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Learning explanatory rules from noisy data(deepmind.com)
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Uber Pool and Lyft Line both came out in 2014. If they're not on the final lap, they are at least several laps ahead of Waze Carpool.
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Building a Go-Playing Bot with Eclipse Deeplearning4J(eclipse.org)
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It's hilarious that this came out the day after Steve Yegge lambasted Google for failing to innovate. This is a perfect example of Google arriving half way through the race. Everyone else is on the final lap, they're on the first,
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I don't think anyone considers Somalia a successful nation. It doesn't even cohere as a nation. Two northern regions -- Puntland and Somaliland -- have declared themselves to be separate, sovereign and autonomous states. A nation
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[Disclosure: I used to write for a living.] You definitely need marketing to close the loop and get your writing to the readers, and it's a totally different skill set. I'd there's another stage between writing and distributi
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This is bad reporting. The amounts are too small to be meaningful in the currency markets. In addition, China has enormous interest in maintaining the dollar as the reserve currency. Keeping the USD as reserve currency allows the US to borr
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Totally agree. This article contains very little that's new. It criticizes Watson, but Watson was roundly debunked last year as far behind IBM's marketing machine. It trots out the "teenagers & sex" quote, which fran
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by vonnik 9y ago
Like most automated machine learning, this looks incredibly intensive/expensive computationally. I look forward to the day it's within reach for more researchers. Until then, it's a weird kind of news that has little impact o
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Healthier kids? Just hand their families cash(politico.com)
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And if I could add a meta type of story I wish reporters would stop writing, it would be "The Death of X", when X is not a living being; e.g. The Death of [some Technology]. Most technologies never die. They just fade asymptotical
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[Disclosure: Skymind co-founder here.] The Skymind Intelligence Layer helps data scientists operationalize their models on-prem and in the public cloud, and uses Docker to do that. https://skymind.readme.io/v1.0.1/docs&
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Talking Points Memo put out this great piece on the glut of publishers and how advertisers want video more than website visitors do: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/theres-a-digital-media-c... Fraud seems to happe
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The irony of reading this at 2:16am pt...
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There's an odd moment in Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, his book about a 1960 roadtrip across the US, where he encounters a couple living in a mobile home and sings the praises of it. Modern, mobile, allows the inhabitants the
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Slightly off-topic, but Primo Levi's "If this is a man" is an excellent description of life in a camp. In his case, it was Auschwitz.
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Also known as the city of darkness: http://cityofdarkness.co.uk/ William Gibson visited the city and described it in his 1997 work, Idoru: "There was a place near an airport, Kowloon, when Hong Kong wasn't China,
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And to follow up, obsession can lead to further discovery. If you love an author, you can read every author they loved. Or if you're obsessed with a topic, like Japanese imperialism or Victorian naturalists, that combines exploitation
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The author is being provocative in order to be noticed, and his strategy worked. He could have articulated the same point in another way. Everyday every reader faces a choice between exploration and exploitation, between reading someone new
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If you're ever in Vegas, the National Atomic Testing Museum is a great place to go: http://nationalatomictestingmuseum.org/
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The irony here is how jealously Garcia Marquez guarded his private life, only to have it posted online in its entirety. When he learned that one of his friends had sold their correspondence to an American university (much like UT), he stopp
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Outrage culture in the Bay is strong, and it makes many conversations here impossible or uninteresting. However, I think Sam occupies a rare position that he may be blind to: He is famous and the media is paying attention to what he says. T
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> Asked and answered: free-market capitalism. Nothing has resulted in the sort of rapid prosperity we've seen recently with market capitalism spreading globally. Kind of. Free-market capitalism has advantages in some situations. But
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UBI is a direct cash transfer that the recipient can spend on anything. It's proven to be effective in international aid, and much more efficient that financing the enormous bureaucracies employed to decide whether someone is qualified
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I support some form of UBI. My concern is that UBI is a classic redistributive strategy, and redistributive strategies have done poorly in America's long and ongoing class war. The most recent tax plan is a good example the haves winni
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An under-reported fact is that Google has done more than any other country to help spread the use of AI in China. AlphaGo was a Sputnik moment that galvanized the government, which threw its weight behind AI a few months later. TensorFlow i
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Isn't this what Cylance does? They had to train on a very large dataset of normal executables to cut down on false positives.
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Another Freudian shibboleth called into question.
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I totally support this, but I also find it ironic that Facebook would 1) make lots of people sad and then 2) monitor them for suicidal ideation. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/12/facebook_makes_you_...
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Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo recently wrote about the crisis in online journalism and its ad-based model. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/theres-a-digital-media-c... Basically, advertisers are asking/p

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