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Yes. From my own experience, it seems to be more about increased impulsivity, while pursuing interests to a level that would be uncommon in a "well-rounded" person.

I think that impulsivity and creativity are the deeper connection, with all the good and bad that that entails. There's like a sweet spot of impulsivity where you're mostly able to function, but also generate a lot of ideas and connections between disparate topics.

So it doesn't really seem that novel that brain damage -> decreased regulation -> increased impulsivity -> creativity. Personality changes like obsession or not caring what others think give the time to work on a problem and harness that increased creativity.
This one particular subreddit, perhaps. The rest of reddit where 99.9% of the discussion happens? Absolutely not.
You seem to have understood close to the opposite of the author's intent:

"In general, in a time-series, use a baseline that shows the data not the zero point." - Edward Tufte.
Obligatory: https://millcomputing.com/topic/meltdown-and-spectre/
Apart from any other consideration, as far as I know Edward Tufte is alive and well.
This video got me started, it runs through building a simple neural net in C++ from scratch: https://vimeo.com/19569529

After that I extended it to solve the hand written digits problem. Tweaking it to get past about 80% accuracy taught me a lot of intuition about how the learning rate/other parameters interact.

After that going through Andrew Ng's machine learning course will fill in some of the underlying math.
The episode was first aired in Feb ‘96, at which point I was 20, and in college. At this point the show was still quite popular with my friend group. I am currently 42. You might need to increase your upper bound on the age range.
I think that computer was built in 1971; the video mentions that the software used is Richard Wilson's player, which was written in 1975 (the DECUS entry is dated 2/11/1976).
I don't know much about AI but for ML specifically Elements of Statistical Learning is fantastic. I find its explanations a lot easier to understand than other resources. I recommend you skim through it to get a taste. Additionally if you prefer lectures ETHZ has recordings of their ML class[1].

The best way to learn the details is of course to read the original papers. This is especially true for following along with the latest developments in deep learning.

[1] https://www.ethz.ch/content/vp/en/lectures/d-infk/2017/autum...
Lay people can comment and give their opinions on matters of law. They just can't claim to be or represent themselves as a lawyer if they're not.

Of course that opinion is worth the paper it's printed on.

I am not a lawyer.
Unfortunately, it doesn't always work out that way, because congestion tends to be the limiting factor for demand for car trips thanks to a very low perceived marginal cost. So as soon as congestion reduces somewhat, that extra capacity suddenly makes it more attractive for the marginal driver to take a marginal trip, and traffic increases (but not quite all the way back up to its original level).
Though good luck getting paid when shit hits the fan, Kraken will go down along with Tether.
@everdev, thank you <3

Luna is a visual language. It is important for us. How it looks like, how it behaves, how you feel with it, how fast you can work in it - these are the things which are most important when designing Luna. In fact, because of these things we have designed a new language instead of using existing one - then we would have to sacrifice some visual elements / behaviors and we do not want to do it.

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I second that Elixir's ecosystem is exceptionally great for such a young language. I love working with it.

That said, I'd wager it can hardly be called a functional language. Sure, you can't write for loops, but every Elixir process encapsulates a little piece of mutable state. Elixir and its ecosystem allow and encourage you to have (very) many processes, and thus many global singleton-like pockets of mutable state. It's a powerful and pragmatic concept, it works very well, but it doesn't really feel very functional.

The most extreme example of this design philosophy is a Elixir standard library module called "Agent", which is just a cute name for "global mutable variable". When used with care it's a very handy tool but, well, functional? Nah :-)
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" doubt -- although I don't know -- that he would listen to "What are your biggest problems? Do you have a tough time with finances or sales?"

That's a self serving way to open that offers no value to the person you are calling. You may ask "how about procedure xxx? How is that going?" and then expand from there. It's a skill most programmers don't have. I know a guy who can chat up pretty much anybody and get a deep conversation with them and what's going on in their business. I don't have that skill but I know it's incredibly valuable.
It's true that it doesn't affect housing.

However the price does affect energy use, which for BTC is more than many (most?) countries now.
How would you characterize the side effects if Bitcoin went down to $1,000. Or even lower?
I have no background in computer architecture security or security at all, and appreciated the background of how he saw his work fit into the current day. Especially so because cperciva's original paper was being widely shared on HN in the ensuing Spectre/Meltdown threads.
That is a complex question. I see both sides of the issue and a lot of grey area between (I'd be shocked if I foresee even 10% of all the things philosophers will consider).

I'll just say that it is an option with some merit. Depending on the technology and the local situation I might or might not be in favor of it.
Your example proved why those vacant apartments are a great place to park your money.
I feel sorry for the people who still haven't learned that electronic currency will recover.

It's going to rise again and these crashes are going to happen a few more times before it crashes for good.

