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>Reading one age appropriate book per week has a huge compounding effect. This is known and studied.

Source? I don't know your study, but most these reading studies just end up measuring socioeconomic status. Rich people make their kids read more, and rich people's kids are more successful, therefore reading as a kid correlates with success.

But I don't see any reason to believe those kids would be any better off if they didn't read. It's not like reading increases your IQ or gives you knowledge you couldn't learn much more efficiently elsewhere. At best reading increases your skill at... reading. Which is valuable, and I will mention that next. But it isn't magic like many people believe it is.

>As in many things, there is a balance somewhere. You need some level of rote homework to drive home basic concepts. Sorry--vocabulary, spelling, and times tables, for example, need spaced repetition and learning them sucks. But they suck whether you are 5 or 50.

And yet people who grew up without homework in elementary school seem to be able to do these things fine. Why can't they be learned in the 6 hours of school they are already attending? Why do they need even more hours of studying to learn these basic things?

I also object to the idea that learning needs to be tedious and boring, but that is just my opinion. Still, you learn vocab best through just absorbing language naturally as all children do. Not being forced to memorize vocab words. Spelling likewise comes naturally after you learn to read. Times tables are basically unnecessary in the age of calculators, and just teach children to grow up hating math.

>However, I find this statement laughable: "Can it be true that the hours of lost playtime, power struggles and tears are all for naught?" If doing homework is a power struggle in elementary school, you're a poor parent and are raising an entitled brat.

You have no idea. I was that kid. I fought so hard in the fourth grade against excessive homework. I had very bad ADHD. I just couldn't focus. Forcing myself to do hours of homework, at that age, was torture. I had to be prescribed large doses of stimulants, as a child, to keep up.
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He's found quite a few different bugs:

https://hackerone.com/anand786
https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/thanks (listed 2015, 2014, 2013)
I would bet a mix of both. What will be more interesting is if it ends at 5-0 if we will see AlphaGo vs. Darkforest (Facebook's engine) soon after.
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You can also set up custom text macros in the keyboard preferences, which are a bit faster to input. I have :lod: mapped to ಠ_ಠ...
maybe the mistakes were unrecognized brilliant moves (tesujis).
I'm curious if you've seen any of the work in-tree that's going on for a native webassembly target in LLVM? It's still early and super rough, but it seems something you may want to peek at.
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I would be inspired if I ever saw an investor act directly in that fashion. I'm inspired by rational philanthropy, basically. If it was shown/feasible that certain externality subsidization programs could effect a positive change it doesn't seem like the act is higher risk than other forms of charitable giving.
Very exciting then, fifty years and we could be unlocking some serious building blocks :) It's a blink of an eye when you look at the speed of scientific progress over 2000 years !
And they can just pass all these laws with no public debate and can bypass an open judicial process and congress.

Why bother having separation of government branches with checks and balances if this can be done apparently now? The usual law making process / judicial review process has been circumvented. The US feds seem out of control and to be pushing this through unilaterally, and the elections right now seem to indicate most people are ignorant of it and/or don't care.

Interesting times. I feel bad for the American public.
Who said its a binary choice? Quite a lot of jobs have loads of empty hours useless to you and the company that would be better spent elsewhere.
Maybe someone can hack a dating/popular fetish forum or one of the many IM services used heavily for that sort of thing and we can get a dataset to teach computers to sext!
Spreadsheets IMHO are a solution space that hasn't been sufficiently explored. However they are not particularly visual (especially if you try to do complex things with them), they are very much domain specific they are extremely computationally inefficient, they're very hard to version and they become intractably complex much quicker than equivalent imperative or functional programs.

I've thought about what could be done to improve on their weaknesses (like strong typing, bridging the gap to databases, better table naming), even wrote some code in this direction, but anything I can think of involves either making them less visual, less user friendly or both and doesn't even begin to address the lack of generality

Finally I have to point out that some spreadsheets have been around for longer than many programming languages in current use so they don't actually lack maturity, yet they have seen little improvement in over a decade.
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Vastly different levels of capitalization. Bezo's is a multi-billionaire, while Carmack was only a multi-millionaire.

And motivation. Carmack's original thing was just that he was spending a lot of money on modifying Ferarris, and instead decided to put that money towards rocket development. That's not to say they took things more seriously later on, but that was the start of it.

