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by bhntr3 3y ago
I finished my master's thesis in Inductive Logic Programming recently at Oxford. I'd say that the field has continued improving since Aleph, which was written in the late 90s. Anyone interested could also take a look at Popper ( h
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by bhntr3 4y ago
Here's what I got when I put in "Will I am was spotted at a cafe with Beyonce." "This is the first time two Black people were spotted out in public together." "They were there for hours and no one could tell th
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by bhntr3 5y ago
This isn't an anti-AGI argument and it doesn't disprove humans. Humans have the same problem. It's harder to write a program to do a thing than it is to just do the thing. It's appealing to think we can just make a progr
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by bhntr3 5y ago
Thank you. I just finished my master's thesis in program synthesis/induction. You're explaining this better than I could.
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by bhntr3 5y ago
This was part of the lawsuit. They communicated with each other about offers made to each other's employees and agreed not to counter-offer above the initial offer.
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by bhntr3 5y ago
That link is a wild ride. I expected a design blog. Instead I got a communist indictment of startup culture through the lens of the commodification of illustration.
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by bhntr3 5y ago
This is an excellent post. Thank you! I felt like the part that wasn't in line with Kuhn was the idea that there was something wrong with a field if incremental improvement couldn't lead to a breakthrough like AGI. You're rig
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by bhntr3 5y ago
I actually think you're being too generous. Most people who work in ML are not ignorant that it has risks and flaws. Many people are very resistant to the idea that their particular work can have a negative impact or that they should t
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by bhntr3 5y ago
I believe they are disagreeing whether "engineers working in this space are out to lunch" and since I have been "an engineer working in this space" I was asking for more clarification about what it meant to be "out
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by bhntr3 5y ago
> I don’t see any path from continuous improvements to the (admittedly impressive) ‘machine learning’ field that leads to a general AI > I share the skepticism towards any progress towards 'general AI' - I don't think t
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by bhntr3 5y ago
> Are you at all close to this space? I am. > The example Cory puts on policing My most upvoted comment on this website was discussing this exact scenario. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655487 Could you perha
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by bhntr3 5y ago
I love the implication that there's this shadow company, Fronk. Seemingly defunct, they're actually thriving secretly behind the facade of a failed startup. Every marketing manager has engaged them privately to boost their numbers
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by bhntr3 5y ago
>Is it worth reading them already or does it feel unfinished? Mistborn is a complete trilogy although he continues to publish other novels set in the same world. Way of Kings is ongoing. It's on book four now. Each book is over a th
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by bhntr3 5y ago
Maturity (or seniority) is a form of growth and it has stages. I would call this article Stage 2: Do the approved thing. It's an important stage. But people who stay in this stage too long become intolerable technical architects who ya
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by bhntr3 5y ago
This essay seems to have been published 20 years ago. In the modern version, the experimentalists use terms like "deep learning" and "neural nets" and the theorists use terms like "fuck all this deep learning bullsh
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by bhntr3 6y ago
Arthur's pass is where I had my best Kea encounter! I made it to the top of Avalanche Peak. The hike just about killed me. As I was sitting there admiring the view and trying to recover, a kea flew in out of nowhere and just hung out w
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by bhntr3 6y ago
Kea are very playful. They're also annoyingly naughty. But they're beautiful and I love them. Here's a story about Kea I heard from a park ranger when I was in New Zealand. The rangers have traps for non-native predators scat
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by bhntr3 6y ago
The McDonald's idea is brilliant. When no one wants to make a suggestion, propose the worst possible one you can come up with. People will race to improve it because, while they don't know what they want, they know it's not T
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by bhntr3 6y ago
If you host user-generated content, you will have to decide on community standards and do your best to enforce them. This will be expensive. You are legally obligated to police things like terrorism, child pornography, money laundering and
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by bhntr3 6y ago
Well, you can't undelete data you didn't collect. So I think there's this natural tendency toward omnivorous data collection in every tech company. Then we rationalize it by telling ourselves that we use it ethically. It&#x2
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by bhntr3 6y ago
Yes. We had free speech but we weren't prepared for unedited, viral free speech. We weren't prepared for cameras in every ordinary person's hands. We also weren't prepared for our free speech to be archived and searchabl
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by bhntr3 6y ago
I agree. When an author writes "Everyone has ..." we often learn more about the author than everyone.
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by bhntr3 6y ago
> I think the best approach would be giving the candidate a broken app and have they debug it live I had a company do this and it went really poorly for me. It was a python app and at the time I wasn't very expert in python. They to
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by bhntr3 6y ago
Thank you for the quotes. I think this essentially answers (or at least provides a hypothesis for) the question I posted about how the numerical system influenced their math.
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by bhntr3 6y ago
I feel like the article misses the most interesting question about Roman numerals and Roman (Greek really) math. How did the numerical system influence the math that they developed and used? The Greeks were really into geometry using the co
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by bhntr3 6y ago
Yes, I think some people are becoming uncomfortable with unfettered free speech because the distribution model has changed in ways that are difficult to control and which are elevating what some people view as the "wrong" messages
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by bhntr3 6y ago
"Imagine the worst possible outcome. Now . . . avoid that." -Baptiste
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by bhntr3 6y ago
Besides predictable sentence structure, GPT-3 writes like George R. R. Martin: Interesting premises, solid setup but then it devolves into rambling tangents and never quite delivers the concluding action that ties everything together. Lots
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by bhntr3 6y ago
Orthodox privilege probably exists but, at least in the US, we also see a lot of people who fetishize independent-mindedness to a degree that's irrational as well. I have advocated before for epistemic learned helplessness ( https:&#x2
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by bhntr3 6y ago
So the context collapse of early social media ultimately led to context restoration. Why does the author never propose that content collapse might lead to content restoration? After all, I'm choosing to consume this content through the

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