Now is a good time to buy, like every crash before.

edit: Wait, I'm doing it wrong... Everybody should panic. This is the end!!111
If Dad has a lot of stories like this, you should check out this link. https://al-anon.org/
My point was that this sort of massive correction is pretty common and even predictable. After watching the gdax charts for months it seems like one law of crypto is "every price gets reached at least twice". The price of BTC blew past $10k and up to $20k very swiftly. The whales need it to do a full retrace so they can buy back in cheaply and hose the retail buyers.
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It's hard to catch a falling knife!
Yes, memorably when the Mt. Gox exchange collapsed & others before that when there was very little volume.

The difference here is that it doesn't appear to be driven by any big event such as a major exchange collapsing. Possibly the Bitconnect crash is to blame, but who knows.

For me, it feels like Bitcoin has reached peak awareness so it's going to be more and more difficult to bring new people in, especially as a lot of people get burned on this crash.

It makes me kind of sad that /r/Bitcoin is all religious HODLers posting pictures of lamborghinis. Would be nice if there was actual interest in or use of the technology.
Mozilla lost all credibility years ago. They forced out their founder with a Lynch mob and are now controlled by weaponized political operatives.
Leave youtube, start your own business? Do Patreon or something. Seriously, we need to cut down our dependence on big tech. They've been taking advantage of us for too long.
I've been waiting a couple of years since 1955 when McCarthy said he'd be done in a couple of months.

This isn't just snark either, it's a justifiable exaggeration to say that since then all General AI projects have failed for exactly the same reason; failure to generalise from a specialised solution.
How do things like cloud databases work with respect to the GDPR?
I've been saying for years and years that JSON RPC is the way to go. Glad to see at least someone agrees. http://www.jsonrpc.org/
Yea, it's a shame. I couple of years ago, I ordered a pizza in BTC. It was odd, because the price of the pizza in BTC would swing up and down while in the payment time window. It was also cool. Now it's no longer cool, it's become a money grab for some and a huge bummer for a lot of people who got in in December with they end of year bonuses. The innocent fun has disappeared and transaction fees an times have gone way beyond buying a pizza.
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I think we've all heard of the "Dunning-Kruger effect" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10626367) which basically states that people with low skills in a given area tend to overestimate their skill level relative to the general population. So far, so good.

I am a TA at a German university in a first-year engineering course and I have a few students whose native language is not German. The class is entirely in German and relies on technical vocabulary more than e.g. math or physics.

So obviously these students will have a harder time in the class [citation needed], but my question is not about their skill level per se, but about their ability to judge how well they are doing in that class compared to other students, and also compared to what we expect of them.

Do you know of any research on this topic? Personal experience? Opinions? Am I overthinking this?

If my hunch is confirmed I think my professor, my colleagues and I should look into how to account for this and how to help these students where necessary.
I suspect I'd agree with you over beers more than is apparent on HN text, as we naturally focus on and discuss the differences much more than the agreement.

In your hypothetical, should we tell the person in Texas who doesn't get the new/moved job, "Don't worry; you are going to stay unemployed because someone in California is doing that job, not someone overseas."?
This industry was small construction companies. They are on the phone all day drumming up business.
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Not a good comparison. We're discussing active practice. It turns out that if you draw for 20 hours a week, you will get better at drawing. If you read art-history books for 10 hours a week during your commute, you'll get better at art history. If you cycle-commute to work for 5 hours a week, you'll get fit.
It's interesting to pair this with Adrian Sampson's (an academic who works on hardware architecture) thoughts, particularly his musings about other vectors:

> The second thing is that it’s not just about speculation. We now live in a world with side channels in microarchitectures that leave no real trace in the machine’s architectural state. There is already work on leaks through prefetching, where someone learns about your activity by observing how it affected a reverse-engineered prefetcher. You can imagine similar attacks on TLB state, store buffer coalescing, coherence protocols, or even replacement policies. Suddenly, the SMT side channel doesn’t look so bad.

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/spectacular.html
For now, I'd recommend you start the two courses on: http://fast.ai/

They will guide you through machine learning and deep learning basics without being overwhelming with math. Good luck!
The CPU colloquially called the processor does this. When you feed a program to the CPU, it switches between logic gates (read - transistors turning on and off), to process the program. As the processing elements switch between power levels of 0 and 1 (0V & 5V / 0V & 12 V), there are electromagnetic fluctuations.

