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I am not sure how much you realized you are under some illusion of how people view AI... People are not dumb. There is an instinct to fear things that matching you in any aspects or overpowering you. That's true existence threat...
I glanced at the code snippet and immediately backed out of the article. There's no way that code looking like that solves any real problems FPGAs/HDLs have.
"Carl's Jr. believes no child should go hungry."

Kidding aside, this is too simple of a problem to solve. Serious contamination isn't a part of 1st world daily life, because we have excellent news and regulations (so far). Rotten food is easy to detect, and even some of the stuff we consider rotten would probably not make us sick.

It's all a shiny coat of wax on a non-problem, just like bottled water and gingivitis.
The parent links to an EU article about fines and another sibling comment said it would help protect against fines.
Oh Google BT issues have been going on for far longer than Oreo. BT support on Android is garbage. Put your phone in your back pocket, lose BT. Stuck paired with your car? Restart your phone. I've had nothing but bad luck with BT as far as reliability goes. It works fine for my runs but drops out so easily it just proves how not ready for primetime it is.
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You are mistaken. eBay is good for unique items, but Half.com was better for books, CDs and DVDs.

eBay is worse than Half.com for the buyer:

- Search results on Half.com were selected by item, grouped by condition and then sorted. Search results on eBay are by keyword match only (and then sorted). You have to read every listing to see whether it's the right item and what condition it's in.
- eBay shipping cost varies from seller to seller.

eBay is worse than Half.com for the seller:

- 30 cent per item per month listing fee for items beyond the first 50. Useless for large catalogs of slow-selling items.
- Buyers can make a purchase and never pay.
Yeah, but a window mounted unit is good enough. Keeps your whole place cool. It sounds like everybody has their windows open anyway, and this way you can store them or sell them when you don't need it anymore.
Don't get me wrong, I fully subscribe to the school of thought that he's a murderer, but honestly, drones fighting drones sounds pretty good.
Dissapointed you don't get actual rubber ducks. I wish there was a rubberduckasaservice.com
> The reason for this high failure rate is most founders underestimate the intricacies and nuances of the specific service industries they are trying to uberize.

(tongue in cheek) So build a platform which allows startups to build Uber for X. The real market is a desire to emulate Uber with lots of VC money pouring in. This is not unlike selling shovels during gold rush.
>> People are not dumb

Citation needed
In another piece of news:

China to add AI courses in primary education

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15154289

Where does the US stand? Any serious plans by its leaders and the government?
I mostly used VGG16 but I suppose this more or less translates into inception as well: in VGG16 there are a few CNN layers and two dense layers at the end, the last one having 1000 outputs.

The key is in these dense layers. If you want 30x more categories you probably need at least 30x more parameters in these. And I would naively assume that the relationship is more quadratic.

The idea is that if the lower layers trained to recognize features that are useful in differentiating 1000 categories, they probably are good enough features to recognize other categories. After all we know that there are eyes detectors there, grid detectors, text detectors, that naturally emerge.

ImageNet will continue to increase its number of categories anyway, so unless you have a cluster of TITAN GPU in your basement, you may just as well wait for their results and take their networks.
Known that going back at least ten years. My "solution" is a simple letter digit naming scheme that lets me get a bunch of tiny functions ready and working, then come back and name them by what they actually do. Works out well for me, productively, but...

You don't want to read my code.
Artificial intelligence == ML/CV/NLP (not the AGI) will transform the world over the next two decades. People vastly underestimate importance of recent advances in detection/recognition/NLU tasks.

Sure it sounds boring by some sci-fi standards but when it comes to warfare ability to deploy cheap drones that can do near real time enemy identification will transform not just the battelfield but the entire society. Look at the current heated debate on Police stops leading to shooting. In less than a decade we will have autonomous cop car capable of disabling vehicles and firing tasers.

The world will be completely transformed just with todays state of the art tech. All it currently lacks are "platforms" for deployments.
That is hot IMHO. Grew up in Houston where it was hot and humid. Here in Nashville it is a balmy 59 degrees today but that is the result of Harvey and we have had 2 days of nonstop drizzle/light rain.all next week it is unseasonably cool....in the 70s to low 80s. Had a week in August this year in the 80s already. Climate change must be driving it as that is unheard of here.

