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NY Times: That Meeting You Hate May Keep A.I. From Stealing Your Job(nytimes.com)
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by nicolapede 1y ago
What's your workflow/tool set?
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by nicolapede 1y ago
>> But allowing calculators WILL make those who like math reach much deeper into the field than without. Have you ever run into any mathematician that praised the calculator for his/her career? I’d be really curious to read about
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by nicolapede 2y ago
No. Just look at equations 6 and 7 in the link. The expected value of the move can be either positive or negative depending on the model parameters.
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by nicolapede 3y ago
If you look at the Baltic Sea before and after the invasion of Ukraine, that was largely a neutral space (before) that has since turned into a NATO one -- excluding only the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. I would argue this makes any furth
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by nicolapede 3y ago
Thanks! Those look exactly what I need! I struggle to keep my hands warm below -3C.
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by nicolapede 3y ago
The curious thing about this, though, is that of course you can start by replacing software engineers with it, but how far away are you going to be from being able to replace a CEO with it? I would say not that far away.
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by nicolapede 3y ago
It does feel magic indeed. Nice write up, thanks for sharing it. Would you know of any introduction to back-propagation written in a similar fashion?
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by nicolapede 3y ago
The day AI can be used in war, through robots for example, loosing a war might mean total annihilation. That is beyond nuclear weapons risk.
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by nicolapede 3y ago
If anyone likes to check the clarity of his view, I suggest "The abolition of man" -- chapter 3 in particular. I find it so prescient of modern times in so many ways. Astonishing.
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by nicolapede 4y ago
> Side note, if you want to explore your inner experience in a more active way, try finding a local meet up that does shamanic drumming with a guide. I know this sounds weird, but our subconscious is all about symbolism, and if you can p
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by nicolapede 4y ago
Matplotlib has been replaced by tikz [0] for most of the figures I need to generate (they would feed LaTeX docs anyway). [0] https://tikz.dev/
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by nicolapede 4y ago
I agree -- there is a lot of variability depending on boroughs. Hope they will extend the good practices more and more.
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by nicolapede 4y ago
As a regular commuter who cycles through Surrey and south London, I must say that most cycle lanes in London are a joke. They are either shared bus lanes (the good case, albeit you might get in trouble when multiple buses queue one after an
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by nicolapede 4y ago
Is there any analysis explaining how the new interest rates regime is affecting the number of employees in tech? I think the impact on VC is probably more direct, but, given what is happening all over FAANGs, I would imagine there could be
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by nicolapede 4y ago
It was a great final, exciting and fun to watch, at least towards the end. As a World Cup edition, though, I found it a disappointing one. It might be that the unusual season when it was played made physical skills more important than usual
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by nicolapede 4y ago
What are the new language features that let you avoid using smart pointers?
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by nicolapede 4y ago
That is a good point, thanks. It is not that I want to change device only because of lack of support for open ebooks. In general I’d like to start being less reliant on Amazon and I just thought of asking for advice starting from this discu
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by nicolapede 4y ago
I must say 8 inches does sound interesting. Thanks!
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by nicolapede 4y ago
Thanks I’ll check it out!
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by nicolapede 4y ago
Thanks - that is amazing! As a Kindle Oasis owner, which I love in terms of screen size (7 inches) and auto adjusting light, is there any non-Amazon e-reader device alternative that anyone would care recommending?
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by nicolapede 4y ago
> Actually, you could say we're in the middle of a transition. I recently noted the same while watching Severance. Almost all of the episodes, barring one or two, were directed by Ben Stiller. I found it one of the best (first) seri
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by nicolapede 4y ago
> IF someone can pull that of while protecting the individuals I believe it's alphabet. Together with deep mind and all the other research they do. What makes you think they will protect the "individuals"? From a privacy p
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by nicolapede 5y ago
> But many of the problems that remain untouched by DL, like human cognition, are NOT driven by gradients. This seems to me quite a deep insight. But how would you formally define a process that is gradient-based?
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by nicolapede 6y ago
Alpha Centauri is one of my all time favourite game. Out of curiosity, does anyone know if it is possible to replicate the Human Hive strategy from Alpha Centauri in other Civ games?
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by nicolapede 6y ago
Maybe someone already said it, but I just don't see Twitter as a public space -- it is not Hyde Park Corner, it is a large courtyard, very large indeed, but privately owned. From this perspective, I am really not bothered of who is on
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by nicolapede 7y ago
Given that it can take N weeks to die, wouldn't it make sense to calculate the mortality rate at a given time t as the number of deaths at time t divided by the number of reported infected people at time t-Nweeks ? (I am using
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by nicolapede 7y ago
It depends what you mean by "getting a better grip". There are books on scientific topics that do not rely on technical details. When they are great, they are so exactly because, even with this constraint, they manage to clearly
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by nicolapede 7y ago
Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (CRTP) [0] in C++. class Derived : public Base<Derived> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiously_recurring_template_p...
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by nicolapede 7y ago
>We talked a lot about how literally no one on earth is capable of seeing an understanding your flaws as well as you, but also most humans on earth are infinitely less interested. The lens you view yourself with is totally unrelated to t

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