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I don't think you can drive people away from the US dollar, simply because any such destabilising action will hit the real economy first. And the US has seen low consumer inflation for years now.

MMT absolutely does take account of forex by recognising that a government has a large amount of power to dictate money flows within the country, but very little power to compel terms of trade overseas. And most countries need to continuously import certain things which cannot be substituted locally, especially fuel.

Expanding the money supply lets people buy more locally produced stuff, but not more imports. This even scales down to local token currencies ("Bristol pound") or Krugman's "babysitting tokens" thought example.
I'd be hesitant to submit all of my current/future contact information to a form on a random site with no further information about the service.
just tested it against the 10000 first prime numbers in Sublime Text : 2462 prime numbers have a direct neighbour with the same last digit. That's nearly a quarter of them...
Edit: by taking into account sequences with 3 identical digits (110 occurrences), it's even more.
I don't think its a downside at all. Its a refreshing change from all the bright, cartoon-like game designs of the past few years.
He said nothing about it being ruled unconstitutional. I assume what parent is trying to say is that the restriction on their 2nd amendment rights (which is what this law is-- a restriction of a right) is, in many people's opinion, contrary to the intended purpose of the 2nd amendment. Now, there is a difference between restricting of a right and a ban of a right, but it becomes a very fine line.
So, just for fun. The video quotes "over 1PB" of storage per box.

I count 6 columns of 15 rows/drives. Might be 7 columns even, there's some panels that aren't fully open on the video.

So, 90-105 drives. I'm guessing they are using 10TB drives, although maybe they can get bigger unannounced drives? Roughly, the math seems to check out.

Quite impressive. Guess the Backblaze guys need a Storage Pod 6.0 soon :P (I know, I know, different requirements/constraints)
Not in NY State. My partners's identity was stolen in 2012, the thief was somehow able to get a NY State DL issued with my partner’s information but the thief’s photo. NY State DMV refused to issue a new driver’s license number, instead there’s a fraud flag on her license information. Now she (my partner) must present two forms of photo id when she wants to rent a car or do anything else where a driver’s license would normally suffice.
Should leibniz, keppler, Einstein, newton, flemming, jenner papers should have been free?

Oh they were. And it is thanks to flemming that people stopped dying in atrocious ways over the world from gangrene.

Should citizens be able to access state of the art research about how to prevent vascular disease, dietetic, chemical pollution, effects of fracking, urbanisms to help them make good choices when voting? I do think so.

Because no vote exists without enlighten choices.

Chosing without relevant information on future choice that will impact every one require citizens that can have a constructed opinion. And experts are doing a poor job at being right. (look at the financial regulations made by experts and the long lasting crisis since 2000).

So yes, papers should be free to support the exercise of democracy.
A fair point. It's not all Americans. I would say as a Brit, though, there isn't really an equivalent comedian here that would help inform popular opinion in the same way. Russell Brand tried but I don't think he ever had the same impact.
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Also Kimchi! My gf and I make kimchi about once a season (in a large Chinese ceramic fermentation jar). It's a great ritual; it takes a few hours but is very enjoyable... every batch comes out unique, and the result is delicious.

Or, if you're in a hurry: make pickles. All you need is salt and water (vinegar-based pickles are not actual ferments).
I think Starcraft (Broodwar) is the most notable example, having garnered also academic interest.
This is a terrible complaint, should we not celebrate the victories of those who survived tragedy and made it through?

I mean it's terrible that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have this model minority myth about it. There are still droves of Vietnamese American immigrants and second generation people who struggle to make ends meet daily but I don't think that should distract from this article.
I basically got rid of all of it at my house but none of the crazy stuff (some people replace their cookware, etc. I think that is a misunderstanding of the problem).

I notice when restaurants use it but it doesn't really ruin my life or make me descend back into bad health. I just notice I am more anxious/blood sugar volatile for a few days after. So I avoid obvious large sources of wheat, but I accept that restaurants regularly use it in sauce, etc. and it causes noticeable but manageable issues.

I have the heterozygote version (1 variant of HLA gene) rather than the homozygote version (2 variants of HLA gene) so it is less severe and only affects some of my cells. If you have both variants, your risk of Celiac goes to about 50% and you normally find out early in life.

