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by sudoscript 10y ago
No surprise the guy who made it went on to create this little company called DeepMind...
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by sudoscript 10y ago
The brain naturally employs dimensionality reduction for memory. Sleep is one example. Another, simpler one is reading -- how far back can you remember word for word when you are reading something? Maybe a sentence at most? But you still re
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by sudoscript 10y ago
This is what progress looks like. This is what it takes.
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by sudoscript 10y ago
It's a dataset of questions marked as duplicate, so it could be used to train on semantic understanding. There are 400,000 pairs -- that's not huge, but it's not bad either.
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by sudoscript 10y ago
He is a writer at a mobile games startup in San Francisco. Both kidneys still somehow intact.
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by sudoscript 10y ago
In practical robotics, how often do the assumptions hold? Is it really usually true that the variables have only a linear relationship?
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by sudoscript 10y ago
I wish more math papers did this. It's a nightmare for someone who doesn't read equations all day for a living.
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Algorithm trained on history identifies key turning points(pnas.org)
1 points by sudoscript 10y ago|0 comments
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by sudoscript 10y ago
That's pretty cool. For me, everything changed when I started thinking in terms of column spaces and linear transformations. Matrices are not just a series of multiplications and additions. They describe so much more.
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The Best and the Brightest(blog.sudoscript.com)
2 points by sudoscript 10y ago|0 comments
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by sudoscript 10y ago
Oh, I definitely agree. I am not a UBI supporter by any means. Still, I think if the left can prove that it works on a smaller scale, and change people's mind, I'd be willing to reconsider (which is my default position on almost a
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by sudoscript 10y ago
Politics is not just about being right. It's about convincing others you are. That's where the left has failed (if you agree with their positions). Agreed, the left has real ideas for solutions to middle America. But these ideas a
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by sudoscript 10y ago
Not everyone believes that the solution to poverty is welfare. I imagine many of his voters believe the solution looks more like protectionism. Which is basically what his plan is. I'm not claiming they're right. I'm just cla
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by sudoscript 10y ago
> The third major failure has been a general apathy about politics amongst my colleagues here in the Bay Area. When many of the best minds in machine learning have decided that the most existential threat to civilization is the rise of S
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The Future is Here(sudoscript.com)
2 points by sudoscript 10y ago|0 comments
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by sudoscript 10y ago
How do you know your own thought processes aren't a part of the simulation? Logic is a great tool to analyze the simulation unless it's been baked on purpose by our overlords. On a different note, does simulation hypothesis strike
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by sudoscript 10y ago
That's a really neat way to brainstorm. Let me add one more thing. The big companies have an advantage in hardware and research. But they dont care about niche applications of their tech, because prizes worth less than $1B don't m
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A Neural Network for Machine Translation, at Production Scale(research.googleblog.com)
84 points by sudoscript 10y ago|10 comments
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by sudoscript 10y ago
As someone self-studying measure theory right now, I completely agree on the quality of math textbooks for more esoteric subjects. It's like the authors expect the books to only be used in conjunction with TAs or classes. Any advice on
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by sudoscript 10y ago
A quote I read once: "History works slowly at first, and then all at once." I still think it's too early to tell what the impact of events like Brexit and Euro crisis will be. As humans, we're wired for immediate feedbac
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by sudoscript 10y ago
> All of this is handled by a graphics operating system with capabilities that would have seemed unbelievable only 15 years ago. Assuming this refers to the introduction of GUI based desktops (1984), I'd say this was written around
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A homeless woman’s battle to prove Social Security owes her more than $100K(washingtonpost.com)
26 points by sudoscript 10y ago|2 comments
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by sudoscript 10y ago
Memes are a great example of this. They form, spread, and evolve so much more quickly on online communities than in the real world. I wonder if this represents a faster evolving community online, or one with weaker bonds because they'r
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by sudoscript 10y ago
I can't tell if this is a good deal for Uber investors or not. As I understand it, Uber will own a 20% share in the combined company. The combined company is valued at $35 billion, so Uber's share of the value will be $7 billion (
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by sudoscript 10y ago
Wow. I just stayed up late to read that. Completely worth it. What else has he written?
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by sudoscript 10y ago
Also millions of miles of fleet learning a day, which Uber doesn't have, since they don't own the cars. Self-driving cars is a supervised learning problem, and he who has the data wins
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Why war is coming, in our lifetime(sudoscript.com)
39 points by sudoscript 10y ago|32 comments
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by sudoscript 10y ago
Well before Krugman, it was Kurt Vonnegut. In 1952, he published his first novel Player Piano, which describes a society where most jobs are automated. There's a sharp class divide between the few "managers and engineers" who
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by sudoscript 10y ago
Programming has an instant feedback loop -- you know almost immediately if what you wrote works or doesn't. Math is more abstract, and doesn't have that. As humans, it's much easier to learn something on your own when you hav
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by sudoscript 10y ago
Ah my mistake. I thought dangs reply was in response to the top level comment. Yeah this is pretty unwarranted. Editing my comment to reflect my mistake. Thanks.

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