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by gyom 5y ago
Same here. It's a bunch of facts, some context, and more of a rant about the question than any attempt at answering the question. You could even write an article asking why that original article was even written, and it might make for
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by gyom 5y ago
You're right that this is spectacularly wrong. I dare not even read the rest of the page just in case my brain accidentally absorbs other bad information like that paragraph about GANs.
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by gyom 5y ago
Part of the cleverness of GANs was to have found a way to train a neural network that generates data without explicitly modeling the probability density. In a stats textbook, when you know that your training data comes from a normal distrib
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by gyom 5y ago
I also found that the best system is having the first layer of folder organization be "which period of my time is this from?". Conceptually, it's easier to think of "music from high school" than about the specific m
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by gyom 6y ago
You're setting a very high bar there, and then claiming that losing access to your gmail account isn't worse than that therefore it's not life changing. Email ends up being the form of online identity for a lot of people, mys
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by gyom 6y ago
I'm sorry that that was your PhD experience. It's a pity that enthusiastic students end up there, often because they're not given the right environment to thrive (e.g. a good lab and a supervisor that cares). There isn't
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by gyom 6y ago
Well, I guess he stopped doing it at some date before 2007. That's why he told an audience of 500 people about it. He sorta "cashed out" by making it a fun story about him being clever, instead of a last magic trick. He must
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by gyom 6y ago
I met James Randi around 2007 when he came to campus at UBC to give a talk. He told the following story about a magic trick that he worked on for years, which concerned guessing the timing of his death. I haven't heard him tell that st
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by gyom 6y ago
I have also had bad experiences with "Backup and Sync", which led me to abandon Google Drive right when I was seriously considering ditching Dropbox. Given Google's reputation to ditch their own products, I guessed this was s
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by gyom 8y ago
Nobody is going for absolute certainty here. That bar is too high in any conversation. His point was mostly that, way before you achieve the kind of AGI portrayed in fiction, you'll have semi-intelligent interdependent systems that cau
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by gyom 8y ago
I have a friend who was participating often in psychology experiments at Stanford, and he became familiar with the whole procedure of letting the subjects believe that they were interacting with another person via a computer, when in fact t
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by gyom 8y ago
> Most people I know have moved on from using email for personal communication and only use it for business. That experience completely differs from mine. Maybe I just prefer email to text or Facebook messages, but the same principle app
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by gyom 9y ago
The point would still stand even if Starbucks was indeed instantaneous. There's is something nice about being able to spend 2-5 minutes to prepare your own coffee. Sometimes you don't want to do it, but I think the point here is t
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by gyom 9y ago
One of the problems with coming up with a good theory is that, at the end of day, we're building a system that's particularly suited for a certain kind of patterns. If you're building a facial-recognition convnet, there is so
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by gyom 9y ago
Here is something to consider. Assume for a moment that people use rare Pokémon cards as a form of payment, because everyone plays Pokémon. You can buy a card with Pokémon cards. But these cards aren't being printed anymore and the sup
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by gyom 9y ago
Sure, the rules are simple, but if you listen to the guy who says that he grew up here, he explains that field has NEVER been reserved. It’s easy to imagine how some bureaucrat updated the rules and accidentally destroyed a nice social spac
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by gyom 9y ago
I had not caught that note from the author. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by gyom 9y ago
It's cool to see that much dedication. It's useful when people take the time to summarize knowledge in a book to serve as reference. But ... I have the feeling that the author, who is relatively new to the field (by his own admiss
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by gyom 11y ago
That's already a known method to transfer "knowledge" from one model to another. I should double-check before quoting a paper, but I think that this one talks about this ( http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02531 )
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by gyom 11y ago
If you want to train neural nets, you can either rewrite everything from scratch and get a bug-ridden sub-optimal implementation, or you can use a kind of off-the-shelf library. The problem is that there are about 3-5 alternatives out there
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by gyom 11y ago
I like that third point about dissecting well-chosen Reddit threads. I would certain like to watch a few youtube videos of "Let's read Reddit with Neil deGrasse Tyson".
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by gyom 11y ago
Hacker News feels like a strange place to talk about video game appreciation, but here is goes. I've played an insane amount of Diablo 1, an unreasonable amount of Diablo 2, but when it came to Diablo 3, I barely finished the game one
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by gyom 11y ago
Nice ! It's not really a paradox, though, because "being a double-edged sword" is a comparison that's being made with regards to the decision of using that particular single-edge sword. And "being a single-edge sw
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by gyom 11y ago
Well, your house is used as collateral for the loan, otherwise the bank would never lend you that money. I'm not an economist, but I don't think that, in the case of Greece, the "house" (whatever it stands for) was used
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by gyom 12y ago
I had a look at the sample chapter and I like the way that you're explaining concepts with sketches. I've already learned all the material listed in the table of contents, so I might not get much from reading it, but I wish I had
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by gyom 12y ago
The illustrations are fun and the explanations are skillful. The core idea is more of a starting point. It's reminding us that we shouldn't expect things to be "fair", but it's avoiding the whole topic about how fai
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by gyom 12y ago
That's kind of a cool approach. As long as you can "salvage" the trick, then nobody needs to know about the failed portion. One of my friends had a card trick that involved me selecting a card. Before starting the trick, he j
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by gyom 12y ago
It would have been good for the game to tell me that. I played another time and got a slightly different ending. It doesn't make much more sense. The game is great the first time around, but it's absolutely boring the second time
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by gyom 12y ago
Played one time. I liked the experience so far, but I got the "undefined error" ending and that was a complete disappointment. I don't care about alternative endings if the first playthrough wasn't worth it. Give me one
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by gyom 12y ago
The spiders present a puzzle to evolutionary biologists. According to ordinary Darwinian natural selection, only the fittest individuals will pass on their genes. But if that’s the case, why do tangle-web spiders act in ways that might con

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