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I have a friend who is into hackathons, and have been going to a few lately, but it's hard to find a good comprehensive list. I build the list for this site by scraping from a bunch of different APIs (eventbrite, meetup, etc...) and a couple of websites (devpost, MLH.io) to create potential listings. Then I manually curate, review, and post them. Hopefully someone else will also find this helpful, even though it's only focused on SF and the bay area for now.
Yes, I suspect creative accounting.
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If anything the replication crisis in Psychology is proof of just how little we really know about intelligence. I think Psychology is necessary, because I think it needs to come up with an adequate definition of what intelligence is first, then neuroscience can say, "this is how that definition actually works", then engineers can build it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11275838
> tcp protocol

I respectfully disagree. Many of the elements of tcp are very complicated, and more or less of a hack. Compose them all together, and it's a hugely complex and arguably ugly (if utilitarian) standard.
When I finished my PhD at Northwestern, part of the university's procedure involved going to the ProQuest Web site. ProQuest is a journal and dissertation publishing company.

They asked if I wanted my dissertation to be available, free of charge, to anyone interested in reading it.

Clicking on "yes, I want to make it available for free" would cost me something like $800.

Clicking on "no, I'll let you charge people to see it" would cost me nothing.

Having just finished, and being in debt to do so, it shouldn't come as a surprise that I wasn't rushing to pay even more. So now, if people want to see my dissertation, they have to pay -- or be part of an institution that pays an annual fee to ProQuest. (BTW, e-mail me if you want a copy.)

My guess is that it's similar with other journals. And while professors have more than PhD students, they have limited enough research funds that they'll hold their nose, save the money, and keep things behind a paywall.

Which is totally outrageous. It's about time that this change, and I'm happy to see what looks like the beginning of the end on this front.
Not quite.

Some people on this are absolutists, and some aren't. If we could create a safe back door, some would be in favor of doing that, and some wouldn't. That's distinct from us not having a way to create a safe back door.

One problem I see us having (and I've seen this on Facebook) is that some people think that we are saying we can't create a safe back door because we don't want to. And I think they're getting that notion because of the people in the absolutist camp.
Well, it just seems unlikely that psychology will produce significant insights here, because it mostly just looks at how the brain behaves. While this can be insightful, I doubt that it will explain intelligence in the end, because this happens a layer below. That's precisely what neuroscience covers. The other approach (just thinking about the problem and trying to to build a AI from first principles) is CS.

So I would expect strong AI from CS, possibly with a paradigm shift caused by an advance in neuroscience.
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He addresses your query, not in the analogy but the additional comment.

"And that's just an obstacle we know about. What about all the ones we don't know about?"

With sufficient scrutiny all analogies break down, so readers must be generous with their interpretation.
And you can install Linux on the Chromebooks to give them a fully usable operating system. Unfortunately there aren't that many large-SSD Chromebooks. The best you can really get is the 500GB spinning HDD Asus or something similar.

I really like that we are heading toward more affordable computing. I just wish we would also push for more freedom-respecting computers as well.
I am referring to a keyboard with a multitude of extra keys. The layout doesn't have to be exactly like the original space cadet keyboard of course, but having some 50 extra keys surrounding the normal qwerty portion, as well as some 10 modifier keys is basically what I'm looking for.
Fantastic article! Vice also did an segment on Senegalese wrestling in their HBO series, which included one of their reporters going through training and competing in an actual match: https://youtu.be/2QtfxYOkXIA
WebSocket is more well known than SSE, and it's also what Socket.io uses, so I think this isn't always a conscious choice. Developers are still discovering that SSE is a thing.

Another factor is that most apps using a socket-ish connection tend to run almost all traffic over the socket as opposed to just "push" traffic. This can make sense if the exchanges aren't very resource-oriented compared to a REST API.
e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11202704
Ligo was most certainly not dreamed up in the 1960s, and the LHC was completed in 10 years.

