John_KZ

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by John_KZ 7y ago
I'm willing to bet that free access to this research has saved lives. It has certainly improved mine. This article reads like the first step in a character assassination attempt. I don't like it.
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by John_KZ 7y ago
>What is it about life that makes us want to value it? That's an excellent question. All the questions about consciousness are probably an attempt to better understand (and avoid?) death. However I still have a hard time imagining a
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by John_KZ 8y ago
I'm impressed by how low the score of your comment is. I know computer scientists aren't "real" scientists but I thought the lack of rigor in this one was apparent and it was only upvoted only as a conversation starter.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
I feel like most of these experiments don't control for air temperature. I feel like cold air has a much more rejuvenating effect than just lowering CO2 levels. Not that they don't matter, but it's not like you'll instan
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by John_KZ 8y ago
I recently tried to book over AirBnB just for the convenience of it. They requested government id and a new photo of me for verification. They also (indirectly and insidiously) asked for my permissions so sell all my personal data liste
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by John_KZ 8y ago
HN is right-biased and quite nationalist.I'm always amused to realize that some people actually believe that Facebook's "moderation efforts" are a good think, while WeChat's or VK's are not. I mean, I get why
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by John_KZ 8y ago
This is a text message. Unless you're doing it horribly wrong, ops/s should be very close to the number of messages.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
This is a 2018 internet-connected app, not a 1985 GSM network. 1 billion 100 Byte messages sums up to an almost trivial 100GB. This might be a technical challenge for the neighborhood's web admin but not for any real company.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
NVidia's demo video is staggering.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Looking back at this after the Huawei scandal, it seems very likely it was a preliminary step to create a negative impression regarding Chinese manufacturing. Bloomberg could have been lied to, or been chosen to deliver false stories for pr
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Google is a jumbled mess of multiple pieces of software, and you get access to none of them, only a search service, and it is loosely defined. Also Google isn't particularly good at anything nowdays, except maybe NLP. Their ability to
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by John_KZ 8y ago
To be fair SaaS destroyed the previous financial model of the software industry, which was much better for the end user imo. Back then, software companies tried to make good, comprehensive products that respected user privacy, were meant
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Not necessarily.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
They have to choose one of the two, publish their decision, and act accordingly. Honestly the real problem is that they pose as a raw communications medium while they are definitely not one. Facebook has political, cultural and financial in
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Exactly. Although facebook has the power to change mainstream politics on long timescales, claiming that all those protests are products of AI brainwashing is just wrong. Even more so, instead of touching on why facebook should be a host of
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by John_KZ 8y ago
It's being solved. Given how important this is, we'll have very good models fairly soon.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Scary. I never thought I'd hate to see protein folding being solved.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
In my opinion, the majority of useful work done by CERN is not in the domain of theoretical physics, but in that of engineering. A lot of really bizarre configurations are build (with respect to day-to-day engineering challenges), with extr
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by John_KZ 8y ago
The article actually argues against self-improvement. There are issues with trying excessively too hard or sacrificing too much to reach certain goals, there are issues with trying the wrong way or towards the wrong goals, but arguing we sh
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Last month I canceled my account application when I realized my new bank would not provide support to unathenticated users. By this I mean you really couldn't get hold of anyone without providing a credit card number. Which is not only
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by John_KZ 8y ago
That's a great point. But it takes a lot of time and effort to filter the content your child consumes. That's because the system is designed so the end user has almost no control over the information flow. So this will affect th
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Congrats, you presented the one and only case where the manufacturers are right: Nobody should tamper with critical control systems. I don't want a DIY arduino-hacked suspension control chip or ABS. Neither would your clients. Unless
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by John_KZ 8y ago
They could be replaced, but the question becomes which one would be better (or worse). Additionally there are other ways to tackle this problem. Ensure usage is not allowed near residential areas, give warning or make sure everyone dusts on
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by John_KZ 8y ago
I remember looking into the mentioned paper last year. The only childish thing is the reconstruction methods they used. Yes, they where painted in skin tones, but not like in #ff3399 or something. The reconstructions are unrealistic. Of c
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by John_KZ 8y ago
I don't want to sound rude, but if you don't know how this works perhaps you'd like to hire legal and accounting professional services from the country where your company is registered. HN comments won't shield you from
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by John_KZ 8y ago
How silly of you to assume one can deliver 2kb of text without running thousands of lines of blackbox-javascript on your device and contacting dozens of servers. Besides, do you have anything to hide? Not running JS would suggest so, and po
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Wow, it's like the way I move my mouse isn't a legit Turing test. What a shocker. The real problem is using stupid methods to identify real users. This adversarial run is reaching it's end state, and you can't tell apa
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Entertaining, but I could think of spending sprees with much higher and long-term impact.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Reddit has already devolved into a forum for 15 year olds to post nonsense jokes. Those of us who knew how reddit used to be and still occasionally visit tend to stay away from the main subs and visit for very specific reasons. We should ma
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Systems and programs are not interchangeable terms. The author seems to think that in order capture states you need to write a "system". That's just wrong. A program is a set of commands. It can include state information and

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