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> So what would be your equivalent position in the 1940s about the nuclear solution?

I've seen people throwing that example in this thread and I don't see why.

Multiple countries invested heavily in building the bomb. It was not a question if building a bomb was possible, but rather how soon, and by whom.

> In other words, what are the risks and benefits of adopting a "worried" versus a "don't worry about it" position?

Some people do worry about it, but everyone need not. I don't.

> If there's a possible huge meteor (say 30% chance) of hitting the Earth in about 50 years, would you be "worried"?

Good example. No I wouldn't because I know we have systems monitoring for such an event. If something is coming, we will know about it. I'm not sure how far in advance we would know, but I expect as it got nearer more and more people would do their best to come up with a good solution.

We're no nearer to AGI today than we were when neural networks were developed 30 years ago. Science fiction would have you believe it, but we don't look at SciFi movies of the 50s as particularly prescient, and we shouldn't do so for today's films either.
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Take any NP-hard problem at its simplest form. Whatever half assed heuristic you use chances are the solution becomes optimal (if it is even half good.) The more complex the problem the more the heuristics fall apart. For the smaller ones we can simply brute force it. The same thing happens here. Compared to something like face recognition, recognizing simple shapes is much simpler. So even the not so great techniques (comparatively) work well enough. They fall apart when we use the same methods for the complex stuff.

A great example would be a greedy algorithm. It works for some problems but doesn't for some others. Take a simple enough problem and you get optimal solution. Push the algorithm to its limits and you don't even get a good solution. You don't have to understand how the best algorithms for a task work to come up with a greedy algorithm.
Terrible news.

So lets start tackling the problem and figuring out ways to help the averave Chinese person evade censorhip without developer accounts and the knowledge to compile...
Here's my solution: http://maxleiter.com

Also have the same repos on my pinned repositories on github. On the site, for the projects I contribute to, I mention the majority of what I actually worked on and provide links to the PRs. Also, the "contributor" badges lead to a Github search of my name on the project.
Summary: The Winograd Schema Challenge was run on July 11, 2016 at IJCAI-16. There were four contestants. The first round of the challenge was a collection of 60 PDP's. The highest score achieved was 58% correct, by Quan Liu, from University of Science and Technology, China.. Hence, by the rules of that challenge, no prizes were awarded, and the challenge did not proceed to the second round.

It is scary to see that all the deep learning methods can be defeated by such simple methos (both in NLP and vision). I am genuinely curious why none of the recent Deep NLP approaches work here.

I heard a researcher describe deep learning as just standard ML with feature engineering replaced by architecture engineering.

If that is the case, we need fundamentally new ML approaches.
A company cannot legally defy the court in the US.

They can only argue against a specific request it and appeal a ruling or an order.

As for the San Bernadino case it's not correct.

Apple has complied with the court order, they gave the FBI access to the iCloud Account.
What they didn't do is to decrypt the phone but they were also not ordered too by the court.

If the court would have ordered them to develop a way to decrypt the device and they've lost all appeals they would've complied with that too.
You don't even need that. I remember all you need was the source code and Xcode. Of course that's assuming if you're running open-source or your own solutions
> No surprise here. What DevOps actually means is still one of the best kept secrets these days.

Not quite. It's just nobody wants to admit that what DevOps means is the same
thing that good sysadmins were already doing for years and the DevOps movement
brought nothing qualitatively new to the table.
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Nah, they really can't. Apple's margins depend on Chinese labor to build their hardware.

The two companies are very different.
Absolutely. As a general rule, never work for free, period. Not only will you not get income, but your business clients won't respect you or your product.

I mean it's ok to include a week or two to fix bugs that you might have missed, but be up front about that window and make sure that you differentiate bugs with features. Clients might blur that line.
This website politely tells people to get the fuck off their phones
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It is totally too quick if they are looking for content. If they are looking for a car and click on a lumber store then I agree. But anything other than a clear mis-click and you can't absorb the page that fast.
A billion dollars' research into AI would be more beneficial than another billion spent on CERN.

The Standard Model covers well over 99% of known physics already. Other moneys are being wasted paying students and professors to study string theory w/o any experiments possible.

