zerostar07

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by zerostar07 8y ago
> price of US stocks will go down, the valuation of your company will go down, the value of your house will go down, and more. You say that as if it is a bad thing, but in europe foreign investment like this can be a source of inequality
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by zerostar07 8y ago
There are probably plenty of problems that do not require that much data to solve (e.g. in reinforcment learning). And google doesn't have all the kinds of data - they didn't own medical imaging data, they had to ask for it. There
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by zerostar07 8y ago
You probably mean the multiplicative analogue of the central limit theorem
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by zerostar07 8y ago
> 20 years On which reference frame?
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by zerostar07 8y ago
those are backpropagating spikes, not errors
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by zerostar07 8y ago
... and a model predicting and explaining this a decade ago: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18602704
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by zerostar07 8y ago
Simiar with dubai, it is desert climate which means a lot of activities are impossible or insufferable. Malls and luxury hotels are OK but at some point you 're going to get fed up of so many gilded poles.
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by zerostar07 8y ago
Understand. I think Dubai offers a level of luxury due to abundant cheap labor, general safety and an abundance of of supercars, but not sure how it fares as an entrepreneurship center. Or how they are going to fare if other cities with sim
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by zerostar07 8y ago
> living there and doing well I 'm sure there are but its not clear a) if they started their businesses there and b) if dubai played an essential role other than being low-tax.
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by zerostar07 8y ago
this is part of the special report, but reading the other titles does not justify the fairytale image painted here. https://www.economist.com/sections/special-reports
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by zerostar07 8y ago
This looks like a paid advertisement to convince people to buy some of the stagnant real estate of Dubai.
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by zerostar07 8y ago
it s a parallel machine, it seems
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by zerostar07 8y ago
Or, let's just do some specialization of labor, the entrepreneur's job is not to preserve obsolete jobs, there are other institutions where this question should be addressed to.
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by zerostar07 8y ago
Humans have enjoyed living next to their workplace (their fields) for millenia and enjoyed it. The industrial era is the uncomfortable abberation, not the other way around.
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by zerostar07 8y ago
Which calls for an "Airbnb for servers", which will allow anyone to rent their phone for gigs in the server gig economy (at least until the servers unionize)
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by zerostar07 8y ago
Yet Guardian still calls it macedonia though
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by zerostar07 8y ago
To what extent do VCs and landlords overlap?
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by zerostar07 8y ago
> We train each GQN model simultaneously on 4 NVidia K80 GPUs for 2 million gradient steps. The values of the hyper-parameters used for optimisation are detailed in Table S1, and we show the effect of model size on final performance in F
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by zerostar07 8y ago
Also, because they are focusing heavily on the RL part of the modeling. They obviously have obscene amounts of available compute, but that is not their competitive advantage.
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by zerostar07 8y ago
> We also found that the GQN is able to carry out “scene algebra” [akin to word embedding algebra (20)]. By adding and subtracting representations of related scenes, we found that object and scene properties can be controlled, even acros
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by zerostar07 8y ago
I m not sure if it s an effect of age, but i can barely watch a movie. I believe however its a consequence of technology that ‘just works: we demand (re-)solutions now and are impatient.
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by zerostar07 8y ago
Which is a major reason why peer review exists, to prevent authoritative people pushing their agenda.
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by zerostar07 8y ago
"Facebook confirms it receives your IP address!!!" We need a new science of hysterias. The internet provides ample data for robust analysis and prediction. Any takers?
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by zerostar07 8y ago
"We think you may have Parkinson's, would you like to visit the doctor?"
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by zerostar07 8y ago
The industry did do some things, for one internet giants are in a certain competition to appear privacy-conscious. For another, adtech did introduced some options (e.g. adchoices) but they were arguably too little. The thing is however peop
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by zerostar07 8y ago
I m not personally afraid of the data that commercial companies have collected on me , as i was consciously using their websites when i did . But it's more uneasy to think of the data collected by various security services. I am glad t
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by zerostar07 8y ago
Not if you re not using your real identity, and even then its more complicated than if the companies were local. They would simply be shut down.
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by zerostar07 8y ago
Europeans at large dont seem to care for freedoms like that. I mean we have blasphemy laws in many countries and not really free speech. We seem to love the american internet though, perhaps because we can have some actual freedom of speech
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by zerostar07 8y ago
The consent boxes are what GDPR will mean to most people in a few months. Deleting your data is a good thing, but that option has been available from the biggest data hoarders for years, and it's not exactly popular. In fact most users
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by zerostar07 8y ago
I don't think that's it. Brussels is indeed building its own kafkaesque state because they have little pragmatic sense of how things work. As an EU citizen i have little understanding of why these laws are being introduced and whe

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