Typically August through early September are high 90s and we usually have 10-12 days of the month over 100. Humidity is usually anywhere from 40-80 percent. I don't think I could live without AC but it is the humidity not the temperature that gets me.

Hope you all get a break in the temp soon. When it is so hot you cannot comfortably sleep fans and or AC are a must in my book.
Of course there is an upper limit. But because there are more people available it's higher than in smaller bubbles.
> Above a certain wage, jobs disappear because there is not enough value created to pay a higher wage.

Exactly my point! Economists don't call situations where costs (wages for developers) exceed what the market will pay (value created) "shortages".

Whether a good is "luxury" or not makes no difference.
I wonder if scheme-based compiler courses are still run at Indiana University?

Abdulaziz Ghuloum's 'Incremental compiler construction' [1] also has a working compiler at the end of each stage. For example after the first week you have a compiler that outputs a program that prints a single integer, the 2nd week immediates. The tutorial is at [2]. It doesn't use a nanopass framework, just builds the complexity of the language. It's for a scheme compiler written in scheme.

Apparently Ghuloum was a phd student under Dyvbig who also wrote his own scheme compiler to x86 [3],[4].

[1] http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf

[2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/namin/inc/master/docs/tuto...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikarus_(Scheme_implementation)

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20101210085823/http://www.cs.ind...
If i thought anyone here needed convincing that climate change is already killing the planet, then your comment would be worthwhile. As it is i think there are only people here who close their eyes to it because they cannot handle staring that horror in the eyes every single day.

Can you substantiate why you think there are people here who need convincing, as opposed to reminding?

(Also, quite frankly, you seem to write as if you yourself think 'it is only a theory' instead of it being cruelly real and deadly fact. Is this the case?)
Oh goodness, please do not make courses mandatory. China adding AI courses to their primary education means their students will hate it.
Mr jiangzemin had a paper on the roadmap on it in 2008. In that paper he said the country should invest in GPU and ml&ai. Mr jiangzemin is a true engineer with a huge leadership vision.
Amen.

Want to help victims in Texas floodplains? Disadvantaged youth? AIDS in Africa?

It's your choice.

A nonprofit uses its money like crap? Or uses it in ways you don't agree with? Give to a more effective one.

It's your choice.

It's very hard to choose what the government will do with your assets. It's much easier to choose what a charity will do.
Not getting a bonus is a bit different from actually being punished for creative thinking.
I've lived for 10+ years without an air conditioner. I usually just go to common air-conditioned spaces (coffee houses, school campuses) or near the sea where it's cooler.

I hate being at home during the day anyway, but it's also to try to save a little energy ;) Everyone turning ther A/C on is actually making the planet hotter.
Yeah if you think about all the unstructured phone conversations tagged with people who are terrorists, and then jammed into a neural net, things get powerful. But taking that a step further, you can identify political dissent, etc
Two things:

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When most people talk diversity these days they're talking about skin colour or gender or some other arbitrary division. I'm really happy with how the author handles this - he emphasises that he's talking about experiential diversity.

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I feel that the article doesn't emphasise enough the requirement for an open environment.

Diversity of viewpoints and opinions is required to create the best outcome. It's pointless to have differing views if you can't express them though.

This is what's needed:

- A team of diverse opinions

- Each member must feel open to express those opinions

- The team should constructively evaluate that outside opinion. This means confronting your own biases, conflicting opinions etc.

As a result all members should grow and the team can achieve a better result.
Pretty safe to say none of us can :)
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It's a very fair point. Question however: is there a leader on the planet that has a greater, almost intuitive sense about threats to their position of power than Putin? Who would that be?

Authoritarian survivors like him tend to have an extremely well tuned grasp of threats to their power. Whether those are technology based or people, and whether they are domestic or foreign based. The small group of people running the CCP are similarly competent at spotting such threats, regardless of their understanding of technology. Most of the politicians that have supported the great firewall over the years, very likely had a limited understanding of the technology involved. They didn't need to understand the technology at an intimate level, they understood some of what it could enable, they understood the potential threat to their power. These people develop an almost sixth sense about it, they spend their entire lives cultivating that awareness as a means of survival and promotion.
Absolutely true. Of those I've interviewed at Alphabet, only about 1 in 7 has gotten an offer. You'd be surprised how many people do really terribly in onsite interviews. Phone screens are even worse.