Let's develop some true AI and let it close the gap. Two birds, one stone. [And maybe we can find out how we do analogies, at the same time!]
Lived 3 years in Shenzhen, and 2 years in HK. Now I live in Shanghai. From my perspective, what the grandparent said about Shenzhen is very true. You just can't compare "green areas" in Shenzhen (Wutong mt? Meilin? What else?) to the enormous and amazing network of country trails like MacLehose Trail in Hong Kong. Is it also incredibly diverse, you can walk around posh Central, then hop on a ferry to Lamma or Cheung Chau and be on a beach in 20 minutes. Come back and walk 20 minutes up to SoHo/PoHo area, walk through Lan Kwai Fong and climb the Mid-level Escalators (amazing by itself) up, walk the Bowen road through the beautiful greenery and descend into hectic Causeway Bay area. Hong Kong is endless and people are actually interesting and open. Shenzhen is one giant construction site where people just work, gorge on food, and shop. Absolutely soulless.
After google got fined 6 billion euros for advertising on their own website, I'm shocked that The NY Times acts like the EU isn't a burden.
They care about the money the code/product generate. If it doesn't generate money nobody cares how good it is, when it generates money them you can care about good code and improving things.
What's the damage? The damage is that racism is evil irrespective of who the racist is (and yes, black people can be racist too, as any reputable dictionary should be able to prove to you). And every instance of it should be denounced, especially the more egregious ones like this one.

You can say, there's no problem, she doesn't have any power. I would counter that it's not true. These people have large followings and many apologists (like yourself). And even if it were true that she had no power, her hate should be confronted. People should learn the limits of good behavior in civilized society.

You say this is not about instilling guilt, because the author said so. I will put it to you that even if it was not her intention (and I'm not so sure about that), it might still end up happening (if you want to understand the kind of effect such accusations, even when only implied, can have on people, read [http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2119]). When I read "you are the problem" it sure sounds like an accusation to me (and a pretty serious one at that). And this accusation is surely bigoted when you apply it indiscriminately to a whole class of people.
I see both sides of it. The end consumer is getting nickel-and-dimed from "support" from every angle anymore. You need to put "value" into support and make them feel, as they should, getting their money's worth out of it.
Here's the law for Germany:

StVZO: ( https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stvzo_2012/__57.html )

B. Fahrzeuge

III. Bau- und Betriebsvorschriften

§57 Geschwindigkeitsmeßgerät und Wegstreckenzähler

(1) Kraftfahrzeuge müssen mit einem im unmittelbaren Sichtfeld des
Fahrzeugführers liegenden Geschwindigkeitsmeßgerät ausgerüstet sein.

Translated: "the speedometer has to be in the immediate field of vision of the driver".
It's somewhat murky.
Ah - well, Tesla found a way to make EV sexy and I'm sure they have very ambitious goals. I'm just hoping that what's next steps down a bit from the luxurious (at least to me) interior and focuses on cargo space that can be used without bringing in tears ;-)
They give the necessary advice then go on to ignore it in the very next section:

>'When there are multiple biological interpretations of a statistical result, you need to think of additional experiments to test the different possibilities.

[...]

You've fed chocolate to a bunch of female chickens (in birds, unlike mammals, the female parent determines the sex of the offspring), and you get 25 female chicks and 23 male chicks. Anyone would look at those numbers and see that they could easily result from chance; there would be no reason to reject the null hypothesis of a 1:1 ratio of females to males. If you got 47 females and 1 male, most people would look at those numbers and see that they would be extremely unlikely to happen due to luck, if the null hypothesis were true; you would reject the null hypothesis and conclude that chocolate really changed the sex ratio."

Nope, alternative statistical hypothesis != biological hypothesis.
Can't you tell? I can't tell the difference between Lumberyard, Crytek, Unreal (I could Unreal until 2012ish), but I always know a unity game because it looks and runs like shit.
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Yeah I do that too but I don't want to pay for those clicks either. I want genuine interested clicks. Google is set up to get me to pay for clicks, not to give me the right clicks.

Or at least it was when I used them. It's been a while because of that.
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Redfin was a "hot name" during the tail-end of the housing bubble of the 00s and there was even talking of them going public 10 years ago before the financial crisis.

I can't believe it's been 10 years already.
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This is true of nearly every news or politics-based subreddit. Almost no one is interested in an intellectually honest discussion on policy, and dissenting opinions are heavily downvoted. It's extremely frustrating.
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On the other hand, the number of persons per household still has quite a bit of room for dropping in many parts of the world. The USA seems to have plateaued there at about 2.5 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-h...), but China still is at 3.0, and India at 4.8 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_...). If both drop to 2.5, that's 20% potential growth in China and over 90% for India. Whether that will happen and at what speed of course is anybody's guess.
Will MtGox victims get anything from the thieves? Will FinCEN take its $110M before victims get bitcoins back? Did any of the stolen bitcoins go to that federal investigator convicted of stealing bitcoins?