I picked the word "technology" instead of "science" on purpose. Science isn't slow or fast; it can't be predicted at all. Technologies; different story. Someone says I'm going to build you a piece of technology and it will take 20 years, that means they don't know how to do it. There are no exceptions.
I didn't go quite that far, but I did some insane stuff using the built-in i/o port access and the parallel printer port.
I would say a better comparison is the Linux kernel. If the kernel crashes, everything on that box goes.
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The one major difference that I see is that it's really hard to kill someone with encrypted data.
Doesn't lucene let you choose your own relevance algorithms, smoothing, metrics, etc. anyway?
I think someone needs to come up with a good theory of what intelligence even is, then we can try to discover its mechanism(s).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11279192
Internet metadata is specifically excluded from retention though:

"information that states an address to which a communication was sent on the internet"
You might look at the work of Rodney Brooks. There was a wonderful documentary called "Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control", and I'm pretty sure it was in there that he explains his notion that true intelligence is embodied. That was years ago and I haven't kept up with the field, but perhaps it's a useful starting point for you.
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Well, when you consider that the keys are ethereal, it makes it clear why it's "duct tape-ish". You could argue they should have a syncing protocol but now you need to come up with a secure syncing protocol.
Process is the correct term. It denotes a unit of execution with an independent memory space, just like an OS process. However, instead of using OS processes and relying on the OS scheduler, the Erlang VM has its own scheduler and manages its own processes. Those processes are incredibly small. 100k erlang processes consume just a few hundred MB of memory.
and as the original intent went, it made sense. but owning a gun doesn't really protect one from a modern intrusive government, but it does raise the risk of gun related death to those around you by a significant margin
They were taken from neuroscience... 50 years ago. Since then, very few ideas have been explicitly taken from neuroscience.
Well I realise I'm biased, but the libertarians I respect tend more towards "market freedom as the null hypothesis" rather than the ideological extremes that lead to rhetorical nonsense like "tax is theft" and "property rights can be derived from non-aggression", or my personal favourite "violent coercion is bad (unless it's used to enforce property rights, that doesn't count)".
Yes http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2016/03/deep-learning-for...
Of course the publishers say they create immense value by typesetting said PDFs, but as technologists, we can clearly see that this is bunk.

Amusingly, when I was a grad student, some friends showed me how they could use LaTeX to produce a manuscript that looked like a spitting image of a Physical Review article.

That was in 1992.
And it took decades of play for Sedol to become a top player. I find the similarities a mix of satisfying and amusing.
Interesting, so it's the ability to generalize attributes selectively? That sounds like it would make for the difference between the specialized deep learning we have and a more general intelligence.

Could that be accomplished if NN problems are broken into features, and those features are individually tested against new information? Though you'd need a layer for feature selection, and it still lacks the ability to pick features without training.
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AI has some good definitions as far as intelligence is concerned. Perhaps you are worried about consciousness or something, but this is not needed for a definition of what intelligence means.
I think having samples would get more accurate feedback...I don't know enough about French language podcasts to make an informed guess. I also think targeting institutions rather than individuals is a better gauge of the potential market. If there are people who would value such a service, those people probably cluster.

Good luck.
Unsupervised learning in a technical sense means things like clustering algorithms where the goal is to discover structure in a data set without known labels (or numeric response).

If you show a human a single unlabeled picture of a platypus (or whatever) they will know instantly with a high degree of certainty that it is a new category of thing and be able to recognize additional images of it as belonging to that class even without being told a label for it.

Our best image classification algorithms can't do that, even with labels they need a lot of example images to learn to identify a new class.
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> A competition which then eats up the supply of this resource for the people it exists for: Actually disabled people with ADHD.

If the system is so flimsy that the only thing preventing abuse is a quiz and a doctors certificate, who are the "Actually disabled people with ADHD"? If diagnosis is so easily achieved and the rates of diagnosis around the world fluctuate so greatly, you should ask whether it's a largely inflated phenomenon and we need to reassess what it is and how we deal with it. Similar to depression, we seem to be medicating for slight deviations from what has been deemed normal, which is quite scary.

As for the act itself, if they were stealing the answers to a test then I wouldn't say it was a sweet hack, I'd say they were cheating. However if you're willing to provide the benefit of an office, additional time, adequate cooling and access to reference material to a specific group of people, I say take what the system will happily give you or anyone else who goes through similar motions.
Wait when did we get good at treating depression?
There is an alternative: you host your thesis (and/or papers) on your own website, or you put them on arXiv.org. It's called self-archiving and it's allowed by most publishers. Funny thing is: making your papers available for free also increases the number of citations, something academics really care about.
How is that remotely relevant?
An Erlang process isn't really equivalent to a Java thread. A Java thread maps to a native thread, whereas an Erlang process is entirely in userspace. Erlang processes are basically green threads without shared state. Java has no equivalent in the standard library.
> I thought a lot of laws were cute intents to work around the constitution.

