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Yes, I have to agree. There's a little too much negativity for my liking, especially from people who have a vested interest in downplaying the efforts of others.
I've heard it a few times growing up in southern California. believe it or not people are pretty racist.
You are presumably not writing the code and immediately patching some device that is hooked up to a patient.
I can't tell if you're genuinely asking, but Iran is widely considered one of the largest sponsors of state-funded terrorism in the world. Lots of self-flagellating Americans like to ask about the US/Saudi Arabia, but Iran's IRGC and esp. Quds Force are famous for their successes in cultivating and logistically supplying terror groups (think Hamas, Hezbollah) - if the US took such an intense and long-term view of the ME I think the world would be different.
Yeah but you can't pop a Prozac if you're feeling sad and expect to feel better within a reasonable time frame. There's also no high, you just start feeling normal again if you're depressed and it's the right drug.

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-SSRIs-typically-prescribed-bef...

"This last item makes SSRI's abuse-safe: contrary to benzodiazepines or opiate-based painkillers, there's no risk of abusing them for pleasure, as they're, once again not "happy pills" and there's no high. They even worsen symptoms for most people at first. That has to do with their mechanism and is their major flaw but serendipitously it strongly protects against recreational use."
A couple of times is a coincidence. I stopped counting after seven.

So you're saying that there's a bug. And the bug waits for me to stop using Facebook, then emails me things from Facebook.

I find this quite difficult to believe. At the least, it's a very convenient bug.
It is true that neural networks can approximate any function. But what are feasible ways to construct such networks? Part of the point of having "deep" networks is that it's easier to train that way. Scalability does not only refer to the scale of the model itself, but also the difficulty in building such model.
@asmiuvPR, thanks for putting into words just what I was feeling :)
Modern day AR, and here I thought I would have to wait another decade for it!
Year of the VR desktop?
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So you come here only to insult? or are you advocating thoughtcrime? nazi german and ussr and their thoughtcrime days had long gone, hope you aren't in any effort to bring them back.
The matter-antimatter annihilation near the boundary would generate enough energy to blow the antimatter shell into deep space (where it would cause some serious problems for the rest of the Solar System).

The released energy would likely (I haven't done the math) be enough to vaporize the Earth, which would meet the original requirements, but I don't think it would annihilate a large percentage of the Earth's mass.
> So where's all this cash going? Is the driver side being subsidized to a ridiculous degree still (this is, actually, my guess)?

I was in India recently. The driver said that when Uber started out, they'd give each driver Rs. 60K/mo (about $1000/mo) just to sign in for 10 hours/day, even if they did not give a single ride. Now, Uber pays by the number of rides and not a portion of the actual fares. So, for example, he said that Uber pays them Rs. 3500 for 17 rides. Most of my rides were about Rs 100 each; so Uber was taking a loss on each ride. But their system of paying by the ride is a genius idea: it removes the incentive for the driver to dick around and do a TSP around the city to drive up the fare. Now its in their interest to get the ride over with as quickly as possible, so they take the most direct route.

Edit: Sorry, "Rs" is the Indian currency, Rupee. There's about 65 Rupees to the USD.
You know, k nearest neighbors is also a universal function approximator. Universal function approximation is a red herring.
> Kids should be taught in grade/high school how to handle money, personal finance, etc

I think that's a pretty swell idea.

> There's really no reason someone on UBI should ever need a large sum of money

I don't think that's true. The problem is living paycheck to paycheck without savings. UBI adds steady income but if the recipient fails to save, then when large expenses come like bank overdraft fees, medical expenses, and general rainy day stuff, they'll have to take out loans or credit card debt. Which goes back to why education is so important.
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> Hello! I'm one of the Urbit devs.

Can you please explain to me what a "non-lambda interpreter" is and why it matters?
Trying to compare anything to "intelligence" is a trap, imho. Intelligence is not a natural quantity, it's a word. There was no reason for a brain to become a universal approximator, or to have any specific mathematical property for that matter. Brains evolved to adapt behavior to the environment using the senses. The universe didn't care for creating some property called "intelligence".

