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Another user has already (unapologetically) advanced population reduction arguments. I want to preempt that discussion by condemning it as lazy, selfish thinking. Controlling population as a solution to economic, environmental or similar issues of resource contention is a morally hazardous slippery slope; it should not be welcome in the realm of innovation and ingenuity specifically because it is not innovative or constructive at all. Design solutions around population growth or exit the conversation.

Each of us can look towards the sky and see the sprawling space and resources available. We have companies today organized under the premise to go out and mine asteroids, explore other planetary bodies and much more. Yet, some continue talking as if the Earth were more valuable than the only thing (humans) that can ascribe it value. Gaia worship and similar propaganda should be exposed for the anti-human agenda it is. I sincerely despise this line of thinking.

Whether we like it or not, humanity is the steward of this Earth. Being good stewards of our resources SHOULD NOT first appeal to last-ditch efforts like controlling the population. We all have imaginations; along with the ability to create solutions to problems. Stop perpetuating the idea that future generations are evil, bad, doomed or unwanted; they are very welcome and wanted. Now, and always. Our parents did not put our generation to slaughter for selfish reasons, so we have no justification for it either.

Instead of proposing anti-humanist goals of little thought or substance, set your mind to work and stop being intellectually lazy. We already have hints from various nations who have tried to control populations, with evidence of detrimental and unintended side-effects. I am by no means saying there are simple fixes. But immediately jumping to population control is pure lazy thinking.
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That's not the definition of overfitting.
Well, you mean the Zen of Python's "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

In any case, even then, people think in different ways: you can model a problem via category theory, geometry, algebra, and those would never translate into the same syntactical constructions, since the abstractions are of fundamentally different natures.

Now I think mostly in a functional way, so my Python code is full of small functions to help write "pythonic functional code", e.g. the function iff(b,x,y) that returns x if b and else returns y. The resulting code could be translated algorithmically to a functional language in a very natural way; the internal def would be translated to where clauses, etc.

The point being, I want to be able to think in the way that is the most adapted to tackle a problem, even if the code seems to be written in two different languages. This is no different from mathematics where each "X theory" is essentially its own language and each implies its own set of natural theorems.
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Oh god please no. If that's what you want, go to work one hour earlier. I can't wake up that early.
I actually built a prototype multiparadigm programming language for a class Alex taught using Ohm: http://chimera.kaseyc.com

It's a great tool.
No, what's truly sad is that I'm too old to have any shot at being a god. So it goes.
You do know one of the largest ad retargeters is google adwords, right? And of course DoubleClick, also part of google.

https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2453998?hl=en

https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2356033/remarketing...
Passphrases on keys really only provide some incidental security there, for keys that you don't happen to unlock while compromised. (Or the adversary might neglect to intercept your passphrases.)

Use a yubikey or smart card to level up from these.
In go results are Color+amount of points, when counted. So the plus is then left for uniformity in resigns/forfeits
From my limited knowledge of the game, a few of the moves that Lee made before AlphaGo "lost its mind" were a tad on the aggressive side. The conventional wisdom in Go is to prefer more conservative moves (increasingly so as the game progresses). Usually, if your opponent is being overly aggressive then you want to play more conservatively and wait for them to make a mistake, but in AlphaGo's case, it attempted to match Lee's aggressiveness move-for-move, and Lee was able to capitalize.

If I had to guess (and this is pure speculation), AlphaGo has no concept of waiting for its opponent to make a mistake. Instead, it assumes its opponent will continue to make the best possible follow-ups, and so AlphaGo feels overly compelled to "keep up". In this case, that did it in.

If this is what happened, then yes, I would expect Lee to be able to capitalize.
It can definitely be a loss for the consumers who are being manipulated. If through advertising they are convinced to spend $100 on a doodad or device rather than $100 on something that will improve their long-term well-being, or not spending that $100 at all, they lose. Who wins? Advertisers. Search engines. Producers. All the while, each of them convincing themselves that they're doing such a great job meeting the needs of consumers.

