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I've realized lately that I often fool myself into thinking I'm proficient in some subject by picking up on concepts quickly. I think I "get" it because I can understand something on a conceptual level, but when it comes to practice, my deficiencies become apparent. I guess the tricky part is to push myself past those initial concepts to delve deeper into the subjects with practice. I need to slow down and remind myself that I don't really "get" it just because I can understand the concepts in a very broad sense.
How about you bump to 0.14 now, with this patch included? 0.13 is the Homebrew version, with data collection still enabled.
Some snippets from his wikipedia and About pages:

- He's a member of Alcor.
- He is Co-Founder and Chancellor of Singularity University
- He is a Director of Engineering at Google heading up a team developing machine intelligence and natural language understanding
- Among other things, he has supported the SENS Research Foundation's approach to finding a way to repair aging damage, and has encouraged the general public to hasten their research by donating

He's done more to popularize trans- and post-humanism than any other person ever.

What am I missing here?
Rich is relative. Sure, China has the second largest GDP but on a per capita basis it's not even in the top 50 (regardless of purchasing power parity or straight up wealth).
The status quando, perhaps — or the Zeitstand.
Pathnet is super interesting, but the authors of the paper don't make claims like this blog post does about being general AI, and this blog post doesn't back up those claims well either.
Apart from the non-programmers bit, you're not wrong.

I've been using the open source version on a project between 2013 and 2015 and it was exactly as you described: it essentially was a very convoluted and un-debuggable way of attacking a class of trivial problems, on which it failed miserably.

Basic functionality (watch a directory for incoming files, apply some processing, move the files to a second directory) would fail without any useful error message. You could "program" it by writing XML files with an Eclipse plugin, but anything non-trivial would involve hundreds of lines of "magic" XML.

I consider myself lucky enough to have moved on.
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Please note, I've never seen your code, so don't take this personally.

That's because they want you to be productive. IME/O, having someone on the team that can't really make an app is antithetical.

You could definitely look for a job in QA and ask them to set you up as a dev, then work on dev in your spare work hours.
Fair enough. No, I hadn't heard anything about Assange since hearing his internet was cut off.

Current US political news is sucking up all thr oxygen. So there's a lot of stuff I imagine I'm not hearing about.
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Yeah, for now. But what if we live in Water World a few decades from now with climate change? Seee?!
Thanks, I was surprised when the article just ended without going into further detail how the dynamic programming recursion looks like or how you define a good fit for a bin.

Is there a downside to using adaptive bin-sizes (other than complexity or making them possibly harder to interpret)?
Like MattRix said, I was also extremely excited about this since I like to improvise on my piano. But it was simply underwhelming and all I did was express that. I didn't say the project itself was stupid. I love the idea itself, that's why I was excited at first.

Also I was throwing a legitimate question. If you can't tell the difference between some random note generator and a deep-learning AI generated notes, what is the point?

I don't know why I'm being called an asshole for asking a question with a counter-argument. I remember a couple of months ago a video went viral which was basically a short film based on a script written by a Tensorflow-based AI. I also loved that idea for the novelty, but had the same feeling as this one--I could just random-generate utterances and call it a day and people will have no idea.

Basically my point is, there are a lot of narrow-domain use cases where deep learning is awesome, but in many cases it's not on par with human ability... yet.

p.s.
Maybe I have worse sense of music than you, but i have tried all kinds of variations. I would try dorian, pentatonic, blues, etc. and the only time where it kind of sounded sane was when you played easily recognizable notes like major scale (which beats the purpose of this whole AI thing). Of course one could call this "avant garde music" but like I said, I can write a random notes generator and call it that too.
A big team behind would certainly guarantee over-architecture and slowness. Just compare the various team sizes of slow and fast dynamic languages.
I met Brian Moriarty in 2000, shortly after he bailed from HearMe. He played a role in The Crucible, which my father directed at Pacifica Spindrift Players.

He took on the role of Reverend Parris shortly before the play opened, taking over for a junior actor in over his head. I was 15 at the time and was taken with the ease in which Brian slipped in to the role.

He brought the production together and was a stabilizing force. My father recently passed away, so seeing Brian's name here brought on a rush of memories from the play.

I looked around and found the playbill from the show: http://www.pacificaspindriftplayers.org/shows/2000/the-cruci...
> They don't experience something exciting in particular.

yes, but that's (somewhat) besides the point. The trick is to look for value in what you've got.

A more mundane example:

Lame: It was so hot this morning that I didn't want to go to work but I knew that I had to. During lunch I heard from my colleague from the other team that their boss had bought ice cream for them this morning. Too bad I wasn't on their team.