I do see many results in NLP for example that have an eerie human-likeness, even if nobody can explain why. I am not an expert in the field, but i would think it's a challenge to find similar results made using another technique.
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And the easier to read PDF format of report.

http://dq756f9pzlyr3.cloudfront.net/file/2016_internet_trend...
Taxis are a kind of public transit. So call me skeptical if Uber manages to sink taxis and this is part of their long term strategy, because unless they have enough money to become the sovereign in their dominant markets, they're going to end up being regulated by the local government should they supplant taxis.
A good part: Suggestion that there may be a lot more emphasis in social media on real time video. E.g., some bros in several cities watch the NBA playoffs 'together' except can't ask to pass a brewski and the chips and dip.

Not so good: For Silicon Valley interested in valuable innovations, there was a lot of emphasis on the economy as a whole. Sure, maybe for a while some entrepreneurs or companies got big financial returns basically taking existing US/EU/Japan tech into countries that were still short on running water. Maybe. But that's not really a Silicon Valley thing.

I believe that the big thing missing was innovation. That is, the report was similar to the common statement of about 1900 that all the big discoveries in physics were done with. Well, the report gave too little weight to what innovation there could be in the next 10 years. I.e., the report placed much more emphasis on population and GDP growth than innovation growth.

Part of the report turned me off: There was a lot of emphasis on digital electronics in cars. I have a car, for all the reasons people have wanted cars for a long time. I do like the digital electronics for management of fuel mixture and ignition timing. Otherwise, I want NOTHING in my car digital -- I don't want to use it, pay for it, or pay to maintain it. Besides, the US car industry is not up to doing a good job with digital in the design and manufacturing, and the maintenance part of the car industry is in much less good shape with digital.

Digital was great to replace typewriters, ..., and bring us the Internet, but I see nothing I want from digital in a car. The car that is $1 cheaper and has as little digital as possible is the one I will buy.
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You can already configure the author name/email per repo with `git config`[0]. It seems that the intent of this script is to simply to remind you if you forget to do that.

(Perhaps that's obvious -- I actually assumed initially that it was going to rewrite the index before pushing which would be terrifying.)

[0] https://help.github.com/articles/setting-your-email-in-git/#...
I got excited seeing Rust listed as a language so many times. But almost all the results linked didn't have Rust. Just the word "trust" (which appears a lot...).
Actually, time-to-action is exactly what separates addictive drugs from non-addictive alternatives. The brain cannot abstract pleasure from what are extremely subtle mechanisms.
Two reasons it won't take off:

1.) legacy software rules, companies and government will be slow to adopt even though VR can save a lot of money

2.) Walking around wearing a VR headset looks kind of dumb
I am not offering an opinion on the matter, so I don't know what you mean by me not taking into account risk. You were inferring things from the judge's verdict that were not correct and I was merely pointing them out.

I don't know why you are trying to make this point about adjusting for risk when the entire question revolves around what the stock was worth at a stationary point in time three years ago. There is no risk basis to the calculation as discussed here - it's not a question of the judge possibly taking it into account or not, the judge absolutely did not factor it in. Whatever has happened in the world in the ensuing three years would not have affected this lawsuit either way.
Thanks for sharing this, cool to see others analyzing this data. I've been compiling monthly trends for a few years[1] of languages, frameworks and databases too. I see you define the terms to search for as well. I need to do a better job of grouping, but here's the raw list I use[2]. What was the most interesting thing you've learned from the data so far?

[1] http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/2016/...

[2] https://gist.github.com/ryanwi/6135845
>Neural nets are universal function approximators. There isnt something they can't learn.

Teach one to sort an arbitrary list. A universal function approximator is not a Turing machine.
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What does "Rs." mean?
Apparently function approximation is an important property to make something useful. It seems reasonable that it should be part of an intelligent system. Is there a similar "deep learning" based on k-nearest neighbor classifiers?
Salesforce has its "server" side language APEX which is sort of kinda based on Java, then they have SOQL which is their own, limited and akward version of SQL, and Visualforce which is their front end. So many limitations that make no sense. Documentation rarely tells you the whole picture. The whole thing is full of gotchas that you only learn through experience. Ugh.
Linux does not have containers. It has namespaces and cgroups. Jails (FreeBSD) and zones (Illumos) are containers. Please, stop claiming containers exist on Linux.
Comments on this thread are insightful, people on amphetamine defending their way of life.
> "Wrong-think" as a phrase is one of those thought-terminating clichés.

Agreed.

> People are voicing their disagreements with his professed viewpoints,

Voicing their disagreements with his pseudonymous comments from a completely different non-urbit context. I suspect (but I don't know) that if he wanted the public's perspective on his non-conformant political thought to skew the public's views on his technical design work, he wouldn't have used a pseudonym in the first place.