Selling people chocolate might not be evil, but a sustained multi-year billion dollar campaign to put chocolate into the consciousness of the populace and have it normalized as part of a staple diet is borderline.
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Any recommendations for backing up (private) keys? Like pgp keys for example? I consider printing them on paper, as text or QR code. Anything better than that?
https://twitter.com/StatsmanBruno/status/708941065877737472/...
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"Using distributed for match but single machine AG very strong also"

Doesn't this imply they weren't using a single PC?
If we get rid of DST shifting, we should set up the time system such, that across the whole time zone the offset between the astronomical and local time is minimized, perhaps with some bias in the direction of the DST zone. It is worth discussing, whether for example the US should have 2 or 3 time zones.
I mean that it bugged out because the moves it made after missing the exchange in the middle were moves that were obviously wrong, not in a "maybe it's up to something" kind of way, but in an objectively 100% bad kind of way. Even if you can't analyze all possibilities AlphaGo made a number of moves that made absolutely no sense at all even to way lower level players.
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Yesterday, I've been at my bank to meet my new client manager. A 38 years old lady. Once we started to talk she pulled out her iPad and took minutes with the virtual keyboard.

At airports there're so many. Folks having iPads w/ and w/o physical keyboards typing stuff, seeming concentrated & busy. They seem to work.

On Reddit/MacRumors/other forums, people keep telling how productive they are with their iPads, how great they are and they prefer iPads over MBPs.

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Yes, iOS is butter smooth, it's crisp, the virtual keyboard is usable. But isn't a real keyboard, a touch pad, a mounted screen paired with an appropriate OS still the state of the art of an user interface?

- A touch pad keeps finger and arm movement to the minimum; a track point (which is not popular) even more; whats so great about touching UI elements? Yes, scrolling content or pinching to zoom from time to time might be more intuitive but still you can do this on a good trackpad with less finger and arm movement and as intuitive

- Regarding the keyboard, tablets are catching up. There're keyboards, control + alt keys are available but is this not even more a proof that a keybaord is essential and they're reinventing the wheel?

- The software and the OS, every piece of software there's limited. An iPad Word can just open one document at a time and most UI is touch based. I know that most people do need just some browsing, Gmail and Facebook but once you want to do a bit more serious stuff you pull out your notebook?

- Media consumption, people write that iPads are so great for media consumption; my 10" notebook is way better for media consumption since it has its stand built-in and I don't have to hold it, I can even turn it by 90 degrees and it keeps standing rock-solid; and it plays torrents

So, is it me or them who don't get it? I am seriously thinking of getting an iPad to force myself to work with an iPad 2, 3 weeks to understand people's fascination.
I wish some of these had been re-tweeted by the @DeepMindAI account. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on Demis' account during game 5.
Is 'high noon' that important that it needs preserving?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11253321
Obviously not
I don't think we're talking about the same concept. I'm not familiar with the concept of label bias, and the literature I'm familiar with has not referred to label bias as the problem I'm talking about. Also, I'm not sure how a problem with probabilistic graphical models translates to the neural net policies of AlphaGo.

I fail to see how a "per-state normalization of transition scores" translates to there being a bias in value networks towards states with fewer outgoing transitions.
Step 1 of exploiting this is "play a brilliant move to win a fight in the middle game", which is not the easiest thing to repeat.
There is a possibility that the AlphaGo team, knowing that it has already won a decisive victory, wanted to spare the champion a crushing 5-0 defeat and so commanded the AI to lose on purpose.
I really don't understand what people think they're gaining with a permanent DST offset. It's not going to increase the amount of sunlight in each day.

If you don't like the timing of your job (e.g., you feel like you don't get enough sunlight after work), the correct thing to do is talk to your boss or find a different job, not to make people put offsets in their clocks to fool your boss.
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Incredibly unlikely.
It's 25% higher on that day. For all that statistic tells you though, it might just be bringing forward a heart attack you would otherwise have had the following week.
There are a lot of hard work being done that is personally rewarding (money and fame) and either meaningless or destructive in a broader sense (ecological destruction, social destruction, unethical activites, fraud). Lehman brothers were very successful and was greatly rewarded before the financial crash.
> 'light, snackable, mass-market apps'.

I don't get this. What makes an app "snackable"? Like: "Ohh, it's so easy to use, fuck that! Cool guys configure their apps in source code and compile them themselves". I've never understood why people feel that instantly something is popular it must suck or be bad.

I could easily make a twitter app that would require you to donate $5 to a charity, run a mile and press a button 100 times everytime you tweet. This sure as hell isn't snackable or mass marketable. Am I now part of the cool kids club?
AlphaGo was in over time in game 2.
If the value/policy model is predictive with a dataset containing only amateur games, but fails to generalize to unseen data with professional games, that seems like a case of overfitting to a dataset only containing amateur games. In this case the expected value network may be different for amateur games than professional games.

