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by wrsh07 10y ago
Does it need to make accurate predictions or just inform good decisions? I think a model can be bad at the former but good at the latter.
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by wrsh07 10y ago
I like a lot of Nautilus articles, but like you didn't know who funded it. (Ie Templeton) That's important to know as a critical thinker.
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by wrsh07 10y ago
We need to make sure we're not ignoring motives we don't understand. That happened in the Republican primary, the general election, and perhaps now, too. Don't just look away from a very real concern.
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by wrsh07 10y ago
I think this is an important data point given the powerful organizations that benefit from discrediting academics (especially in the current political climate) -- some of this is happening in climate research, and if it's also happenin
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by wrsh07 10y ago
In a self driving world, peak traffic will be served by buses. (Or subways in cities that can handle it) Like everything - high bandwidth vehicles will do the bulk of the work, and seamlessly trade off to "last mile" self driving
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by wrsh07 10y ago
I don't think you understand that the proposal for ubi comes from the futurist idea that humans won't need to work anymore. If you take issue with that idea: fine. Let's hash it out not in a basic income thread. If you accept
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by wrsh07 10y ago
Didn't they say "faster prototyping"? That seems sane to me.
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by wrsh07 10y ago
I don't understand your point, but my point was that there are benefits to education even if you're not being trained for a specific job.
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by wrsh07 10y ago
I heard a proposal that UBI should provide 85% of a solid living wage, people taking it may need to work some (or sell art etc) to reach their desired level of comfort. Then people pursuing education would receive 115% of aforementioned bas
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by wrsh07 10y ago
At some point there won't be jobs to transition to, though. How do humans survive when they simply aren't needed? (And how do we make them feel valued by society?)
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by wrsh07 10y ago
We might also have inter-car communication which could make this easier. [eg you don't have to worry about one car's sensors failing as long as it can still hear from other cars] I'm curious about what corner cases exist that
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by wrsh07 10y ago
I think LIDAR is essential - at least for any cars to achieve L5 in the next 4 years. [which I also think will happen] I think it will become cheaper - probably to ~$1-2k in the next two years. And even if it doesn't, we aren't ex
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by wrsh07 10y ago
State laws require certain vaccines [with exemptions] before you attend school: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/laws/state-reqs.ht... Private schools can also require vaccines. These are good things
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by wrsh07 10y ago
1) The government forces law abiding citizens to pay taxes, get vaccines, educate their children, etc... 2) Sam Altman agrees with you that it's okay to repeal it as long as we maintain the best parts of it. > "If Congress ends
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by wrsh07 10y ago
I think he's saying after the surgery and before the ACA, he was "virtually uninsurable."
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by wrsh07 10y ago
The fact that you can even consider training an NN for driving after under an hour of setup is absurd. Did you see the "self driving mario kart"? [1] That's a lot of complexity just to try out some algorithms for driving. Is
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by wrsh07 10y ago
This feels like an important step in the democratization of AI. We have algorithms, data, and computing power which are unevenly distributed. Providing easy-to-access training data for a self-driving car feels like a huge step in democratiz
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by wrsh07 10y ago
But ultimately, it also means you can share perfectly. I don't need to own a hammer if I can get one exactly when I need it.
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by wrsh07 10y ago
Well, Waymo's car drove a legally blind man as the only passenger: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/bli... So it seems like they're pretty close to L4.
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by wrsh07 10y ago
In your opinion, how many orders of magnitude more difficult is driving than mowing the lawn? I honestly don't have a strong sense of the scale of ability here.
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by wrsh07 10y ago
Honestly, I think these special cases for robust systems like Waymo's will be more a matter of custom configuration than something particularly novel. Yes, they'll run into scaling to every city immediately, but that happens alrea
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by wrsh07 10y ago
If you think that languages iterate simply to add stuff, I don't think you understand language development as well as you think. Maybe you're being glib, and that's fine. But improving build times, metaprogramming (which grea
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by wrsh07 10y ago
[I agree, let's solve the general problem]. Consider a not-famous person Em who writes posts. Most posts don't get enough views to be profitable anyway, but Em has ads in case one of their posts goes viral. Viral posts are only
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by wrsh07 10y ago
For my money, a better C++ is in development: it's called C++20.
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by wrsh07 10y ago
OpenAI? (It's a non-profit, not sure if you personally find that truly disqualifying)
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by wrsh07 10y ago
The update to this article is more or less here: https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/13/googles-self-driving-car-u...
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by wrsh07 10y ago
You wouldn't even need 100mph speedlimits if self-driving cars can avoid some of the common high-traffic pitfalls [eg traffic waves [1]] It's likely that even at equal or higher density, self-driving cars will be able to have high
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by wrsh07 10y ago
Maybe a coffeemaker that uses way less power, but it gets the hot water from another source. The coffee maker still makes coffee, but it doesn't do the expensive heating of water.
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by wrsh07 10y ago
I assume showing the date published is the responsibility of the publisher, not the author. In which case, it's possible Nautilus has an anti pattern of not showing dates. Yeah, that seems a bit dishonest.
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by wrsh07 10y ago
> To be honest, I hope my kids do the same when they're that age. I'd absolutely yell at them if I found out because that's how it's supposed to be (and that's how they get better at not being caught), but deep i

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