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>> The whole reason that some people predict an intelligence explosion is because intelligence is the resource that can find arbitrary ways to self-improve, other than tuning one specific parameter.

But not even a super-intelligence can find ways to self-improve that don't exist. We don't know what we don't know and we don't know if it's possible for intelligence to improve indefinitely. If there is a hard limit to the amount of improvement an intelligence can acquire, then superintelligence is not going to happen.

As an analogy, think of the speed of light. No amount of technology will get you past that. You might find a way around it for the purposes of interestellar travel but nothing will ever move faster than light.

How can we know that there don't exist similar impassable barriers for the development of intelligence? Maybe it is an -yet undiscoered- law of intelligence that an intelligent species cannot create an artificial intelligence more intelligent than itself. Who knows?

The problem is that we can sit around thinking of possibilities and impossibilities for ever, but the fact of the matter is that we don't, currently, have any evidence to the point that super-intelligence is possible. We don't have any evidence to the contrary either- but the discussions of superintelligence start with people assuming it is possible and that is an assumption that must first be substantiated (but rarely is).
Actually, if you have their app, you can speak to someone directly in a voicecall. I just did so on my iPhone.
Taking a gun safety course that teaches the basics of firearms and how they work. Just spending some time talking to a firing range safety officer to help clear up misconceptions.

Off on a tangent the best two examples of bad/attempt legislation I can think of at the moment:

1.) Bans on "silencers". They're actually called suppressors and they don't silence anything. Suppressed weapons typically still have a noise level over 100 decibels and hearing protection still must be worn.

2.) Bans on "scary weapons". The color or stylistic choices of a weapon does not change how deadly a bullet is when it hits a fleshy target. In general bans on characteristics of firearms that do not change how deadly they are.

Best two examples of loop holes that got around poorly written legislation that resulted in wonky interpretation by the ATF:

1.) Bump stocks and hand cranks to get around automatic weapon bans. No one needs automatic weapons for sport shooting or hunting. While I don't speak for everyone I would never want an automatic weapon for either of those since it is useless for them and just wastes ammunition. Current ATF rules require every shot be accompanied by an user initiated action such as a finger movement. So technically those two devices create an user initiated action for every shot per the ATF's interpretation of the written laws. For example a manual hand crank is allowed since the user has to continually perform the action, but the same crank operated by a powered motor and switch would not be allowed since a single user action would result in more than one shot fired.

2.) Being able to shoulder a pistol with a stock that was not intended to be a stock.(Arm brace) This is a weird area of the law. AR-15 pistols(barrel length under 16") are not allowed by shouldered since they are pistols, but you can attach an arm brace and shoulder it anyway. The ATF recently more or less gave up enforcing it since firearms evolved and changed so much since it was original written.

There is a lot more in depth in the world of firearms I could into and how easy it is for a gun owner to accidentally commit a felony due to bad legislation.
Your one-liner only works on Debian-derived Linux distros. Usually the whole point of a curl|bash one-liner is that it works on every Unix-like system.
Yeah, I noticed that after posting. As I alluded to in my comment though, I don't mind paying a bit more

I wonder how many subscriptions this story resulted in?
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I think enclosing each module like Razer did is defeating the purpose. Problem is, if you don't enclose I imagine it's hard to get this past the designers. Apple would need a way to make the internals themselves look good. That being said, the old Powermac / Mac Pro towers had very nice looking internals, I could see them exposing them like that....

Plus, it surely would have a nice looking front door.
Of course it would, either directly or via a reduced supply of profitable rental properties (and the resultant shift in supply-demand equilibrium).

There may be an offsetting overall reduction in the value of all real property, but it seems like reducing or eliminating these deductions[0] would be harmful to renters, not helpful.

[0] - Deductions like this, by the way, are available to all sorts of other profit seeking businesses for the equipment and supplies they use in the conduct of their business and I see no reason why a house should be different from a factory machine or laptop computer or airliner nor a minor repair to a house be different from a pad of paper or other consumable with regards to whether ordinary and necessary business expenses ought to be deductible against gross revenue when computing profit.
You claimed an aphorism, implying it was valid because it was old,it isn't, it's made up poppycock by some American survivalist twit
The Raptor engine in development is also very efficient (full flow staged combustion of methalox).

And while the Merlin series has been conservative in most aspects, Merlin 1D has a few unique characteristics, like the pintle injector (previously used in the Apollo LM), phased-shutoff (or whatever the spelling is, from Tom Mueller's interview from half a year ago), use of subchilled propellants and a very tightly manufacture process that makes it very cheap to produce.

On top of that it's now the engine with highest thrust-to-weight ratio in history that has flown, despite being open cycle (gas generator). And not a single M1D failed so far.
Is there much decentralized trust in bitcoin? If you're using it like money, you still have to trust someone will give you goods and that your wallet software isn't going to steal your information.

