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9 years ago
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on: OpenAI Universe
I would guess that they trained AlphaGo from many thousands of hours of match footage. Writing a computer vision script to segment / extract the data may cost cycles as you say, but would save many human hours by eliminating the need to re-watch the footage and literally type out state information for each move.
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9 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Are there any systematic and scientific ways to develop a habit?
I mean no offense, but a 75% failure rate isn't exactly a great endorsement of your methodology.
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9 years ago
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on: Why Do Famous People Get Paid $250k to Give a Speech?
Ehh. Hilary Clinton is far more powerful than the people that invite her to give speeches. More than likely this is a way for a business interest to pay tribute in the hopes that someday she might remember their fealty.
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9 years ago
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on: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]
One interpretation of this interview:
If Machiavelli had had a prince for a disciple, the first thing he would have recommended him to do would have been to write a book against Machiavellism. --VoltaireAnother interpretation of this interview: P.T. for POTUS.
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10 years ago
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on: Introducing Bootstrap Studio
ATM the price is $25.
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10 years ago
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on: Why So Many Artists Are Highly Sensitive People
I think much of what you've said can be applied to other types of social outcasts e.g. drunks, gamblers, etc.
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10 years ago
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on: Biggest image in the smallest space
I realize that this is besides the point but going on the title alone we could write a script that could generate an 'infinite' (max out available memory) sized image.
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10 years ago
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on: How Can There Still Be a Sex Difference, Even When There Is No Sex Difference?
Perhaps you could explain how the existence of trans. people is proof that gender is not a social construct?
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11 years ago
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on: When Is Cheryl's Birthday?
There are some great examples among the comments of people vehemently defending their provably false beliefs.
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11 years ago
You do know what happened in 2007-2008 which allowed for this, right?
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11 years ago
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on: Introducing Fresco: a new image library for Android
I wonder if this work has any link to what Carmack and the Oculus Rift crew are doing with Android?
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11 years ago
How could I get in touch with a team within Walmart that uses Scala? (To see if there are any available positions.)
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11 years ago
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on: How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malaysia Airlines plane is?
"The world divides into facts. Each fact can be the case or not the case, while everything else remains the same."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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11 years ago
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on: How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malaysia Airlines plane is?
You make a good point, but in this case location X is not a specific coordinate but a wide range of possible coordinates over the ocean.
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11 years ago
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on: The Software Revolution
Imagine a system which levied taxes not to fund government expenditure but to carefully control inflation. In this system there is no need for the government to collect taxes from citizen X to fund the needs of citizen Y. How is this possible? Study U.S. fiscal policy and you will learn about such a system. Given enough consideration you will eventually see that 'the redistribution of wealth' from citizen X to Y is an antiquated idea given how our monetary system actually works. A more accurate description of what occurs is: given the growth of the productivity of the population as a whole, we can 'distribute wealth' to those with less as long as this distribution doesn't cause the system to become unstable.
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11 years ago
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on: Everything you ever wanted to know about hexagonal grids
Just a conjecture, but, it may not always be possible/straightforward to map a set of CA rules meant for a rectangular grid to a hex grid.
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11 years ago
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on: Great Quotes
"Focusing is about saying no."
- Steve Jobs
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11 years ago
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on: German researchers discover flaw that could let anyone listen to cell calls
A couple of random thoughts on potential applications/uses:
1. Alexandria needs to communicate with Bilbo. Alexandria has the privilege of being trusted by whatever organization she belongs to (be that her country, company, etc) and as such is unmonitored AFAsheKs. Biblo on the other hand is some fugitive-type and is unable, or perhaps unwilling, to enter direct communication with Alexandria for fear of compromising himself or his beloved Alexandria. Bilbo could then monitor Alexandria's calls for an encoded message via a protocol they predetermine. This protocol could take the form of linguistic or audio steganography. One could image all sorts of information being leaked by Alexandria.
2. More realistically this could be tool for bribery. Monitor a set of vulnerable targets, wait until they reveal something, take a bribe to stay quite.
3. Or, for the Machiavellian-minded leak information that was supposedly confidential between two parties.
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11 years ago
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11 years ago
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on: IBM Design Language
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