singham

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by singham 9y ago
Daniel Dennett has been saying this for quite a while.
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by singham 9y ago
I have deleted thousands of google group messages and never found any problem. Maybe it is just for you.
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by singham 9y ago
How are you going to recreate the main selling point of facebook, i.e. the Newsfeed ? If things are encrypted, how are you going to determine relevance, etc.
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by singham 9y ago
Your comment reminds me of the book "The End of Average". His main point is there is no such thing as the "average [blank]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eBmyttcfU4 [2] https://www.youtube.c
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by singham 9y ago
But we would never reap the benefits in the meantime . That was my main point. And this becomes crucial if the saving of deaths from accident is substantial as compared to deaths that happen due to AI errors.
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by singham 9y ago
Genetic Algorithms are used in designing of antenna arrays.
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by singham 9y ago
I have heard about Superdeterminism of Gerard t'Hooft. [1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34217/why-do-peo... [2] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/critical-opalescence/do
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by singham 9y ago
Consider the following case. Let's say we ban development of self-driving cars since the algos can't be explained. Then we will never know the benefit we might reap from adopting them. We know humans make mistake. But with self-dr
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by singham 9y ago
Amazon will surely buy you once your product matures. I can see that happening.
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by singham 9y ago
I have used Nhibernate in my project at a company. But beyond simple queries we hit a performance issue. For a complex query, it took about 10 seconds to load the data to the frontend. So we had to rewrite the "code logic" ( the N
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by singham 9y ago
I cannot agree with this more. Universe has been existing without intelligent observers for billions of years. It stands to reason that universe is constantly being shaped as particles interact.
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by singham 9y ago
Anyone who thinks that QM is making stuff up, please watch this video. Here Rubidium atoms (mind you atoms and not electrons or photos) are made to interfere with each other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_w6AGe_fIo Quan
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by singham 9y ago
I had seen a similar research project by people from Microsoft. They had mapped fonts onto a higher dimensional data. Then you can generate new fonts on the fly by specifying a new point and getting a font for that. https://githu
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by singham 9y ago
> “Why is the unconscious so loathe to speak to us? Why the images, metaphors, pictures? Why the dreams, for that matter.” [from the article] This is true for majority of us. But for some people, unconscious doesn't even use images.
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by singham 9y ago
According to "theory of meaning", In “General Semantics,” David Lewis wrote I distinguish two topics: first, the description of possible languages or grammars as abstract semantic systems whereby symbols are associated with aspect
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by singham 10y ago
Have you seen this talk? Talks exactly about what you mentioned. http://www.recode.net/2017/2/20/14666282/ben-thompson-strate...
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by singham 10y ago
I will relate to my observation in Harry Potter books. Harry Potter universe has time machine which we know scientifically are impossible while in the same HP universe, Hermoine has to physically go to the forbidden library to read books. J
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by singham 10y ago
> votes would expire Basically, ant-algorithm. To stay relevant, you have constantly gather new votes. But it has one problem. Comments with higher votes already have momentum, hence they will be shown to new users most of the time, whic
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by singham 10y ago
Can some kind of summary/NLP analysis help to avoid this? Some kind of color coding of the comment threads. Like which comment threads are sticking to single topic. Which are changing/adding new topics to discussion. A visual tool
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by singham 10y ago
Can you comment on how comments could benefit from NLP related advances? E.g. detecting entities and using those as entry points into discussion, detecting similar topics discussed in different threads, detecting comments which are low effo
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by singham 10y ago
Wait for the AI revolution to happen and Singurality to come true. Then AI would devise a fusion reactor for itself and humanity.
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by singham 10y ago
Baby steps. We all were babies once.
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by singham 10y ago
Next stop : Pun recognizer or pun generator.
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by singham 10y ago
I found this panel video to be quite good discussion of DL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=furfdqtdAvc
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by singham 10y ago
Of what use is market ownership when no one is going to buy you. Facebook is already working on its own style transfer algos.
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by singham 10y ago
With the web going more mobile with less storage space. Why would anyone would want to be a node in such a network where you have to cache content for others.
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by singham 10y ago
The same thing can be said about Chrome. I was previously on 3gb ram. It ran so fucking slow. Firefox was much better. Now I added on 8gb and chrome runs very fast is more responsive than Firefox. The first thing that came to my mind was th
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by singham 10y ago
If there are million, can you please list at least ten?
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by singham 10y ago
This reminds me of the time when I liked physics very much. I used to memorize 10 digits of speed of light and feel very proud.
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by singham 10y ago
Exactly. I saw his webpage and was overawed until I read about him on reddit. That guy is full of himself.

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