And this is why judges exist: to go "hey, that law is trying to work around the Constitution and therefore is unconstitutional." And I say this as someone very much in favor of gun control. But it must be approached legally, not with the mindset that the law is some kind of computer program executed by idiot minds.
Yes. But the difficult part is convincing everyone to put AI in all the guns.
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Once an AI algorithm (even just one for Go) realizes that it can hijack the bank accounts of all the world's other 9 dan players in order to demand an analysis of its planned move, and figures out how to do that, then we've made the cake.

N.B. the genericity of the deepmind stuff that is the basis of AlphaGo makes this seem not entirely far-fetched.

Yum, cake.
You can cross reference of /proc/meminfo output into the kernel source code here:

http://www.srcmap.org/sd_share/7/28338946/Code_Trace_of_Linu...
I hate it when leaders get all upset when the balance is shifted away from them, and yet are perfectly fine when the balance tilts in their favor.

FTA: "then that I think does not strike the kind of balance that we have lived with for 200, 300 years."

200 years ago, it was not possible to cast a dragnet and catch everyone who was doing Something Bad(tm). The government had to get a warrant to open mail; today, the NSA can sift through billions of messages (metadata, they say) in a second.

Even considering US Mail: you could not keep track of who was sending whom mail, at scale. But today, every letter that is mailed has its front and back scanned (for reading the address); but more importantly, these images are saved for future use.

All of this is possible thanks to technology. And when the balance was tilting in their favor, the Establishment was quite happy. But when the balance tilts the other way, suddenly they're crying like a spoiled child whose toys have been taken away.

You can't just throw tantrums when things don't go your way. If the technology permits E2E encryption, they'll just have to live with it and find other ways to catch criminals.
The only reason the government "gave up" in the previous crypto war was because they decided to find ways to break or weaken crypto to their needs. I don't think this time will be any different, one way or another they will get access to our data.
Exactly, and even then, half of the details or how real neurons work were ignored or discarded. NN are now often taught by sticking closely to the math and avoiding the term and any reference to biology completely.
"Attempting a comeback" is a completely different task that usual, though.

When you're winning, a good move has a mathematical definition; it's a move that, given optimal play by both sides, will lead to victory for you. Computers aren't powerful enough to be able to calculate exactly what moves those are, but it's at least well-defined in a way that they know what they're looking for.

When you're losing, there's zero moves that, given optimal play by both sides, will lead to victory for you (so all moves are equally "bad" in a mathematical sense). Instead, "attempting a comeback" involves hoping your opponent will mess up some way, so in that sense, what constitutes a good move isn't mathematical but more about predicting how your opponent thinks and where they might mess up.

AlphaGo has mostly trained by playing itself, so the ways it thinks its opponent might mess up are probably completely different from how an actual human messes up.
The returns that we expect and want from research have nothing to do with publishing models, though. And most of the people profiting from the current publication system aren't what we would call great scientists, so much as opportunistic capitalists. They aren't advancing society; they're just pulling in a paycheck, extracting rent from people trying to make actual scientific impacts, or figure out how to transform those advances into productive realities.
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That's like saying there has been no development in automobiles since 1890. Sure, at first glance the cars from then are still like the cars from now. ICE (or electrical) power source, maybe a gearbox, some seats, a steering wheel and something to keep you out of the weather. But that's at the same time ignoring many years of work on those concepts in order to further refine them.

The neural networks that were taken 'explicitly from neuroscience' have gone through a vast transformation and that + a whole lot of work on training and other stuff besides is what powers the current crop of AI software. All the way to computers that learn about games, that label images and that drive cars with impressive accuracy to date.

The problem is - and I think that was what the original question was about - that neuroscience is rather very low level. We need something at the intermediate level, a 'useful building block' approach if you will, something that is not quite a fully formed intelligence but also not so basic as plumbing and wiring.
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> ... So it is still conceivable that an error in Erlang...

are you talking about erlang-runtime here ? it is not very clear what you are implying. can you please elaborate ?

if i take your statement to mean 'erlang runtime' then this is no different than saying, if there is a bug in glibc which gets tickled when i do something, then my process will crash, or if there is a bug in jvm, then the application hosted on the jvm will crash etc. etc.
Does it matter? As long as the original source for the idea is remembered I don't particularly care which field originated it. There are so many instances and examples of cross pollination between IT and other sciences that in the end whether or not we stick to the original in a literal fashion or not should not matter (and if we did we'd probably lose out on a good bit of progress).
Which is almost certainly why gun owners fight so much more vehemently for their rights than the opposition does, and for better or worse, there are people who very much espouse and believe in the "cold dead hands" mantra.

