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> I'm a huge fan of dynamic languages. I think they're so much more productive.

This hasn't been my experience. I work in Python (and JS) by day, and I can't wait until we upgrade to 3.6 so I can reasonably employ type annotations. Without them, people tend to write hacky code, such as functions which do completely different things based on the data type passed in (rather than fixing the abstraction) or build up huge, nested data structures with no formal definition (various parts of the code base just tack on whatever they like, and the documentation inevitably falls out of date). Even my prototyping is in Go, because I would rather have a compiler catch my errors than to spend tenfold the time trying to debug. Also, when I'm working in Python, I sorely miss the tooling that I have in Go and other static languages.

I don't think Go is the end-all-be-all of programming languages, but I think any dynamic language would be more productive if it was at least optionally typed.
Climate change is not adversarial, the weather will not try to disrupt and avoid you fixing it.

Fighting a passive adversary is a much easier thing than fighting an active one (especially one smarter than you).
AI definitely isn't stuck, unless you define it solely as creating artificial general intelligence. The problem there is that we don't understand general intelligence very well at all.

Of course the fixed graphical models we use have their own problems. For instance, we can't even effectively model a neural network with a variable number of inputs.
Is it reasonable to assume you're a citizen of the PRC?
Doesn't the Prius have a HUD like the Yaris, positioned directly in front of the driver and above the steering wheel?

http://www.toyota.com.au/prius/features/cutting-edge-technol...
In particular multiplayer focused "in Dev" games are problematic. It is resource intensive to keep up with moderation and anti-hacking. Combine that with smaller VR subset of users and it seems hard to imagine success without many years of runway money.

Smaller one player or 2 player multiplayer indie-like games is probably better fit for small funded VR.
It's true that this seems to be the majority sentiment, in spite of things like a ban on completely harmless sex acts in porn (such as female ejaculation or spanking). This is clearly repressive government action against a sexual minority as we are talking about consenting adults here.

What surprises me more though is how people can be so confident that their data is safe with the government. There is a long list of failed IT projects and incompetent handling of computer security by public organisations.

Even if everything the government wants to do with our data was justified, there would still be a very valid concern about this data eventually ending up in the hands of organised criminals.
> Radiology is poised to let CNNs make radiologists a lot more efficient.

I honestly don't see the added value of having a "more efficient" human once the classifier is good enough.
On the other hand, I use channels successfully for queuing and processing data processing pipelines in many data ingestion applications. There are patterns that work well, and appropriate use of the context package, error receiver channels, and sanity work very well for some problems.
Yeah, that would work. Honestly, when I studied logistic regression, we used gradient descent, so seeing it with Newton's method was the draw for me. I can go find the resources myself of course, but since I was reading the article I thought it would be convenient there :)
NT/GNU
On mobile it was
The author has far too little mathematical understanding to be teaching anybody (that’s my impression at least). If you don’t understand Newton’s method before reading this, you won’t understand it afterwards. “A method for finding the roots of a polynomial”. Why polynomials? Does it work, always? Is it fast? Why would following the tangent repeatedly be a good idea? “We take the inverse instead of the reciprocal because it’s a matrix”. Not impressed.
And for the non-Dutch: this refers to a classic series of blatantly biased TV commercials (as an attention grab) with the slogan: 'we, at company X, recommend... company X'.
I’m not sure, but I can’t imagine that many users really wanted it. Or cared.

I have a minor in acoustic recording/physics so I fully understand the lossless desire for some people, but we’re a minority.

My counterpoint: I use Spotify for the super convenient downloading of music. Hit 2 buttons, save + download, bam I got music on my phone.

... with mobile are you actually carrying around high fidelity headphones anyways? I sure don’t, it’s annoying versus small earbuds.
What kind of websites are they?
There are actual people that make these decisions. C-level executives or some sort of committee.
- Pursuing low-hanging applied-solutions fruit under the guise of a grand mission statement of (AGI) [which is now all the rage], results in one becoming (stuck). You maybe can fool investors and the lay with such madness, but you can't fool yourself nor the matter at hand.

- Not staffing or structuring like you understand or respect what General Intelligence is results in a narrow and specialized mindset among your employee base that produces narrow and specialized solutions.

It's called a local minimum. It's where you land when you don't focus on the bigger picture.

> How to move forward?
There's several techniques for that.
I don't see them being used. Which either means they don't understand they're stuck or they know they're stuck and don't care.
Why would the latter mindset be willfully chosen?

Current models and methods for training AI require huge data sets and computational power to be effective. Who currently maintains such resources? Whose fueling and molding the perception and direction of current efforts? See the conflict of interest?

Furthermore, given how convoluted the approaches/math are, it lends itself to specialized individuals...PhDs. A match made in heaven that allows the market to be narrowed and segmented to a specialized group of people. The problem with this is : It results in narrow and Weak AI.

