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by sophistication 8y ago
AI is likely simple and won't require much processing power after all, so it will be impossible to ban it because it would imply more regulation and surveillance than what would be sustainable. Also global warming will likely kill us a
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by sophistication 8y ago
Were "dot-com" companies listed on the NASDAQ back then, or only companies with significant dot-com investments?
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by sophistication 8y ago
Related question: Is the AI bubble smaller or larger than the dot-com bubble? https://i.imgur.com/q7whaio.png
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by sophistication 8y ago
Not agreeing with OP, but citing single studies is often pretty misleading. It is better to look for meta studies because the outcomes typically vary considerably, so you cannot be sure a single study is reliable. Here are two meta studies
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by sophistication 8y ago
I just think it's a futile kind of paranoia. Your anomalous behavior puts you on some list. Writing about it here puts you on some list. As every admin knows so well, spying on user data is much too easy for that not being done all ove
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by sophistication 8y ago
… all of which is futile as long as NSA records everything and their databases will leak one day.
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by sophistication 8y ago
That does sound neat. Sounds like it could be combined with 3D localization to allow eavesdropping particular sounds sources even e.g. in large rooms with lots of people talking. Multipath/ghosting might make precise localization diffi
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by sophistication 8y ago
From the point of AI safety, slow progress seems to be beneficial.
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by sophistication 8y ago
How does multi microphone filtering work? I guess they localize different sound sources by cross-correlation (to get the timings) and triangulation (based on the timings and the speed of sound)?
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by sophistication 8y ago
This sounds like standard procedures for sampling from a Markov random field. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_random_field
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by sophistication 8y ago
The method in the first paper is in production, AFAIK. Also, outdated ≠ obsolete.
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by sophistication 8y ago
2010 is pre-deep learning revolution/hype, so these slides are outdated. See e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01907 https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01403
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by sophistication 8y ago
It looks like one can accelerate filters using WebGL shaders: http://evanw.github.io/webgl-filter/ I think Photoshop also operates on a reduced image for previewing the outputs of filters and other tools. Compared to P
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by sophistication 8y ago
The processes are also designed such that people do not feel overstepped and ignored. After all, most things in life are about social status, or more immediately about salary status and job position. If someone secretly implements an awesom
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by sophistication 8y ago
Notably he was also answering other questions in the AMA, so it possibly only took him 2 minutes. It is not a difficult feature to implement anyhow, it probably went like this: vim tools/Text.js self.addEventListener('cl
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by sophistication 8y ago
Why do you regret buying it?
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by sophistication 8y ago
There are good reasons to assume that tariffs are not enough. From the episode I've listened to it seems they are hypergamy deniers.
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by sophistication 8y ago
> whatever that means I mean that he is a rare kind of public figure who is really down-to-earth, yet proponent of the free market & innovation. Like Trump he breaks with the norms, but he's a lot more sincere. He also does not
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by sophistication 8y ago
I'm not losing optimism because of this. Musk fits right into the current political & cultural trajectory and the Tesla brand is sleek & timeless. The media is framing Musk's flaws (Twitter insults, weed & booze) as a
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by sophistication 8y ago
> We need a world where none of us need secrets … which is impossible? This would require that the government never gets corrupt because you need secrets to get rid of a corrupt government.
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by sophistication 8y ago
Ok, I'm an idiot. It's likely women who are less likely lonely. N is small though.
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by sophistication 8y ago
Exploring datasets from http://next.nomics.world , I'm finding no link between gender equality and population density adjusted loneliness. But, removing outliers with excessive loneliness for their population densities (MT,
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by sophistication 8y ago
Indeed. Studies are only finding moderate correlations of loneliness and technology use. The variables with the largest regression coefficients predicting loneliness in this study [0], were poor neighborhood safety (.61), being single (.47,
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by sophistication 8y ago
A bit late, but more on this: https://pocketmags.com/au/skeptical-inquirer-magazine/may-ju...
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by sophistication 8y ago
Yes, I predominately mean psychotherapy. The links I've listed mostly just provide hints of excessive psychologizing and quackery, but it is indeed awkward when >90% of psychotherapy methods do not perform better than placebo. There
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by sophistication 8y ago
An angle that appears to be underexplored, is what happens if you let males compete for sustainability. We might be underestimating the effect of classical (or perhaps even biological) provider roles of males, i.e. the amassment of resource
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by sophistication 8y ago
It looks like psychiatry, especially psychotherapy, is bullshit to a far greater extent than what was discussed in this blog post: --- For real patients, there is no evidence that the benefits of psychotherapy are greater than those of plac
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by sophistication 8y ago
It does not matter here whether it is correlation because whatever the pollution study is referring to, it will likely involve the same correlation.
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by sophistication 8y ago
According to this study, one year of education translates to 1 to 5 IQ points: https://psyarxiv.com/kymhp/
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by sophistication 8y ago
I think this paper is one of the most interesting results in this regard: > Money and Happiness: Rank of Income, Not Income, Affects Life Satisfaction > https://www.jstor.org/stable/41062232 Of course, the relati

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