We really are living in strange times. I can't tell if it's a brave new world or a hype train headed off a cliff.
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Private venture-backed companies sell stock in the form of "preferred stock", which comes with certain rights like liquidation preferences (they get their money back first) and protective provisions (i.e. "SpaceX can't do Y without getting our permission first"). Preferred stock is "convertible" into common stock because, upon an IPO or other exit, it's generally desirable for those early investor special rights to go away, as they won't make sense anymore. Liquidation preferences would be obsolete, and the veto rights in protective provisions don't usually belong in a public company.

- Source: venture lawyer, but not your lawyer
One is an investment and infusion of capital. The other is purchasing somebody else's investment that doesn't do anything for the company's cash.
It's absolutely not silly. He's spent quite a bit of time on documenting VHS technology:

http://goughlui.com/the-vhs-corner/
Not to mention the amount of hardware standardization that still needs to happen. Having a different image for each manufacturer's hardware is going to get real old, real fast.

5+ years on, ARM on anywhere but mobile seems like a dud.
Use for commercial purposes weighs heavily against a finding of fair use (the legal test is whether "the user stands to profit from exploitation of the copyrighted material without paying the customary price"). Mere replication without substantial transformation of the work also weighs against fair use. So does use of the most or all of the whole copyrighted work as opposed to a small part of it (each photograph in a collection is usually the "whole work" for this purpose).

The Seventh Circuit also recently stated that fair use is not meant to protect "lazy appropriators" who could have easily found an alternative. This is the natural outcome of the four factors specified in the law, but is not helpful to infringers as an explicit precedent.

Source: I am a law student who just did a ton of research on Fair Use law.

Edit: In response to wyldfire, the two big Supreme Court cases in the area are Campbell and Harper & Row. The Seventh Circuit case I referred to is Kienitz v. Sconnie Nation.
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You are really scraping the barrel with those last two aren't you. Lying and selective editing is literally Veritas's MO. Literally. That's what they do. Especially the selective editing, and if you cannot see that then well, sorry for you I guess.

With that second point, is that similar to the dossier compiled by a respected security veteran which also says Russia has compromising material on Trump and is becoming more and more corroborated as time goes on? Just wondering.
What about WheelMap?
Who has trillions ?
Then you should buy term life insurance. It’s dirt cheap to cover you when you need it most (young, raising a family, don’t have much saved, paying off a house and perhaps education) and if prudent eventually the need to insure your life is displaced (your debts have been paid and you’ve accumulated savings and the kids have moved out, etc.)
When that property is sold, from whom will the displaced tenant now rent? Market rents are set by supply and demand, just like most goods.

More supply of rental property? Rents go down so that landlords aren't stuck with vacancies. More demand for rental property? Rents go up so landlords can maximize their profits.
Of note, children demonstrate pretty robust grammatical expectations for specific syntactic phenomena after hearing comparable number of utterances, with conflicting evidence regarding the availability or reliability of negative evidence. Of course the proofs you cite from formal work are unassailable (=math), but it's possible that "learning" tolerates more error than identification in the limit (see PAC learning for example), and that developing a facility with natural language has more to do with matching the distributions over strings from the adult grammar than inferring the correct grammar (identifying which utterances are in the language, vs. those that aren't). Child language induction is often used as the model for zero-resource natural language processing.

This seems to be the direction Dr. Schuler is coming from: http://aclweb.org/anthology/C/C16/C16-1092.pdf.
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No, it's effectively variable between 0% and .62 * 1.2% depending on how much income you earn.
A great story. What I do not understand (I am a European) is that he uses a credit card, but not a credit card. I just did an AirBnB and I was prohibited by the system to use my debit card. I was outraged. I still am. I had to buy a separate debit-credit-card to be able to use AirBnB services. AirBnB supports iDeal (Dutch payment system), but only for bookings >6 days.

From my point of view, using a debit card is far superior to using a credit card. Why would I want to debt myself to pay stuff? I have enough on my account to pay for a mere AirBnB. I don't want to indebt myself. yet, there is a system which forces me to.
This kind of thing is nothing new. My first experience with it was when I visited (and stayed in...it turned into a hostel) Luke's uncle's house from the original Star Wars film. I'm not sure why, but I was very surprised that the exterior of the home was shot somewhere else and looked nothing like the real outside of the building (well...hole, since it's dug out of the ground).

Another favorite of mine...anyone familiar with Paris will laugh at the car chase scene from Ronin where they teleport around the city from shot to shot.
you could add another rule where interest doesn't accrue if they temporarily opt out of your system; in fact, it could be negative interest during that period.
Interesting because the University of Chicago's Crime Lab does work like this to track the epidemic and virality of murder as it happens across Chicago. Worth a listen on an amazing podcast I highly recommend called Hidden Brain: https://www.npr.org/2017/02/21/512035150/on-the-knifes-edge-...
Please re-read my comment. I understand what he did, but my points stand.