> Not knowing you're stuck
Enough people have made sound arguments. You either grasp them and change or, given how comfortable you are, stay the course. It could be, even with a PhD and clout, that you're just not that intelligent enough to grasp the sound arguments... But, if this is the case, do you really think you're going to solve general intelligence?

Those that (truly) seek to move forward have been moving forward with (AGI).

> Those attempting to preserve old business models with a fresh top layer coating of the new.
> Specialist who refuse to respect anything beyond their group's chosen methods and thus respect the scope of AGI.
> Well-funded groups who exclusively hire from a narrow scope and narrow specialized focus
> VC groups that only invest in low hanging fruit applied engineering ventures
> VC groups that don't give those in (true) pursuit of this funding
Will just get let behind with the new wave.
It's the same as it's always been. You maybe can fool yourself and others. However, you can't fool the laws of nature and the universe.

Enough people have spoken. Enough hints have been given. Enough people have taken and borrowed concepts of the small fry and called it their own only to find themselves lost in what it meant.

Enough time has elapsed. If you're not acting and steering your resources in accordance with the new, you just get left behind grasping the old.

Same as its always been...
(True) disruption.

It's on the horizon.
It's coming.
So, keep your eyes peeled.
Under preferences, enable "High quality streaming"
Amazing post!
I have a quite "complete" github ( https://github.com/franciscop/ ) and still totally agree with this article. Githubs profiles/repos are not for resumes. They are for many other reasons, but if that's your main reason it shows.

On the other hand some employers might find you straight from your github or some of the projects you have made. I was also contacted as one of the "top devs" (whatever that means) of CSS and JS in my country according to http://git-awards.com/.
got my Vive 2 weeks ago. literally just got Altspace ready yesterday. i have friends who work there, and some of my favorite artists have authored there (Duncan Trussell, Reggie Watts). and if you take VR to it's logical conclusion, Altspace was basically v1 of the Matrix. so... yeah... as far as companies closing down goes, kind of a bummer...
Yes, but the next AI Winter will be far less bleak and job-free as that of the 80's, IMO. The hayday of DL-based AI is likely to continue for 10+ Years, as we refine the methods and see how far word2vec and improved compositionality of the many existing DL methods takes us. AI is likely to improve rapidly for another decade, IMHO. But I agree that DL AI, if not augmented substantially, will stop well short of AGI and consciousness.

But 10 years is a long time in internet years. I would not be at all surprised if there's another word2vec (or two) arose before then to displace the tectonic plates yet again.
How machine learned biomarkers might just solve aging
Feels like a question I should have asked as well. $150 p/m per site seems exorbitant.
You could use bing. Its about 90% as good.
I'm not saying it's open. But clearly capitalism doesn't lead to solutions of all problems ever, as evidenced by this.

But then a right winger will visit Shanghai, talk to a bunch of happy Chinese and make a YouTube video where he says that in China everyone is happy and rich while in EU your daily life is a struggle against Calais EuroTunnel stowaways or something.

The only thing that allows China to do all these is political will of the people in countries that enable it. Somehow North Korea doesn't get a free pass but China does. As long as people value cheap products and ruthless 'capitalism' and 'free market' (if you can even call China that with all the governmental interference) more than rights of ordinary (i.e. not ones in central Shanghai) Chinese this will keep happening.
I agree with all the points you made specifically about AltspaceVR. They may have been in a better place right now if they'd tried to bootstrap. Who knows, there are probably a number of factors at play here. When I tried it ages ago I was wowed by the potential, but put off by the idiot to interesting ratio. Also sometimes just being too early is enough to kill you right out of the gate.

On to whether you'd be insane to fund VR right now. When I checked http://vrlfg.net/ just now there were 2587 active VR sessions from a total of 840797 active Steam sessions. Thanks for that link by the way! Put another way approximately 0.3% of all active sessions on Steam right now. This does not sound terrible to me given how embryonic immersive computing is and how expensive the first generation of PC based VR kit is. I wonder how the stats would stack up for mobile VR? Most likely not higher I'd guess.

So, what's the market for PC games in 2017? Approximately $25billion (sources: http://bit.ly/2pm1wBO && http://bit.ly/2qc61ef)? The 840797 active sessions above include free or free to play PC games on Steam. There aren't so many free VR games and so today's 0.3% on Steam if extrapolated to the PC gaming market as a whole could easily equate to $75million. Not an insignificant number for a new market and new medium. Sure if you want less risk and more potential upside make a mobile game for a market with an established channel. But the signal to noise ratio in that market makes it difficult to get noticed there if you are not already established. Plus poking at a screen is not as much fun as VR development :-)

Those studios and companies that get an early foothold in the immersive software world could be the Zynga or even Google of tomorrow. I sure know how difficult it can be to raise finance in the immersive sector - especially in Europe. There are plenty of investors, even early stage ones, who still consider investing in immersive tech to be too risky/early at this stage, but I'm not sure many of them would go as far as to say doing so right now would be insane. Many of them are making some tentative investments, I only see momentum increasing in this respect.

