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by unishark 6y ago
> Are we applying the same measuring tape to Musk as to other great businessmen? Why wouldn't we? Gates was some kind of computer whiz kid in his early days, and who did write a lot of code. I noticed you picked certain later produ
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by unishark 6y ago
Same here. I am weirdly attached to my books and having an ugly crease in the cover of a paperback still bugs me when I look at it years later.
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by unishark 6y ago
Certainly it seems reasonable to me that Apple can have whatever business model they want. They want to charge for A and not B, so be it. They aren't the IRS or something. I think the above comment was more about Facebook being somewha
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by unishark 6y ago
Interestingly (another empirical result that's poorly understood), with stochastic gradient descent, convergence often only requires one pass through the data, if not it might take a small number. And yes this field only exists because
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by unishark 6y ago
> ... (X^T * X)^-1 ... This is the matrix inversion I was referring to. It's size (at best) depends on the smaller of the number of parameters and the amount of training samples. Both get very big in machine learning. When this hap
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by unishark 6y ago
So do they still run but are limited like when ios gives the false location data? or can facebook apps just refuse to operate until they are given the required permissions? E.g. the way android apps just demand permisions for everything mak
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by unishark 6y ago
Gradient descent is already about as easy a training method as can be. Just a little freshman calculus and programmers can do the "state of the art" optimization of modern times. It's also scalable. If your polynomial regres
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by unishark 6y ago
> You can't even do something as simple as set up an S Corp in the US if you are foreign. This is your idea of doing something simple? You can set up other kinds of corporation like LLC at least. Are other countries less restrictive
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by unishark 6y ago
That is true for much of the finance field.
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by unishark 6y ago
There's obviously more implied by that statement though. The poster is making a criticism that their identity is apparently meant to support. When it comes to trending topics, as an insomniac I commonly find myself posting at times whe
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by unishark 6y ago
Pretty much every country does that. Look at IP disputes where courts constantly find for their own country's company, often to the point of making new law at the supreme court level to do it. What does that have to do with empires? An
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by unishark 6y ago
I don't get what you mean when you say "technically no", since you pretty much made the case for the point. The govt is accusing them of fraud (a kind of theft) in how they acquired the movies initially. This is indeed a whit
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by unishark 6y ago
There was a big story a few months ago about the feds going after international phone scammer rings with a bunch of arrests. Also a big Nigerian scammer ring last year. They also include indictments of people mostly overseas.
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by unishark 6y ago
According to the article, court documents list victims and crimes occurring in New York and New Jersey. Supposedly this group misled distributors there into giving them copies of movies which had not been released.
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by unishark 6y ago
> This is why I am puzzled when people say 'you should fight your battles in the courts, not through protests'. Sounds like it was worded wrong (depending what you mean by "protests"). "fight your battles in the
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by unishark 6y ago
They also offered a $10B settlement which is mentioned near the end of the article.
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by unishark 6y ago
A nice succinct downvote should do the trick.
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by unishark 6y ago
We do know how to quantify intelligence (unless you're one of those who includes consciousness in the definition of AGI, which seems almost religious to me). I expect it will quickly switch to an argument of what deficiencies AGI candi
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by unishark 6y ago
I'm with the professor on this one. This practice of shaming organizations because they received cash gifts seems odd to me. Seems like another kind of "first world" angst that I'll be struggling to explain to friends in
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by unishark 6y ago
From what I gather from the article linked above, he privately gave his expert opinion as a linguist regarding a passage of legal text. To make the claim that he "absolutely assisted", you'd have to presume it wasn't som
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by unishark 6y ago
That certainly sound like some of the more extreme attacks on science and mathematics from certain political perspectives. I think ultimately this is a situation where the process is the product. There is no end goal really. People just fee
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by unishark 6y ago
So hypothetically, people are dying from some easily-cured disease (this part is not the hypothetical), and a corrupt person wants to save their lives in order to "buy legitimacy". We must righteously prevent that person from doin
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by unishark 6y ago
Downvoted over "luck laundering"... Definitely time to quit get back to work.
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by unishark 6y ago
On average people with slightly-higher scores/grades/etc should still be smarter. Anyway the alternative proposed here is replacing lucky question guesses with luck via a lottery.
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by unishark 6y ago
I think they generally do OK in regard to practical training in the US. Assuming the student doesn't cheat their way past programming assignments. Universities tend toward teaching long term fundamentals though, as opposed to hot techn
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by unishark 6y ago
It's only normal for open access journals to charge (or making a paper in a traditional journal open-acess), as the journals cannot sell access to the article. And the fees are usually a few thousand. Of course it's also most comm
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by unishark 6y ago
The black cars are called "car service" or limo service or something like that. They are prevented from picking up rides waiving them down precisely because they are not taxis.
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by unishark 6y ago
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by unishark 6y ago
You should compare them fairly. Lockdowns in both or no lockdowns in both. Social distance should be higher in the less dense areas in both situations.
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by unishark 6y ago
In this forum we should assume good faith nonetheless. The flu certainly makes for a better comparison for discussion's sake than something like smallpox or the bubonic plague. Let's not forget the Spanish flu was also a flu.

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