> yet you are using that cliche to dismiss them without addressing their viewpoints.

Quite the opposite. I am using that cliche, in a question, to ask if that is what the parent is asking (inciting?) us to do: arbite non-conformist thought.

The viewpoint that (here) I intentionally don't address can be summarized as: "I heard the designer wrote something that I disagree with elsewhere, under a pseudonym - more than once! I hereby dismiss anything he has to say on any matter." That's like saying: "Hitler lover strawberries, so we must all agree to avoid them."

> This does not lead to a vigorous discussion in the marketplace of ideas.

I agree, but... what marketplace of ideas? The aforementioned comments have nothing to do with the merits (or lack thereof) of urbit. A public shaming of a heretic is not a marketplace of ideas. Maybe the guy doesn't pay his taxes. Maybe he's behind on child support. Maybe he eats puppies for breakfast. I don't know. I also don't know that it really matters, as regards the merits (or lack thereof) of his engineering design.

And, I'm sorry. It seems that I have contributed to the thread going even further afield than it already had. I shouldn't have said anything to begin with...
I'd be surprised if that became a thing outside of specialized cases like doctors seeing a patients vital signs and AI advice while they operate.

One thing I've expected to see more of is Second Life. I thought for sure all the VR hype would reinvigorate Second Life for things like online classes and virtual meetings.
I find the forms of church to be fairly meaningless on their own. It might as well be a weekly TED Talk and Sing-A-Long series by another name. Maybe it's enjoyable, but I can't really see it being transformative. To me, the worship services have become the least meaningful part of church life. Higher quality music (even worship music) and sermons can easily be found elsewhere.

The accountability and shared search for applied Truth is where the meaning is. I don't see how UU churches provide either well. In other words, a church needs to be able to fire a pastor for heresy without being hypocritical. Otherwise, the word 'church' has started to become a synonym for the word 'nonprofit' or 'club' or 'fraternity'.
Rupees, the Indian Rupee. Currency.
Unfortunately you can pretty much nanny-pick a study that supports your view for just about any purported topic and view relating to drug use.

Secondly, that study is flawed because it fails to acknowledge what is known as the 30%-30%-30% jump. The difference in intelligence between a retard and a normal person is the same difference of intelligence between a normal person and a genius. Different boosts account for different corrections in deficits depending on the IQ range that is being operated on. This is a known quirk of intellect. Being why Einstein sent a letter to his son telling him that intelligence was not the reason he was successful, "working hard" was, and urging him to do the same.

Amphetamines are performance enhancing drugs. They give the same "cracked out" superman effect to anyone who takes them. They are amazing. And we should not discount them by giving credence to the bullshit that is ADD and the epidemic which is giving dumb kids speed so they can live up to their parents' standards.

ADD is overdiagnosed, and adderall/speed is overprescribed in doses that hit high enough that their grandma can feel it. It's fucked up to be giving hard drugs to kids just because the kids are dumb. Let them be dumb. Let's not make them drug addicts at the cost of their mental freedom.

Just google for it, the stories on forums and other places. There are millions of kids who grew up and regret the drug issues they have now. The dependencies. Because they've been on speed their whole lives, because of a giddy parent and a giddy psychiatrist long long ago. The stories show that treating "ADD" with speed in children, is a really shitty thing to do.
A proprietary (and solid) alternative to Lustre would be GPFS, which also has a long track record in HPC (and other markets in which IBM thrives).

As someone who completely shares your Lustre sentiment, I can't fathom why Intel keeps pouring resources into it.
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Rupees, Indian currency. BTW, that is a lot of money.
Yeah I think that's probably true but as a private company we don't know how significant these costs are. I think it's questionable to have a business plan predicated on suing your way out of being considered a taxi when in pretty much every way that matters, except one, it's a taxi (or limo, or a hybrid) service. And that one exception is that it has a decent Ux in large part due the Uber app and its backend infra (which is huge).
You need to remember that audio files (and other copyrighted media) isn't like the picture of your cat you painted in Photoshop. If the rights holders to that file request a change - region licenses changing or some such - perhaps that's the reason for the format change.
Learning Lisp is easy. Learning Haskell is hard. But unlearning either is next to impossible. So anyone writing a new functional language would be best advised to not have that problem.