The name `SET` conveys little. Running the exercise in the same file is OK as it’s not in a module, but again - the work demonstrates algorithms well enough, but I can’t see this coding style as “smart” or “clean”. It’s not.
Can anyone attest to the validity of the No Free Lunch theorem?

What if I created an algorithm that had access to every other possible algorithm ever created, and chose to use the optimal algorithm for the given task? Would that algorithm-seeking algorithm do better at every task than random chance? Would that algorithm-seeking algorithm break the No Free Lunch theorem?
Apart from the fun plot-line, the cultural awareness, and the entertainment value -- the animation work is great (skeletons don't walk like live humans, for instance).

[spoilers]

I would not say it's our favorite Pixar movie. My two-year old was fascinated (her first movie theater experience). My eight-year old was shaken by Frozen and by Inside Out, no this movie. It felt a bit derivative from Spirited Away in theme and format, but less transporting. I think Miguel should have been a bit older so he could have a love interest and feel conflicted about returning to the land of the living; maybe Pixar is already too Disney-fied.
Interpreting article, I think SB investment would be $6.72B (14% of $48B) plus $1B at $69B valuation. $7.72B total.

btw, $2.94B = $6.72B * (69/48) - $6.72B --> I believe thats SB's nominal gain on paper the minute the deal closes.
Sorry to say he went about this the wrong way. Seriously, calling the tech support line for a copyright infringement?

Netflix has a corporate website at https://ir.netflix.com/.

What he should do is send a document outlining his claim, including his proof and address it specifically to Netflix's general counsel, which can be found at this page: https://ir.netflix.com/management.cfm.

The letter should be sent (certified mail) to

David Hyman, General Counsel
Netflix
100 Winchester Circle
Los Gatos, CA, 95032
I'm a bit reminded of Portal 2, which took the trolling sprit of the series to extremes by having on-screen prompts tell you that the jump button is a talk button in the tutorial. And yet -- any time the game tells you (for example, in "the part where he kills you") that there is no way out, a way out will become apparent.
Some of the more... bespoke, (?) recruitment agencies will normally do this. I work with a recruiter locally who specialises recruiting for mid-senior Ops and Dev roles and has landed me a couple of very good contracts and one very good full time role over the last 5 years or so. In each case they've already taken on board my CV and distributed that info to their clients, meaning I don't have to stuff around with forms etc each time.

Having said that, you really need to watch out for these kind of agencies. Some will just endlessly fling rubbish contracts at you and demand a new CV each time.
Its not stealing, its copyright infringement. Please use the proper words.
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Why not just send a DMCA to their ISP and have them shut off for a few days?
Why do you create such an argument when the article _explicitly states_:

"Given the prominent copyright notice printed in the footer on each page, I assert my moral right to copyright over this image."

Ignoring the difficulties I have with people shrugging this off as "meh", why would people comment that way without even reading the article in the first place?
Do private companies provide enough info to know how many millionaires this would create?
> The researchers hypothesized that, because students can type faster than they can write, the lecturer’s words flowed right to the students’ typing fingers without stopping in their brains for substantive processing. Students writing by hand had to process and condense the spoken material simply to enable their pens to keep up with the lecture. Indeed, the notes of the laptop users more closely resembled transcripts than lecture summaries. The handwritten versions were more succinct but included the salient issues discussed in the lecture.

I mean, that's possible, but my experience is if I'm using my laptop during a lecture I'm more likely to start surfing the Web and not pay attention to the lecture.
Aah, the old "Australian IP taken by an American company" thing.

I feel sorry for the bloke, but my own experience tells me that he's probably not going to get this resolved very easily to the effect he's hoping. (If he was an American and his IP was taken by an Australian firm, the gates of hell would open.. but the reverse doesn't hold especially true I've found).

My personal opinion - the image is pretty generic, and he should feel happy that he's got at least a (tiny) level of recognition by the design team using his photo. But then, there's a big part of me that agrees with him and that Netflix should do the right thing and at least provide some attribution. At the end of the day, he has got a copyright notice at the bottom of the page, it's his IP, and any professional design studio should know better.
It presumably won't much matter whether a contract designer or a Netflix employee did it. This problem is what indemnification clauses in contracts are for, and perhaps Netflix will try to take their damages out of the hide of the contractor, but that's unlikely to be the original author's problem.
Huh, cool. I've actually been playing with the STM32 Cortex-M processors, and I gotta say - some of those high-end M7 chips could easily run a game system and are way out of the range of 8-bit Arduino-y chips. 400MHz with a 24-bit parallel LCD peripheral? That could probably give the PSP a run for its money.