Better: It was so hot this morning that I didn't want to go to work but I knew that I had to. The bus I was sitting on drove past an ice-cream vendor. "Man" I thought to myself, "it is so frustrating that I can't get off the bus right now to buy some ice-cream". During lunch I heard from my colleague from the other team that their boss had bought ice cream for them this morning. Too bad I wasn't on their team! When I then finally got out of office the ice-cream vendors were long gone but I still had an an ice-cream hunger to satisfy. So I went to McDonald's and ordered a McSundae. The guy behind the counter sighed and told me "Sorry, we're out of ice-cream since 10 am"
I then gave up on my quest for ice cream and thought to myself: "For tommorrow, I need a plan..."

In the "lame example" you just complain about two things (the heat and you being in the "wrong" them). In the "better example" you turn your appetite for ice-cream into a story instead.
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IMO Firefox has just 2 things to beat Chrome: better add-ons (like treestyle tabs) and politics (made by Mozilla instead of an ads company). They are burning the first one.
I use Firefox because of 2 things:

1) vimperator
2) single process handling multiple tabs (I typically have upwards of 40 tabs open at a time)

Firefox is in the process of removing plugins like 1) so that it makes it possible to remove 2).

Wonderful.
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I appreciate the GCD approach, and for many problems it'd absolutely be what I'd suggest and use myself. My little Dwizzle toy could certainly be built that way. For concrete systems programming tasks that deal with things on a per-IOP basis, for example, it's specified semantics are insufficient make strong performance assertions.

It's not a blocking semaphore -- we explicitly don't want it to block after the third call. The example was an entirely artificial construction to get (a) an early return and (b) a use for locking for thread safety (you could of course also do it with just an opportunistic CAS loop). That said, yes you could build it with a semaphore that included tryDown() in its contract.

My day job is working on the VMM that backs Google Compute Engine. Thread hops (it's the wakeups, really) have a measurable and for some workloads substantial performance and efficiency penalty. This makes the use of GCD and similar technologies untenable (while GCD could be written such that dispatch queues handle synchronous dispatches on the calling thread, the docs do not guarantee those semantics iirc). To really drive the point home Hypervisor.framework requires that some calls be made from specific threads, so taking on a similar project to my day job in Swift would really absolutely require knowing details about execution context.

I've been building a little toy VMM, mostly as an opportunity to learn Swift outside of work, so my concerns aren't entirely hypothetical (for a null or nearly-null operation like fizzle GCD is up to a hundred times slower in Swift today than a spinlock lock/unlock with warm caches). This still puts dispatch in the realm of microseconds, though, so for many workloads it's fine. It's too long (and way too many cycles spent in actual compute) for things like dispatching network packets or flash storage IOs, though, particularly if overall cycle budget is a concern.
I think the world will eventually reach an equilibrium where humans, and commerce, will simply (because of technology) be so much more efficient / effective than they are today, it will make it possible for governments to be as effective at fulfilling the needs of its people (if not more so) with orders of magnitude less tax.

In the meantime I think the human race will be in a sort of gray area. Maybe it'd be a good idea to implement some sort of "robot tax" for that duration.
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Is there a way we can continue use these classic addon?
The code (from the tarball) looks pretty much like somebody converted a C library into Ocaml, though. I only looked at src/Typography and the font handling and typesetting code, because I'm kind of familiar with that.

Edit: Ok, it depends on the modules. Some of them are indeed written in quite nice functional style. Must be the "handwriting" of the different authors that those modules are so different.
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Indeed, my point was that if you're going to add moveonly types with destructors having a way to force lexically scoped lifetime has concrete uses.

That said, having that be optional opt-in behavior could be valuable from a compiler optimization freedom perspective.
> If you're one of "today's welfare recipientss" (as is the question in this sub-thread) you'll have neither convenience and good medical care. And usually not much time or use for the internet either.

Look outside the US (to Germany, for example), and you'll see that this is not necessarily true.
Your entire argument amounts to: Trust Apple and nobody else. What makes you think that's a good idea?

> We're not talking about a dumb mower that is not storing any of your personal information.

Exactly. That's why it's even more important that we be able to repair it ourselves.

> Apple has the absolute right to protect it in order to protect your data, even in the ways that prevents you from repairing your yourself.

There are no absolute rights. There are laws. I trust myself more than Apple and I don't think there's much you can say to convince me otherwise.

> If you want to repair, take it to Apple or if there's no store, mail it in.