Now, one might feel differently if Lisp, or Haskell, or any other functional language, was such a conspicuous market success. Under the circumstances, however, I don't think one can be faulted for the suspicion that perhaps functional programming is too important to be left to the functional programmers.

I think we'll have to disagree about whether or not Lisp is a typed language. I realize that people with IQs of 175 have an uncanny knack for taking indefensible positions and then defending them, but I'll just have to take this one on trust.

While we're measuring our respective equipment, however, we can agree that Lisp has macros. Hoon does not have macros, because it's a pure typed language and a pure typed language doesn't need macros.

If Hoon did have macros, however, they would be inherently hygienic, without anything like a gensym. If this is a good time for you to favor us with a lecture on the virtues of Lisp, perhaps you could start with gensyms and their place in "Maxwell's equations of software."
99% of people aren't in Tech. They are starting hair dressers, restaurants, selling products or doing a trade. You also have to have a business plan and do a monthly update with a trainer who guides you ensures you're working on it.

I'd way rather my tax dollars go towards people attempting to create something useful and improve their community than giving them food stamps and leaving them to themselves, which often leads to them sitting around home feeling useless and doing nothing with their lives.
The truth about most automation in general:

The logic is written by humans. The main mechanism by which computers / robots begin to outperform people in eg playing Chess, Go or Driving, is copying what works.

Humans outperformed animals because they were able to try stuff, recognize what works and transmit that abstract information using language.

The main advantage of computers is being able to quickly and easily copy bits and check for errors. You can have perfect copies now, preserving things that before could only be copied imperfectly.

And now you copy algorithms that work. The selection process might need work but the actual logic is still written by some human somewhere. It's almost never written by a computer. Almost all the code is actually either written by a human or at most generated by an algorithm written by a human, which takes as input code written by another human.

What's the "smarter" thing is the system of humans banging away at a platform, all making little contributions, and the selection process for what goes into the next version. That's what's smarter than a single human. That and the ability to collect and process tons of data.

All the current AI does is throw a lot of machines at a problem, and stores the result in giant databases as precomputed input for later. That's what most big data is today. Whoever has the training sets and the results is now hoarding it for a competitive advantage.

But really, the thing that makes all the system smart is that so many humans can make their own diff/patch/"pull request". Anyone can write a test and submit a bug that something doesn't work. That openness what made science and open source successful.

Open source has served the long tail better, too. Microsoft builds software that runs on some hardware. Linux has been forked to run on toasters. Open source drug platforms would have helped solve malaria, zika and other diseases faster.

If we had patentleft in drugs, we'd outpace bacterial resistance. Instead we have the profit motive, which stagnated development of new drugs.
Sometimes, I like to take a step back and think about this.

If I have something to say, I can build a web page of some sort and 3,000,000,000 human beings can see what I put there.

Thanks to translation services, most of them will even be able to read it.

I mean, 3,000,000,000 people can read this comment.

Does that astonish anyone else?
ok i meant some function
I work for Mozilla and estimate the usage of Mac/Linux/Windows by Mozilla developers is probably 50/40/10% respectively, whereas the general population of Firefox users is more like 8/2/90%. Windows XP is still about 15%, more than Mac or Windows 10!
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Wow, how did you get an rx for that? Did they try tons of amphetamines and finally go for Desoxyn?

I agree: It's incredibly something (classist?) that only certain people can legally get amphetamines. I'm sure if you have lots of money, it's far easier to convince a doctor to RX. Whereas if you don't, you can even afford the doctor to diagnose, let alone RX (plus the risk of being labelled a "seeker").

Having essential medications behind professional, for-profit gatekeepers is a violation of human rights. It's reprehensible and an affront to personal liberties.
You will be surprised how much the 4G licensing are, they are based on % of final sales. That is why the BOM cost people continue to use in Apple Products are pointless. The amount of money from a phone feeding into the patents system is insanely large.

Hence, Another reason why Apple do not have LTE in their Macbook yet.
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I have been working on a binary image diffing algorithm for a project called Narcis (https://github.com/deckar01/narcis).

The idea is to provide visual regression testing for integration tests. It's not a new concept, but the weakest part of the solutions I have seen are really ugly diffs. I am also playing around with the idea of streamlining a manual review UX instead of the standard change threshold concept.

I have mainly focused on assumptions that can be made about screenshots of a webpage which allows more fine-tuned diffing behavior.

Demos:

https://narcis.us/test/google/master/home/000000/diff/000001

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