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> Nothing is more frustrating when discussing deep learning that someone explaining their views on why deep neural networks are “modeled after how the human brain works” (much less true than the name suggests) and thus are “the key to unlocking true artificial intelligence”.

While I get what he is saying here, and more or less agree, I think it is not to be taken lightly that there is a significant difference in this discussion now as compared to 30 years ago. The difference is not how neural networks work, which clearly differs but is related in some ways to the brain, but rather what neural networks see.

What is really significant when you can handle lots and lots of data, and throw it all at a giant neural network, is what we see happening in the network. The observation that the hidden-layer filters developed as an optimal feature for classifying images appear to be Gabor-like directional filters (I'm referring of course to this type of thing [1]) is not random, and not an insignificant result. It really does relate to perception, in the sense that 1) we know that the brain has directional filters in the visual cortex and 2) more importantly, from signal processing theory we know that such filters are "optimal" from a certain mathematical point of view, and if they develop naturally as the best way to interpret "natural" images (or other natural data, such as audio [2]), it shows that development of such filters in the brain is perhaps also quite likely. There is quite some research in neuroscience at the moment looking for evidence of such optimal filters in early neural pathways.

So yes, neural networks are not models of "how the brain works", but the newly established ability to process huge amounts of data, and to examine what kind of learning happens in order to optimise this processing, can tell us a lot about the brain -- not how it works, but what it must do. Complemented with work in neuroscience, the idea of modeling information processing is not unrelated and can really lead to some significant contributions in our understand of perception.. and perhaps, eventually, cognition -- but who knows.

The misunderstanding here is thinking that the be-all and end-all of neuroscience is studying how neurons fire and interact. Neuroscience is much more than that. Neuroscientists want to know how we experience and understand the world, and a big part of that is understanding what is required to process and interpret information, what is the information, what are its statistics, and what kind of neural processing would be required to extract it from our sensory inputs. Of course, this must be complemented by studies of how humans do react to stimuli, to try to verify that we do process information according to some model. But that model being verified -- that comes from what we know about information processing, and computer science can contribute there in a significant way.

[1]: https://computervisionblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/gabor...

[2]: http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v5/n4/abs/nn831.html
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It is super unclear that even if you had extremely cheap access to orbit, you could make asteroid mining pay off.

If cost to orbit was cheap enough, people might be interested in orbital solar power.
There's an hour difference between "9am est" and "9am edt".
Block devices (and NBD specifically) absolutely have a notion of sync(). We use sync() as the unit of write visibility. All writes up until a sync are effectively anonymous until a sync().
Not the original poster, but I read the comment differently.

> Maybe it’s time for Silicon Valley to tone things down. To admit that, no, the Valley can’t solve all human problems -- not even close -- and never will.

I have a few problems with this quote. First, I don't think the people of SV ever got together and said, "We're going to solve all human problems!" The author is putting words into other people's mouths in order to make them look ridiculous.

Second, what does this quote have to do with the topic at hand? This is a discussion of whether or not it's okay for a billionaire to help fund someone else's litigation, and it suddenly veers into a weird attack on all of SV.

As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the author of the article is a paid media relations person. This probably isn't journalism, it's more likely unmarked native advertising paid for by Gawker to drum up outrage in preparation for appealing the verdict of the lawsuit. I really thought Reuters was better than this.
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Let's just stop the name calling. Theil is not a "robber-baron". He created his wealth by providing services in the free market for others' benefit. He neither robbed, nor did he gain his money through inheritance.

He did not use government funds to finance the Gawker case. He used his own money on a cause he believed in. If you don't like it, give your money in Gawker's defence, or work to a better solution: limiting the amount of damages a jury can award in such cases.
Really we'll need either population control or (more likely and) to drastically limit consumption (or the impact of it maybe more closed cycle recycling) with or without BI.
Unless there was deliberate action (skipping procedure in a way that a person has been warned and disciplined about previously) there will be no firing.