Ask yourself this question. Do you think you'll do most of your computing sitting behind a physical mouse, keyboard and monitor in 50 or even 30 years time? Humans evolved to work in three dimensions. I just don't see us jabbing at touch screens forever. Remember the typewriter?

Some more food for thought here: http://www.dataselect.com/vr-headsets-more-popular-than-tabl...

Disclaimer: I run a company related to immersive technology (http://realityzero.one) and own the Vive, Rift, Gear VR and Daydream. So I guess you could say I'm more than a little biased when it comes to discussing the merits of immersive technology.
"Tech" is not an industry per say, it's a medium for delivering business value.

Straight from the horses mouth: Mark Zuckerberg Finally Admits Facebook Is a Media Company http://fortune.com/2016/12/23/zuckerberg-media-company/
You jest, but it's clear you've not tried to make that product, as it is much harder than it sounds if you count "make it past their spam filter" as delivering email.
>> Even Google Translate, which pulls off the neat trick of approximating translations by statistically associating sentences across languages, doesn’t understand a word of what it is translating.

>This is just another incarnation of "AI is the thing we haven't done."

I don't think so - it appears to be an objectively correct assessment of the current state of the art.

> Otherwise we're just moving goalposts.

The first movement of the goalposts was to call '80s technology AI. Now they are drifting back to where they started.

On the other hand, I am surprised by the claim that AI is stuck; my outsider's impression is that progress has accelerated. Perhaps the impression of being stuck comes from more people realizing how difficult a problem it is.
social engagements...doesn't sell but provides.
Life off the chain
To elaborate a bit: Newton’s method is amazing. But it’s also dangerous and difficult to use. You can talk about it for a long time and use it as the centrepiece of an course on vector analysis. This treatment does not explain anything - it might as well just say “we use the magical newton method, a discussion of which is beyond the scope of this work”. I’d find that honest.
One group ensures their works are a convoluted mess to maintain their dominance.Another group ensures the computational stack is a convoluted and resource hungry mess to maintain their dominance.

A match made in heaven. Two peas stuck in local minimum pot vacuuming up money and resources.

One pea says :
> there's still a lot of infrastructure work for integrating with data sets, learning and serving cheaply on high scale.
The other pea says :
> Lots of people are making it hard to productionize the research results.
Both peas agree : This is how I make my money and stay on-top.

You get what you get for reasons.
If neither of them wants to agree their stuck.
That's fine with those ushering in the new wave.

Enjoy the party while it lasts.
Clang is generally a better compiler that produces faster code (with some exceptions).
The EV drivetrain lets Tesla have amazing traction control. As long as you don't hammer the accelerator in a turn, it's fine.
BMW has all-electric models like the i3. If the government made it really attractive to buy them maybe they'd put some more effort in making them affordable.
Our brief experience with Google's ad network was similarly disappointing. A tiny fraction of the visitors we received were genuine, unless you think people coming from pages at bizarre domain names where the content is mostly a bunch of keyword spam in tiny, almost-white text are likely to be legitimate...

I'm delighted to see a big, influential advertiser pulling serious money out of the market and openly saying why. Both Google and Facebook have some very dubious practices and very little transparency around their ad programmes. The little guy can't do much about that, but it won't take many nine-figure advertisers pulling the plug to force a change in how the whole online ad market works.
I wouldn't call China a dictatorship... it's an authoritarian state, but calling Xi Jinping a dictator isn't really accurate.
Hurray we won
How do you know if the server validates the price or not, without testing it?

Do you report every site that uses HTML forms for being insecure?
Churn Prediction MLJAR vs. H2O
Back when I was in high school Newton's Method was typically introduced as a method to find roots of a polynomial, usually in "Algebra 2" or Trigonometry or about then. That's because there is an easy to grasp formula for it that can be used in the context of a very familiar mathematical construct (polynomials) and produced from differentiation that doesn't technically require an understanding of calc to use (as opposed to actually understand, derive, etc.). I still use it pre-calc when I tutor younger students because it's a great exploratory tool.
I'm afraid that the situation is backwards. Media aren't published for an ulterior reason and propped up with ads to cut costs. Most digital media exist to show ads, and it props them with "viral content" to lure in readers.

Paper media can sell a paper copy and (theoretically) run without ads. Digital media would have to sell subscription (when they can offer high-quality content), or run entirely on ads (then the content is secondary). Guess which type is prevalent.
Even if you do play by all the rules it seems likely that your business will be cloned by a local startup and then you'll get kicked out anyway.