Nope. I'd rather not, thanks! That's why we're going to get this law passed.
Mozilla may not be an ads company, but they make the vast majority of their money from giving space to ads companies.
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Is it just me or are Chrome's dev tools superior in every way to FF?
This sounds similar to "Dropping an egg from a plane at a few hundred feet". Maybe similar technologies could be involved in the payload?
Bringing examples like so is important for correction.
I've realized exactly the same thing. A starting intuition is necessary, but not sufficient, for understanding.

I can watch as many lectures as I want, but nothing beats sitting down with a pen and a piece of paper, playing around with equations and developing a true, intimate understanding.
As far as I know my personal website is down and I have to fix it again. I think it hasn't help me find leads yet, but it might have convinced some companies to invite me for a chat.

I haven't been able to find remote work easily. I did try, at some point and did find one client in New York, but eventually this didn't work out, since I am not much of a designer and the job also involved being strong in design of mobile apps.

Many online platforms like Elance, Zendesk, Toptal seem to be hard to get into. I think after you've build up a small work history on such an online platform one should be able to find decently paying remote jobs. It's certainly something I wish to pursue in the future, but for now I focus on on-site work.
Someone is paying for all that and the CC company profit on top. It's going to be a mix of everyone including you and the unlucky ones that aren't financially savvy or have some emergency and slip into a vicious circle of debt interest and more debt. I think by last count the latter group accounted for about half of Americans.

So the tradeoff is paying more all the time for gimmicky benefits and having to carry a ridiculous number of plastic cards in your wallet (I actually thought this was a sarcastic caricature of the american consumer. Imagine my surprise.)
Doctors salaries don't tell the whole story. I've read that roughly half of doctors are self employed. They are also the owners, or major shareholders, in medical related businesses such as provider networks and malpractice insurance companies. Being a doctor means that you can make what I call "insider investments" that aren't available to the public, and the cost of training ensures that the only people who are doctors, have family money available to invest in those businesses.

The rat's nest of business entities makes it impossible to figure out where the money is going, or who is making how much. That way, everybody can point the finger at somebody else. I suspect a reason why medicine costs less in countries with nationalized systems is that it's possible to figure out where the costs are going.

I'd favor a system where medical school is free, and doctors work as employees of the government.
I'm starting to come of the opinion that systems should probably not let users pick their passwords.

That is they get to pick a generated password (by the system) that is easy to remember. Maybe from 10 or so.

There are password generators that use multiple words but are really long (eg you have probably seen the new router passwords that are like this).

I have even thought maybe emojis might make for better passwords for some users.
Doesn't seem like it. Repair manuals don't cost anything to release, and it's not like the innovation today is at the PCB level; it's interference if the state forces someone to support outdated products by ensuring the availability of ICs and stuff... but the firms in the supply chain should only be too happy to supply if there is demand (ebay is chock full of every imaginable parts peddled by Chinese traders).

Frankly these corporations way too much power, from planned obsolescence to bad hardware. I for one would welcome the right to defend against these giants.
Fwiw, OCaml has pretty exceptional modularity – for some definition of modularity. Check out "functors".

Also, for backwards compatibility, this might be a reference to the pretty unusual legal obligations that OCaml has as one of the reference languages of the French Atomic Energy Agency.
I agree, but if you can state the things you disagree on concretely, in my view, that is progress.
You could make the argument that continued easy profits stifle innovation just as easily. Until you have data to support the correlation, I think the default of not overpaying for basic medical services is orders of magnitude more important of an issue.
This is fair, and what I've done so far in Swift (with a cute little extension on NSLocking no less :).

If you're going to add moveonly types with destructors, though, it seems strongly desirable to give them (or at least making available) lexical RAII semantics.
An actually-useful alternative: https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn
The author is not wrong to emphasize the fundamental necessity of drilling, but in her article it sounds like she, having memorized basic facts (in Russian and math), ultimately achieved fluency through play.
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Depends on the type of yoga too, I imagine. I've been rolling out my hip and practicing Bikram's yoga for a while with excellent results. One of the features of Bikram's is the number of "compression postures" but not sure if that's the same thing as what you're talking about...

