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Faulty Reward Functions in the Wild (2016)(openai.com)
2 points by _vk_ 2mo ago|0 comments
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A simplified analysis of the Chernobyl accident (2021)(epj-n.org)
25 points by _vk_ 2y ago|29 comments
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Incidents that involved confusion between units or systems of measurement (2015)(usma.org)
2 points by _vk_ 2y ago|0 comments
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The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations (1999)(arxiv.org)
1 points by _vk_ 2y ago|0 comments
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The Myth of Medieval Small Beer (2017)(ianvisits.co.uk)
110 points by _vk_ 2y ago|86 comments
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The Lost Forests of New England: Eastern Old Growth [video](youtube.com)
2 points by _vk_ 3y ago|0 comments
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by _vk_ 3y ago
For anyone unfamiliar with this story: https://philosophy.williams.edu/files/Egan-Learning-to-Be-Me...
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What We Lose with the End of the Shuttle Program (2011)(web.archive.org)
2 points by _vk_ 3y ago|1 comments
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Ultra-high mobility semiconducting epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide (2023)(arxiv.org)
2 points by _vk_ 3y ago|0 comments
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by _vk_ 3y ago
I believe this is it: https://spectrum.ieee.org/finger-haptics >This method depends on what’s called “referred sensation,” where stimulation of your body in one place gets felt in another place—it’s like when you acciden
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An atomic Boltzmann machine capable of self-adaption(nature.com)
2 points by _vk_ 6y ago|0 comments
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Unedited 1-Hour Ride in Mobileye's Self-Driving Car in Munich(youtube.com)
1 points by _vk_ 6y ago|0 comments
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Unedited 40 Minute Ride in Mobileye's Autonomous Vehicle(youtube.com)
2 points by _vk_ 6y ago|1 comments
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by _vk_ 7y ago
Economists aren't "obsessed with job creation". Politicians are.
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by _vk_ 7y ago
>It's like Google found developer goodwill burdensome, and decided to pack it all up into container trucks and ship it all to Microsoft. Funny how that changes. If anyone told me in 1999 that Microsoft would eventually become one of
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by _vk_ 7y ago
Judging from the fact that RIM (the makers of the Blackberry line of devices) is shown to have 39% of the market in that chart, this must've been quite a while ago indeed.
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by _vk_ 10y ago
This sucks, but it seems likely that we've had the first victim of autopilot-induced inattentiveness. From the deceased's viral video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I5rraWJq6E ): >I actually wasn't watch
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by _vk_ 10y ago
What a stupid joke.
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by _vk_ 11y ago
>I wonder if AlphaGo has some specialized knowledge to handle ladders Yes. A representation of ladders is among the input features of its neural networks. https://gogameguru.com/i/2016/03/deepmind-mastering
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by _vk_ 11y ago
>Demis says he certainly does not worry about a "terminator" or "ex machina" style scenario Neither does the Friendly AI crowd.
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by _vk_ 11y ago
>Does a child need to look at billions of images to figure out what a chair or cat is? Of course! Not exclusively images of cats or chairs, but children have absolutely seen billions of images by the time they start to exhibit discernibl
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by _vk_ 11y ago
Mostly the latter, I believe. The human brain uses the incredible 20 Watts to achieve things that modern megawatt supercomputers aren't capable of.
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by _vk_ 11y ago
The right to encrypt really should be the modern equivalent of the RKBA. The parallels in regards to defending against tyrannical government are stark.
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by _vk_ 11y ago
Of _course_ I want specific titles.
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by _vk_ 11y ago
Games.
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by _vk_ 11y ago
Not so. The crossrange capability was driven by the abort scenarios. http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum30/HTML/001340.html http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=4998.0
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by _vk_ 11y ago
http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ is 'neural networks for dummies'. I found it very good.