And we learned very, very well, that H2O2 monopropellants rocket engines are a pain to use in practice, and don't seem feasible for any kind of reusable system.
These idiots seem to suggest that leaking the MD5 of an email isn't leaking the email itself.

I wonder if 3 years later they are still that incompetent.

Might be old news but I missed it in 2013, and I would have never used Disqus since if I didn't.
I was actually thinking primarily of distributed training time for the networks and playing time for the system, rather than the number of GPUs running this particular match. Also, I thought the number of GPUs in October was more on the order of 1,000? Happy to be told I'm mistaken though.
Highlights something I'm annoyed with, the pernicious idea that truth can be determined by 'voting'
Some people may say AI being a worry is 50 years but not usually smart ones who know anything much about it.
I rediscovered TreeSheets from another thread about visual programming:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11244558

http://blog.interfacevision.com/design/design-visual-progarm...

http://strlen.com/aardappel-language
Presumably ‘anyone’ is ‘anyone that’s a US citizen’?
Skill related. I'd be interesting to see how quickly driving AIs take to beat the best human drivers, in a weight-equal vehicle. An algorithmic competitor in formula one, would be interesting.
UTF-8 must be the default and only encoding. Why does anything else still exist?
If you use hosted JIRA and don't have many users it could cost as little as $5-$25 per month. That's probably cheaper than a lot of the non-F/OSS alternatives.

If you are having problems with your device tracking now, I would recommend it if that's the only thing you use it for assuming you don't have downstream systems that need data in some specific format JIRA can't be bent to.
Regarding your edit, I'd wager that it won't stay true for long. Eventually the single-function problem of orchestrating and directing a bunch of sub-solvers in a similar manner to the human brain will become feasible. At that point true general purpose AI will exist, for all intents and purposes.
Let me just say that there are game studios that are not run in this way. They may be hard to find, but they do exist - mostly outside of the console space - and I've worked at two of them and know of others. If the OP lives in the Seattle area, I'm happy to recommend a couple of studios that don't treat their employees like slaves.
That's incorrect. The features that AlphaGo uses are not pixel level features, but board states - and the architecture between AlphaGo and the Atari network is completely different.

It's still an incredibly achievement - but it's important to be accurate.
After using an editor for dozens of hours a week over decades, I decided it was worth the effort to write one of my own. I've been living in it for close to a year and a half now, and while it has a couple of quirks that occasionally bug me, it's nothing serious, and I feel pretty happy with my decision so far.
That, and towel-folding [1]. Humans have a pretty clear edge on that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo&ab_channel=RLLbe...
We still have Arimaa. It's designed specifically to make it difficult for computers to play.

http://arimaa.com/arimaa/
I can't speak about Austria/Vienna, but if it's anything like Germany, you can basically just show up, sign a contract, present a number of documents (necessarily: an original university diploma) to the authorities, and they will "consider" you, but you work under the assumption you'll be approved and a few weeks later you get a residence card in the mail.
That's not really the case. The standard model would need to be extended, sure (as the 750 GeV particle isn't predicted by the current SM). But there's no fundamental reason this can't be done; in fact in the weeks following this announcement by ATLAS/CMS, there were literally hundreds of theory models posted to the arXiv, claiming to extend the SM to account for the (potential) new resonance.
>The most prominent example is playing instruments.

I think the important lesson for learning an instrument is that you improve by putting in effort. There are gonna be songs that you couldn't play a month ago but now you can and that gives you a sense of achievement and an appreciation of hardwork. The actual technical skill of playing is just a vessel for this character learning.
At a guess, the company referenced in https://medium.com/@hyper_linda/help-me-get-my-dream-job-7aa...
Not really - a Facebook attack can be proven without revealing the details. eg. The buyer could ask "give me a list of the friends of <non-public account>" or "make a fake posting with <this content> authored by <this user>".
I would love to see an expert analysis of the game, but there were definitely a few moves where AlphaGo was "pushing from behind" that were probably not what an expert human would play.
Thanks, you gave me an idea to search for tech recruiters(one of the target market) with hashtags

Do you have any tips how to engage with them?
The only caveat about the freelancer/entrepreneur route is that you have to prove that you have a bunch of money in the bank at all times. For example, over 10K euros or something like this. Because as a freelancer, they want to ensure that you are not going to become unemployed and have to live off the system, presumably.