Also for my hip (minor labrum tear).
You're considerably more likely to be abused by police than be involved in an aviation accident.
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I'd like to offer as examples anything by Miyazaki, although they aren't just for children. Sometimes the initial plot setups are a little contrived or cliche, but they aren't material to the films.
I am honestly starting to believe that Mozilla is trying to run Firefox into the ground. I am not sure if it's just bad decision making or if the decision makers themselves had been bought off by competition, but it sure does feel like this. Why do we need one more Chrome like browser out there? I specifically use Firefox because it's a) not chrome, b) has better addons. If you hamstring the addons and make everything chrome/chromium like, what's the reasons to use FF then?
Agree, but I will go out on a limb and say very few SMBs produce electronics (although there's a recent the trend in hardware startups).
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Referencing the parent's comment, this lets you replace subpanels or even individual (sub)pixels as needed --- with a TV, if the panel is damaged, it's all or nothing.

I wonder what the weatherproofing (particularly heatproofing) on these things is like.

LEDs are more sensitive to heat than CRTs or incandescent lamps, but less than LCDs.
If Firefox 56 is the last release to support Tree Style Tabs, it will be the last release of Firefox before I begrudgingly switch to Chromium.
I have no idea what makes this "modern"; according to the book it seems like TeX with maybe some inline OCaml. Maybe something about OpenType?
Isn't all this depressing after realizing the origins of Apple. There are no machines for hackers these days.. it's all "look at the looks of this fancy UI" today, with actual interaction being all but an afterthought.

It'd be a different, better world if Symbolics had survived... but you know evolution doesn't quite work that way.
That's not true at all. A merchant that takes a big-bonus cashback card pays more in total fees than if they were paid with a "normal" card.

The merchant is charged additional (sometimes substantial) additional fees, on top of the normal processing fees, for transactions done with those cards.

That is true with any big bonus card - whether it is cash back or miles back or triple-points or gas-bonus or whatever ...
Would you put your brain inside a robotic trebuchet?
+1 to Treestyle tabs (buggy though it may be), and also Tab Mix Pro, which lets me clone tabs.
As a matter of fact, their training could indeed have motivated their refusal to test.
The Lyme test not being perfect and the disease not being that frequent in your area makes testing dubious, depending on the particular numbers. In more scientific words: if the prevalence of the disease goes down, then the positive predictive value of the test decreases as well [1][2].

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[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2540558/pdf/bmj...
My recollection is that both are as bad as each other: spiteful UI with 1 watch window and a fixed window layout. Dear people - start demanding more from your tools.

Going back on topic, I've stuck with Firefox for years because of DownThemAll and Firefox Sync. But I stopped using sync a couple of years ago, so that just left DownThemAll... which won't work after this change. So I'll probably leave Firefox behind. Safari supopsedly gives you better battery life on OS X, and Chrome is more popular (i.e., people probably test their stuff on it).
Ouch, the comments over there are extremely negative. As mozilla is our last bastion of hope between advertising giants it pains me to see mozilla having an increasingly hard time to sustain a positive brand image.

It is crazy if you think about it, because Mozilla is the last giant that respects its users. It has a very good proposition with regards to privacy and user-interest alignment.

There are still tons of less-then-smartª people using Chrome. I blame Mozilla for not doing any smart marketing at all.

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ª Its fair to call it that way. You use a browser more than a car. Yet people do research before buying a car and carefully weigh the downsides versus the upsides. But not for their most important software application in their lifes.
What do you mean by "reverse engineering TeX"? Since TeX: The Program [1] is freely available with full source code and complete explanations of the the source code, I don't think one could characterize understanding how TeX works as reverse engineering.

[1] http://wiki.c2.com/?TexTheProgram
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My little cousins are 7 and 9 years old. I have been thinking a lot how can I get them started with building and designing for the web.

I just finish my first attempt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiwWT2CERA8

I wanted to ask the HN, what other ideas or what type curriculum I can do to make it more fun and interesting for them. All ideas are welcomed.
Legal tender should always be accepted. Imagine if you were unable to buy food because you were denied credit.
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In the US, American Express is the famous example of this. The green, gold, and platinum cards are all "charge cards" and not credit cards. All the other types of cards (airline branded, Blue Sky/Cash, etc) are all classic credit cards. It was big news when AmEx started issuing regular credit cards since they were always charge-only.
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It has Tree Style Tabs and will continue to even after Firefox gets rid of XUL
> We don't know that Volvo's technology is just going to work flawlessly. People assumed that about Tesla and at least 1 person died //

There are two problems for autonomous vehicles that this part of your comment highlights - one is how good a driver is good enough, is it good enough if they have less accidents than a taxi-driver?

The other is managing the negative perception when the press report deaths, even if the vehicles are safer and produce less deaths than human drivers, the press will ensure the perception is negative despite what the statistics may show.
Implying people who use Chrome are stupid is .. not a very nice thing to say.