scottlegrand2

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by scottlegrand2 6y ago
I get bronchitis once or twice a year. The method by which I clear it is to hang upside down until the s * just comes out of me by coughing as hard as I can. That sounds awfully similar.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
You're not the only one leaving stuff in the garage. but for some of the big-ticket items or food items I have doused the box in Lysol spray and let it sit for 10 minutes and then opened it. but I read somewhere that the half-life of t
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
And if it doesn't hopefully you stocked up on toilet paper and purell to trade in the new hellscape economy...
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Buying them for my elderly Chinese inlaws, yeesh. As an asthmatic, I already had a bunch for fire season so I really don't need any more.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Unavoidably slightly political but... I saw a shift in behavior following Trump's conference appointing Mike Pence as the effective coronavirus czar. Every morning there was a small stash of N95 masks at my local Home Depot until yeste
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Every thousand miles or so. Which is to say three times a year because I walk/run about 10 miles a day, which I once thought was original behavior, but see Nikolai Tesla.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Seems like running shoe Luddism to me. I've been using Brooks PureFlow shoes for years. They just happen to be at the slowest running shoe ever created. I'm looking forward to what happens to my running times in Nike vapor fly sho
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Completely different viruses, but right before the coronavirus outbreak, there was a plague outbreak in Beijing and the CCP responded similarly ineptly to it. The article below is from November 2019. https://foreignpolicy.com&#x2
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
There's an interview with an African grad student in Wuhan who says that strange cases of pneumonia were happening all the way back in September of 2019. And this interview was the first I'd ever heard of that. This could have bee
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I agree, but it's so very interesting that when a similar sort of loyalty oath was used even when I was in grad school 25 years ago to enforce loyalty to the state government at Penn State University (as a condition for receiving my po
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
While I don't think there's going to be an AI winter either, I don't think GPT-2 will achieve sentience or anything close to it. And that's for the same reason that no matter how much data they feed Tesla's self-dri
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
And if we started treating behavior like this as equivalent to the search for bug bounties, we could iteratively patch the law until it is no longer cost-effective to search for them.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Just charge a vacancy tax like Vancouver does. https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/empty-homes-t...
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
It's also my favorite episode of The Outer Limits reboot... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667957/
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I'm going to disagree. Yes, the biggest perpetrators aged. But in my experience it became more "50 is the new 40" than it went away.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Or you could engineer the roads and the cars to provide telemetry on where they are in high resolution in real time. This would reduce a nearly impossible job in machine intelligence to a really difficult simulation problem. But I don'
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Like so many of these rants, he doesn't actually demonstrate his ideas fix the problem, he just insists that they do so without proof. Less thought-leadering, more actual results please.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
By the law of large numbers, the sample mean approaches the population mean as the sample size gets larger. The law of large numbers goes hand-in-hand with the central limit theorem.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I've had a simple rule for the past 20 years. If you offer me less than 1% of the startup I'm not interested in working with you because I am a plebe if I accept that offer. It hasn't failed me yet. OTOH I chose to pursue a P
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
My dad spent his entire career at GE research. One day he arranged for Bill Lorensen to give me a tour of their computer graphics lab. Great guy! Sad to hear that he has passed.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
We failed to deliver on nuclear power. And that's on all of us...
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Forget 20 years, go out 50-100 years. Given a prior where we haven't annihilated the top of the food chain to give the planet a new shot at intelligent life... We will have solved artificial intelligence and that's a game changer.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I don't know how old you are but I'm a lot older than 41 as well. I am also stymied by the increasing tribalism in this country and I don't feel like a member of either major tribe. But I will admit there's a fine line b
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
The funny thing for me is that if The Economist had just hacked the input into GPT-2 so that it was an ongoing conversation they would have found that it's OK at holding a conversation, better than I expected when I did so. The convers
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Usain Bolt chose his core competency wisely. Although it does imply hilarity would ensue from an all robot Olympics team (from the nation of 0 1 obviously), no?
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
I always thought Amazon would build a YouTube killer. They're really the only company perfectly placed to do so. And yet while I'm pretty sure they've talked about it they've never acted on it.
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
One can be obsessive about a thing without being offensive about that thing or anything else. I think you are equating two separate issues. Social awkwardness is just not the same thing as anti-social behaviour. And in my industry experienc
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
Interesting take on intelligence. It also explains why people who have such passion frequently end up "bad cultural fits(tm)" among those who don't. Edit: I'm always surprised by which of my posts get the downvotes. Wond
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
We certainly tend to fall into scripts and follow those scripts for many things in life. GPT-2 demonstrated how much online prose is glorified mad libbing IMO and yet it has no sense of a consistent long-term context nor do its articles mak
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by scottlegrand2 7y ago
When I was working on recommenders at Amazon. I didn't really perceive this as modeling the mind of some sort of Oracle. Instead I saw it as a change of basis from the space of previous purchases to the space of recent purchases. That

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