I would also confirm it is not some other category of food sensitivity affecting you - my fiance went through a similar process and found some links to IBS which leads to a low FODMAP diet. Wheat is a FODMAP but other FODMAP foods affected her also where for me it is 100% wheat.

TL/DR: obvious wheat things is a big step, I noticed difference in anxiety, skin health, brain fog, focus, migranes, sleep. 80% of those issues for me went away by getting rid of obvious sources at home.
At the risk of coming across like a shill, I loved his "Hack Yourself First" course on Pluralsight. He does a great job of covering the basics of web security that every web developer should know and he makes it interesting by covering it from the attack angle first.

Someday I plan on getting around to subscribing for another month just to go through his newer content.
Perhaps downvoters thought you were making a joke? https://github.com/mattkrick/meatier is very appropriate to this discussion.
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I use this regularly - it's great. Only issue is I can never remember the domain name! :)

It'd actually be pretty helpful if you made it something like https://try.tonicdev.com/npm/canvas because then I can just type "try." and my browser will find it for me.
I feel that your analogy does not disprove OP's claim.
You would first have to prove that the analogy is actually applicable.
Theoretically, one could argue that motion is substantially different from intelligence such that the analogy does not hold.

But I am with you in that engineering / CS / ... should not wait for neuroscience to make further discoveries but continue the journey.
True from my experience as well. If you're going to invest in a Data Scientist, you want the cachet of having a Phd in that role.
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Right, but then they aren't random, right? I feel like this is a problem of semantics.. what do we mean by "random number"? I thought the definition was basically, "lack of pattern." What is a better definition?
I'm trying to find out from their website, but it's unclear. Are the servers hosted in the USA? And will the organisation be incorporated in the USA?

If you're talking about privacy and transparency, it's better to operate in a place bound the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, rather than the US Constitution, because the former gives people much more rights with their data, how it's used, etc.
Yes, not making the email addresses easily searchable is the worst type of security through obscurity. The type where it's only obscure to you the email address owner, but not to those who would like to exploit you.
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To be fair, many perfectly qualified scientists pursue work outside of academia because they couldn't get a permanent job in academia. Which is another sort of selection bias at play, particularly wrt their commentary on academic practice.
This is my favorite chemical that he's written about: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/san...
I see the smartest people in the room do not know the difference between society journals and regular journals.

It is actually very simple. If it is a society journal then the copyright is owned by a society and the society decides what they want to do. Some of them outsource production to publishers by paying publishers money. The others do it all themselves. Over last 10 years most of smaller society journals went away because contrary to popular but highly delusional belief turning the manuscript into a readable paper is a rather expensive process and most of the society journals cannot afford it.

So instead they simply sell the copyrights to the likes of T&F, Springer, etc. EICs get to continue to dabble with deciding who gets accepted and someone else gets to do the unsexy part of making sure that 3/4 of the content has not been lifted from websites or other papers.

Most of the publishers have different level of open access policies, some of which are pay $X thousand dollars (i.e. production costs at the publishers scale which are an order of magnitude smaller than for the society which has no scale ) and the content is available for free to anyone all the way to "pay $X per article"
A friend of mine and recently created reflecty, a intuitive gesture controlled smart mirror.
During the last one month and a bit we both worked day and night, to make out of the idea something real. With reflecty you can check the news, find out about the weather or get informed, when the next bus or tram arrives.

Although we only finished the first prototype some days ago, we are already planning a follow up with many improvements and lots of new features.

You can find out more about reflecty on its project website: https://reflecty.co/
What are the obvious reasons? Is a farm a disreputable place to work in the UK? Mostly it's confusing, not concerning. I would imagine a farm is harder to keep afloat than a startup.
The negative opinions were overblown. A lot of them were complaining that something that's impossible in other languages is hard or difficult to learn in Scala, or real but superficial problems. The language has plenty of warts and there are some bad libraries and tools out there, but all these things are superficial and transitory; the core is sound and I expect all successful future languages to have a very similar design.

To give an equally sincere response: dynamic languages are dead, and languages without higher-kinded types are dying - they're too useful to do without, and Scala shows they're practical. We're still discovering more things you can do with Scala.