Where I used to work in the Midwest, we tried to have a similar hiring bar, but just couldn't get as many people. The best we hired were as good as anyone I've worked with in SV, but the worst... well, I won't get into that.
That's what they were educated as, but unless I'm mistaken they didn't practice those fields for very long.

To end up as president, you have to go through many promotions in the government bureaucracy. Probably stop actually doing engineering work (or whatever) pretty early on. Similar to rising through management ranks in a company.

So the author's point could still stand in the context she present it in: where you are not the boss.
What does that have to do with mountain top removal causing health problems in the surrounding communities? Because the study that this article refers to isn't about lung cancer in coal miners.
I can see why so many people like living in California.
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I'm a Chinese. I wounder how China would carry it out.

From my experience with my elementary && high school teacher, I can safely assume that they can't even program a complex stuff, let alone understand what AI is.

It could be really interesting to see my future son/daughter ask me something I'm also interested in and probably working on.
Could you expand on this? What was terrible about the memo and on what grounds does he deserve to be fired?
I was referring to the idea that you should actively shame people for not holding your same views. You're overplaying your hand in this, since it's not at all clear to average people that there even is a threat.

Say I did believe that climate change was a hoax. What then? Should I be excluded from the community? Should it be used to question my decisions, destroy my career, hound me for it? Should it follow me around?

I don't believe that, but your logic taken to its conclusion doesn't paint a pretty picture for the world. I wouldn't want people to behave like that to each other. Being able to disagree is a fundamental right, necessary for discourse and debate to work at all. If you vilify a position you lose the benefits of this.
Yup, if the stock goes down, and you get a bigger (# of shares, not $$) refresh, if it goes back up to where it was before, bam, you've got it made. If you're lucky, you'll have enough for a down payment on a house....
If you're only booking a hotel, rather than picking a travel vacation package, you're better off calling the hotel directly to make a reservation. The reservation staff almost always have sole discretion to negotiate prices within limits. If you are polite, and have checked for the best price you can find online, they will often match or beat that price. The trick is truly the politeness factor - "I SEE IT ONLINE FOR $50 LESS ONLINE, YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT CHEAPER!!!" will get you absolutely nowhere. They have discretion to negotiate, but are not required to do so. They deal with enough rude people on a daily basis that the moment you are abrasive, you can expect the wiggle room to vanish.
None of this is a threat to his survival, or indeed to Russia's survival. When you have nukes and the means to deliver them anywhere on the globe in 9 minutes, you don't have to care about aggression from other countries.

The biggest (and only) threat to Putin's survival is a coup.
Palo Alto is never hot enough for an AC though. At least in my experience. It does get hot, but not totally unbearable.
> Where does the US stand? Any serious plans by leaders and the government?

The US Government does not need to mandate student course on artificial intelligence. Just as they did not need to mandate courses on the transistor, micro-processor, dozens of programming languages, html, TCP/IP, or how to be a database admin.

Tensorflow (prev DistBelief) - which helped provide the spark for this AI boom - was not derived from a command & control method, a dictate handed down by Donald Trump & Co. or Obama's Administration. It's a hilariously laughable premise.
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You think Putin parrots Medvedev? I think you're got it backwards.

But either way, it's more likely he's "parroting" secret U.S. military plans that his spies obtained for him.

This is almost certainly what our military is planning and he almost certainly knows it.
Any towel can be a "cooling towel". Evaporative cooling works without any special technology.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/08/consumer-re...
> People also don't tend to consider the harms that means-tested programs do to the poor.

True. Still, there will be many who are worse off with $1 UBI.

I agree with your views. But if UBI is ever created it has 0% chance of replacing welfare.
Usually 0.9... is defined as the limit (from calculus) of the sequence 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, 0.9999, etc. So it's the unique number that the sequence gets arbitrarily close to (even if it never reaches it), which is exactly 1. With the proper definition in place, the statement becomes a lot less interesting, in my opinion, but regardless, I'm pretty sure the statement "0.9... = 1" is well-accepted in the math community.

