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by vonnik 11y ago
If you're interested in the topic, Bruce Cumings's The Korean War is a good read. http://www.amazon.com/The-Korean-War-History-Chronicles/ I'm not a professional historian, and just beginning to learn ab
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by vonnik 11y ago
This is actually false. The leaders of North Korea fought to liberate the peninsula from the Japanese, while many of the leaders of South Korea were officers in the Japanese imperial army. For a brief moment after WWII, the North Korean fre
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Toward the Implementation of a Quantum RBM (2011) [pdf](mdenil.com)
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It's probably good to remind people yearning for the simple life that you can't make a living on most small farms, but it's not really surprising. The Green Revolution made it easy for a few people to feed a lot of people, fu
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by vonnik 11y ago
Great table. Under machine learning, it should include http://deeplearning4j.org . (Co-creator here.) We run on Hadoop and Spark.
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I've read parts of this, and it's excellent. Bengio is one of the best teachers of deep learning out there.
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> Consider: "Previous books published by authors hailing from Country X contained flaws in their logic; therefore since this book's author came from Country X, this book must also have a logical flaw." It's not a ver
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Yes, Bostrom is all over the place, but the development curve upon which he bases his doomsday predictions is an exponential one in which an AGI recursively improves itself.
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ouch! it's true.
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An AGI has been 20 years away for the last 80 years, in the opinion of many computer scientists. The reason why these prediction have little value is the same reason why software is delivered late: the people involved often don't know
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Go to your profile. Set your "noprocrast" to yes. Set you maxvisit to 15. Set your minaway to 60. I'll be back in an aware to see if anyone replies. ;)
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Because more people have time to invest than have money. And because investing time in a fast-growing startup is a hell of a lot more fun.
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The link appears to be broken.
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My core claim is that Bostrom doesn't know his arse from his elbow. And a professorship in philosophy at Oxford is not, in itself, a great support for his authority on technical matters, or on the behavior of intelligent species yet to
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by vonnik 11y ago
This post is basically a repackaging of Nick Bostrom's book SuperIntelligence , a work suspended somewhere between the sci-fi and non-fiction aisles. As a philosopher of the future, Bostrom has successfully combined the obscurantism o
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by vonnik 11y ago
I'm glad people are working on better approaches to AI, but I don't think articles like this, based on sources like Marcus, contribute much. Mostly because Marcus isn't willing to talk about what he's working on right no
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by vonnik 11y ago
I'm not sure what the revolution is. Unlike open-source software, open-source HW design doesn't actually give you something that works. The truth is that Nvidia solutions partners like Exxact will deliver a 4 GPU box for ~$9K.
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This is an excellent read. Pleasantly surprised to see neural nets pop up about half way through. Thanks, Chris.
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If Java was dead, they wouldn't have to shout down with Java. Rumors of Java's death have been greatly...oh, you know. Java's in the running to be the world's most widely used programming language. This is, in large part
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by vonnik 11y ago
> Woz: Don had come to the garage and I ran the Apple II through its paces and he said, “What is the market?” I said, “A million units.” He asked me why that was and I sad, “There’s a million ham radio operators and computers are bigger
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Bayesian program learning looks really promising, largely because it requires less data than deep neural networks to learn. A couple things to note: 1) One of the authors of the paper, Russ Salakhutdinov, has worked alongside Geoff Hinton t
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by vonnik 11y ago
Fwiw, William Gibson would visit the City of Darkness in search of inspiration for his dystopic cityscapes. Here's a description from Idoru (1997): > There was a place near an airport, Kowloon, when Hong Kong wasn't China, b
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by vonnik 11y ago
If we're focused on weapons of mass destruction, I prefer a world of nuclear nonproliferation to the opposite. There are relatively few nations that possess nuclear weapons, and we have very few instances of them using those weapons ag
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> Musk: I think the best defense against the misuse of AI is to empower as many people as possible to have AI. If everyone has AI powers, then there’s not any one person or a small set of individuals who can have AI superpower. In a se
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by vonnik 11y ago
The real question is: Scarce for whom? And that's the paradox at the heart of capitalism. It generates surpluses on the condition that they can belong, in large part, to a tiny minority. Solving for scarcity in the aggregate by no mean
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That's interesting. But from what I understand, the problem isn't getting many GPUs to train a single network -- the problem is to get them to scale linearly; i.e. to get each additional GPU to accelerate the process as much as th
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Why are we even talking about this guy? While this prediction may be true in the long run, it's not really news, and we're a long, long ways away from autonomous conversation agents that will replace expert professionals. These dr
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by vonnik 11y ago
Which neuromorphic ASICs are you thinking of? GPUs are fast and they work now. Some "neuromorphic" chips, like IBM's True North, are just low-energy GPUs, so neuromorphic is in the eyes of the beholder...
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I'm glad they're open-sourcing this, but I have to say that making 8 GPUs work together is not that big of a deal. Companies like Cirrascale are making up to 16 GPUs scale linearly with a blade.
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by vonnik 11y ago
And if we're going for PR classics, there's always "Sweet Smell of Success", too. Inspired by Walter Winchell. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051036/

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