I think the language we'll be using in ten or twenty years' time won't be Scala - or it will be a Scala that's changed unrecognizably from the Scala we know today. But I think that whatever language it is will have a strong type system with type inference and higher kinds and some kind of typeclass functionality and probably also traditional-OO subtyping (failing that at least Go-style delegation), will allow method calls without brackets and concise lambdas with something like "_", will have a culture of not using C libraries via FFI, and will be strictly evaluated. If you wrote a clean new version of Scala today there's a lot you'd leave out (you might end up with something that looked rather like Ceylon), but I think those things are here for good. Maybe it'll be Idris, maybe something else.
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I think you may have missed the joke.
You forgot to give an example to illustrate your point
Because most of researchers are incoherent.
Thank you for this. This guy is either a supporter of Nanny States or has a massive lack of understanding of basic U.S. constitutional law.
> let users decide what features they want by putting their money where their mouth is

While nice in theory, something like this needs to also have the FLOSS project developers mark requests as feasible and/or within the scope of the project's goals before allowing bounties to be placed on them. Otherwise there is a risk of project hijacking.
Wow, this seems to be an awesome product! Well done guys.
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It's actually a very good question. Even up to the Renaissance, we had no real conception of "probability" -- even though there were games of chance that depended on it. The Greeks had notions of impossible/possible/likely, but no way to link the notions to the world.

It was finally in the correspondence of Pascal and Fermat in 1654 that a mathematics for probability started to emerge. With the emergence of the laws of large numbers, this mathematics could be linked to observable real-world occurrence rates. (Ian Hacking's book "The Emergence of Probability" is a standard reference, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2184357?seq=1#page_scan_tab_cont...)

Suppose you were confronted with a stream of random numbers, and no intellectual or mathematical framework for quantifying them. Just coming up with a notion of a frequency curve (i.e., a density), and statistical independence of "unlinked" events would be a huge leap.

I used to TA an undergrad probability class, and in the first weeks, I'd ask the students to quantify some random variable, and they'd sometimes blankly look back and say, "it's just random" -- what we taught them is how you break that down in terms of the familiar quantities (densities, independence, correlations) and operations (multiplying for independence, integrating for expectation, integrating and renormalizing for conditioning).

So to get back to your original question, even a deterministic sequence, like

0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, ...

could be regarded as random, and given a density and all the other folderol. And a "completely random" sequence of 0/1 equiprobable bits also has a density, etc. And so does everything in between.
One more from same series.

Things I Won’t Touch: Hydrofluoric Acid (2004) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10678571

(81 points by networked 100 days ago | past | web | 63 comments)

Google HN for intitle:"Things I Won't" : https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinato...

But it does not show parent's links. One more reason for a more explicit search engine.
> but it's now in sight. Just outside the edge of our vision.

Well if it's outside the edge of our vision, it is out of sight.
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I could not follow your argument. Could you elaborate? (Honest question)
I don't understand your concern. Fundamentally, if you have large enough consistent need for storage/VMs/Any non proprietary resource then AWS is not the lowest cost option by a long shot. This is not at all a controversial statement.

Even taking into account depreciation, administration, maintenance etc, if you have a large enough consistent need amazon is not the lowest cost option by a significant margin. This isn't a controversial statement.
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The usual "economic justification" for such things is that people are paying it.

In reality, very few people pay the individual article prices. The real market is in site licensing, as it were. The individual article prices are probably set to support the sales story on these institutional access licenses, not the other way around.
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Doesn't the blockchain offer some solution to that problem?
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I wish I could buy one immediately! SO awesome!
" a government has a large amount of power to dictate money flows within the country, but very little power to compel terms of trade overseas."

Isn't the petrodollar system precisely the historical exception that allows the USA to have a lot of power when it comes to "compel terms of trade overseas"?

edit: obviously the other side of that ability to "compel terms of trade overseas" being the US formidable military power that allows them to further twist other countries arms when they refuse to play by the petrodollar system rules (see Libya, Iraq, etc)
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vs

flip coins
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flip coins
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two different scenarios
I think Sanders is more ideological than most credible candidates in history (which is a lot of the appeal); same as Ted Cruz. (just polar opposites on ideology)

They're both pretty exceptional as top-2 candidates for their party nomination for that reason, compared to historical trends.
Since the victories of AlphaGO, we've learnt a lot about Starcraft being the new step in AI game research.