I agree that all of the proofs you normally see in high school are flawed in one way or another because they don't properly define what "..." means in the first place.
It is my understanding that a similar publication nowadays, Cosmopolitan, used to be mostly a literary publication in it's early days. I wonder how the contents vs advertising ratio was balanced at the time.
It terms of life saved, I totally agree.

In terms of social progress, this causes a big problem: military power, until now, depended in big parts on having military people on your side. So sure, they can be corrupt, swayed by a more or less evil ideology or just plain racist, but in order to be a leader, you needed to at least satisfy a big group of people. And it was easier if it were the majority.

Automated warfare makes war and military power purely capital-based. That just seem wrong.

And also, do you really think that drones will be solely used on other peoples' drones?
Isn't that common though.
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>Question however: is there a leader on the planet that has a greater, almost intuitive sense about threats to their position of power than Putin? Who would that be?

Kim Jung-un?
Also, using Brave browser on Android, I get a stack of Zeroes on your landing page for "Tasks Completed"... Pretty sure that's a bug or a fail as a selling point. Glad you got a project going and generating revenue!
As long as it changes gradually, or partially, that might not matter.
Really? Can you show me a legitimate scientific project that the Obama administration shut down?
When it comes to tech, totally. They are personally close and Medvedev is a known technophile and Apple fanboy. This is probably something they talked about over tea at Putin's government dacha a few days before.
This is why I prefer living in the basement of my own house (I live in Queens, NYC). Also I don't have carpet, and also not wooden floor (only upstairsnin the living room). Helps dissipate heat. Also room has enough space / gaps more surface areas to dissipate heat.
TIO: Online interpreters for over 300 practical and recreational languages
This is an interesting instance of the sorites paradox :)
The energy use is tremendous.

Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index was posted just recently on HN.
https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
This reminds me of an episode called "A Taste of Armageddon" from that documentary called "Star Trek." As long as we don't have to go into "disintegration booths" then I agree :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon
UBI is the welfare trap par excellence.
That's not what the study in question was about. It was about the health effects of dumping mountaintops into adjacent valleys, causing the streams to turn acidic.
Google's Search app on iOS gets a Twitter-like Trends feature
I don't think tensorflow sparked the AI Boom. Maybe AlexNet did.
New blockchain platform helps cut online ad fraud
It's interesting to see these censorship trends come up after trigger events:

-war on fake news

-war on hate speech
Giving a large majority of a population exposure to a field from a young age means that there will be a large number who find out they enjoy it, who might otherwise choose another field in college.

There are more than 9 million Chinese who take Gaokao university entrance examination each year. Even if 1% choose to major in AI or a closely related field, that is 90,000 per annum. Among this mass, there will be some future inventors of breakthrough algorithms who could have chosen to major in physics or math without the policy.

Moreover, most of future AI workforce will focus on applying it to various domains rather than inventing whole new algorithms or frameworks. For that purpose, having more people is a clear advantage.
Actually, I think most of the book could fit on a page, there really isn't that much in there.
PepsiCo and friends, clearly.
Why? Just carry a dongle and when that is not in the vicinity of the house switch of certain circuits. What do you need the internet for?
Putin's only interest isn't just his survival though. He's a hyper nationalist Russian. There's no question he views the two as connected: in his mind what's good for Russia is good for him, what's good for him is good for Russia; that's typical of authoritarian types. That doesn't change that he's pretty big about the premise of the return of the Russian Empire in one form or another.

AI as a military technology can threaten Russia. It can cripple their economy. It can cripple their military technology (depending). Over decades it will likely lead to faster advances in both the economic and military spheres (including nuclear weapons and missile defenses), which would net weaken Russia. The winner accelerates, which is exactly what happened to the US vs the USSR when it came to the massive tech economy the US built out post WW2 (now our economy is ~16x the size of Russia's).
The worst part about solar with PG&E is a power outage kills your production without a battery.

Today I should have been able to easily offset a bit of demand on the grid during peak time, but they apparently couldn't keep the power consistently on in San Jose!
Gab is a free speech/alt right twitter clone.