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by xxzz 16y ago
"I have always thought I had a good handle on the market. Until recently." Guess what? That just means that the market has gotten more efficient so that you can't arbitrage it anymore. If you can't make money, that your problem. If the quan
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by xxzz 16y ago
But Hinton recently made significant advances in speech recognition using RBMs. Google Tech Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdIURAu1-aU
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by xxzz 16y ago
Maybe the high-income earners assumed that it was free?
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by xxzz 16y ago
Fascinating story. The story's narrator is supposed to be a woman, but the story has an unmistakably male voice. I can't pinpoint it exactly, but everyone I know who talks like that is male. Part of it may be that there is no discussion of
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by xxzz 16y ago
"And anyone who complained too loudly was at first ignored, then ridiculed, and finally threatened with arrest." What part of this statement corresponds to reality? Who was threatened with arrest? The thing about fiction is that you can jus
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by xxzz 17y ago
A tiny benefit multiplied by a billion people and several trillion dollars per day suddenly isn't so tiny anymore.
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by xxzz 17y ago
* Seems like all the more reason to try harder * Financial innovation does help here, such as micro-lending, although admittedly not something done by Wall Street * It's a complicated issue. Maybe the best solution we can hope for at the mo
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by xxzz 17y ago
First of all, I disagree with the entire premise of the question. Why does the intelligent have an obligation to dedicate his or her life to the creation of maximal value for society? Sounds like Nietzsche's slave morality to me. Why does t