queensnake

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by queensnake 10mo ago
He puts the bubble pop down to people needing human connection, 'feeling cared for', but his example shows the AI customer support simply getting nowhere.
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by queensnake 3y ago
You can see implications that your teacher didn’t. That’s not a ‘new teacher’.
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by queensnake 6y ago
Intel’s OneAPI promises to translate away from CUDA: https://software.intel.com/oneapi
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by queensnake 6y ago
Intel’s DPC++ seems similar - computation graph, communicating via buffers. https://software.intel.com/en-us/oneapi/dpc-compiler Anyone pick out differences?
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by queensnake 7y ago
Possessive is also contraction: "x's" <- "xes" <- "x his". No citation, but I read that somewhere. Interesting that it started out so primitive-seeming.
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by queensnake 7y ago
Out of date. Reinforcement Learning makes truly ‘smart’ actions, courses of action. Calling something ‘curve fitting’ pooh poohs it (especially ‘just’ curve fitting) - calling it ‘distilling’ gives it the respect that it deserves.
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by queensnake 7y ago
It looks to me like it could be an assignment to const, or, a copy vs a non-copy - it’s not obvious at all. I’m sure: ‘?=‘ was fought over and rejected, but that’s what I’d have expected conditional assignment to look like.
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by queensnake 7y ago
I don't think there is one, yet. 'Multiprocessor Programming': https://www.amazon.com/Art-Multiprocessor-Programming-Revise... has some algorithms, though.
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by queensnake 7y ago
Are you thinking of the way ints and chars (and floating-point types!) inter-convert? That is a weakness or convenience, but otherwise the typing is pretty strong.
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by queensnake 7y ago
> VAMPIRE has a special mode for working with very large knowledge bases and can answer queries to them. Does this mean it can somewhat replace Prolog? I forget why Prolog doesn't use full logic, but, does Vampire find a way to get
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by queensnake 7y ago
> provably untrue. So prove it. No, they look for and start the fights. This is just one case, true, but it makes your case hard to prove: https://www.foxnews.com/us/dc-antifa-leader-is-third-charged...
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by queensnake 8y ago
e1m8b: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom/Ports/d-f/e1m8... -- has mirrors Be very gentle, the server seems taxed: e1m4b: https://www.doomworld.com/e1m4b/e1m4b.zip
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by queensnake 8y ago
... promised to be "the most open administration ever" - and ended up being more closed even than GWB. There's really something to the idea that paying lip service mentally gets you off the hook.
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by queensnake 8y ago
There was a politician and activist from Montana on (US) NPR radio today who advocated getting congress to pass an act that /corporations aren't people/. If anyone's new to the issue, Google 'Thom Hartmann corporate
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by queensnake 11y ago
Some recent /opinion/, though not a study, from Canada: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/jo...
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by queensnake 12y ago
> I've heard that the Marines actually have really good air support, because they have their own planes Why can't the army buy the same planes, are they not being manufactured any more?
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by queensnake 12y ago
Such self-fondling pabulum around here. If Aristotle can be wrong, so can Einstein. See: IQ data. I bet at least the number of people who posted want to say the same thing, but have refrained from posting. I bet frikkin' Paul Graham th
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by queensnake 12y ago
There's Ulrich Drepper's "What every programmer should know about memory" - http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/ . It's long, it's from 2007, but its fundamentals are right.
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by queensnake 12y ago
http://rockstarresearch.com/increase-longevity-and-intellige... > It turns out that lots of people get their klotho levels increased as a side-effect of taking prescription forms of “activated” vitamin D (VDRAs) for chro
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by queensnake 12y ago
> The claims are not supposed to tell you how to implement the invention That part of the original deal around patents has been lost, then - to wit, that after the 17 years elapsed, the world would know how to implement this 'non-ob
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by queensnake 12y ago
No, the difference is in the added word troll , not simply a defender . Trolls are non-practicing, and produce nothing and protect nothing. I'm sure a legitimate 'little guy' with a patent would get all the sympathy he de
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by queensnake 12y ago
If it was a snotty 'ummmm', I personally would object to it in real life, too. And I think others would as well. Also, you don't need 'ums' in writing.
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by queensnake 12y ago
That 'universals' guy seems actually to be Donald Brown, and his book is 'Human Universals'. http://www.amazon.com/Human-Universals-Donald-Brown/dp/00700... The book is expensive, here's a
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Pinocchio Threshold: A possible better indication of AGI than the Turing Test(ieet.org)
2 points by queensnake 13y ago|0 comments
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by queensnake 13y ago
> ... the ability to learn, process on the fly, and pull together disparate information. Which is indeed distinct from IQ. Do you have cites for that?
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How Google missed the boat(scripting.com)
108 points by queensnake 13y ago|107 comments
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by queensnake 13y ago
Yeah but will it satisfy us, if we can't see it making analogies, can't see its semantics; identify with it? This same lack of breakdown into pieces we understand will make it hard to tweak and advance NNs beyond 'good catego
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by queensnake 13y ago
I still use Google maps and search, I just do it in my main browser (FF natch) which has a cookie whitelister that rejects Google cookies.
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by queensnake 13y ago
Unfortunately Kaggle doesn't seem to have as many entry-level competitions as it once did. Some learning ones, sure, but you need something to let you move up to 'Masters Level'. Also, it looks like the whole process would
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by queensnake 13y ago
> hn predates reddit. It doesn't. Paul Graham has said he made it to be like Reddit 'used to be' (in the early days, most of Reddit's users were sock puppets of the founders, and it was pretty high quality).

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