You also have the option to work in Germany at a real job, and thereafter apply for a freelancer visa. I have heard that this is a lot easier than going straight for the freelancer visa.
They used ~1000 CPUs and ~200 GPUs 5 months ago.
...it was the last stand of homo sapiens in the man vs machine...

But who made that machine?

I'd say a more precise evaluation would be that the ability to program a machine to assist in playing chess outdid the ability to play chess without such assistance.
Learning an instrument teaches you discipline, concentration and patience... something that is in short supply in contemporary life.
Welcome to the AI effect! Every time AI makes an accomplishment, it is disregarded. The goalposts are perpetually moved. "AI is whatever computers can't do yet."

People said for years that Go would never be beaten in our lifetime. They said this because Go has a massive search space. It can't be beaten by brute force search. It requires intelligence, the ability to learn and recognize patterns.

And it requires doing that at the level of a human. A brute force algorithm can beat humans by doing a stupid thing far faster than a human can. But a pattern recognition based system has to beat us by playing the same way we do. If humans can learn to recognize a specific board pattern, it also has to be able to learn that pattern. If humans can learn a certain strategy, it also has to be able to learn that strategy. All on it's own, through pattern recognition.

And this leads to a far more general algorithm. The same basic algorithm that can play Go, can also do machine vision, it can compose music, it can translate languages, or it could drive cars. Unlike the brute force method that only works one one specific task, the general method is, well, general. We are building artificial brains that are already learning to do complex tasks faster and better than humans. If that's not progress towards AGI, I don't know what is.
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Facebook's Go engine is not remotely close to competing with AlphaGo. In fact, it's about comparable to the pre-existing top Go programs; the only newsworthy thing about it is that it's from Facebook and it uses neural nets.
Although a fairer comparison would be against 1 kg of brain. Comparing against a human would need to include all the infrastructure for the device such as energy production or the manufacturing equipment required.

But nevertheless, fitting so much computing power in such a small device is a great achievement.
I'm truly amazed also, I'm not surprised or shocked. Once I knew that the previous master was beaten, I knew it's just a matter of time to see the #1 player topped.

What would be shocking is to find out that a famous writer, musician or scientist is in fact, just an alias for an advanced AI system :) It needs a little trick, because people should be tricked into believing that there's a real person behind the name.

Oh wait, I just remembered that there's a (mediocre) movie made on the subject: S1m0ne ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153/ )

Are you saying it won't happen? Think of the guys saying the same of go :)
> The real world doesn't follow formal game rules.

Really?

Why not?
Pretty sure it would throw some kind of low level error as that would disable all kinds of basic IO.
If we find new particles and also come up with a theory that extends the SM to describe them, that new theory _becomes_ the standard model. It's a moving target that basically represents the best picture we have to account for everything we've seen so far. There are already a few things already known to be wrong with the standard model, for instance we don't have a clear mechanism for the neutrino masses and you could argue that it's missing a dark matter candidate (assuming DM can be described by particle physics to begin with). The exciting thing about this (potential) 750GeV resonance is that it would indicate new physics that isn't already known to be missing from our picture of the SM.
have you sent the email? beacuse i can't find it. maybe it was filtered as spam
It is indeed. So crazy in fact that I couldn't get a hotel room in a major city with an international airport even three days after the holiday.

In New Zealand.
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>Think about it. There is only one man page for xterm. I fyou type "man xterm" with no section number you get that man page. If there existed an xterm(7) page, you'd still get the xterm(1) man page by default. So why the hell write the (1) notation every time you type the word xterm?

Because the convention exists to define the type of the component. It's a handy convention, and I'm betting there are a few people reading this who have never used anything other than GNOME terminal so appending the section number immediately helps the reader to place the component, otherwise they'd have to look it up. etc
Lee had quite a bit of advantages in the middle then he made one bad mistake and that was it. Deepmind made some smaller mistakes too but not as bad.

I am really excited about the Deepmind though. Looking forward to tomorrow's game!
In order for their business model to work, it means they have some control over the oven, and it's not fully open. So does it mean that the app expose only a part of the capabilities of the oven, or less accuracies, while people who buy premade meals, get to have the full benefit ?
First they came for the nazis...

