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   by wpasc 8y ago

   Can you link some of those studies? genuinely curious
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   by wpasc 8y ago

   Interesting that the question is why and not how. I do it because the same material (say calculus) can be presented in many different ways, but my brain learned the material by following the steps in logic that I used the first time. I&#x27
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   How Silicon Valley Fuels an Informal Caste System(wired.com)

   2 points by wpasc 8y ago|1 comments
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   by wpasc 8y ago

   I think this time is different because the rate at which technology can improve is growing increasingly fast and society/people's ability to change is not increasing at a commensurate rate.
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   by wpasc 8y ago

   10x is a hyperbolic figure (imo), but I disagree that it is pure speculation to think about job displacement from increasingly sophisticated ML systems. We definitely do have real non-imaginary problems to focus on, but we shouldn't ju
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   by wpasc 8y ago

   Very much agreed with this comment. When people compare today's technological displacement of people and say "yeah but it happened in the industrial revolution, people will as always find new work", I truly think this time is
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   by wpasc 8y ago

   Have you liked Brain.fm? I used to use it, but started to think it wasn't really worth it/much more useful than regular whitenoise
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   by wpasc 8y ago

   I don't know... Clash of Clans strikes me as an early alpha of Skynet
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   Apple Says It Will Buy Back $100B in Stock(nytimes.com)

   1 points by wpasc 8y ago|0 comments
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    by wpasc 8y ago

    Anyone else getting a 500 error?
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    by wpasc 9y ago

    I agreed with your main post, but landing 1 out of 3 interviews? I know several people who got offers at both Facebook and Google out of school who did not hit a 1 out of 3 ratio of offers to interviews
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    by wpasc 9y ago

    I'm worried about how I ended up reading this story...
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    Salesforce Is Working on a Blockchain Product(techcrunch.com)

    3 points by wpasc 9y ago|0 comments
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    Facebook urged to make GDPR its “baseline standard” globally(techcrunch.com)

    302 points by wpasc 9y ago|220 comments
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    by wpasc 9y ago

    Open it up in an incognito tab, you can read as many NYTimes and WaPo articles as you want in an incognito tab. WSJ's paywall does not allow this.
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    by wpasc 9y ago

    Wow this is interesting. If people/CEO's use personal access to Trump to influence US Government contract bidding, that could really interfere with bidding processes. Given his penchant for commentary, this could have farther reac
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    by wpasc 9y ago

    Jeff Dean writes directly in binary and provides the source code as documentation for other developers.
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    by wpasc 9y ago

    While I may agree with certain ideas and disagree with others in this piece, this article (which is a book review) reads like a series of angry platitudes that often come into conflict with one another. Interestingly, many of the regulation
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    by wpasc 9y ago

    I disagree with ideas that school schedules should shift later. I am a night owl myself, but our "natural" sleep cycle certainly more or less falls in line with school times. We have fully disrupted our circadian rhythms with our
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    by wpasc 9y ago

    "If it bleeds, it leads." News media will rarely say something positive about any tech company, probably even worse so than the general bias towards negativity
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    by wpasc 9y ago

    docker ps -a SOLOMON HYKES Exited(0) 1 day ago Sad to see him go, so so grateful for his work!
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    by wpasc 9y ago

    Odds like that are meaningless (imo) for singular events. It's a good bet in repeatable scenarios, far less so in elections.
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    by wpasc 9y ago

    This is really cool tech and very awesome work by deepmind. But man does this scare me. I remember a quote: “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” – William Randolph Hearst, January 25, 1898. This was in the lead up to the spa
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    by wpasc 9y ago

    GM ignition switch scandal is far more egregious than anything Google has done IMO.
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    by wpasc 9y ago

    I agree with much of what you said, but GM understands the stakes? Are you forgetting the GM ignition switch controversy? I recall one of my favorite scenes from Fight Club wherein Norton talks about the cost of lawsuit*the likelihood of cr
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    by wpasc 9y ago

    Example: My company makes 100M in revenue. To sell my goods, my cost is 99M, I only have 1M in profit. If I were taxed on my 100M revenue, I would just lose money and my business would have no point and I would have to close even though I a
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    by wpasc 9y ago

    First, I think what happened with Facebook/Cambridge Analytica is appalling. With that said, I think this article is silly and emblematic of poor technology coverage in the media. I think it would be awesome if users really did delete
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    by wpasc 9y ago

    I wonder if Apple's choice of IBM for AI integration is motivated by the fact that IBM does not compete with them on any level? Outside of that, IBM/Watson seems like a comparatively bad choice of partners.
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    by wpasc 9y ago

    I just read that, and I love it. HN has introduced me to named conventions that I have been loving: Betteridge's law, Hitchen's razor, and now the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
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    by wpasc 9y ago

    I think it's really funny that the video is Kasparov talking about AI working in closed systems having difficulty adapting any knowledge from a closed system to an open system. While Kasparov is arguably the best player of all time and