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>> ...any AI system probably IS just ML/DL algorithms...

I don't think so. ML/DL is just the beginning. Better AI solutions will be discovered in the future. Note that computer neural networks are just simulations of some reality, they're not complete yet. Many intricacies are still to be researched on.
the reason i find coding fun is it's "technically and ethically complex" and hard work and challenging.
If something isn't hard and challenging, i cant focus and the thing is boring.
Not sure what this article offers
Please stop posting like this. We ban accounts that continue to do so.

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I am really into R.D. Laing and a more obscure psychologist named John Weir Perry. They have fairly different approaches (Laing is more of a post-structuralist, Perry is a Jungian), but both of them were firm believers that schizophrenia was a process that could be worked through; Perry in particular believed that it was a healing process, not a destructive one, and that successfully going through it (to the other side) involved a reconstruction of the self that left people better-equipped to deal with their lives. I recommend his book, "The Far Side of Madness", for this reason alone, that it contains stories of people who recovered from schizophrenia and felt it had somehow improved them.
Creativity is applicable to scenarios in which there is no problem to solve. What about undirected creative play?
Honestly your best bet is to read everything Gregory Maxwell has ever written.
On mobile, it has plenty. And I mostly meant in terms of speed to adopt new web standards and features.
These guys are strong evidence that whatever it is, it's heritable.
Disagree. Growing up on the internet gave me a sense of community and belonging that I never found in my hometown.

The internet and social media can both be incredibly connecting things (that is their purpose after all, right?).
Dead end is far too negative. There is nothing wrong with improving general purpose computing. It's the very best thing you can do - when you can. Just be ready to adapt (by going for specialization) when you can't.
Google is having success with their DWave[1], test results on the Google Research blog[2].

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/544276/google-says-it-has..., "Google Says It Has Proved Its Controversial Quantum Computer Really Works"

[2] https://research.googleblog.com/2015/12/when-can-quantum-ann..., "Quantum annealing significantly outperforms its classical counterpart, simulated annealing. It is more than 10^8 times faster than simulated annealing running on a single core".
Perhaps the single most curious things in Rhode's book is what put them off the path of graphite moderated natural uranium reactors, the work of a single unreliable scientist who, as it happened, was not using pure enough graphite (too many neutron poisons, it was quite a challenge for us to get graphite pure enough). That pretty much dead ended their efforts on the science front, heavy water natural uranium reactors are quite possible (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor although I remember reading somewhere the Canadians had access to extra rich in U-235 uranium), but definitely not trivial, especially when we were zapping their supplies of heavy water from Norway.
The Nyquist signaling rate only applies to binary/two-level signals. Most optical communications systems use many levels to improve the data rate. StackExchange discussion: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/21854/why-is-...
Being on Facebook and Instagram and talking to each other are not exclusive; one can talk through Facebook and Instagram.
Article didnt tell me anything about Haskell's history but I found this following links:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...
They have misunderstood the Haskell motto, it's "avoid (success at all costs)" not "avoid success (at all costs)".
I'm curious what useful work such a computer can perform, given that a typical 1995 computer had a 33 MHz processor, 8 megs of RAM and 1 gigabyte of hard disk space.
TL DR; France is the country where Cargo Cult science is born, and that what was Feynman has been warning against, because it it was beginning to contaminate US at his time (has finished by now)

It is called academism: when you respect the look&feel of science more than science itself.

Some very well known moralists that have been making some real scientific breakthrough such as Pasteur, Cuvier have used this to publish pseudo science based on their scientific credit France has hence created some very disturbing pseudo-science backed by academy

Pasteur was a convinced puritan. When the league of virtue came to him to shut down the sinners who where drinking alcohol, he backed a totally un-scientific study to claim absinth was a poison. The prohobition in USA is based on a similar lobbying.

Cuvier who was friend of Linné, after going to a pub by seeing one poor girl from south african born with a dysmorphia made a very nice theory from one sample stating that the «black» where closers to the gorillas than the «whites». Giving racism a «scientific credit».

Than in the early XXth helped by politics, scientific academy claimed that all about crimes could be solved with science, hence the birth of scientific police and «scientific methods to investigate» (CSI) including: using graphology, numerology, the face of the people (based on Cuvier) and extended to say stuff like the facial trait of jews that were more akin to be criminals, polygraphs and shits.

One of our greatest and first she PhD, Marie Curie (who was born polish) was at the opposite of Bogdanov constantly under the fire of criticism of «our scientific institutions» for being too free. (She divorced, had an affair, and above all CLAIMED to be able to do science by herself). Thus French scientific academy have asked the Royal Academy of Stockholm to not give her the Nobel prize in 1906. Stupidity that they happily ignored.

