eadlam

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by eadlam 9y ago
That's not faking anything, that's just learning.
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by eadlam 10y ago
Their legitimacy and power as a group is based on their reputation for intellectual honesty. If they label a dissenting opinion as discrimination or hate speech, they would need to pair it with a reasonable argument otherwise their reputati
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by eadlam 10y ago
Is there anything like Kickstarter where citizens can pool their money to buy up land for conservation?
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by eadlam 12y ago
Isn't it obvious that adolescent startup founders wouldn't want to hire adults? That would be a complete role reversal of their entirely lifes experience with adults. I'm also not surprised that investors are biased. As a gro
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by eadlam 13y ago
If this was a website where I could practice solving algorithm problems and people could comment at points during the playback, I would totally sign up.
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by eadlam 13y ago
Well, for one they just acquired eight of the worlds best robotics/AI teams. You don't see Kraft trying to bring the singularity nearer.
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by eadlam 13y ago
> 2. Founder's wife physically inanimate Horvath, making her unwelcome and scared. If someone inanimated me, I would quite right then and there. Thats some freaky x-men shit.
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Ask HN: Why doesn't Google News have comments the way Hacker News does?
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by eadlam 13y ago
Professor Manuel Blum has this to say: STUDYING: You are all computer scientists. You know what FINITE AUTOMATA can do. You know what TURING MACHINES can do. For example, Finite Automata can add but not multiply. Turing Machines can comput
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by eadlam 13y ago
So how do we and that Ethiopian shaman differ? Paper! Seriously, this was 1960? Even ancient Sumerians were using paper to do math. I don't understand why in 1960 anyone would seriously still be doing math with holes and rocks.
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by eadlam 13y ago
Stanford Ph.D. student Richard Socher appreciates the work Google and others are doing to build neural networks that can understand human language. He just thinks his work is more useful ... "We’re actually able to put whole sentenc
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by eadlam 13y ago
I have a barely-related anecdote. I once tried to read two pages at a time (one with each eye) because I heard that the rain man was able to do that. So a grabbed a small paperback and focused one eye on either page (as one would do with a
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by eadlam 13y ago
"Try to ..."
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by eadlam 14y ago
>It doesn't have anything to do with financial security. Look, if your man is spending three months worth of salary on a piece of shiny rock, he is exercising poor financial judgment and that is a signal against future financial securit
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by eadlam 14y ago
Pinky and the Brain?
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by eadlam 14y ago
I would argue that the focus on certificates, degrees, and grades are a competitive disadvantage. Rather than providing useful analytics, they introduce friction in the learning process and a reduced user experience. An educational system t