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by vanusa 5y ago
Most companies have organizational problems. Right. But we can't talk about that, of course. Instead the corrective strategy seems to be: "Let's torture some more candidates. It's cheap and it's easy, after all
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by vanusa 5y ago
I just said, very clearly, that self-driving cars ≠ AGI and don't need to be human-like. You're browbeating me for a position I'm not taking. Weird.
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by vanusa 5y ago
On the receiving end it weeded out a huge number of bad candidates. Along with (as was the main point of the original blog post) probably quite a few false negatives, Like the author of that post, for example. Meanwhile, you can achieve
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by vanusa 5y ago
I really hope this site does well, and makes a difference in a good number of lives over there.
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by vanusa 5y ago
In the episode, the character known as Mr. Big, played by Chris Noth, suffers a heart attack and dies after his 1,000th workout. The event shocked longtime fans of the show, and seemingly gave investors in the company a shock, too, for mak
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by vanusa 5y ago
But it's a core facet of their business model. Their secret sauce, as it were. That is to say: the intrinsic feature set is of course based on self-promotion; at the same time, nearly everyone on LinkedIn (by virtue of the fact that t
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by vanusa 5y ago
Regardless, you probably won’t need human level, general purpose AI to drive a car. Right (most likely), but my point was -- we're not going to get there by extrapolating linearly from human-beating technologies such as AlphaZero (im
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by vanusa 5y ago
Looks like he has ADHD. That sounds ad-hominem. I found the post perfectly readable. Maybe he learned programming on heavy-weight IDEs and got trapped mentally in those? Maybe he just thinks differently than you do? His body of work is
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Capitol attack panel obtains PowerPoint that set plan for Trump to stage coup(theguardian.com)
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by vanusa 5y ago
This post ought to be the final nail on the coffin of the cult of leetcode/whiteboard style inverviewing. Just looking at this guy's repo and his writing style -- you'd be foolish to waste his time or yours on leetcode-style
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by vanusa 5y ago
Your comment is a good example of AI meaning whatever we haven't solved yet. Yes, I'm aware of the Rodney Brooks quote. I think it's kind of glib and misses the mark. Take chess, for example. When algorithms were develope
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by vanusa 5y ago
Jeez, man -- you say "giving" here like it was a charitable contribution. In reality it was a negotiated settlement to avoid (I am assuming) criminal penalties. The point of the article was that it was only because of a loophole
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by vanusa 5y ago
I find that a turn off. Never refer to the competition as incompetent. Agreed - never mind "professional" or not; it comes across as intellectually shallow. Companies can lack vision, or simply taste, or get in over their heads
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by vanusa 5y ago
That "other thread" wasn't throwing hate at deep learning -- not by any stretch. Orr even talking about the failures (or even exaggerations) of ML -- compared to what ML as such claims to be able to do. ML/DL are both
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by vanusa 5y ago
Appreciate the general point, but, um ... Retinas aren't everything. There are monitors with fine enough colors, and (actually more important my PoV) better base / stand infrastructure, for example. And don't know about you,
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by vanusa 5y ago
not that it "brazenly breaks many other assurances it makes in this regard". Are you referring to the CIA's famous "We don't do torture" promise, here? Or the implicit promise to the peoples of Iraq and Afgha
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by vanusa 5y ago
Until the day arrives when they were shocked to find themselves on ... the receiving end of that very same treatment.
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by vanusa 5y ago
In tech the only way to gain respect is to know what you are doing, shouting and using abusive language makes you lose that respect. That's the platonic ideal, at least. The reality on the ground is often far different.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Although the distinctions you're drawing are valid -- from the bigger picture point of view, this is basically hair splitting. The more basic and important point is: technology that works on the basis of "pattern finding" (ho
920.
by vanusa 5y ago
We're getting into the territory of some external debates -- that is to say, into areas that have already been debate by others, so there isn't much knew I could tell you here. But basically I'm in the camp of Gary Marcus and
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by vanusa 5y ago
Yep - that's the whole point, the only point. And again, I thought it was pretty simple and generally known.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Is your complaint that they use AI/ML interchangeably? Yes, that's all I'm saying. And it seems like such a known point that they're not the same and not interchangeable, or so I thought (that I'm kind of astonis
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by vanusa 5y ago
Deep learning is pattern finding, not pattern matching. "Pattern matching" obviously includes "pattern finding" already, in common parlance. By "deep learning" one means, in effect, "hierarchical pattern
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by vanusa 5y ago
He already had a reputation for using abusive language in emails to employees, but the treatment toward his investors was yet another shock. Abusing employees is more or less expected, out in techland. Ruffle investors' feathers, how
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by vanusa 5y ago
What track record of breaking assurances are you referring to? We're going in circles. This was already referred to in my original entry into this thread, 5 or 6 levels up. The fact that the U.S. may keep some of its assurances to s
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by vanusa 5y ago
One technique in particular, called saliency maps, turned out to be especially helpful. It is often used in computer vision to identify which parts of an image carry the most-relevant information. Saliency maps pointed to knot properties t
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by vanusa 5y ago
Saying the judgement is wrong is logically equivalent to stating that one of these assurances is going to be broken No - that plainly does not follow. All that is needed is to apply the standard of reasonable doubt: in this case, that the
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by vanusa 5y ago
I know this is an extreme view, but I think any advertising other than a spec sheet style ad (just facts) should be banned. It's not an extreme view at all; some cities (like São Paulo) have essentially banned billboards, for example
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by vanusa 5y ago
The omnipresent and ever-accelerating pollution and deadening of daily life. Advertising (that acts as if we actually enjoy being subjected to it), tracking, the continual privacy f*over, screens, memes, interruptions, the pressure to be al
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by vanusa 5y ago
It is perfectly fine to debate the prudence, or lack thereof, of the High Court's decision. My point is that, in this context, speculations as to whether Assange secretly desired this outcome, due to some supposed martyr complex ... ar

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