French science had always a tendency to prefer the appearance of science over its content (reading Molière is very informative on the topic), and until recently USA developed itself greatly by abhorring this model (read quicksilver from Stephenson as a good picture) greatly inspired by the «erudition» held by the church.

But after the WWII amazingly USA have been all the more looking like France in its worst part they have been bashing France.

I think the biography of Feynman and the part on the introduction of Fundamental Math is instructive. It is the fundation of the cargo cult story. Or the book of Pr Gleick on dynamic systems where it is described why Mandelbrot prefered to give up on polytechnique (french Ivy league) or even the Sokal scandal can depict a pretty accurate picture of the slow convergence of US academism towards french one.

America's greatness in knowledge is being held down by this: conformism, and giving more credit to institution than they ought to have.
Yes, exactly. It's for people designing custom PCBs. That includes people who have something prototyped on a Raspberry Pi/Arduino, etc. and want to migrate to a custom board that's ready for production (ie. to get cost, form factor down).
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Looks great, someone had to do this :-) Can't wait to give it a try!
Try to understand the essence of the problem and the whole thing makes perfect sense.

Problem: many spontaneous moments are missed because the phone is not immediately accessible. The phone is in the pocket and it takes seconds to dig out the phone and switch to the camera app, and by that time I missed the moment.

Solution: put a camera at line of sight. Make it super simple to capture.

When you phrase it as a camera you mount to your head, it sounds super creepy. The sunglass is a natural vehicle for the camera since most people have sunglasses and wear them when it is sunny outside. It allows for validation testing of the idea, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a prescription version if the demand is there.
Ok thanks for the clarification
Also not for nothing, but Kiregaard is really the father of existentialism
Sounds great, someone had to do this :-) Can't wait to try!
Rhetoric has been a key part of communication for quite literally epochs and is used to entertain us while making a point. I think that may be where the difference between us lies. Taleb has an axe to grind and is quite boisterous about it. For me watching Taleb go is like watching an intellectual WWF, the showmanship itself is thrilling and aggressive. For someone who brands himself as, and in terms of his ideas actually is, a contrarian, this aesthetic befits the material. But I understand if that's a turn off for some.

Either way I don't think it's something to become upset about.
Ask HN: The best apps / devices for replacing testing done by a doctor?
I'm talking about those tests which are performed by a doctor on a routine basis in the US - blood work, hitting the knee with the hammer, etc...
Yeah, no wonder Windows struggled to open the .zip; seems to be a macOS .zip.
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This is about 5.8 kWh. For comparison your average adult male uses >2kWh every day on a 2000 calorie diet.
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They're DOD so why not. There's a lot of them that do. What confused me was that browsers in US didnt trust DOD PKI... probably quite reliable... while they have plenty of shady, less-secure CA's on their list.
Isn't this a lot like Disney's robot:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardwar...
But it was America's unique industrial prowess that made it work, especially in time to effect the end of the war.

No less a figure than Neals Bohr believed it impossible on those grounds, said in 1939 "It can never be done unless you turn the United States into one huge factory", and when "Nicholas Baker" visited America, remarked that was indeed just what we'd done or were doing.

"The Arsenal of Democracy" was not just a slogan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_of_Democracy).
Please don't lob drive-by inflammatory comments into discussion threads on Hacker News, it ruins them for everyone.
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> Let's give Evan a few years before we start fanboying him.

Apart from the norm that fanboying is bad, why? Isn't his resume pretty good already?
The parent said capable of real improvements over classical computers, not whether it has achieved it. Of course some hold the opinion that it's at least capable of it (Google, NASA, D-Wave employees) but the jury seems to remain out.
I don't think "getting it right" is a good way of phrasing it.

The aspects of Eastern philosophy you mention seem more relevant to Western ideas like phenomenology, monism or pantheism. The identifying feature of existentialism, as distinct from phenomenology, is the focus on the inescapable responsibility that our individual freedom places on us to create our own meaning in life and accept our own ethical behaviour and value system. It is an individualistic and atheistic perspective. The phenomenological aspects are more psychological than the Eastern works you mention, which are more metaphysical.

You say "I am not sure that classification of philosophies and philosophers is of any use", but you raised the issue of the classification and its origin.
I was comparing the fact that Apple tossed out an unfinished, first iteration of a product that eventually became polished tech.

I'm pointing out that the limitations on these glasses are along the same path.