The CPC is engaged in a very shortsighted strategy. They're doing everything they can to hang on to untenable growth numbers. When the chickens come home to roost there is going to be real trouble the likes of which we have not seen in living memory. The wealthy in China have seen the writing on the wall for a long time and are doing everything they can to exit before it's too late.
VMware Cloud on AWS – Predictable Capacity Provisioning
in this instance the patent itself bothers me more than the trolling.
The author was working at an AI start-up company, Geometric Intelligence (acquired by Uber)
I am a programmer trying to learn math, so are my intended audience members.

That said, I should include facts related to convergence, and maybe even speed compared to SGD.

As to the reciprocal -> inverse generalization, do you have any resources you could point we towards to better understand this?

Additionally, a concrete answer to "Why would following the tangent repeatedly be a good idea?" has been hard to come by for me. I am able to visualize this, but if you have resources that explain this well please share.
Next job for robots to take: ethicist
That's why I like the turing test. That one is already pretty good. Is there something more advanced ? Since by now i would expect that the AI community (or others) have defined a better test to accept true AI ?
AI is currently about giving us an equivalent of a pocket knife for some tasks that are viewed as being in the "intelligence domain". That's all. Nobody really thinks we are anywhere close to general intelligence. Or like the famous saying "computers are bicycles for brain", current AI is about adding a small electric engine to those bicycles to make them easier for everyone.
That video was much dirtier and louder than I expected. Lots of brute force still involved. Not quite the domain of out of shape hackers. But I guess that's why we build robots.

For anyone who wants a good safe cracking story, this book is excellent: https://www.amazon.com/Flawless-Inside-Largest-Diamond-Histo...

A group of Italians went to Belgium's diamond district and bypassed an very expensive vault door. The best part was using an aerosol can of hair spray attached to a broom to defeat the top of the line motion sensors.

Edit: Can anyone explain why it's a 30 minute test for UL 30x6?
"virality" is the indie game version of winning the lottery.

Everyone wants to be the guy who wrote Flappy Bird in a weekend, and then wound up making so much money so fast that it actually scared him.
Please keep reddit's political craziness out of HN. It's why I left reddit.
I'm not exactly implying that buying a car to show off and assert status is reprehensible. Have I touched a nerve?

Anyways - I'm just saying that I hope EV manufacturer move up (or down) the immaculate luxurious interiors trip sooner rather than later so that some of us can buy and start using EVs without having to constantly worry about ruining a design project we're probably not worthy of.
Honest question

Did they solve long file/path name issue? Remember Windows 7 slow FS with large file count and npm/js breaking everything due to long, nested paths.
Alas not yet.
If you expect the people reviewing it to be developers:

1) Tell me how to run it locally (docker is a good idea, if relevant) and where the code's entry point is.

2) Don't use a framework. I don't want to spend time figuring out which of the 20+ code files here have actual code you wrote and which are auto-generated or boilerplate. I'd much rather see something simple but well-written using the language's standard library and a couple well-selected imports than a Twitter clone in Rails or Django or whatever. I certainly don't want a tiny little todo app in a big-ass framework. I won't get upset over it and write you off as a candidate or anything, but you're not gaining many points.

3) You want people to actually engage with what you wrote, spend time on it, and want to talk about it? Don't write a todo app or any of that crap at all. Write a simple game. Put "game" in the title so it shows up in the URL.
Please address my points.

If you read the whole thing, you should have read that she says that your self hate isn't what she wants. She explicitly says that's useless.

If white men aren't responsible, then who is?

Her perceived attack is completely without power. She has no power to harm you. She addresses this in the post. So why do you feel so hurt? Why is it so painful?

Who hurt you, buddy?

Please remember that your guilt is pointless. Pointless. Nobody wants you to self-hate. Your intentions can be noble and pure, your prejudices (which you do have, just like anyone else) can be unintentional, and you can still be taking up unwarranted space.
If you want to cite some form of AI tech that isn't based on statistics, I'm all ears. ML isn't real magic, that's for sure.
It's not a fucking strawman, it's the answer of die hard capitalists to every single problem with capitalism - create a company and fix it all, "free market will dictate that the better product wins" and all that jazz.

If someone can't afford food or rent that means that he didn't work hard enough for it and doesn't provide 'value'. That's die hard capitalism that enables shit like China to happen and this is all over the Western world.

Human rights are 'leftist' hogwash to them and impede 'progress'. "Back when there were no human rights people had 5 or 10 children and could easily afford it!".

You don't have to look far for examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14872564
some numbers from https://press.cern/facts-and-figures/budget-overview

in 2016, 1127.2 million CHF or 1,163,675,662.22 USD