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by trott 9y ago
Figure 3 in the paper.
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by trott 9y ago
> that authors are from Stanford University. Can someone from the US clarify if this will be in public domain/knowledge This type of research tends to be publicly funded. However, that doesn't prevent it from being privately pa
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by trott 9y ago
I remember a humoristic Soviet daily wall calendar that said: "And then we'll destroy the cranes, and the whole world will wonder how we built these pyramids"
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by trott 9y ago
Very recently, it was found that changing a single, carefully placed, pixel is enough to confuse NN classifiers. https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.08864
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A problem with "social networks", and perhaps the Internet in general, in my opinion, is that they encourage groupthink. > Each vote costs 10¢ and the payment is distributed amongst earlier voters. This sort of pyramidal scheme
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by trott 9y ago
> Actually convnets were inspired by Fukushima's Neocognitron, which was itself inspired by visual cortex. That doesn't contradict what I wrote. ConvNets require the synchronization of weights between neurons, which is not cons
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by trott 9y ago
> Every time a major advance is made in AI the computational neuroscientist say: "why didn't you talk to us 15 years ago? We could have told you that!". I'm not sure which advances you are talking about, but the moder
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by trott 10y ago
There is clearly a lot of room for improvement. This is what I got translating from Russian: I personally think that this program is not so bad works. Sometimes she makes mistakes, but this is fairly rare. The grammar is bad, but y
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by trott 10y ago
> Ada requiring the redundant name after "end" isn't a violation of DRY at all. Yours is an arbitrarily narrow interpretation of the principle. To quote Dave Thomas, DRY states that "Every piece of knowledge in the de
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by trott 10y ago
> keeping modules composable, To my mind, this is a corollary of DRY: if you are not repeating yourself, then you are reusing code, which, by definition will have made it composable. > not mixing things of different abstraction level
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by trott 10y ago
IMHO Ada violated the most fundamental principle of programming, which is DRY (Don't repeat yourself). You have to invoke the name of every function twice while defining it, etc. The language seems to be designed for multi-page blocks,
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"Usee" is a perfectly cromulent word that could be used here instead.
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beast
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It's a very common problem, perhaps especially among programmers: PG talked about primarily working on a computer that had no Internet, RMS talked about using only a computer with no browser, and limited graphical capabilities. There&#
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by trott 11y ago
> You don't need to count - you can just play to take as many points as you can. You don't have to take my word for it, since I never got past beginner level, but I know there is a consensus among the experts on this matter: &q
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by trott 11y ago
I tried to learn Go a decade ago. After spending some time on it, I came to the conclusion that it's just not an enjoyable game for me. Here's why: As you can see in this match, games are often won and lost by just a few points (1
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by trott 11y ago
I'd like to know what people think developing something like Slack should cost, and why MS thought $8e9 was a potentially reasonable valuation.