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by Peritract 5y ago
This Wikipedia article is a good start if you're curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonsense_knowledge_(artific...
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by Peritract 5y ago
No it doesn't. It generates text that looks like it has learnt common sense rules, which is both subtly and importantly different.
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by Peritract 5y ago
This seems like a natural response to Tesla's continual over-hyping of the system.
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by Peritract 5y ago
Entirely anecdotally, I find that a maths/science background sometimes feels like more of an impediment to teaching someone practical code than an arts/philosophy/language one. Teaching is so often about finding the right met
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by Peritract 5y ago
No.
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by Peritract 5y ago
It's a really intuitive one for new people to learn - you're far from the machine, but the syntax doesn't get in the way of the concepts much. Of all the languages I have taught people in, Python is the quickest route to unde
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by Peritract 5y ago
Proof of work is wasteful and inefficient. Regardless of scale, that's a problem. We don't have oceans of free, sustainable energy available. Wasting 0.1% of global consumption (a figure which sounds small in comparison, but still
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by Peritract 5y ago
It's the debt that's the problem, not the education.
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by Peritract 5y ago
It's definitely possible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he knew; he has access to all the relevant information, is the 'product architect' for Tesla, and presents himself successfully as knowledgeable on this topic.
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by Peritract 5y ago
> in April 2019, Chief Executive Elon Musk said that by mid-2020 Tesla (TSLA.O) would have over a million self-driving vehicles where riders "could go to sleep" during a trip. This was a lie. It wasn't a mistake, or a &quo
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by Peritract 5y ago
I don't think the problem is metaphor or analogy - both of these can be persuasive, and both of these can be used to illustrate complex things. The problem is this particular kind of tech-messiah metaphor, assuming that mathematics is
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by Peritract 5y ago
"Among Us" was not exactly a new concept in the first place; it's a (well-executed) version of the party game Mafia [1], which has been remixed and recreated countless times. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by Peritract 5y ago
This is a broadly meaningless PR stunt.
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by Peritract 5y ago
Having the ability to report tweets for being misleading is basically useless if nothing happens with those reports. Currently, you can report tweets for four different reasons. If you report a tweet, then you may - or may not - get a notif
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by Peritract 5y ago
Modern children (and a lot of adults) are digital natives. They are immersed in technology, feel comfortable with it, reach for it before anything else when working/relaxing/etc. Immersion, however, is not the same as mastery. Fis
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by Peritract 5y ago
If 'reckless pollution' of a shared resource is an act of war, then every country (very definitely including the US) is an aggressor.
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by Peritract 5y ago
I don't think 'cognitive bias' is used half as dismissively or dishonestly as 'woke' is.
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by Peritract 5y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines is consistently useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by Peritract 5y ago
The article doesn't describe a language problem, but an abuse one - Wikipedia does not have effective tools to deal with misinformation for topics/pages with a small readership/number of editors. Machine translation doesn&#
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by Peritract 5y ago
> Don't mentor young women, especially if they're remotely attractive. It's far from being worth the risk. Anyone with this attitude shouldn't be mentoring in the first place. It's really not hard to stay on the
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by Peritract 5y ago
'Magic as programming' is a relatively common trope - conceptually, the two have a lot in common, and it ties in nicely to old legends about true names etc.
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by Peritract 5y ago
It's significantly different in degree, but not in kind. Modern ML is vastly more complex, capable, and widely-applicable than the first chess programs, but it's not intelligent, and doesn't have any greater ability to be &#x
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by Peritract 5y ago
I find that a lot of developers assume that a failed explanation is due to a lack of precision , and so they try and teach with long, detailed, overly-precise explanations. Precise explanations are fantastic for people who already understa
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by Peritract 5y ago
> California is poised to approve reparations of up to $25,000 to some of the thousands of people — some as young as 13 — who were sterilized decades ago because the government deemed them unfit to have children. That does not sound like
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by Peritract 5y ago
There isn't. 'Andragogy' is not a great name for a theory which tries to describe how all adults, not just men, learn. However, it is a really telling name about the kinds of assumptions baked into the theory [1]. I work in a
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by Peritract 5y ago
That's a rather dismissive attitude; it's perfectly possible to think analytically and prize understanding without specifically wanting to get a STEM PhD.
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by Peritract 5y ago
That is not, in any way, sufficient evidence.
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by Peritract 5y ago
PM belatedly condemns racist abuse after tacitly condoning it.
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by Peritract 5y ago
He didn't 'talk shit' about a 'good faith attempt'. Unsworth - who knew the cave system - said that Musk's idea was impractical and a PR stunt. Both of those claims are valid and came from a reliable source. Du
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by Peritract 5y ago
If he doesn't trust the engineers under him to work without constant supervision, then he has a huge recruitment/management issue to deal with.

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