tw1010

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by tw1010 7y ago
Yeah I don't buy this idea at all. People freaked out over the ability to edit photos in dark rooms decades ago. Trust didn't deplete because pictures got tied to identities which in turn is tied to reputation (or by verifying &qu
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by tw1010 7y ago
People generally seem to have difficulty thinking about the diversity of types of lives on a population-level scale.
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by tw1010 7y ago
I have such trouble trying to figure out which of these many algorithms that are released will end up having a significant impact on a 5 year horizon. But this I have a rare hunch about that it could be quite significant (at least the direc
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by tw1010 7y ago
Thank you
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by tw1010 7y ago
Curious: why isn't all porn sites sued for this? I don't quite get why they're only going after PH? Is it because it's harder to win a case against 1000 websites? Is it because it's more overhead to go after multipl
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by tw1010 7y ago
I used to be sceptical that the concept of overtraining was a thing, but it definitely is. Just saying that running every day consistently might not necessarily be good for you in the long run. Listen to your body.
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by tw1010 7y ago
Pet peeve: when people take phrases intended for one thing and uses them for a slightly modified purpose. I take Branson's "screw it, let's do it" mantra as something entreprenurial, a call to break the rules (and stuff
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by tw1010 7y ago
I'm hearing this advice so often that it's pissing me off. The book is BS. (I've read it.) There, I said it. It's always "this book is hugely thought provoking" (pointing at you Daniel Gross), and never ever an
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by tw1010 7y ago
Like I said above, "typos" in sequences of calculations are obviously problematic, and lead (almost always) to mistakes in the final result. In this case that's not applicable since there's no "second arithmetic man
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by tw1010 7y ago
There's value in collaboratively discussing half-baked ideas in public before any real applications have been produced. Imagine this article as just another in a stream of posts trying to "think aloud" about BNNs, without any
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by tw1010 7y ago
I didn't say it was one of the most common mistakes, I said it's one of the most common mistakes I have observed. Purely subjective.
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by tw1010 7y ago
Not really, it's one of the most common mistakes I see in bayesian calculations. If the author was basing a lengthy series of calculations on that first step, it would be worse (but in this case the expression is quickly replaced by a
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by tw1010 7y ago
It's not "not getting the basics right", it's a simple typo. A thing like that shouldn't invalidate a whole article (unless you have skin in the game for the opponent argument). Why does HN have a pattern of dismiss
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by tw1010 7y ago
I mean the boring answer is that people have patience and energy constraints. They arbitrarily ignore the whole group because VC isn't adjacent enough to their life goals, or something, to warrant the energy necessary to pick out the p
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by tw1010 7y ago
They're not all bad, far from it. But sometimes a few actors poisons the well of a whole label (ehm, shark tank), causing some people to have an allergic reaction to the whole class (even if it isn't true that all of them are bad)
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by tw1010 7y ago
Isn't everything politics in some form or another?
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by tw1010 7y ago
It wouldn't be so sleazy if the fact that that's the transaction being made was less of an "open secret" and more of an acknowledged fact.
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by tw1010 7y ago
Curious: Do people find value in reading increment? I've tried reading it a few times but have often found it to be too many words for too little deep insight. Would love to be convinced otherwise though.
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by tw1010 7y ago
I agree with you. I find Melvyn Braggs rudeness quite useful. (And it doesn't seem like the quests mind. I mean, they're adults, they can handle some pressure to be succinct.)
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by tw1010 7y ago
Tbh, some anti-tech ideas (essentially eloquently presenting steelmanned ideas I'd only had at the periphery of my mind). All their ideas which goes against the grain, that I find valuable. (Warning tho: there's a lot of dopey-nes
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by tw1010 7y ago
Eric Weinstein's The Portal really is amazing. A top 5 highlight of 2019 as far as I'm concerned.
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by tw1010 7y ago
Can't think of a specific episode, but all the controversial ideas discussed in the Red Scare podcast have really twisted around my brain (and put words to things I thought only I were alone in observing) recently.
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by tw1010 7y ago
Learning to become more creative so I don't have to chase new languages or frameworks for intellectual stimulation.
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by tw1010 7y ago
I feel like we're ignoring the obvious answer: because most people in AI right now are overwhelmed by the necessary mathematical background and comfort necessary to produce first-principles generative innovative algorithms and models,
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by tw1010 7y ago
Still so crazy that our field is so young that people like this are only now passing away.
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by tw1010 7y ago
The alternative is "radio" which is even weirder
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by tw1010 7y ago
Curious: Do people find value in reading increment? I've tried reading it a few times but have often found it to be too many words for too little deep insight. Would love to be convinced otherwise though.
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by tw1010 7y ago
The "coding is the same as writing" meme really should stop being subscribed to. It's soo different.
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by tw1010 7y ago
Some might hold you in higher regard, but probably that won't help you much in the interview process. Raw skill is what you'll lean on most of the work day, that's what they'll primarily judge you on. If they have two po
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by tw1010 7y ago
I've never heard someone persuasively and eloquently express to me, in a non-dopey way, just how (small amounts of) acid can act as cognitive enchantment. Anyone care to take a stab at it? For instance, is the effect only temporary, in

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