And they're moving to a ~40nm process on those performance lines soon.
Regret selling mine. Absolutely gorgeous machine.
First of all I'm not questioning the present accusations. I don't even follow them that closely, to be honest.

And, I was talking about the social punishment anyways. People can behave how they wish, but that does not mean they should be pushed in a wrong direction by the media and by the accusations before there's a court decision or very strong evidence (like a cam recording, a photo, etc.).

It seems to me that you're trying to not understand me, so, my participation in this thread ends here.
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They don't for fp32 or int8 workloads until SVE IMO. High end Skylake as an example has 2 AVX-512-F ports (and not considering AVX-512-4FMAPS), which give you do 64 FLOP/cycle (512 / 32 * 2 * 2). Even 2 NEON units, assuming FMA's execute in 1 cycle/unit, gives only 16 FLOP/cycle. For ML inference workloads you can even get away with lower precision and even do away with floating point (which helps motivate AVX-512-4VNNIW).
The value of taking notes is in my opinion less about going back to them (often I'll never look at them) and often more about the help in recall having to summarize the information is. Similarly, people remember books better if they go through highlighting stuff.
Trust. Or the lack thereof. Bitcoin today has a market cap of $162 billion. If it was "managed" by a central intermediary, what are the odds that they wouldn't turn to exploitative behavior? Whatever those odds are, they're infinitely greater than the 0% you get from a decentralized system.

And longevity. So long as any group of people has interest in Bitcoin (and there is no digital apocalypse) it will continue to exist -- as will any decentralized currency. By contrast companies, and even nations, come and go rapidly. If a coin is deemed a viable commodity then it can, and likely will, outlast the original creator of it. Anything dependent upon a centralized system tends to die when that centralized system does.
I don't think he can prove it if he tried.

Netflix can just as easily buy the same VHS cassette and claim it was based on it.
Netflix probably has nothing to do with the DVDs. They don't own Stranger Things, they just license it to show it on their service. You need to contact the production company, not the network.
Here's a Diamondback article about "Project Sidewalk" from the University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab hackerspace. (HCIL alum here -- go Terps! ;)

http://www.dbknews.com/2016/10/14/university-of-maryland-app...

A UMD team made an app highlighting D.C. areas inaccessible to people with disabilities.

Jon Froehlich, center, the lead researcher for Project Sidewalk, and his two graduate students Soheil Behnezhad, left, and Manaswi Saha, right.

http://hcil.umd.edu/

http://terp.umd.edu/step-inside-a-hackerspace/
You are still making the assumption that the brain is a computer. Is there any theoretical proof that our brains are a permutation of a Turing machine? That to me would seem to be the first step towards your conclusion.
There's no way Elon will take it public unless he absolutely has to. He said this about Tesla earlier this year:

"I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company." -
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/elon-musk-inve...

The stock market news cycle is a constant barrage of criticism every quarter: commentary on whether they made some random analyst's projections, investors asking the same inane questions over and over... How many times has he given the "there's no point in giving you delivery estimates for specific months because the ramp will be exponential and small factors can change individual months by an order of magnitude" speech? I've heard him say that at least 10 times, and yet investors keep asking the same dumb questions every earnings call.

Which isn't really that huge of a time sink, but then people go and make a big deal out of that stuff in the press, "Model 3 production was supposed to be 5,000 by year end, and it's looking more like 500... Tesla suffers 90% crash in production rate! It's all over folks!" Even though Musk described this scenario two years ago, and said it was accounted for in their planning.

Now imagine he's trying to get to Mars and every 3 months he has to go in front of investors who are asking, "So, your orbital launch rate for this quarter seems to be 50% lower than projections, would you say that's more due to your incompetence or is it more that your business model is fundamentally flawed?"

He's not optimizing for quarterly revenue. He's not optimizing for revenue at all, he's optimizing to make something fundamentally new and valuable happen, and he's calculating that the value will come, although it's never clear what year. But a segment of public investors seem unable to accept that story.
Regarding your second point, #grantsmanship. Unfortunately it's quite hard to get funding for basic research without arguing it will help (=health intervention, diagnostics) or hurt (=help kill the bad guys, or at least manage them).

Regarding your first point, this isn't so nutty. Bayesian approaches to PCFG induction are getting increasingly sophisticated. It's not grammar identification in the limit, it's coming up with a probabilistic linguistic representation that improves your predictions (all models are wrong, these are just more useful than having no expectations regarding linguistic structure).
Previous discussion, from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5279307
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It also has that snarky little footnote saying that a "TTL" isn't the same thing as an expiration time next to the entry claiming vault doesn't support secret expiration.
The problem is more having people who don't really want to be there and won't pay attention, or having too many people sidetracking the discussion or making it difficult to reach consensus.