WilliamDhalgren

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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
that's an optimistic way to frame the situation; there's heavy opposition from the content industry to limits to geoblocking, and unsurprisingly the industry seems to have support within the commission (Oettinger at least - perhap
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
curious: what kind of txt editor(s) would make sense for non-code writing, say a novel, say w markdown or something similar? Especially if the person writing is non-technical so stuff like emacs, vim, atom don't seem like a great fit?
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
sounds like General Game Playing task. Well, MCTS alone is often used in that domain, and it wouldn't surprise me if Ke Jie was a weaker checkers player than just a brute MCTS, nevermind any attempts to use neural nets (if that would e
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
Hm, well you are no doubt right that it doesn't generalize well to a change of rules. Reminds me of that game DeepZen played. It was trained with a komi of 7.5 and it played too soft and lost when in the actual match komi was 6.5 (or m
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
> AlphaGo essentially baked good movies into value and policy network by playing millions of times. I don't think that's a very good description of how AlphaGo was trained at all; you're essentially saying it merely overfi
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
but humans obtain their watts very very inefficiently, so there's prob at least an order of magnitude to give for the same kind of system-level efficiency. Consider a field to feed a human vs a PV installation of the same physical size
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
yup indeed; and also it started already in December, not just January as stated above. Should've double-checked my memory before writing stuff...
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
It absolutely should be dominant in a long game too. Even if it loses some of its strength at such time settings, it shouldn't lose THAT much, it was just too superhuman. The play should be interesting though; Ke Jie both had access to
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
Nono, you missed the REAL computer supremacy event then; it was the 50ish (!!!) games MasterP bot played in january against the field of top go professionals on some asian go servers. The bot went 50-0, crushing all opponents often in inter
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
> There are quite a small number of old martial art that's pretty decent still. could you mention a few more? And distinguish if its possible which of those were generally practiced as highly competitive full contact sports (within
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Straw men in the debate on basic income versus targeting(voxeu.org)
2 points by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago|0 comments
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Rage against the machines: New technology and violent unrest(voxeu.org)
1 points by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago|0 comments
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
hey, that's not bad; didn't even expect SGU had such detailed transcripts. But actually looking for it now, the particular study I had in mind seems to be from a science or fiction segment from this episode: http://medi
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
ah, I'm sorry but I really don't remember. this was some years back.
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
could be, I really don't know. I can imagine perfectly benign scenarios too; if our long-term memory grows with time, maybe there's just more possible connections/associations to filter out with time too, so that decision jus
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
yeah, but apparently barely declines untill say 60+. Speed suffers however. "The adult years were remarkable in that complexity remained at a high level for a protracted period, in spite of a slow decrease of speed during the same peri
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
well, if only categorisation of extremism online were better. Recently I was searching youtube with the word "Lokiarchaeota", an exciting very recent find in the origin of the eukaryotes, hoping for a scientific lecture, and was m
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
I don't exactly see what ITS brings to the table here, being a multi-stage rocket as anything else that puts stuff in GTO. But anyhow yeah - the physics should favor them by practically an order of magnitude, but if they can ever survi
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
as far as I understood the starshot discussions, they weren't optimistic about managing to pack any interferometry equipment in such a small package, so there'd be little hope of proper chemical analysis... There was some discussi
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
at destination? There's no propulsion beam there; all acceleration would have been done at launch, in the vicinity of Earth. You can't point lasers over light-years of distance.
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
Why? Its supposed to be significantly more efficient, given that its breathing air for launch which enables much higher specific impulse than anything a chemical rocket even could do, and it'd have the operational advantages of being a
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
I dont want to go look it up to verify and properly link a citation etc, but I think Schumpeter argued that monopolies are actually good for innovation, at least of the (what's the term?) big bang, fundamental kind, because in a highly
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
The device really should implement speaker identification before accepting commands, yeah. Seems like a task a machine learning focused company like Google really should be able to accomplish.
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
> The US certainly has many issues, but I find calling it a "Police State", while praising the Islamic Republic of Iran in the same sentence quite ironic. you mean, praising it as a tourist destination? How's that even con
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by WilliamDhalgren 9y ago
I'm also missing a lot of context here, but I was looking at the leter and she says she's especially sorry she slandered John Sullivan and Ruben Rodriguez. Wondering exactly how she slandered those two people in particular, I trie
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
> Does anyone know? Is the claim that this is definitely bacteria, and not Archaea? Shouldn't really be either; this should be quite a bit older than Last Universal Common Ancestor and hence older than the Bacteria/Archaea spli
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
> she was a child by walking to either Spain or Portugal (I forgot which) how does one walk to Portugal w/o first walking to Spain ? >_> great post though!
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
honestly whenever I read anything written about AlphaGo, I wanna start pulling out my hair at the inanity of it. Look at this utterly uninformed comment for example: > As far as algorithmic ingenuity goes, this is pretty much all there i
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
heh most things are, but I cannot see what complication you may have in mind relevant here. Vedas don't have any authority in buddhism, just like in other shramana religions, and seem their claim to traditional authority is directly cr
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by WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
afaik there was never any influence of hinduism on Japan at all - barely a contact with it before late 19.century and modern ways of migration. And it would be the height of irony to call buddhism a vedic religion, as it along with other sr

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