Is there something I'm missing?
Why can't they take out loans for that purpose? Seems like free money for a bank
I was hoping Lee Sedol would be able to at least win one, humans can 'learn fast'. We cant learn 24/7 in parallel like a computer, but we do seem to have quite the talent at learning 'situational' things very quickly, quite likely because our very survival depended on it in the deep distant past. :-)

I don't believe AlphaGo had the time to do any additional training between matches. So effectively Lee has the ability to 'learn his opponent' while AlphaGo cannot until the entire match set is over because of how long it would take do do additional training.
Montecarlo bots behave weirdly when losing.
Not sure what you mean.

Obviously it is possible to increase the TTL of incoming traffic if that's what you wanted to know. Linux iptables can do that, IIRC BSD pf too, and some consumer routers even have an option in the GUI.
Periodically copy them to an encrypted external (thumb) drive and keep that in a safe place. Use two if you want to store one of them off-site. Piece of cake with LUKS and dm-crypt on any modern Linux distro. Just use a long passphrase that you can remember.
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That got me for a second hehe (it's a fake)
Flagging/tagging and merging while keeping it in it's position on the front page would be a much better solution. Most of us don't sit all day on HN and if something gets upvoted to the front page twice it's reasonable to believe that it is there on merit, both times (barring any automated gaming of the system which is another story).

Perhaps a review with the aim of considering a less binary solution to this issue is in order?
You are, of course, free to set your watch to whatever time you like. But if you do that, you can't expect anyone else to agree with your view of the current time.
"White wins by resignation".
I used to have one of these. It didn't understand Postscript, but after installing Splix it appeared in Cups printer model list and worked absolutely fine.
Yes, this.
Yes, the "label bias" is more of a structured learning / joint learning term that is present in natural language processing. But reinforcement learning suffers only if you do the learning to minimize local loss of the decision (label) - if you try to build a classifier that minimizes its loss on local decisions, instead on sequence of decisions.

Their value policy network isn't trained jointly and can compound errors. There are approaches with deep neural networks that don't have a joint training but work pretty well. The reason is that networks have a pretty good memory/representation and by that they avoid much of the problems. But for huge games like Go it is quite possible that more games need to be played for these non-structured models to work well.
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It's like a case study in cherry-picking statistics.
They're using the distributed version for these matches, this question was just asked in the post match press conference.
There isn't one. If you want to join a startup and do well you have to be willing to join when they're paying lower than market salary, desperate for help and nobody's more than 50% sure they'll be around in 2 years. If you can't handle that then a startup isn't a great proposition for you.
Right now I don't know if I'm more impressed by AlphaGo's artificial intelligence or its artificial stupidity.

Lee Sedol won because he played extremely well. But when AlphaGo was already losing it made some very bad moves. One of them was so bad that it's the kind of mistake you would only expect from someone who's starting to learn how to play Go.
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Thanks for the correct URL.

FWIW, I find the original article easier to read than this SEO guide from Google. Google's guide has so many different methods of highlighting important body text (different combinations of bold, blue/dark blue/red, underlined, and yellow background!), it's difficult to read. Reminds me of amateur desktop publishing back in the 90's.
At the required decision time, the employee often has no idea how much or when a company will be worth money. Plus the obvious risk that someone fucks up and the company is worth a lot less than planned.
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They stated before game 3 that AG had been locked down a while before these games to test the code for bugs and issues. I also think they don't want some of the implications associated with DeepBlue where people modified code even during the games.
I've been in the market for something like this lately, shoot me the URL (dan [at] danwalker.com) and a price - I've already made an offer on another SaaS but if it falls through...
Nakamura may have beaten Rybka, but even with Rybka at his side, he could not stand against a handicapped Stockfish (https://www.chess.com/news/stockfish-outlasts-nakamura-3634).
I'm seriously considering that right now after it was suggested earlier in the thread. Start at 9am during the summer, and then in winter knock it back to 8am and enjoy the extra sunlight in the evening. Although in practice it would likely have little useful affect since the sun sets about 4pm in the depths of winter round here.
Macbook Air - having my fifth now, also a Linux Asus Zenbook, but this was horrible. First of all darwin catches much more memory errors than Linux. The UI and WiFi and powermgmt is superior. My i7 is even faster than on my big desktop machine for numeric or hashing tests. It's light and beautiful. No need to worry about systemd or gnome 3 quirks.

Downsides: we have found nasty clang and gcc bugs on darwin only lately. Having to use dsymutil sucks, but if you use it it works as on Linux. ranlib sucks. A bit more integration needed, as on windows with similar gyrations.
> It won't be the only social welfare program needed. There are
> some people who through accident or poor choices will still need
> extra help.

