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by xianshou 4y ago
Title suggestion: "Chess, but moves are simultaneous"
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by xianshou 4y ago
You can read however many PG essays you want to, but you can't control what you think of them.
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by xianshou 4y ago
This is a very interesting definition of "free will" and not one I would expect most philosophers to agree with, but more measurable and useful than most would propose. In this case "free will" reduces to self-modifying
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by xianshou 4y ago
Schopenhauer: "Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills." I've wrestled with this question from time to time and, to the extent I've found a solution, the key is duration: In the short term, choices are
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by xianshou 4y ago
This may be the only time this phrase has ever been warranted, but...crypto solves this? I mean, you want decentralization but Mastodon is decentralized at the whim of whoever happens to own your server. So, what if you had a bunch of fungi
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Jump Crypto – Paradigms for On-Chain Credit(jumpcrypto.com)
1 points by xianshou 4y ago|0 comments
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by xianshou 4y ago
If it were as simple as comparing expected values and randomly choosing one option whenever their confidence intervals overlapped, then hesitation would be irrational. In my experience, though, choices are usually more complicated because y
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by xianshou 4y ago
This argument is a pretty egregious example of strawmanning. A sketch of the author's reasoning: 1. Consciousness is observer-independent, so if one person observes consciousness, then everyone must acknowledge it. 2. If there are infi
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by xianshou 7y ago
Would you and/or your girlfriend be willing to chat a bit about the experience? I'm doing research on the efficacy of coding bootcamps and I think your input could be very helpful. If you'd be open to it, my email is lucas at
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by xianshou 7y ago
I'm actually researching the efficacy of coding bootcamps and was wondering if you'd be open to a quick call. Doesn't have to be a long convo but I think your experience could be very helpful. Would love to chat about what yo
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by xianshou 9y ago
Evaluating side projects is a perfectly valid way to document a software engineer's potential value to a company, but that's not really the point of HackerRank. The purpose of HackerRank is to be a coding screen - that is, a tes
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by xianshou 9y ago
Hilarious. You could even chat for as long as you wanted by plugging in a charger at 2% and taking it out at 4%.
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by xianshou 9y ago
There are plenty of branches, but it's true there is no way to add your own for AlphaGo's evaluation. The main function of the tool is to see AlphaGo's appraisal of common opening lines from professional games, plus some of A
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by xianshou 9y ago
One impressive statistic from the paper: AlphaZero analyzes 80,000 chess positions per second, while Stockfish looks at 70,000,000. Seventy million, three orders of magnitude higher. Yet AG0 beats Stockfish half the time as White and never
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by xianshou 9y ago
Square was great. During my time there, the company doubled in size, tripled in valuation, built a plethora of new products, and experienced all the chapters in the adolescence of a successful startup. Everyone was intelligent, most of them
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Innovations of the New AlphaGo (Master and Magister)(deepmind.com)
2 points by xianshou 10y ago|0 comments
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AlphaGo – World #1 Ke Jie: The Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, China(deepmind.com)
2 points by xianshou 10y ago|0 comments
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by xianshou 10y ago
If Cringely claims authority on the topic, he could at least spell "Fukushima" correctly. Both the link above and the article misspell it as "Fukishima," the article 4 of 6 times!
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by xianshou 10y ago
Have you gotten any face-to-face interviews, or even been in touch personally with any recruiters? The initial hurdle is often the highest because of the minuscule signal-to-noise ratio in job applications. If you have any friends working a
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by xianshou 10y ago
FYI, Mustafa Suleyman is not CEO, but rather "Co-Founder & Head of Applied AI," as described in the article. Demis Hassabis is the CEO.
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by xianshou 10y ago
*Grammar (Sorry)
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AlphaGo Self-Play Game Commentaries Released(deepmind.com)
4 points by xianshou 10y ago|0 comments
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by xianshou 10y ago
You're going to have to include Seattle in the "expensive" set either now or very soon. New homes are going for millions. But other than that, agreed, just go outside the commuting range of all the major hubs and it's ch
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by xianshou 10y ago
Yo dawg, I heard you liked gradients, so I put some learning in your learning so you can descend while you descend. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xzibit-yo-dawg
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by xianshou 11y ago
Planned obsolescence is extremely prevalent (just see Apple's view on it - http://www.geek.com/apple/phil-schiller-thinks-its-sad-that-... ), and this intentional bricking is a close and sinister cousin. Before the
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Chinese AI team plans to challenge Google's AlphaGo(dailymail.co.uk)
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Chinese AI team plans to challenge Google's AlphaGo(reuters.com)
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by xianshou 11y ago
To paraphrase Obi-Wan: I feel a great disturbance in the industry...it is as if a million startups cried out in supplication, and were suddenly funded. Pure injections of capital may work for basic needs in Africa, but tend to flounder in c
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AlphaGo and the Art of Go – An end, or a new beginning?(medium.com)
3 points by xianshou 11y ago|0 comments
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AlphaGo Can't Beat Me, Says Chinese Go Grandmaster Ke Jie(shanghaidaily.com)
172 points by xianshou 11y ago|123 comments

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