Maybe it would be better to focus the efforts on an opensource RTS such as 0ad, which leads to less legal problems and less hacky interfaces (for Starcraft 1, by writing in the memory of the game).
Do you? Actually I'm strongly against anyone having to turn over a private key to the government.
If someone shows up with a phone, Open Whisper Systems can't read the messages stored on it if they don't have the passphrase. The messages are encrypted at rest, so they can't create an update that would circumvent it. The only option would be brute-forcing the passphrase. In that way, it's fundamentally different from Apple.
I would agree.

Could one not argue that even unsupervised learning is kind of reinforced by let's say the emotion you obtain from successfully performing a learning task? Then the reward signal does not come from the external environment but from resolving cognitive dissonance in the brain.

Happy to be proved wrong by experts here.
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Tagging this thread for future use.

My wife is a PhD Data Scientist, and I'd like to at least have a basic level of understanding theory, processes and tools used in her field.
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It is the essence of banking, and that's the problem. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled...

Loans for cars, or anything else, are fine, as long as the bank has deposits covering the loan on hand for longer than the duration of the loan. I put my money in the bank for 5 years, they loan the money to you to buy your car for 4 years. Credit cards are not counted against deposits and, therefore, stand outside this analysis, although I'm not sure I would allow banks involved in taking deposits to issue them, because the capital structure tends to become muddled.

If you think about it, you can have nearly as much loan-expansion as the current fractionally reserved system (maybe even more since there is no need for a reserve ratio), but there is no double counting of monetary units at a given point in time and, therefore, no possibility for a bank run.

I will admit that this is my own economic theory and that I am used to the crazy looks from people.
Just wait till the same damn companies who have been piping out antibiotics start patenting bacteria.
There's been lots said on the 1-based indexing discussion, so I won't get into it here.

It's not a deal-breaker, I suppose. Still, the rationale I've heard -- "We have chosen 1 to be more similar to existing math software"[1] (as opposed to basically every modern programming language out there) just seems... weird. Perhaps "compatibility with traditional sequence notation in math and physics" (upon which presumably most software packages are based) would be a better statement of the case for 1-based indexing.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/558
> About recurrent NNs?

yes, obviously, as that's the topic, but also the the rest I of what I mentioned, neuroscience, maths, leaning on logic and philosophy.

> I remember similar arguments in the early 90s

That's why I mention neuroscience, the ideas are much older.

> even when a computer is super-human in every conceivable way, there'll be arguments over whether it is 'real AI'

Of course. Just because it's superhuman, we humans wouldn't know what it is, whether it is what we think it is and if that's all there could be.

Real (from res (matter (from rehis (good as in the goods))) + ~alis (adjective suffix (from all?))) means worthy and obviously an AI is only as good as its contestants are bad. It won't be real for long before it's thrown to the trash once a better AI is found.

That'll stop when the AI can settle the argument convincingly. That's what's going on, evangelizing. And we do need that, because if not for the sake of the art itself, then as proof for the application of answers and insights other fields.

> And nobody will define their terms then either. Ultimately the discussion will be as irrelevant then as it is now

LeCun sure went along a lot further since then, and he defines the terms in software. As I said, the discussion is just about what to make of it. Of course many come up basically empty, that's why the discussion is important, and that's why I asked what do you know about it. I think it's a very basic question and not easy to grow tired of. If you work that, maybe that's different and specialized to computation.

There might not be much to say about it, all the easier then to summarize in a short post. Or there's indeed more to it, then I'd appreciate a hint, to test my own understanding and learn.

I don't really know, what LeCun talks about, or the techniques you studied, so I'm saying it. Just for perspective. I'm just generally interested in learning and computation is just one relevant and informative angle. Maybe that's what bothers you, learning to learn, and that's why its freshman bothering with it, but learning to learn is maybe really just learning, or impossible. That's the kind of logical puzzle that's to be taken half joking. Don't beat yourself up over it.
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Those aren't broad definitions at all! Quick question though, what is "acting", what is "thinking", what is "rational"? Your definition of intelligence practically includes the term in its definition(s).
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I'm not a rocket scientist, but I would say likely that's when the launch window opened, or it was inside the window to be able to get the craft on the right trajectory to Mars. Launch windows take into account where the target's orbit is (in this case Mars) and where Earth is inside that window. In this case, the launch window was likely quite large due to Mars' orbit being quite a distance from Earth (and quite stable) which leaves quite a bit of time for correction burns in case the rocket is off course at all.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_window
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