Whenever UBI comes up some proponents of it support it largely on the
notion that it could actually save money by abolishing the
bureaucratic social welfare we have today.

Lots of comments here are pointing out something to that effect.

Which makes OPs question less absurd, because it goes to 1) How many
selective welfare programs should still remain? 2) If #1 is large
enough does the "but it can replace existing welfare programs"
argument for UBI make sense?
Something like Qubes OS is better defense against remote attacks, there is a lot of other mayhem that kind of compromise might cause. (Also passphrases don't really help there).
A private key without a passphrase can be used by anyone who gets hold of it. Why disable the extra protection a passphrase affords? With an ssh agent you can store the passphrase in the keychain you unlock when you log on, so you won't have to type it whenever you use it, unless you ssh into your own machine and try to use the key from the remote shell (which makes sense).

Of course, in every security scenario the risks determine the level of security, but having a passphrase has no practical downsides.
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HFT algorithms trade across the breadth of the market - I.e. whether they buy or sell a particular stock is correlated not to expectations of a businesse's books but things like Twitter, news, estimates of other firms positions and the like.

That's the Castle-in-the-Air theory of investing, and it's been popular for much longer than even digital computers, let along HFT (Keynes is said to invest based on it, and as described the logic in his Beauty Contest analogy). It's why many thousands of investors over a century have been poring over stock price and volume charts, looking to predict where the other investors will put their money and beating them to it.

There are certainly algorithms nowadays doing this, but they are certainly not limit to HFTs, and have been around for much longer.
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In that case, theoretically at least, we could train AlphaGo by getting top Go players to play many games against each other where one or both players is making very aggressive moves when reasonable?
I don't know how it could be false when I said "usually" (and thus I don't particularly appreciate the downvote). I'd like to see a list of known cases where someone paid $40 million to hide an affair and had nothing illegal to hide. I suspect it is quite short.

If she was under the age of consent, then he either didn't sleep with her and thus had no reason to pay any money or he did and he broke the law. Right? At that point, he wouldn't have only been paying to hide it from his wife and Sequoia but also the government and hence wouldn't be innocent.
You've still created a defacto framework there by stating that your applications are built by integrating libraries a, b, and c in a particular way. You're also left actually maintaining that integration, and managing the entire stack for all applications using it.

Maybe that's a win for you and the extra flexibility is worth the effort, but that's probably not the case for most organisations.
I love hy !

Actually I've done a prototype of a lisp compiling to python bytecode, so that's why when I found hy, I was pretty excited about it.

https://github.com/alehander42/bach

However it's not making it multi-syntax in the same way, because you don't get 1-to-1 python-hy inter-translation.
Don't forget InfluxData.
That's sort of true. It gets sketchy around the time zone boundaries. Idaho, for instance, is pretty screwy. The west half should arguably be in PST, but instead it is the same as the eastern side.
I've been thinking about experimenting with a more 'raw' X11 experience for some time. This sort of code is really interesting as a learning tool for how the pieces of X11 fit together. Thanks for taking the time to write and share it with the world.
Like it or not, there are many things in society that happen at particular clock times and can't easily be changed. I can change my working hours however I want, but I can't change when my kid needs to be at school, for instance.
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> an index fund does beat the market

market = index fund (S&P 500 based).

How can an index fund beat the market, if an index fund IS the market?
Sorry, I'm being a little academic. Overfitting is when the model fits to noise or error. Overfitting is not synonymous with "inability to generalize beyond the train and test distribution."

For all we know AlphaGo has perfectly fit amateur games, but professional games are on a whole different level
What is the practical difference between owning a vehicle, and having access to one whenever you need it?
it's not about the timing of my job. i could wake an hour earlier and leave an hour earlier.

but then, the rest of the world will have an extra hour in the evening (assuming they continue as they were before), while i sleep.

i am essentially saying that the world should rise and fall based on my preference for where sunlight falls. and the other side would say the same, naturally.

early risers vs night owls. and no solution can make everyone happy.
I don't claim to either. But its super fun to just go to the grocery store and the ability to actually try to replicate a few dishes with local ingredients (as opposed to whatever substitute is available back home) is really fun for a lot of people.

For example, I've taken cooking classes in places like Thailand where they even take you to the market and show you what to buy. Since you know what to buy and you've already been taught to cook several dishes, its not that hard to go back to the same market the next day to whip up some more Pad Thai.