jeromebaek

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by jeromebaek 6y ago
Pi is computable. What is computable, can be represented in finite information (the algorithm used to compute the number). Almost all real numbers are not computable.
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by jeromebaek 6y ago
Now tie this with computability theory. Almost all real numbers are uncomputable. It's obvious that they don't "exist" in any sense if by "exist" we mean "computable". Now consider that entropy, is in
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by jeromebaek 6y ago
So Airbnb has tried to unsuccessfully pivot to a payments infra company for several years now. Notable acquisitions for this effort include acqui-hiring ChangeTip, a bitcoin micropayments platform, and Tilt, a social payments platform. But
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by jeromebaek 6y ago
Sure. But most senior devs are not Tim Patterson.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
Explains why there's little outbreak in Africa.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
Philosophy of Computation at Berkeley: http://po.cab
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Alibaba AI Detects Coronavirus with 96% Accuracy(thenextweb.com)
2 points by jeromebaek 7y ago|0 comments
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
relevant: falsehoods programmers believe about time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4128208
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
As a LGBTQ person this article is so creepy
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
Y'all are gonna call me a crackpot, but consider P, PSPACE and IP. PSPACE is (probably) much more powerful than P. Also PSPACE=IP (interactive proofs). Learn interactively. Treat your compiler as the prover, you as the verifier. Don&#x
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
this is hilarious. sorry for laughing
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
gosh, this is unsettling. my brain is literally getting stuck on an infinite loop trying to read this and coherently put them together
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
No. peak market share of Windows XP was 80%. market share of chrome is hovering around 65%. search engine share of google is like 90%.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
please stop spreading the myth that ChromeOS is somehow immune to malware. nothing stops a dev from uploading malware to the Chrome web store, and there are many such cases that happened. the only meaningful metric of how safe a piece of so
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
the best way to ramp up on a codebase is to simply follow the critical path and draw an execution diagram of the entire critical path. tools like these are gimmicks.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
ML is hierarchical. the upstream layers categorise more abstractly and downstream layers categorise more specifically.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
this reeks of internal political problems. this isn't good for google nor for google's partners. the only reason they would autocannibalize is if there are too many engineers sitting around doing almost nothing so they start inven
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
the economy of literature, marc shell. it gives you a semiotics of money, a way of understanding money qualitatively. it has been 100x more valuable than any economics textbook.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
Think about it. Soft AI that assists the driver (automatic turning, cruise control, automatic brakes) is now mainstream. Why is it that full self-driving cars are categorically different? Because it requires full faith in the machine. When
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Robot Rights? Let's Talk About Human Welfare Instead(arxiv.org)
1 points by jeromebaek 7y ago|0 comments
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Airbnb patents AI that judges if you have neuroticism, narcissism, psychopathy(engadget.com)
16 points by jeromebaek 7y ago|4 comments
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
it's entirely possible that the Berkeley CS professors, who are obviously geniuses but also kind of dolts, knew nothing about these bureaucratic intricacies and took the most obvious way out.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
i was an undergraduate 8-hour TA at UC Berkeley for six semesters between 2015 and 2018. i was also part of the union. i'm surprised few of the comments are mentioning the main issue: union contract stipulates that 10-hour or more TAs
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
it makes me sad this sort of unnuanced, oh-so-rational take unengaged by any sort of philosophy is still getting upvotes in HN. posting here feels like a lost cause.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
Wow! I’m impressed. He sounds like an adult now. He actually has nuanced opinions. What a world we live in.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
nobody likes "artificial intelligence". laypeople are scared of it. the media blames it for all evils. it brings connotations of frankenstein, arrogant atheism, etc. it's reasonable to want to hide behind a different term.
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
This is all true, but it’s a far cry from OP’s statement
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
Scaruffi is an interesting guy. I've been following him since 2014. One of the most prolific polymaths of our time. This is a good book: https://www.scaruffi.com/nature/purchase.html
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
Azure doesn't run O365, Exchange, Bing, or Xbox Live. Please stop spreading misinformation. (I work at MS.)
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by jeromebaek 7y ago
The AI/ML hype drives away talented students from engineering and systems research, as well. Because of the hype engineering somehow is less prestigious than “data science”. Wonder how long until this trend will blow up.

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