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by imh 8y ago
Yeah, you could make the same complaints about jpeg compression.
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by imh 8y ago
One way to generate a sequence of heads and tails is to start with either heads or tails, then randomly choose how many of those to use before switching to the other. You're sampling the length of runs. e.g. Heads, then choosing 12113
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by imh 8y ago
>What cant there be more housing development on the edge of SF... Three of the edges of SF are water.
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by imh 8y ago
I was so bummed when I looked into this in college. Going for a physics degree, there was basically nowhere I could go in the spanish speaking world with classes that counted towards my degree. Which is nuts, since physics is a degree almos
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by imh 8y ago
>The seventy percent of New Yorkers who supported Amazon and now vent their anger also bear responsibility and must learn that the silent majority should not be silent because they can lose to the vocal minority and self-interested polit
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by imh 8y ago
The definition of best is irrelevant. The point is the distinction between maximizing something for an individual versus maximizing that same thing for the group.
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by imh 8y ago
I think your hands probably have more bacteria than your junk.
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by imh 8y ago
I doubt Phelps was fucking with the interviewer. I was also a competitive swimmer and my experience matches what Phelps said.
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by imh 8y ago
It'll reward the companies with the best groups of people, but not the best groups of companies, which I think the other comment was getting at.
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by imh 8y ago
I'd bet that sample efficiency is a factor in translating they most hyped bits of RL into solving IRL problems. So many business problems translate to "Learn which of these things to do, as quickly and cheaply as possible."
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by imh 8y ago
>The best argument might be that eventually no one will trust video. Obama talked about it this afternoon. He said "This is bad, blah blah oh no." Of course, you don't believe me because I made this up. That doesn't p
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by imh 8y ago
Thanks for the answer! Out of curiosity what about systems we can prove able to "do" basic arithmetic, ignoring whether they can talk about it? I'm imagining the difference between a system that can show "P(n)" for
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by imh 8y ago
Neat work, but doesn't behavior require colluding to be considered collusive? Otherwise this is just another neat equilibrium.
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by imh 8y ago
I never understood the step about how a system that can do basic arithmetic can express the "I am not provable in F" sentence. Does anyone have an ELI30 version of that?
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by imh 8y ago
>Anything you post on Aether will be gone in about 6 months. This is nice, because no one can stalk your decade’s worth of Reddit history and figure out where you sleep. This seems really misleading. If I can view it, I can save it. Enou
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by imh 8y ago
Of course I don't consider myself insulated from these platforms. > You do use them, even if you didn't sign up or agree to it, you do use their services. Your contact info is already there and every chance FB or whoever gets
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by imh 8y ago
As someone who doesn't use Facebook, Twitter, or their subsidiaries, the debate is kinda laughable. Sure break them up for antitrust. Write privacy regulation. But regulating the content shared there? If you don't like it, it&#x27
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by imh 8y ago
Hacker news does some parts of that better, like promoting new comments higher. On reddit, a new comment is unlikely to be visible enough to get traction.
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by imh 8y ago
Do you have a source for the claim that NYC has more devs than silicon valley? The only source I could find was about tech jobs, not just devs. It says >[NY's] tech work force, according to most analyses, is less than half and perha
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by imh 8y ago
As languages with more interesting type systems come along, more powerful IDE tooling will be possible (e.g. idris 2/blodwen code completion https://twitter.com/edwinbrady/status/1050528305743622147 ) More hop
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by imh 8y ago
My CEO is currently out on maternity. Other people are covering. It just kinda works.
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by imh 8y ago
I wouldn't say that makes games orthogonal to real world problems. That's what makes them good stepping stones. Risk free "cheap" testing makes for fast research. I totally agree about the ability to just skirt sample co
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by imh 8y ago
>what would that even mean? I gave an example at the top level comment. Apply the test (blind) to known innocent samples too, and see whether it implicates them.
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by imh 8y ago
The problem is that the expectation of being able to transfer this stuff over is more hype driven than anything else. People hear "AI beat the best person in the world at something intellectually hard" and think that it should be
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by imh 8y ago
I wonder if whoever is supplying evidence via tests should be forced to (blindly) apply the tests to people other than the defendant. If your test says some random sample is more likely match than I am, it's very weak evidence.
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by imh 8y ago
I went to the color factory and thought it was fun without taking pictures. I also went to a gorgeous shrine on a lake near Mt Fuji and there was a line dozens of people long to take a selfie at it. The problem isn't the pop-up experie
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by imh 8y ago
Similarly, there's a ton of math in the applied side of neural network research too. It's not math vs no math. It's a question of foundational "General Theory of X" math.
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by imh 8y ago
I thought the idea was always more about colonization. Diversify the species extinction risk. Spread through the galaxy.
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by imh 8y ago
Work effort seems like a collective action problem. It's a race to the bottom, trying to beat (or not be the worst of) your team. Unions are one way to solve this (collective bargaining). Another is just competing over workers. As the
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by imh 8y ago
I'm surprised to see no mention of decision paralysis. Hanging over every decision is a meta decision of how much effort to spend in making it (and so on, recursively). Given all the unpredictability the author points out, many decisio

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