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Prompting users to review your iOS app
I suspect if the battery is still showing full bars it should be closer to 80 miles, but in any case my commute is 11 miles, has never been more than 20, and at that price you can pick up one with a fast charger.
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Here's the whitepaper

https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/149513/Whitepapers/WHITEPAPER...

Yes, it's a Raspberry Pi 3.

No, it's not comparable to an iPhone 6s.

An iPhone 6s is about 5 times faster.

http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/3444316

http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/3496162

A Raspberry Pi 3 is about equivalent to a Samsung Galaxy S III (a five year old phone.)

http://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?page=1&q=galaxy+s...
I remember when cup holders were new and exciting. Most interior details are pretty worthless. I love just seeing all that blank space.
Gay rights/climate change aren't great examples. Those are areas Apple can lobby for change and make their own internal changes without breaking the law.

Take something Apple says it stands for - privacy. They will stand up for users to a point but they will not break the law. They will lobby and create technical solutions but they will not deny or disclose a national security letter no matter how BS or immoral the request may be. This is the same thing. By distributing VPN apps they break the law. They can still lobby for change or potentially come up with a technical solution that allows users to bypass the great firewall but does not break Chinese law (although I don't see how that's possible).
What is your product ? What software do you write ?
The quality publications will remain, under alternative funding models.

Many sites will perish, and little of value will be lost.
Doesn't that require a Mac?
If white men aren't responsible, then who is?

Maybe she is responsible for her own failures. What a radical idea is that?

Who hurt you, buddy?

Please, I'm not your buddy.

you can still be taking up unwarranted space

According to whom? A deranged feminist blogger? Maybe her opinion does not matter for a reason.
Markets and competition should prevent this outcome. Unless we're not in a competitive market situation, in which case regulators can step in.
> Have I touched a nerve?

Yea, my 115-hp 2011 VW Jetta :)

Regardless, vanishingly few of us here have gotten off the status treadmill, least of which me. We all just move the shells...
I formerly worked as a digital influencer across the usual list of content platforms.

One of my last influencer marketing gigs was for a major multinational company. You've heard of them and they are not amateurs when it comes to marketing.

I asked one of their top marketing people how they measure the impact of digital influencer campaigns like ours. The short answer is that they don't. They have no idea how to.

When trying to measure the impact of marketing upon sales, teasing the signal out of the noise is almost impossible to do with confidence, especially for huge companies running many campaigns at any given time. I suspect this is true for all advertising, not just influencer marketing.

With few truly reliable metrics, marketers fall back on conventional wisdom. For a long time, conventional wisdom has been that you have to pour a ton of your marketing budget into digital or you're being left behind.

A change in that conventional wisdom seems to be afoot. I saw it as a digital content creator - ad revenues per view have been declining for a while now. Aside from the short-term panic over ads appearing next to extremist content, there might be something more long-term that's changing in corporate marketing strategy.

It's hard to see how this, and not a challenge from a new startup, is not the greatest threat to the success of Google and Facebook. Their business is digital advertising. If spending in that field declines, it's probably rough times ahead for those giants.
The last part is definitely not true at all. I skipped the coding part of the interview process for my current job because I had good code on GitHub. Also got job offers out of the blue because I contributed to multiple projects. I feel there are companies looking at only GitHub (for a good reason IMO) nowadays for candidates.
...the profit motive makes it okay! /s
> Nobody really thinks we are anywhere close to general intelligence

The kind of people that attend AGI conferences do.
Oh yes, let's totally forget that REST only allows to change how data is
accessed, how data is accessed is tightly coupled with data model, and that
it's data model changes that are most difficult and troublesome.

The post is very short and only uses generic terms, so it's basically
contentless.
the point is the hypocrisy of Cook and Apple. It's valid criticism even if the poster hasn't been run over by a tank.
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Google ended up losing the entire Chinese market to Baidu, who are going to end up being a global competitor, and the general population didn't even care that Google left. Apple learned from this that you could be a big deal in the West, but a nobody in the East.
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Yeah that would be the difference. I'm not really technically "keto" at this point given my cheat days, right now I'm doing a 16/8 daily fast, but my typical diet is about 2/3 fruits and vegetables 1/3 meat, and I've never felt better. By contrast I once tried eating something like 90% meat for weeks and also felt like crap (although I did lose weight). The lack of fiber was particularly palpable. :P

My personal theory is a lot of prescribed keto diets have lax regulations on meat, so everyone who goes for them immediately maxes out the tastiest item available. The meat, assuming it's high quality/minimally processed isn't a problem directly, but eating more meat means you're eating fewer vegetables/fruit/nuts to balance things out.

