throwawaywego

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by throwawaywego 7y ago
Persona of a person wanting to study AWS for commercial projects at one of AWS's biggest clients: - Create account. Enter credit card details, but verification SMS never shows up. Ask for help. - I get called at night (I'm abroad)
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
Give me physical opt-out. A "robots.txt"/do-not-track for computer surveillance spiders. Let me wear a necklace or QR code on my shoulder, and any commercial face tracking software, is required to create a big black blindspot
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
It is a restate of the conspiratorial claim in my first post. One is justified to say anything one pleases, but it could still be a detraction or pointless speculation: "News flash: Alice Zhang has long hair. Women frequently have long
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
Stating "The US is funding the Hong Kong protests" may very well be found true later on, but right now, it is a conspiracy theory without any evidence, not a matter of probability based on arbitrary priors. This conspiracy theory
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
I think this tech is too complex to run on mobile devices in 8 seconds for video transfer from 1 selfie. What I think Zao does is preprocess the videos (manually or highly accurate facepoint detection). They pre-calculate the transforms (st
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
It is very meta to ask this question, and to see the replies to this question, as the trope: "The US meddles in foreign revolutions" is common for (social) media propaganda (bots). > Claim: The US is supporting and encouraging
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
> What if this is the answer? It would be a copout. Instead of actually tackling AI's problem of common sense, claim that maybe layers of logistic regression and matrix factorization is all there is, we are its equal, just a few lay
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
The author of James Bond, Ian Flemming, worked as a commander for British Naval Intelligence, an officer for the 30 Assault Unit, whose task it was to gather intelligence behind enemy lines. His brother worked with "stay-behind" f
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
> Why do you believe it's a composite image? Because it is common to reconstruct a signal by taking multiple measurements, instead of a single sample. The field of compressed sensing broke ground on effective sampling. If (some) err
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
I'm of the understanding that this was not a single image, but a composite image, taking by different satellites, planes, and/or drones. The US could have build test facilities in their deserts, have a 3-D model available for prop
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
Human brains are optimized for prediction of future events, because this helps with survival (eg: you can predict a winter coming up, so you stock up on food). Randomness is by (some) definition unpredictable. But humans are so eager for pa
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
> Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (2001), Breiman > There are two cultures in the use of statistical modeling to reach conclusions from data. One assumes that the data are generated by a given stochastic data model. The other u
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
So you predict if they have a general mild preference for the Democrats, then mine if they once reacted strongly on certain triggers: gun control, weak leadership, immigrants, drug addiction, patriotism, racism, elitism, religion & cons
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
It is difficult to provide a counterfactual here (would Obama have won if his campaign hadn't put any effort in digital?), so I am not sure if you are requiring that. For factual analysis of the effects and strategies employed by Obama
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
> How successful was Obama's digital campaign? From what sources are we deriving that conclusion? I'd agree that it may have been overblown (just like the Russian interference may have been overblown). Also, of course the marke
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
> How would you even collect data about this? You gather the data required to make a good probability prediction for voter preference ((soft) labels for this easier to find than swing voter labels). Then when the model is uncertain, thos
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
The opposite of extreme self-citing is self-plagiarism (either out of ignorance, to avoid extreme self-citing on ground-breaking research, or with malicious intent: passing the same paper to multiple journals as a new result). > The rate
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
You have a set of stocks either correlated with the U.S. economy or China's economy. Amateurs tend to pick uptrending correlated stocks (all stocks trending up in the U.S.). When U.S. economy crashes, all their eggs are in the same bas
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
If you know that 5.6% of the users (automated, or parroting the preacher) of an exchange will use fibonacci retracements, and that 15% of the amateur market will follow the market price change caused by either buying or selling activity, th
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
I use the "everything is at least 10x greater on the internet" rule.
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
You are talking about writing an algorithm that has a 100% accuracy on an NP-hard problem, and taking the impossibility of this to discard an approach that may yield 58% accuracy.
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
> The purpose of AGI is twofold: first to improve the efficiency of organizations of humans by facilitating communication and access to information, and second, to automate the economy with respect to those functions that require human l
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
I feel the business model of artificial artificial intelligence / fake it until you make it, is a valid business model, unless you obfuscate your progress to investors. If you can either hire an AWS cluster or an army of cheap human co
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
> Why Not Lossy Compression? > Although humans cannot compress losslessly, they are very good at lossy compression: remembering that which is most important and discarding the rest. Lossy compression algorithms like JPEG and MP3 mimic
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
> Programs must run without input from other sources (files, network , dictionaries, etc.) under Windows or Linux without additional installations.
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
Assuming optimal randomness, the shortest program to output the data will be in the random source. So record the random source, try all programs shorter than the data, and note the timestamp when you've found the optimal compression.
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
> As [Martin] Gardner tells the tale, on visiting Earth, an inquisitive alien wishes to collect all of human knowledge. Having no room for the Encyclopedia Britannica aboard an already-cramped spaceship (and lacking a CD-ROM player), the
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
Imagine a highly efficient compressor watching Toy Story in 4k definition. If it was really intelligent, then it could abstract the 3D-models, motion, physics, lightning, and textures, and store the movie (or something imperceivably like it
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
You can't be forced to give your password (self-incrimination), but, depending on the jurisdiction, the police can force your finger on the unlock screen. The technology is a bit hush-hush, but it is already possible to read brainwaves
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by throwawaywego 7y ago
Part: - Confirmation bias. You remember the irrelevant ads, because they made you do a double take, they stood out as unusual. - The terrible ads are actually effective at getting clicks from people with similar interests, but less of an av

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