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by yomly 10y ago
While no one was harmed in the direct creation of a generated video, can it not be argued that in order to train such a generative engine, it is highly likely that harm-inducing content was produced/consumed at some stage? Where does t
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by yomly 10y ago
If I squint my eyes (or brain) really hard I can just about believe that zero day exploits could exist for a printer cartridge. But then I just arrive at the conclusion that if you didn't add DRM and try to make cartridges "smar
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by yomly 10y ago
This has been getting progressively worse for me. I suspect it is a known problem at Amazon but I'm confident this is actually an "innovation" of the delivery men. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they are gaming the sy
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by yomly 10y ago
I keep Facebook script blocked on my main chrome instance. I therefore can only check Facebook on incognito (where script block is disabled). The added friction of signing in every time to check Facebook has had the added benefit of stoppin
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by yomly 10y ago
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-world-s-first-e...
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by yomly 10y ago
Yes. To the average person I know who looks at HN, their first reaction is "EW what's wrong with this webpage, it's gross!" this even includes some devs I've met...
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by yomly 10y ago
For a long while you had to configure Yahoo to actually store sent mail, otherwise once sent it was gone for good.
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by yomly 10y ago
>My question is, it feels like machine learning is reaching its "Rails" stage No, I don't think so yet, but even if it did, would it even matter? There would still be world of different between the teams that can build a
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Silicon Valley Brits: We Had to Leave the UK Behind(bbc.com)
1 points by yomly 10y ago|0 comments
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by yomly 10y ago
Isn't changing the problem usually quite an elegant way to solving a problem..? I don't have any examples to hand, but I'm pretty sure being able to rerepresent or slightly change a problem has been applied to great success.
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by yomly 10y ago
Is this actually sketchy though? As everyone knows, hiring is difficult. It is time-expensive and the outcome of a bad hire can be catastrophic. So here we have a recruiter who is making it his business to make your life easier by making th
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by yomly 10y ago
>Singapore's education and indeed government standards are closer to the West than they are to China and India. Don't deny that, and it's definitely closer on the spectrum to Western-style education, but the high volume an
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by yomly 10y ago
> 70% of the population is Chinese - students may be taught in English but their parents and their teachers most likely are products of a Chinese-speaking culture.
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by yomly 10y ago
>Do you speak Chinese? I doubt you know what you are talking about, because IMHO complex semantics are hardly possible without syntax. I speak Chinese and have studied Japanese and Korean. As another poster mentioned - I was more referri
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by yomly 10y ago
From experience, there is a tendency to favour quantity over quality of work in Asia. This can be seen from how students in China are given stacks and stacks of mindnumbing multiple-choice questions for homework or how children are measured
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by yomly 10y ago
It is certainly strange and frustrating. Being academically talented is generally socially frowned upon. On the contrary, being talented in other dimensions such as sports or music is generally celebrated. In the general sense, there seem
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by yomly 10y ago
Where does the line of "playing God" and "not-playing God" lie? If we divert rivers we are changing the way the World was originally created/developed to serve our needs. Is a beaver then messing with nature when it
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Making babies without eggs may be possible, say scientists(bbc.com)
2 points by yomly 10y ago|1 comments
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by yomly 10y ago
>I think a lot of times lay-people can mistake "broken rules" that accidentally work for "talent" and it is frustrating. Couldn't agree more. To quote Picasso: "It took me four years to paint like Raph
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by yomly 10y ago
As someone interested in education (of self and of others) and generally interested in the notion of talent itself, I have been trying to form my own personal understanding of what it means to be talented. My fundamental belief is that almo
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by yomly 10y ago
While I'm all for the logical/rational ideal of extracting the most amount of potential from people, but competition needs to be treated with care. How do you propose competitiveness be constructively harnessed? If you are proposi
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by yomly 10y ago
Probably unhelpful sounding and possibly verging on overzealous but my general rule now is if it's in a packet and tastes good, it's probably over-indexed in any combination of fat, salt and sugar. We have evolved to seek out thes
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by yomly 10y ago
Adding to that - arguably, haven't rats, cockroaches and mosquitoes almost achieved more than us in terms of expansion when we take into account their scale? Or influenza for that matter? I recall a scientific study that suggested the
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by yomly 10y ago
I was indirectly hinting towards this through my posturing. Much of our concepts sentience and intelligence strike me as egotistical and conceited. After all, on the scale of galaxies do our efforts amount to much more than noise? Are we to
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by yomly 10y ago
Suppose we discover that plants have a concept for pain. What will vegans do in this case? Eat purely synthetic food?
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by yomly 10y ago
While I do enjoy the irony of this situation and your post, the schadenfreud isn't helpful. We're all in this boat together: When an unbridgeable gap is opening up between even the traditional "elite" (bankers, lawyers,
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by yomly 10y ago
>Japanese agriculture is notoriously unproductive compared to other countries' yields As an aside, my dad swore the produce was notedly better than what we have locally when he was travelling there. He on multiple occasions also dis
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by yomly 10y ago
>It's just not an important epidemic. " Aye,there's the rub ..." Men are more likely to succumb to alcoholism[0] Men are more likely to succumb to gambling problems[1] An estimated 84% of homeless are male in the UK[2
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by yomly 10y ago
This is what I was getting at - from the information at hand, the mother's classification seemed to be the definition i.e. She had 100% accuracy because whatever she classified was the right answer
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by yomly 10y ago
Well given his mother is by definition the training set, surely the machine can only perform as good as or worse than her...?

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