Any calculation based on the hours down needs to be reduced to account for people finding products by other means (already saved for later in their basket, direct links, searches via external search engines).
How do I compile Linux to get these results? Is there a ready-made Linux build config for this?
I believe you're looking for "Straw Man Argument": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man_argument
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Not as bad as this, but my friend was an SDET contractor at amazon and bugs in his testing framework let a multimillion dollar bug to go to prod. Not only was he not fired, but he got a full-time offer at the end of his contract.
Show HN: An easy to understand FizzBuzz using TensorFlow
why? The result is the same. He probably could have used an "independent" organization but why bother? Organizations are only as independent as their control of their own funding. He could have just said to some organization "Here is the money. You will spend it suing gawker after taking your overhead." Personally I don't think this is a large issue. Neither SV nor in constitution is at stake here.

If he was suing The National Enquirer for publishing a sex tape and not gawker would we really still be discussing this?
I understand, but that was not the point of my comment.
They might still lose revenues from potential impulsive purchase

It just happened to me, I was trying to search a book and want to buy it, but since I can't search, I didn't. And now I don't want to buy it anymore
Perhaps HN should enforce a minimum comment length, like at least 3 words... One word comments clearly don't add value to a discussion.
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Adding my own me-too onto the pile of "I made something just like this:" https://github.com/secondparty/arrange — I built it out of curiosity, and have used it in my projects, (shrug emoji). These types of projects are fun.
This is so inaccurate. There is no way that the distribution of product sales is constant over time of day, day of the week, month of the year, etc.
It's not an ad hominem, because the article isn't making an argument, and someone questioning his motives isn't saying he's wrong because of his motives.
Apple's plan to sell used iPhones in India officially gets rejected
Pebble Core will ship with Amazon Alexa assistant
Reminds me of Larry Ellison's old joke, "So when building our cloud, we decided to go with Oracle... we got a good price..."
Saudis benefit from our 2 mid eastern wars. Total cost of wars? According to Brown U. just the Iraq war is 4.4 trillion. http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/ That's a cost of $15,000 per person in the US.
Was one of the searches in a category, while the others were in all product search? That could account for the issue.
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Usually they don't do that anonymously.
Well, turns out she was full of crap like many have been stating for years now, but all the media could look at was at such an empowering story for woman around the world and created all this hype around her.

Same happened to Marisa Mayer btw, if she was a men she would be long gone after her awful performance in Yahoo (with probably a very big bonus is true... but still gone), since she is a woman (perhaps also importantly an attractive young woman) then let's pretend she knows what she is doing, because empowerment is the word of the day, even when they do nothing of notice except showing up and make up stories about the company they are running.
While the post by Joel Grus was intended as a joke. I thought it would be interesting to use FizzBuzz as an example to illustrate how TensorFlow represents computations as graphs. This <20 lines version relies tf.mod / tf.argmin / tf.concat to deterministically compute results.

http://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
I agree with your assessment.

I saw a voxiebox demonstrated at the NIAC symposium last year, and I was quite impressed. Being able to display a real-time 3D picture of my face as I made expressions was pretty cool. However, with the price point and mechanical manufacturing required for it, I don't think it will ever become mass-market in its current form. The state of the technology reminds me of the PDP-11 before PCs became a common thing; the basics are in place but it's just not quite there yet.

I don't want to invest in a voxiebox, but I think I would bet strong on whatever replaces it.
"Every minute slept is a great loss"

I'm thinking you're being sarcastic, but if not, there's nothing you're doing that's going to be done more productively by being sleep-deprived.
If there is no spike of sales, all hours of sales is worth the same, and assuming Amazon makes 100B per year in online sales, then it seems like a considerable loss, but still a drop in the bucket when compared to their total revenue:

(1 - (365 * 24 - 4) / (365 * 24)) = 0.000456621...
0.000456621... * 100,000,000,000 = $45,662,100.4566...
Solving algorithms in haskell is very different from what people usually do with imperative languages.
May I ask what business you're in? I want to do something like what you're doing. I only need to make 35 - 40k to sustain my current lifestyle.
Have you seen Gawker's piece on Thiel? (http://gawker.com/335894/peter-thiel-is-totally-gay-people)

Surely broke his privacy, but by no means was it offensive.

