adityab

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by adityab 8y ago
That is a beautiful metaphor. Thank you!
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by adityab 8y ago
This is nonsense; Travis employees are the polar opposite of "codebros". Lighthearted team profiles are absolutely not an insight into the employees' "mentality". If anything, your insinuations are in extremely bad
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by adityab 8y ago
Yes, you're not alone. Oddly enough, it's been repurposed to mean something akin to value alignment or strategic cooperation. It used to mean thoughtful kindness, and this change seems to have suddenly happened in the last five ye
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by adityab 8y ago
The line will be drawn between class boundaries.
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by adityab 8y ago
Actually the new finding is similar to weight normalisation for individual neurons. LRN would be similar to another thing called lateral inhibition.
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by adityab 8y ago
Sarcasm may be the lowest form of wit, but puns sure are the puniest.
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by adityab 9y ago
Looks like they want to avoid changing gameplay as much as possible. Considering their focus on preserving even minute details of game dynamics... I wish they'd made an exception for pathfinding - the algorithm in the original AoE is e
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by adityab 9y ago
To be precise, there exists a subset of facts that supports a narrative of epistemological nihilism.
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by adityab 9y ago
Rather common in Indian English from what I've seen.
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by adityab 9y ago
I don't get it, wouldn't building this be pointless after the Sophon interference jinxed everything?
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by adityab 9y ago
You raise a good point. My answer is: I understand the idea of doing probablistic inference about people based on their demeanor. We do it all the time with our minds, indeed many aspects of society and culture are built around non-verbal c
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by adityab 9y ago
Some comments are focusing on this exacerbating aggregate phenomena like diversity stats and wage gaps. This is true and a huge negative. But that's not the only thing we should be worried about. Far more damaging would be the dystopia
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by adityab 9y ago
I loved how in Arrival, they build a statistical model to map between concepts in the two languages, ostensibly via a joint embedding space. They don't elaborate on it in the movie, but I could totally see such ideas being explained wi
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by adityab 9y ago
True, but none of those fields have the same kind of "end of humanity" connotations attached, in the general psyche. Clarifications by well-known researchers don't travel as far and wide as urgency-signaling clickbait...
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by adityab 9y ago
This stuff sounds funny now, and some of us grad students had a good laugh. But I am worried about the future of ML reporting. The "field" is growing fast and I think we don't have nearly as many science communicators for AI&
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by adityab 9y ago
Don't ask people to prove a negative.
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by adityab 9y ago
I would have been fine with Aadhar if - They didn't rely on fingerprints, as they are easy to fake, without a high degree of technical sophistication - There would not be an API for commercial services I just want the government to be
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by adityab 9y ago
I don't know what kind of world you live in, where you cannot believe that people can take a principled stand about a policy. Why can I not worry about my family's data being shared free-for-all by random startups that use their &
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by adityab 9y ago
> Finally any Indian in USA simply has no right to criticize Aadhar since the US Visa process requires biometrics from all visitors. This is BS because getting a visa is a conscious choice, Aadhar is forced upon India's residents. Y
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by adityab 10y ago
I disagree. Titles exist to provide an assurance to people that the services they get from title-holders will be above a certain standard, with the threat of a serious penalty if the work is sloppy. This is the social expectation in many so
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by adityab 10y ago
For what it's worth, in Germany the title of Engineer is regulated and the correct term for those who write software (which goes in the contract) is "Software Entwickler" (Entwicklung means "development"). There&#x2
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by adityab 10y ago
Don't worry, you're doing fine. There are a multitude of political opinions out there (which does not mean they are bad ideas), and a large number of people who like to criticize others based on this because they get to feel super
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by adityab 10y ago
Not everyone spends their time constantly thinking about the degree of unnecessary gendered-ness of every piece of information they encounter. Maybe you should stop shoving politics (no matter how well intentioned) into everything.
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by adityab 10y ago
The point of my comment was that getting good testing is surely easier on humans than monkeys. Actually going in has to happen at some point - why not do this on humans that have volunteered? 1. Humans do volunteer and it does happen, but
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by adityab 10y ago
Computational Neuroscience student here. Research of this nature requires reading the electrical spike trains of small sets of neurons (often even individual cells). EEG will give you a measurement of the combined electric field of every si
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by adityab 10y ago
How do you suggest one should observe neural activity?
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by adityab 10y ago
> It's already well understood that we can interface with nervous system, this is nothing new. Ok, let's not do anything then because actually putting this understanding to use involves touching actual brain matter and seeing
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by adityab 10y ago
Agreed. They don't make niche devices anymore. The last great phones for me where the N950 and N900. Everyone is building what they think appeals to the "average consumer". With every yearly product iteration, features regre
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by adityab 10y ago
You should watch Max Tegmark's talk "Connections between Physics and Deep Learning" if this interests you [1]. Additionally, a paper that has everyone excited about deep connections between the mathematical analysis of physic
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by adityab 10y ago
It's not as straightforward a distinction as you imply, and certainly not grounds for attributing a lower value. In Europe (Germany in particular), you have to do a 2-year Masters degree which tends to be ~1.3 years of coursework and ~

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