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infimum
1y ago
This sounds super interesting. Can you elaborate on how you apply ZK to ML? (or can you point me to any resources?)
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3y ago
As far as I know, none of these 3 work specifically in NLP, most of their work is in image processing and to the best of my knowledge none of them have any background in linguistics.
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infimum
4y ago
Their pricing page says that it costs them around 1$ to serve 80 searches. I really wonder how they arrive at that number. That seems shockingly expensive somehow.
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5y ago
> This seems like such a distant yet specific relationship type I don't know much about it (never stepped foot outside EU/NA) but apparently some Asian countries have a pretty intricate system of kinship terms. For example Diag
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5y ago
scikit-learn (next to numpy) is the one library I use in every single project at work. Every time I consider switching away from python I am faced with the fact that I'd lose access to this workhorse of a library. Of course it's n
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5y ago
lmgtfy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_state
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5y ago
> Is a hotdog a sandwich? Depends on whether the bun is cut in half. If yes it's a sandwich otherwise it's a pizza. /s Arguments about categorizations can be productive in as far as they allow you a glimpse into the though
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6y ago
Currently on course 2/4 in the series and it's great. Every week starts with a reading assignment from the RL book followed by a series of videos (re-)explaining stuff. The videos themselves are very nicely structured, with clear
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8y ago
I live in Switzerland too and especially Youtube never seems to know whether to serve me ads in German, French or Italian (even though Google should know I almost exclusively consume English content). So I can sometimes watch several videos
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8y ago
In D&D speak you would call this kind of argument 'lawful evil'.
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8y ago
One of the most eye-opening moments of my CS studies was, when we discussed the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem [1] in a class about Algorithmic Game Theory. I always like to bring it up in discussions about voting. In brief it states that ev
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8y ago
It is racist, when you make it exceedingly difficult for some minority populations to get an id.
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8y ago
GP explicitly stated a case where the US did the same. So for all intents and purposes the law does propagate 'magically' over the internet. Well, at least US law does.
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8y ago
I have to agree again. What you point out is correct and I hope to be able to act accordingly. My personal take-away is still that these kinds of ethical ponderings are a bit like 'first-world problems'. I have the luxury that I c
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8y ago
Yes, I did. That's when he explained his situation to me. I mean I was aware of his background, but up to that point I didn't really grasp how strongly that influenced his decision making. In the end I didn't really agree wit
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8y ago
You know, I'm inclined to agree with your sentiment. I just think it might be more nuanced. At least to me my friend's suffering is more immediate. Whatever work he would have done there is multiple layers removed from me. I'
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8y ago
I have a good friend who just finished his Master's in CS and considered taking an internship at Palantir. I was very apalled at first how he could even consider to work for a company that are obviously the 'bad guys'. He com
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9y ago
probably because being legal is not a sufficient condition for being ethical
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9y ago
> Additionally if you prefer lectures ETHZ has recordings of their ML class[1]. I took that class back in 2015. I found that the lectures were sometimes hard to follow, unless you already know the concepts (which creates a bit of a catch
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9y ago
Elon Musk's recent comments on the topic makes me say that his understanding of AI is similarly 'limited'...
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9y ago
> Once everything is sufficiently automated it will be possible to wage war without risking any of your humans. i don't see how that could possibly work. just because people won't die directly from a weapon anymore doesn't
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9y ago
> Ideally, he'd tell them of his accomplishment and get a raise and a job helping other people realistically he'll get fired because they don't need him anymore. his wages are booked as profit and distributed among shareho
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9y ago
> where H is B-flat in german music notation in german B is called H and B-flat is called B
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9y ago
i'm always a bit unhappy with the comparison to the old testament. it think it turns people off unnecessarily. having read both, i reassure everyone that the silmarillion is way less tedious to read than the old testament (even if they
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9y ago
they were referring to the stasi [0] in east germany. and yes, your leader does have some worrying autocratic tendencies that merit being pointed out ad nauseam (since he's supposed to be the 'leader of the free world' and al
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9y ago
'timeo danaos et dona ferentes' it's amazing how some fundamentals of the human condition don't change even over thousands of years
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9y ago
from what i gather all the ridiculous security theater is because there's a non-zero chance of anyone being terrorist. i find it absolutely reasonable to avoid traveling to a place when there's an even bigger chance of being treat
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9y ago
does anyone know, how hard it would be to have a compiler flag -Wundefined that tells me when i write code with undefined behaviour? this way i can fix these issues myself and don't have to rely on the compiler inferring my intentions.
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11y ago
i always read it as a 'generalized' personal pronoun implying no particular subject (like 'man' in german or 'on' in french) which is nicer than writing everything in a passive voice.
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11y ago
the way i understand the quote it's not about the artist being rich but about the owners of the art who are.
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