I get how HOGAN would be mad, but this seems like a whining billionaire without better ideas for his money. (irony much?)
What? People view Silicon Valley as idealistic and almost utopian?

Give me a break. Stupid article.

When I look at all the evil that the Economic Royalty have done to the world since the beginning of the Enlightenment, the funding of a law suit seems like nothing in comparison.
Minecraft sales top 100M
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Twitter has an incredibly powerful brand and appeal. How many companies can say they triggered revolutions?

Yet it's puzzling how much it fails to improve its basic product, 1 year in Dorsey's comeback. On mobile, the search/explore screens are mostly irrelevant. On desktop, they could position themselves as quasi TV channels with live content update.

Yes, they lost the social wars and that's fine. They won the media war: Twitter's mindshare vs its actual engagement rates makes it an amazing opportunity.

Really hope it doesn't fade into a glorified RSS feed and manages to build on the intensity of its content.
And a lot of people will do also.

But some won't. They'll either be buying on a whim (and the mood passes), or buy from a competitor. Those are lost sales that aren't coming back.

There are people around who never buy on a whim, but there are also a lot of people that buy stuff because the thought crosses their mind, forget about it, then remember when it turns up several days later. These aren't always things you "need" strictly speaking.

As to competition I'd name Jet.com, Target, and Walmart as being major ones. I buy a LOT of stuff from Target these days using the Red Card (effectively 5% pays for the tax, and free delivery on all purchases).
I worked in a printing press ten years ago, and all of the pressmen and binding-machine operators were deaf (congenitally, not from the equipment) and thus fluent in ASL.
I'm not sure if management sought them out or if one guy got hired and started recommending his friends, but it worked out well. They could communicate with one another perfectly in places where even shouting was inaudible, and they often seemed to be better at communicating even with people who didn't know ASL just because they were so good at nonverbal communication.
Entirely content-free post. Click-bait most likely.
Boom! Exactly. He did something good using available means. Pragmatism is the ultimate move to make good things happen in the short term and he did it.

Had he not the risk of other people's information being leaked for the entertainment of the masses could be higher.
Yes, this would have automatically caused people to get paged in minutes or seconds.
Yes. One of my co-workers actually got fired from Amazon for causing downtime. And this was after following all procedures, documentation, etc.
I'm guessing he thinks "Amazon Search" meant A9.com - which used to be Amazons search portal (like google / bing / yahoo).
They were 90% of the top contributors. The company had a lot more sales people. The devs don't control decisions of the company. Only the code and that's why I assume there was this fork.
> If this is the state of the art in machine translation, how on Earth can you expect a machine that can converse on human level in three years?

Here are 2 good papers--one from last year, one very recent--that might change your mind.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.05869.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.06065v1.pdf

Over the past 10 years (deep learning got going in ~2006, really), the state of the art has improved at an exponential rate, and that's not slowing down. There are plenty of reasons to be bullish. Or at least, now seems like a bad time to leave the field.
+1 for support of local execution of lambdas.
Musk expects an Apple car by 2020, fears one company's AI use
EC2 was designed around the idea of having highly parallel and intensive workloads for short periods of time.

For people who use it as a VPS provider, they are going to be hard hit by other tenants who are applying the intended purpose.
It's like he's Justin Biber or something ...
Maybe domino's could carry passengers one way. Order a pizza. Get a pizza & a passenger too!
Says Elon Musk, repeating a well-known (in philosophy) argument that's over a decade old. What lazy reporting.
That's true, but Urbit isn't like that. It runs on stock hardware, which is to say, untyped imperative hardware. And even from a purely theoretical point of view, Urbit's lowest level (Nock) is untyped.

The last time anyone built a computer that was typed all the way down to the hardware was (ironically) Lisp machines.
Ah, Python. Yeah, virtualenv + pip or docker + pip would probably be a better way to manage that sort of thing and increase separation of your git repositories (and better yet, better separation of your Python VMs), but I can see why submodules feel easier in this case if you are dealing with system global installs of Python packages right now.
i made something like this (although much less extensive) because i found myself using the same pattern for a few freelance gigs

https://github.com/r-medina/grid

thanks for sharing!
Figuring you know the what so maybe you know the why. You often know more than most.