Speaking of oppressing muslims, for a government that fully supports the ethnic cleansing policy implemented by the Likud (which let's face it, makes the platform of any european right-wing party pretty mild in comparison), the German .gov sure seems to have peculiar standards of what is morally acceptable for a political party to do or think...
A chess program on your smartphone will obliterate even the world champion - http://en.chessbase.com/post/komodo-8-the-smartphone-vs-desk...
Yes, I got one recently:

Pull down this data from Instagram API and create a tagcloud. Should only take a couple of hours.

Except working out how to register and authenticate Instagram's API took me over two hours, than after faffing about with it I realized I only had some sandboxed version that returned metadata and not the actual data I was looking for.

The task would probably only take a couple of hours if the whole environment was set up, but the set up was the problem.
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GM Michael Stean lost to Cyber 176 (a mainframe 'supercomputer') in 1977 (at blitz). AFAIK this was the first time a computer defeated a GM; they began defeating IMs and experts some ten years before that. Kasparov himself lost to Fritz 2 at blitz as early as 1992.
Yeah, I know that one. It's discontinued, though - I'm actually looking for a replacement for this exact library.

Been thinking about writing my own implementation but was hoping for an alternative when I saw this post.
Actually, in the text, I guess no one voting me down has actually read it, he pretty clearly defines the developers as the people who contribute to the packages, not the people who download and use them. It's like saying, as an IDE user, you are a developer of the project, you are not, you are an end user of a developer product. The end users, in this case, software developers, are using it as a CDN. It's pretty clearly stated in multiple places, github is not a CDN.
Well at a certain point getting locked out stops being 2FA's fault and is simply due to the user's lack of responsibility.
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> The only remaining are language-related

That is a gigantic over-simplification. All machines are application specific, even machine-learning based ones. They all require human supervision, whether through goal setting or fixing errors.

There are some areas where machines are better than humans, and playing Go is now one of them, but that doesn't mean machines will replace humans in all facets at any given point in time. We grow, our tools grow, and the cycle repeats.
Homework is an imperfect real world solution to a real world problem. As opposed to no real world solution to a real world problem.
Sort-of repeating a comment I made last time AlphaGo came up:

As far as I know there is nothing particularly novel about AlphaGo, in the sense that if we stuck an AI researcher from ten years ago in a time machine to today, the researcher would not be astonished by the brilliant new techniques and ideas behind AlphaGo; rather, the time-traveling researcher would probably categorize AlphaGo as the result of ten years' incremental refinement of already-known techniques, and of ten years' worth of hardware development coupled with a company able to devote the resources to building it.

So if what we had ten years ago wasn't generally considered "true AI", what about AlphaGo causes it to deserve that title, given that it really seems to be just "the same as we already had, refined a bit and running on better hardware"?
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> the Higgs boson was added a few years ago

No, it was there from the beginning.

> The standard model makes no claim as to how many particles there can be

Nope, it does. That's kind of the whole point of it.

> what their masses should be

True, these are free parameters (except the massless bosons)

> what spin they should have

It does. Fundamental fermions have to be spin-1/2, gauge bosons spin-1 and the Higgs spin-0.

> A new particle doesn't necessarily violate the standard model in the same way that discovering a new element wouldn't necessarily violate the periodic table.

Depends if you mean a new fundamental particle or a new hadron. Discovering a new hadron is akin to adding a new element to the periodic table. Discovering a new fundamental particle means the Standard Model has to be extended or otherwise rewritten.
Here in ex-USSR we have those problems too. Why not standardize decimal separators altogether worldwide? We're not dealing with feeking paper handwriting! If a number is printed on a computer display, it must look like 123456.78, not like "123 456,78"! Same goes for datetime representation.

This localization BS has spawned an entire race of nonsense, where, for example, CSV files are not actually CSV in some regions, because their values are not COMMA-separated (as the name implies), but semicolon-separated. And we, programmers, have to deal with it somehow, not to mention some obsolete Faildows encodings like CP1251 still widely used here in lots of tech-slowpoke organizations.

So: one encoding, one datetime format, one numeric format for the world and for the win. Heil UTF-8!
> Which finally ends the conversation with me saying, "Well then you asked me to solve an irrelevant problem, so I'm happily providing you an irrelevant answer."

So how many of those companies made an offer?