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by tw1010 9y ago
Meh. That's only because of the association between AI and disaster movies. If you just think about it as math, it's no more (or less) scary than what came before it.
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by tw1010 9y ago
That may be his intention. But an author is not in full control over how a reader will interpret his work. And there is no doubt that a lot of people will read this work as if it is a tool for teaching their child coding, rather than as a w
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by tw1010 9y ago
Our culture has an awkward relationship between talent due to genetics and due to hours and hours of practice. Props to the author for creating this. But part of me feels like this book is slightly too heavily skewed in the direction of thi
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by tw1010 9y ago
What a weird article. It feels like the author wanted to convey his insight that the reason fads fade is due to the gameplay having a constrained information density. And then he felt the urge to follow the tradition of anchoring the thesis
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by tw1010 9y ago
Keep calling it a bubble and it becomes a bubble. This whole thing is entirely psychological. How can we be sure journalists aren't somehow shorting bitcoin on the side while writing these articles? They have a huge influence on the co
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by tw1010 9y ago
Sorry if this is more negative than HN permits, but am I the only one who gets the feeling that the style of this post sounds kind of smug? Ending a paragraph with "And gradual processes are hard to notice" and an invisible smirk
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by tw1010 9y ago
Getting into a habit of exercise is the obvious answer. A less conventional advice that has sometimes worked for me is to totally embrace the feeling of being somber, and binge on some of the classic sort of miserable apathetic existential
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by tw1010 9y ago
There can be value in talking about non-quantifiable, vauge, things too. And besides, this is just a random blog on the web. It hurts no-one and exists mostly to provoke thoughts; it's not yet a finished product.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Surely it must have also reminded you of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1838/
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by tw1010 9y ago
When people say "but will AI ever be able to produce art?" I think works like yours is a good thing to point to. In the end, whatever art will be produced by machines is somehow going to be initiated by a human hand. Your work mak
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by tw1010 9y ago
Meh. A lot of us nerds on HN spent our youths in chatrooms and forums. This isn't very different. In fact, I would have loved to be able to play with face filters when I was a kid. This isn't a Las Vegas-esque game that costs mone
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by tw1010 9y ago
I find it somewhat amusing that this article doesn't pick up on the fact that it is furthering the root cause of this very issue in the act of basing it on the book Sapiens. A core problem with these mythological trends is that they re
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by tw1010 9y ago
Lottery winners hailed as geniuses, news at 11.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Let's not fool ourselves into thinking these people are forced into living this way due to rising housing and apartment costs. There is always a choice. These people could live in crappy apartments in crappy city-jobs if they so chos
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by tw1010 9y ago
Not to sound negative – this is a cool paper – but isn't this in the grey zone of being actual research? It feels like a fairly trivial application of things already known since way back to work in simulation.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Wow, I think this is an amazing example of how articles on the web aught to be written. Clean presentation, great typography, entertaining yet not too superfluous prose, and plenty of tasteful illustrations and visualizations. Hopefully thi
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by tw1010 9y ago
Is it possible to block all websites from asking about enabling notifications? Every time I have allowed it have I regretted it, and every time I see the little dialog box asking for my permission do I feel slightly more desire to just clos
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by tw1010 9y ago
And does it not seem likely that the output of this model would be used as a signal to influence the newsfeed algorithm? It's like a feedback machine showing already depressed people pictures of happy families, making them even more de
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by tw1010 9y ago
To add a bit of insight to the conversation, beyond "it's a matter of more dimensions than one", which people have already commented on. This whole situation could also be seen from an economics perspective. Demand for a prod
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by tw1010 9y ago
I predict capsule networks will not nearly have as big of an impact on the ML community as many think it will. Why? Because the main reason they exist is to address performance issues in really advanced, cutting-edge, models. But that is no
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by tw1010 9y ago
Next article in this series; "How a postmortem gave me enough publicity to help me survive as an indie game developer"
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by tw1010 9y ago
Why would it be any less relevant today than it was when it was first posted? I doubt things have changed for him much in the last month...
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by tw1010 9y ago
Well, it's ambiguous from my perspective, with no more information, whether or not the behaviour was a genuine disorder or just caused by bad habits (akin to causes mentioned in the currently highest voted post[1]). It sounds like it w
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by tw1010 9y ago
Isn't it a bit strange that what some these people are listening to is not particularly educational, but is rather entertainment? Speed listening a show which deconstructs movies frame by frame, that's kind of silly. For what reas
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by tw1010 9y ago
Lectures isn't just about feeding the information into your brain. Half the battle of learning what the professor has to say is to process the material in your head, to let it bob around in your head a while. I often find that I can ge
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by tw1010 9y ago
Don't start with geometric algebra. Start with abstract algebra. It is the assembly language, if you will, of geometric algebra (and of a lot of other stuff). It'll also give you a new (from first principles) understanding of comp
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by tw1010 9y ago
This stuff really isn't that hard once it is described well (which doesn't need to involve any simplification). I can't wait to see what happens to the programming community once these notions are embraced with the love and r
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Ask HN: Tips for blog authors to emulate?
1 points by tw1010 9y ago|0 comments
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by tw1010 9y ago
I would have preferred the old one, since the NYT article hits you with a paywall.
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Ask HN: What is the next hype (after ML)?
18 points by tw1010 9y ago|10 comments

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