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by gwf 5mo ago
An honest accounting of this history has to call out Sinofsky's role, and it's not pretty. He nearly killed the company in pursuit of power, insisting that everything be brought under his control. Who pushed in 2005 that online an
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by gwf 6mo ago
It's the new .NET in that it been so overused as to become almost meaningless.
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by gwf 1y ago
Not trying to "Schmidhuber" this or anything, but I think my 1999 NIPS paper gives a cleaner derivation and explanation for working on the Jacobian. In it, I derive a Jacobian operator that allows you to compute arbitrary product
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by gwf 4y ago
This is so nice to randomly come across. Let know if there's something that I can do to help (I am the author of CBofN). You can reach me at <my first name>@<my last name>.org.
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by gwf 4y ago
Really nice job and thanks for the shout out to my book.
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by gwf 4y ago
Well said. (cough, cough, Schmidhuber, cough.)
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by gwf 4y ago
I don't think this comparison is fair to LeCun. He has literally been at the forefront of ML for over 40 years, starting with his PhD thesis and continuing to the present, and his public fame is entirely a byproduct of the awareness o
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by gwf 4y ago
I recently learned that someone is seeking to impersonate me on IG. They've created a new IG profile w/ my name, photo, etc., and now have more followers and friends than I do. They've even started to friend people within m
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by gwf 4y ago
Your second group represents the core "inner loop" of about a thousand revolutionary applications. Take the basic capability of translating image->text->speech (and the reverse), install it on a wearable device that can &qu
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by gwf 5y ago
> PS: If you have italian ancestors and are interested in getting your citizenship let me know, I'm writing a blog post with my experience so far :) I am very interested in the citizenship process.
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by gwf 5y ago
I was also one of Cynthia's Ph.D. advisors when she was a graduate student at Princeton, some twenty years ago. It was obvious to me then that she would go on to do great things, so it's delightful to read this news this morning.
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by gwf 5y ago
As a 14 year old in 1981, I bought a Timex Sinclair from Sears with money that I had been saving up for a over a year. Best. Purchase. Ever. What I learned on that $99 machine would change the course of my life. Thank you, Sir Clive, fo
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by gwf 5y ago
for a in range(1, Infinity): for b in range(a): print(a-b, "/" , b+1) Will print out: 1/1, 2/1, 1/2, 3/1, 2/2, 1/3, 4/1, 3/2, 2/3, 1/4, ...
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by gwf 5y ago
1996, Jose Cibelli implanted his own DNA into a cow egg, then let it divide into 32 chimeric stem cells before destroying it. I heard about the news in 1998 and was blown away by how little anyone seemed to care. https://www.nyt
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by gwf 6y ago
Yep, which is exactly what I did here: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82751815.pdf
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by gwf 6y ago
None. The point of the paper was the proof technique, which was later extended to include a large family of constrained motion planning problems (i.e., problems that previously were of an unknown computational complexity could be easily ma
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by gwf 6y ago
Agreed, not with this particular design. However, you can absolutely do this just ternary numbers. You loose the ability to encode 3^n states (and are stuck w/ just 2^n), but the middle state can then be repurposed to indicate if the
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by gwf 6y ago
Looking at the documentation, it reads as if the architecture has a proper clock that synchronizes all computation. Furthermore, an emulator would naturally have a global notion of time, synchronously updating all internal states in a line
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by gwf 6y ago
I don't think that you'd ever want to literally have sliding mechanics. However, the dual rail logic used is a type of reversible computation. Thus, thermodynamically it is theoretically much more efficient than standard (irreve
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by gwf 6y ago
Not-so-humble-brag: I am the first author in the first paper referenced in the linked PDF. I came up with the original PSPACE-completeness proof as well as the model of computation from which this is all based. So, yeah, it's kind of
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by gwf 6y ago
More seriously, this is cute and it brings back fond memories of L-systems.
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by gwf 6y ago
I could have sworn that Logo was a tiny subset of Logo. Live and learn.
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by gwf 6y ago
Yikes! I guess I better finish it now. Although, you should prepare to be bitterly disappointed because the next book will have something to piss off almost everyone (not by design, it's just that simultaneously seeking breadth, dept
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by gwf 6y ago
Thanks ... I really appreciate the kind words. MIT Press has repeatedly tried to get me to do a 2nd edition and while it was tempting, I always ultimately decided that it was better to keep doing new things. Although, much to my surprise,
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by gwf 6y ago
No worries my dude. I am really happy to read that my book had such a big impact on you (as well as humbled by your praise). It's the little interactions like this that are the true reward for having written a book like CBofN, so I t
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by gwf 6y ago
As the author of CBofN, I thank you for the plug. But just one little correction: Gary is my first name and William is my middle.
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by gwf 6y ago
Your descriptions of the human immune system and of viral evolution are both wildly inaccurate. I don’t intend to be snarky, but nearly every sentence is factually incorrect.
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by gwf 6y ago
It was the best. RIP kuro5hin.
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by gwf 7y ago
This is a really nice argument and I hope that Kevin and others continue to pursue it. However, I think there is a subtle flaw in the presented argument that is parallel to issues illuminated by Goedel's incompleteness theorem. The p
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by gwf 7y ago
Humble brag: Stephen Hedetniemi was my first advisor at Clemson, and I took CS101 with him back in 1985. Both faculty and students were in awe of his intellect, kindness, and modesty. What a delight to stumble upon him this morning. Than

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