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by tw1010 9y ago
I would bet a small fortune that the ML hype will not live up to expectation on a 7 year horizon. It is true that there are cool things coming out of the field, and it is true that there are a lot of smart people are entering the field. But
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by tw1010 9y ago
Part of me is sad that Javascript has now been made OOP, after a majority of efforts pushing the balance towards becoming more and more functional (e.g. PureScript) only a few years ago.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Too bad the site just reduced to jokes and spam after it was posted on HN.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Hm... "Someone in the Computer Science field for 2 months still can't solve the halting problem."
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by tw1010 9y ago
He probably shouldn't be using Medium to market his thing either. The signal-to-noise ratio is way too low. Unless the post really grabs my attention really quickly, I'm likely to close the tab. Custom-made, well designed, website
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by tw1010 9y ago
I don't think it's a strictly necessary attitude for success. Buffett seems like a good example of someone who manages to have a clear and rational mindset, yet with no trouble succeeding.
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by tw1010 9y ago
I think his behaviour is already well described by Carl Jung. His world view is skewed by mythology (like movies and hero worship) instead of by rational thought.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Gee, the founders can't have been happy with that title (different than on HN). What can founders do to avoid being represented in a negative light like this by the press, HN? Try to be the first to frame the conversation? Or is all pr
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by tw1010 9y ago
But they did watch things similar to what a poster linked below ( https://youtu.be/PFDKWbg2xjg ), which, barring the uncanny valley component, I really see little difference between.
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by tw1010 9y ago
I think you're reacting to the uncanny valley; which I suspect small children are less susceptible to than us adults are.
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by tw1010 9y ago
I see very little difference between this and all the weird shit we and our parents before us watched on TV and the internet. The article claims that this time it's different because the stuff is "deliberately targeted with cont
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by tw1010 9y ago
One day there will be a cottage industry focused specifically on exploiting the edge-case behaviour of these algorithms. It doesn't matter that the specifics of the algorithms are secret, there are always ways of reverse engineering th
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by tw1010 9y ago
Part of me is empathetic with this whole story, obviously. But another part of me finds it strange that there is such a huge emphasis on the homelessness situation in SF. It's as if we're only paying attention to this because of t
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by tw1010 9y ago
I highly recommend learning abstract algebra thoroughly if you haven't already, by the way. It's a lot more well connected and well researched than you might think after just reading about this or that definition (groups, rings, q
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by tw1010 9y ago
This reminds me of the concept of a "ring of functions" (albeit slightly more constrained). Since you seem to be familiar with measure theory already, that idea is probably already well known to you (the author), but I figured I&#
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by tw1010 9y ago
Yeah, the parents post smells suspiciously of alternative, possibly prejudiced, motives. We have no idea about the density distribution of the plane to say where the center of gravity is.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Or some branch of emotion close to imperialism.
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by tw1010 9y ago
I don't think you're wrong, but I suspect the reason you're being downvoted is because of the cliche AI-enthusiastic rhetoric.
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by tw1010 9y ago
There it is, the obligatory "inception neural networks will lead the singularity" comment.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Putting what everyone is saying more abstractly; solving a constraint satisfaction problem in a nice and closed domain should not make us surprised that it isn't as quick to deal with when lifted to an unbounded and messy space.
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by tw1010 9y ago
What I love about all this is that it is almost entirely developed by the community, without any central authority preventing it from going in any particular direction. (There might be powerful players incentivizing certain branches, but th
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by tw1010 9y ago
Are you a markov chain?
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by tw1010 9y ago
The usual disclaimer is in order. Remember that just because A causes B, that doesn't mean that if you have B then you necessarily have A.
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by tw1010 9y ago
That might be part of it. But things are rarely that simple. Another big argument is to act as a safety net allowing people to take bigger risks, like starting a startup.
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by tw1010 9y ago
But if you don't see it as a machine learning method, and don't care if the things the GAN spits out are just memorized photos, that means you don't actually care about the synthesis parts of the GAN? Thus the only reason to
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by tw1010 9y ago
I live in a country outside the US (not China) but every time people from the US talk about us they have this same story, which seems to come from US news sources, which is nowhere close to what is actually going on. That makes me wonder, i
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by tw1010 9y ago
This is part of Malcolm Gladwell's thesis in Outliers, are you sure this is your idea?
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by tw1010 9y ago
Never blindly listen to advice.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Everyone buys companies. This is nothing new. If the threshold for Facebook buying companies becomes too low, the startup sphere will be flooded (which to some extent has already happened) and Facebook will stop buying them all (which to a
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by tw1010 9y ago
According to the authors linkedin he is as far as I can tell born and educated in Australia. Why do you say he is from Sweden?

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