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by vonnik 11y ago
I agree with Patrick's top point, but I think many people mistake the role of the financial advisor. (I used to work at FutureAdvisor, which was bought by BlackRock last year and is now providing robo-advice through institutions, so I
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by vonnik 11y ago
Denny's glossary is fantastic. Ours is a bit older, and it's open-source: http://deeplearning4j.org/glossary.html https://github.com/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j/blob/gh-pag... Wor
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by vonnik 11y ago
The article doesn't mention Google's Knowledge graph by name. But that is what the reporter is referring in sentences such as these, which mention "a strict set of rules set by humans": > But for a time, some say, he
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by vonnik 11y ago
This Mark Twain quote is mind-blowingly fantastic: “At times he may indulge himself with a long one, but he will make sure there are no folds in it, no vaguenesses, no parenthetical interruptions of its view as a whole; when he has done wi
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Deepmind Navigates 3D Maze WithAsynchronous Methods 4 Deep Reinforcement Learning(arxiv.org)
11 points by vonnik 11y ago|0 comments
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by vonnik 11y ago
I agree that it's a cool project. I find it a bit disturbing that it's being billed as a "friend replacement." From the article: > "Human friends have a glaring disadvantage: They’re not always available." B
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by vonnik 11y ago
Is anyone arguing that machine learning is not AI? The gist of the article is that Google is leaning toward ML/DL and away from the rules engines/Knowledge Graph. The headline is a shorthand, which, although it could be more preci
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by vonnik 11y ago
Actually, that article is fluff reporting that doesn't convey Bostrom's central arguments, and spends a lot of time on his lifestyle. I walked away from it thinking that neither the reporter, nor Mr. Bostrom, knew what they were t
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by vonnik 11y ago
Nick Bostrom is a peddlar of the apocalypse who has made his name by spreading fear about a fairy creature called superintelligence. He's convinced people to go looking for weapons of mass destruction in snippets of math and code. But
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Show HN: Runtype: Written Word, Spoken Rhythm(github.com)
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by vonnik 11y ago
typo in the headline. we need one more 'c' in accident.
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by vonnik 11y ago
Sure, that's a flaw. It's just not a fatal flaw. For the chief reason that there's probably nothing better. So you take your lumps and remember that it's wrong sometimes. It's something we can work on while still be
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by vonnik 11y ago
I'm a bit disappointed in this piece. It doesn't say anything surprising to anyone who read a few words into the DeepMind paper, and it serves to settle some of Marcus's academic scores: > two people ought to be really pl
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by vonnik 11y ago
Wonder what the author thinks of Cleanly, a YC startup: https://angel.co/cleanly
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by vonnik 11y ago
Topics around climate change: For example, why is it that many people doubt that humanity is responsible for global warming? Some work has been done on agnotology -- the study of the spread of doubt and ignorance -- already. https:/&#
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by vonnik 11y ago
It's true! I don't know what I was thinking. Maybe L'Enfant was applying the lessons from 1789...
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by vonnik 11y ago
Let's be really clear: Haussmann built an autocrat's city. He was the architect of Louis-Napoleon, nephew of the former French emperor, and the city was built during the so-called second empire. That is, it does not reflect democr
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In a Huge Breakthrough, Google’s AI Beats a Top Player at the Game of Go(wired.com)
3 points by vonnik 11y ago|0 comments
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by vonnik 11y ago
Some great sentences from Minsky: No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either. In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
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by vonnik 11y ago
Anyone interested in essays on photography should read Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Camera_Lucida_(book)
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by vonnik 11y ago
So the cool thing here is that you can use Spark and TF to find the best model like Microsoft Research did with Resnets. http://www.wired.com/2016/01/microsoft-neural-net-shows-deep... They're showing you how
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Neural Network Design (eBook) [pdf](hagan.okstate.edu)
48 points by vonnik 11y ago|3 comments
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by vonnik 11y ago
I think this approach has a lot of potential, and I wonder what a statistical comparison of character co-occurrences between the Voynich manuscript and other writing systems would reveal. For anyone curious, here is Stephen Bax's video
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by vonnik 11y ago
It seems to me like you're discounting real and present dangers in favor of one that's more speculative. The reason why climate change and nuclear disasters (I did not limit it to nuclear weapons, but am referring also to events l
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by vonnik 11y ago
Actually, @Houshalter, OpenAI has several purposes, and one of them is to address AI risk. You may not think that is an effective approach, but that is their stated intent. They believe that the best hedge against the dangers of superintell
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by vonnik 11y ago
The real cost of fearing an AGI now is an opportunity cost. The technology is a long ways away. Other events -- such as ecological collapse or nuclear disaster to name two -- are much more likely to irremediably affect our lives. So by hopp
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by vonnik 11y ago
The writing and thought in this piece is pretty facile. @rbrogan's comment below sums it up well. Let's remember that Nietzsche received a very rigorous education before his precocious career as a professor. Sure, there are pres
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by vonnik 11y ago
> However, a career as a software developer or engineer comes with no guarantee of job satisfaction. No career comes with a guarantee of job satisfaction, and very few come with much security. Less so in the tech industry, because tech
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Microsoft's winning neural nets show deep learning will get deeper(wired.com)
5 points by vonnik 11y ago|0 comments
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by vonnik 11y ago
Al Jazeera in general and its US arm in particular were always more of an instrument of foreign policy for Qatar than a money-making endeavor. I covered the channel as a journalist at a competing news organization, and spoke with dozens of

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