Seems like a bunch of people didn't catch my point, I'll try and be more clear in the future.
What's with the hate? You realize there's a possibility you will stand corrected?
I've always understood it to be literally the former, but at the same time tongue-in-cheek the latter.
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Just to comment: I wish you could also "reset to playlists" or "reset to saved", and have it rebuild a profile from scratch based on existing playists (and/or saved media) and just the history of those songs in your profile.

That way, you could just clean up any playlists they made (or things you wanted it to forget!) and rebuild, which saves you from having to start "completely fresh" unless you want to. (It would also flush out any listen history for non-saved media.)
That's funny. I was just talking to somebody about all the different version managers we wind up dealing with. I'll have to look at it more later.
Oh yeah, totally. Using known proven methods for reducing crime is going to be a total waste of everyone's time. We should totally just put them in a box instead and not try to fix the root of the problem. Lets keep using the same methods that have been proven not to work because some people might be able to abuse another process.

/sarcasm
Do I not remember "pick nose" eventually killing you?
I'm wondering, can a similar technique be used to zoom-in on a photo? If you can detect features of the face (eyes, nose, mouth), and you have a library of examples of these features at high resolution, you can supposedly fill-in the missing details of a zoomed-in image using this library.
A good database that patients can access might also be helpful.

Until you get something fully automated, you have an extra person to understand/review decisions.
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Couldn't agree more, so informative
They have a giant indicator light on them. Anyone who would notice you recording on a smartphone would notice on spectacles

Also, it only records 10 seconds of video at a time, and the video only gets sent out to my friends, not all over the internet
Different people are different. I'm very much looking forward to spending a lot of time in VR interacting with AI. That's very literally my idea of what heaven is. I know I'm not the only one.
Homebrew has been my "go to" package manager for years! Well done!!
Always read the fine print when you agree to automatic software updates, folks (and read the fine print on manual updates, too!)
One way to gather all the data for training using deep learning, is run millions of robots. But that may happen if tele-operated robots become a big industry in of itself - which economically could work.

So the big issue is: what is the state of the art in tele-operated robots ? And what's missing for it to become a thing ?
When you get a sense of inevitability from a founder’s pitch…
Can someone please provide a mirror? Both links don't work anymore! Thanks a lot guys
Monkeys in Exo-Suits. So ripe for parody as a Gavin Belson moonshot.
I don't think so? The longer explanation is

> Haskell has a sort of unofficial slogan: avoid success at all costs. I think I mentioned this at a talk I gave about Haskell a few years back and it’s become sort of a little saying. When you become too well known, or too widely used and too successful (and certainly being adopted by Microsoft means such a thing), suddenly you can’t change anything anymore. You get caught and spend ages talking about things that have nothing to do with the research side of things. I’m primarily a programming language researcher, so the fact that Haskell has up to now been used for just university types has been ideal. Now it’s used a lot in industry but typically by people who are generally flexible, and they are a generally a self selected rather bright group. What that means is that we could change the language and they wouldn’t complain. Now, however, they’re starting to complain if their libraries don’t work, which means that we’re beginning to get caught in the trap of being too successful.
Using printers has become so unpleasant that most people are just giving it up, or trying to.

(Warning: loud auto-playing video.)
Much previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12524031
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An actual comparable product, GoPros, start at $200
Slightly better discussion links:

http://news.columbia.edu/content/Columbia-Chemists-Find-Key-...

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6306/1365.full
Observing that there has been a steady trend of right-leaning opinions being blasted across every thread is not a "conspiracy-theory" (it's extremely ironic that you chose to label it in such a way, in a thread with some heavy conspiratorial overtones about the FDA) when mediums such as hackernews often have a tendency to drift that way as they become more popular. If there is even a hint of a progressive idea in any statement you make on here these days, it gets immediately down voted.

There was no reason to downvote me, so you can concentrate on the source of the problem instead of throwing a silly rule at me. But it's far easier to just pinpoint a silly edit I made, isn't it? Let's completely ignore the fact that we are on a thread about the government controlling the media and that it was somehow sufficiently voted up to receive significant attention and that my initial statement somehow warranted downvotes.
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Sounds pretty good. I've sent you an email for more details. I'm interested in doing this. It's a cool project idea.
The way you tune Discover Weekly is by saving the songs you like, and skipping the ones you don't. If you save a track to your library or into a playlist you've made it won't appear in future Discover Weekly playlists.
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The most general (correct) form of this statement is "use the expectimax algorithm". Yeah, it's a bit weird that he's prescribing log as the mapping from dollars to utility.

If log is the correct mapping for you, it actually doesn't matter what base you use. It just comes out as a constant factor on the expected utility.