I'd still say meat is more than a luxury in moderate doses. Zinc/B-Vitamins/Omega-3s and a lot of other good stuff is very hard to find naturally in non-meat form, and given the lack of regulation in the supplement industry I'd rather get such things through food.
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Well, I would say the difference is in the available tooling. The principles are largely unchanged. So yeah go hire a classic admin from the 80s :-D
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You get 10 days before your app stops working and you have to do it again. It's a real pain in the butt.
Thanks so much. Quaderno looks exactly what we need.
The person you're largely agreeing with is Rodney Brooks (formerly of MIT CSAIL, http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/publications.html ).

And to sum it up a bit, the hypothesis is that humanlike AI is as much a product of the experience and reality of being physically (and limitedly!) human as it is any abstract algorithm.

You may also know him from a small company called iRobot (aka Roomba).
Many different kinds of open source software: https://github.com/SirCmpwn
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Because no one was talking about the United States or the Constitution. Freedom of speech is a broader concept than just what is set out in US law. In fact the conversation was quite specifically not about the US and not about that formulation of freedom of speech.
Some interesting thoughts. Alternatively, I could see fueling the climate-change-is-fake side in America could benefit China and Russia in totally hypothetical ways.

1) We stay dependent on fossil fuels and make it harder for the world to make the transition, allowing Russia to continue making money exporting.

2) We stay out of the renewable energy research and manufacturing business globally, allowing China to corner that market while our traditional industries are propped up longer than they should be (ie, Coal) .

3) Our influence gradually weakens as we're the last holdout, despite being the most powerful and wealthy nation. Who will listen to the US on anything if we're anti-science and the only major holdout on climate change?
> 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.

Deep learning made practical a large number of applications that were previously intractable by neural network approaches. Advances over the last 10 years have pushed the boundaries of what machine learning systems are capable of doing. However machine learning has algorithmic limits to what it can accomplish, and we are starting to hit those limits. A change in paradigm is required to begin making real progress again. Either a change to something new or a regression to older ideas that were temporarily put on the back burner.

That's not a universally held view, but I think it is the sentiment behind this editorialized title.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14880853 for one data point on why research is stuck.
What about NDAs and in-house projects?

I have contributed to many projects in the past years that are not publicly available, not even as a product/service because they are, for example, DevOps tools or improvements to servers or a development/management/sale process. My GitHub account is mostly personal projects and nothing — except for a couple of them — are used in production. It is very difficult to show your value as an active contributor to open-source projects if your contributions cannot be public.
Babies are not born afraid of the cliff (i.e., it isn't hardwired into the infant brain); they develop fear of it at about 9 months' age, once their depth perception has developed.
I don't know. That's why it's even a problem. If there was an easy answer then Apple would just do it (or not) and there would be no discussion or dilemma to be had and we'd all applaud them or shit on them depending on if they did the right thing or not.

It's a very tough problem because on one side isolating is bad and allows the oppressive governments to create 'us with them' rhetoric and replace foreign companies with domestic ones that are absolutely subservient to them, on the other, abandoning your original principles and showing that you can be part of 'the West' (products and services wise) without accepting any of the Western values is also bad.

Many people here suggest allowing side loading apps, maybe that's the answer. It'd allow some people the freedom to use iPhones with VPN but also allow Apple the plausible deniability. And Apple's walled garden approach is also criticized for other unrelated reasons so it'd help with them too.
For the purposes of selling ads. Maybe not initially, but definitely now.
Not that I necessarily agree with this decision, but:

"The version of Article 19 in the ICCPR later amends this by stating that the exercise of these rights carries 'special duties and responsibilities' and may 'therefore be subject to certain restrictions' when necessary '[f]or respect of the rights or reputation of others' or '[f]or the protection of national security or of public order (order public), or of public health or morals'." (Wikipedia)

Freedom of speech can be limited even as a universal human right.
That's not lossless.
Where do you get that from? Creating app with your own dev account can run on your device for more than 10 days...

[Update] ok I just checked the limitation of the free dev account, and yes because of certificates it is only valid for 7 days... I was thinking about the regular $$ account.
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