I'm a gun rights supporter, not so much because I give two hoots about guns, but because I see the fourth and second amendments as an overall proxy for the health of the bill of rights.

If the government wants to ban guns, or privacy, the remedy there is through amending the constitution, not simply pretending it doesn't exist, but we've allowed the government so much discretion and deference on matters like these, especially on guns, because we (as a people) don't particularly love them, and because the argument has historically been presented as "you don't want these bad people to have these loopholes", where bad people is interchangeably terrorists, gun owners, communists, or whatever the evil of the day tends to be.
Just like ornithologists invented the first airplane, and horse vets built the first automobile, etc.
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There's also a huge issue around problem-posing and degrees of freedom, that doesn't necessarily get better as your AI tools improve. Go has a fairly large state space, but limited potential moves per turn, well-defined decision points, limited time constraints, and only one well-defined victory condition. The complexity is minuscule compared to even something relatively well-structured like "maximize risk-adjusted return via stock trades".
There's nothing that stops you from uploading the PDF elsewhere, right? Why not just push the file to some free hosting service (or even GitHub in a GitHub Pages repo)?
The assassin drone concept is one people have been contemplating for some time.

Technology reduces costs. Especially attack costs.
I wonder if they're still using Palantir to look for rogue employees? Or some in-house tool?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/796b412a-4513-11e2-838f-00144feabd...
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I remember flammie the dragon in Secret of Mana, that at some point in the game grows up/matures, and I was like "Whoa!"
> but the flood came well after the world creation, didn't it?

It's not that simple. Before the flood human lifetimes are listed as up to 969 years. After the flood human lifetimes are same as modern ones.

The flood was not just water on the earth, it was a total transformation of the earth and its inhabitants.

Did the clock they used to define "year" change? It's not known.
Clearly it's easy, right?

If you've never give through the experience of hiring good people, you have absolutely no clue how difficult it is.

So convenient to drive from the back seat though, yeah? I never said Trump was "right". I said he's been a step ahead every time, which he has.

But it's easy to trivialize things and call him an asshole because it fits your narrative.

Walk a mile in those shoes and then tell me how simple it is. You have no clue. Empires are not built from shell scripts. If only it were that easy.
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Vodafone New Zealand. They did not block port 53 per se, merely redirecting everything to their proxy.

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I suppose we should also be appreciative he hasn't instituted gulags... that we know of anyway. But that's really beside the point for this discussion.
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If what you're trying to learn is how to manipulate people, then I agree, he is a master. There is a name for this type of people, they're called con men. Trump is a sales person. He has trained himself to sell anything, and he is just selling a quick solution for people that feel disenfranchise by the current political system.
A snow avalanche is probably the closest thing you can see today.

Try to find one where it hits trees and see what it does to them, otherwise it's hard to really see the scale and force.
If you're not actually going to change the times that things happen then nothing stops you from using UTC already. The whole problem with daylight savings time isn't that you have to change your clock, it's that you have to change your schedule.

It would be excellent if everybody responded to daylight savings time by scheduling work to happen from 10-6 instead of 9-5, so that nothing actually changed but the clock. But that obviously only works if everybody does it.
I disagree. In engineering we've shown great advancements not by exactly reproducing biology from cases like transportation (wheel vs legs) or flight (engine and wing vs flapping feathers). We can't even mass produce synthetic muscles and instead use a geared motor.

The growth in building increasingly sophisticated AI is faster than our efforts to reverse engineer biology. I could see that changing with improved observational techniques like optogenetics or bacteria and viruses we can "program" to explore.

Researchers are already focusing on concrete insights from cognitive science, neuroscience, etc such as one shot learning or memory that we haven't yet figured out in a cohesive machine learning framework. For the time being I'd bet on more advaces coming without significant changes in biological understanding.
It seems to me one of the higher hurdles for creating a general purpose intelligence, is human empathy. Without it you are left with creating a nearly infinite-length rules engine.

When you ask your AI maid to vacuum your house, you would prefer it not to plow through closet door to grab the vacuum, rip your battery out of your car and hardwire to the vacuum, and then proceed to clean your carpets. If you don't want to create a list of rules for every conceivable situation, the AI will need to have some understanding human emotions and desires.
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