach to ignoring community feedback in favor of the leader's vision. I don't see what is different about Go.
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
"Solved" by having lots of meaningless unsafe glue code. That's not a solution. It sounds like you're going to reject proposals for generics on the grounds that "you could just cast values of type `interface{}`&quot
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
Are you kidding? The shell is a massively important part of modern computers, and making it more expressive would be a huge win. You might be familiar with TermKit[0] which also tried this. [0]: https://github.com/unconed&#x
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
Why doesn't it come up with strategies? The program is doing a massive search over an action space, of course it will find things there.
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Is that supposed to remove the amusement and irony? "We're creating friendly AI! Well, it thinks it's friendly, since to it, everything is just a numerical reward signal."
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
Money is a part of the health of the ecosystem.
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No, I don't think TV, video games and the Web really count as sitting "still". They don't fulfill the spirit of that quote. "Sitting still" in this context is about being contemplative, not being distracted by
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
You were downvoted but I think you're right. Netflix's Chaos Monkey is a similar idea: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
I'm not sure how Dyer's thing works, but I can describe the paper I linked to: A "stack" is a stack of (vector, scalar) pairs (a vector and its "weight"). At each time step, the stack has three inputs: the vect
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
See [0] for a way to make recurrent neural nets in to pushdown nets. [0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02516
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
Isn't this like an "auto-regressive feed forward neural net"[0]? > Instead of making predictions from a state that depends on the entire history, an autoregressive model directly predicts yt using only the k most recent in
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
It's meaningful. X11 is a part of the structure of reality now, it's not going anywhere. Why can't you assume it?
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
That Arxiv link is fascinating, thanks for that.
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by tree_of_item 8y ago
Why do you think Google Wave was user-hostile?
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Huh? I just showed you reinforcement learning from pixels on Atari with CPU...

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