Sum_d P(d) U(d) = Sum_d P(d) log_b(d) = Sum_d P(d) log(d)/log(b) = (1/log(b)) Sum_d P(d) log(d)
If you are interested in the technical implementation of it, I did a very basic version of a Blockchain in Go a while ago.

https://github.com/izqui/blockchain
I don't know, survivors of the nuclear blast were in such pain that they begged the nurses to kill them. Also the nuking of the cities was really unnecessary- it could have been demonstrated without the loss of life.
For some reason Spotify playlists, even those supposedly tailored to my tastes, never quite played music I actually enjoyed. When I tested out the Apple Music trial a whole new world was suddenly opened up, of playlists that actually played stuff I liked. That's the only reason I have stuck with Apple Music and its lack of Linux support and buggy Android app.
Coding certainly is fun, for some subset of people. Otherwise I wouldn't be grinding away blissfully at porting a C++/Lua game engine to C#/IronPython on this beautiful Saturday morning, for no greater reason than my own enjoyment.

Not everybody finds this enjoyable, but not everybody finds doing puzzles, or crosswords, or playing basketball, or tinkering on cars fun.
"...What is shown by the crowds that lined the Boulevard du Montparnasse to catch a glimpse of Sartre’s hearse is not something about France, but something about Sartre in his own right, something that demands explanation. Why were so many people drawn to him? Why did he matter to so many?

"For Sarah Bakewell, the answer lies in the peculiar appeal, and the timeliness, of the philosophy that he espoused: existentialism. "

I have to disagree. Not that Existentialism is unimportant but I would assert that it was "something about France" in the sense that philosophers are highly respected and that they essentially are public figures akin to celebrities.

You could even say it shows "something about America" (or England) that other countries respecting philosophers as much as we respect reality TV show stars is considered strange and needing of explanation.
The usable parts of infrared light (amplifiable C and L bands in single mode fiber) is about 10 Thz. According to Shannon's theorem the theoretical upper limit for symbol rate in a linear channel with 30db SNR is 10 bits/s/Hz, independent of modulation format. This is how I derived my rough estimate of the capacity of single mode fiber.

The Nyquist rate is modulation dependent. Optical fiber can certainly achieve spectral efficiency over 2 bits/s/Hz.
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Seems like an interesting service. I'm kind of confused by the site though.

On the landing page it says, "Get any schematic symbol and PCB footprint delivered in 24 hours. Just $29." Then I did a search for a part and clicked request and, after signing up for an account, it said that to get it in 24 hours I need to pay $79 and $29 was for 5 days service. I also somehow ended up on a page at one point that said that you could request any part for free. So which is it really?

I also found the social network aspect of the site off putting particularly since there was no mention of that and then after I signed up for an account to give the request a part service a try I see my user name plastered on the sites front page in a feed of recently signed up users and deactivating my account doesn't remove that.
Actually the underlying interfaces are for the largest part sane; and what's more are much easier configure from the command line (and use git or whatever source control, or devops tools). The only area where the Linux side is not easier is for first time or very occasional users who want an easy GUI with native bling to configure things with.
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Only if your lock picking skill was low. Over a certain level you could mine your nose for skill points indefinitely.

I just remembered we used to throw rocks everywhere to increase that skill. Even used to use rocks to chip (and sometimes kill) enemies while running from screen to screen to prevent them getting into close combat. I can't imagine having so much free time anymore :)
Indeed an impressive feat, but in physical terms utterly irrelevant to actually ending the war, since their ability to more than morally effect the home islands of Japan was all but nil.

The moral effect of running through the Imperial Japanese Army in Manchuria "like crap through a goose" might have been decisive in allowing the surrender to proceed, in suppressing the IJA leadership. Heck, their predictions about how they'd stop or even bleed us in Kyushuu, where they had a massive superiority in numbers and stopping was very much in the cards, looked very different in the light of the 2nd bombing, which showed the first wasn't a one off, and how they were being owned by the Red Army (not that that should have been a surprise after 1939).
Is there an example of the (specific) timing attack mentioned in the article being exploited?
I think your footprints should be shown with dimensions, because before I drop hundreds or thousands of dollars on a run of PCBs, I'm going to have to check your footprints to make sure they are correct, and that could actually take me longer than drawing them from scratch.
I just created an account with the LinkedIn login option.

When I get back to the front page, it shows for everybody to see with my full name that I just joined snapeda.

Why???
We minorities have always made top engineers.
For example, here's my latest product: www.enrad.io (and no, we don't want your money.)

If you really want diversity in the startup ecosystem, simply fund and hire minorities...and stop merely talking about it. Seriously, stop moving your lips and just hire some people. We're everywhere. And we're very good.
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