[edit: why the heck are people voting mikeash down, legitimate question after all in tone and spirit]
Could they be? Sure. Are they? We'd need some kind of evidence, not speculation
Any bias in the article is probably about 4 levels of reporting away from Bezos. More likely that the author found various defense contractors being extremely available to chat, living in the DC area and all, and trying to get an article out on a deadline while not being an expert on the subject matter.
Does Amazon do public post-mortems for things like this, the way they do for AWS outages?
Lots of vanity fair pieces are well done, but this one is a bit lacking in actual operational detail. For example, who are the independent waste haulers, and what do they do with the stuff they pick up?
Asset Catalog secrets
I have bash script in my bash_profile to support separate history files named with tty, month and year (so separate files for each tty). It looks for recent history files for the given tty and reloads old history on first startup.

Have cron job to signal bash session to flush history with command timestamps/dates to disk daily.

Handy for recalling commands/command switches you ran months ago.
A great marketing win for Uber here. It became known worldwide as an "innovative technology company" even though outside US, it's only innovation is funneling SV money to lawyers so that they can maintain their illegal business practices while they conquer the local markets. E.g. in Europe we've already had all the other "innovative" stuff. But people don't notice it, instead naively buying the "Uber = innovation" marketing.
You pay a premium because you expect things to work well.

When things don't work, AWS doesn't tell you a reason why it didn't work. Instead they teach you lessons about how to architect your applications for failure by saying:

The EC2 team also recommend that you architect for failure using the white paper linked below:
https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/AWS_Cloud_Best_Practices.pdf

See my earlier comment as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822298
"A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!""

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_regress#Consciousness

edit: What if we talked about the idea rather than worried about who said it?
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And Twitter has never turned a profit
It's kind of tragic to see them be late to the party that they helped invent. The first apps for the iPhone were powered by Yahoo and the YUI library was pretty usable on mobile early on.

The talent was there, the leadership was not.
The company is still far too bloated, contributing to the fact that it's financials don't remotely support its valuation.
The question I've recently been pondering is, how do I transfer my consciousness out of the simulation?
Very useful tips on how to improve your website's loading speed. Thanks to the author!
I tried them all from the homepage I just don't remember the exact products I searched for at the time.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. You are correct.
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Pointing out that a source is likely not impartial because they are a professional PR specialist is hardly an ad hominem.

From the author's page:
"Keith uses the power of strategic communications along with his experience as a lawyer and company co-founder to secure maximum leverage for his clients. His individual and team recognitions include the PR News Award for Outstanding Media Exposure (Business Development); The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences Webby Award Official Honoree; and the American Bar Association Award of Excellence (for writing). Keith is based in New York City."

Granted, correlation is not causation and it's theoretically possible for the good Mr. Emmer to have a long standing interest in journalistic freedom. (A cursory Googling of his name and the obvious keywords shows no evidence of such history.) But would anyone here care to bet much money on it?
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The issue is that money matters in justice

Which reveals the lie behind the term "justice system". It's a judicial system. Its goal is to render judgments. Its relationship to justice exists only in the abstract.
The article is making an argument (Thiel shows why tech billionaires are the new robber barons) and, regardless of the author's motives or background, I analyze his arguments.

Claiming "isn't saying he's wrong because of his motives" is just reinforcing what I'm trying to say.
While I have great respect for Musk and know he is very smart, he is not a cosmologist, astrophysicist or theoretical physicist.

So I'm going to disregard him on this one.

If this is a purposeful simulation done by an advanced intelligence, then it is a sick puppy.

If he means this is an accidental simulation, ie. a projection of 4D from a 3D plane, or a 4D shadow from a 5D plane, then maybe, just maybe.
Narcotic is an actual word with an actual definition that is completely appropriate in this scenario. This is no way sensationalized.
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