These EM fluctuations are the emmissions we are talking about here.
No I didn't. I first got into this argument 25 days ago on Reddit, I was asked back then why I wasn't shorting it if I was so sure it was bound to collapse in value... my answer then, and now, is that I cannot really be bothered. Yes, there's money to be made, but quite frankly, I run my own business and concentrate on making my employees’ lives worth living, not on placing myself in opposition to other people on the zero-sum field of financial speculation. My equity is in the privately-held firm and to offset that potentially-high-volatility I put all my savings into boring stuff like sovereign bonds of double and tripe A ratings. I like my investments to be boring. I don't want to sound arrogant but I count myself firmly in the “I have enough, no need to be greedy” camp.
I agree with you. Just chiming in to say BTC speculation isn't a free lunch. The global energy consumed due to mining operations is staggering. Not linking any numbers because we've seen articles hit the front page of HN in the the recently past. So I assume this is common knowledge.
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The radial masking in the Fourier domain is pretty much imperceptible for me, but it seems to cause the most problems for the CNNs.
Much like Fusion energy, AI that is able to pass the Turing test is 30 years away and has been so for 50 years.
I've found that a lot of problems solve themselves if you stay away long enough. I can't count the number of times that some urgent issue came in when I went on vacation and by the time I got back there were more emails saying that it wasn't needed after all, or "nevermind".
whats ER ?
I did LSD twice, first time was a 100 ug dose, it was pleasant experience.
10 days later i did a 250 ug dose. first 2 hours was the best hallucinations of my life :), then there was an electricity shortage for a few minutes where i live, that darkness scared the hell out of me i panicked and had a strong shortness of breath. needless to say it was a shocking experience. had random panic attacks that persisted for 2 month.
LSD is very powerful and surly is no joke.
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Yeah. They also don't carry with them the global context they'd need to correctly interpret these. When I say "Bush spent millions fighting his father's war." (For the record, this is a non-political statement: I'm using a sentence that conveniently explains my point). You and I both immediately gather from the context that "Bush" is not a shrubbery, it's a US president. You then gather that it was Bush Jr. Not H.W. You also gather that the war was the US involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Machines cannot do this in the general sense yet. If you specifically train the machine on data in the domain, and then set it loose on AP stories about the domain they do particularly well, but that's a long ways away from beating human reading comprehension.
The chart does include 'zero' for its intended audience, just not the zero that you are used to looking at.

Financial types are only concerned with the % change. 'Zero' in the financial world means 0% change, i.e., the same price as it started with. A chart with a flexible axis will look identical when evaluated as a % change or as an absolute value, giving it a tremendous amount of utility when looking at the price action relative to various other things, indexes, pairs, sectors, etc...
This sounds like a terrible idea! Just sleep-deprive yourself, and try not to kill yourself when you get depression. At least safer than breaking the blood-brain barrier ... but also counter-productive. No free lunch?
Agreed but I hope it keeps dropping then I'll be able to buy more.
I think the real question that needs to be asked is.. does predicting things mean the same thing as learning? CNNs can predict fairly well but do they actually learn? This paper says no.
re: Your second link.

How is this 'evidence on what was to come'?
I can understand your point of view, but...

...let's pretend you are just a simple totem believing tribalist. Things become so bad in your own tribe that you leave, despite worries as to whether another tribe would ever accept you as one of their own, much less even accept you in.

Thankfully, you find a tribe that is willing to take you in.

After some time you decorate your hut with your last tribes totems and tattoo your children with the old tribes symbols.

See, it doesn't make any sense either way... IMHO
Disclaimer: I do ML-based work in Google Cloud, but I am not on the AutoML team.

The post says there is transfer learning involved, which means in practice you need much less data than you would if creating a classifier from scratch. Of course, more (good) data may yield better results, but it seems one of the goals behind this release is specifically to give custom (your own labels, not just generic object detection) high performance image classification to those who don't have access to Google-scale training sets.
I have mixed feelings when I see these posts. There are a lot of places that pay a lot less than SV, even comparable cities in the US. I don;t have an advanced degree, heck, I don't even have a STEM degree, but when I left my last Toronto job nearly 4 years ago my compensation was around ~200k.

Does that mean that if I was willing to a) work for someone and b) move to SV that I would be making 300-400k per year? Maybe (I'm a US citizen and Canadian permanent resident so I have that option).

I guess my issue is less of one comparing west coat development compensation to Ontario compensation and say that all over North America there is an issue of stagnant wages for everyone except the top financial/business minds and the above average tech workers. Canada lags a little behind SV in employee equity and feels like it still has a bit of a British class thing going where there is the elite (capital) and the commoners (labour). Except that it's purely financial (mostly) these days. Nowhere near as bad as, say, the Bahamas.

I see a lot of comments here that I agree with (moderate talent commanding wages that maybe they aren't really worth) but at the senior end, yea, it feels a little different in Canada - if you don't go in to management (I did, and hated it) you're likely to be capped (in most industries) at about $120k. That seems a little ridiculous in a time of record breaking corporate profits and startup valuations.

All that said, I spent a lot of time early in my career in Mountain View, Palo Alto, etc.. and while I appreciate a lot of things about Nor Cal there is no way I would move there. Heck, it's unlikely I would ever move back to the US. Canada is simply more in line with my values.
If I collect a bunch of data and train a model is the data/model mine or theirs?

what if in the future they change their minds and decide to change the TOS? did I just build on top of quicksand?
side channel information leak for two, please
I'm pretty sure that's because you are constantly trained on that type of image in your day to day life. "Radial masking in the Fourier domain" is pretty much identical to an image that it is out of focus or seen with a low resolution part of your eye. (Most of your vision.)
The usual scam is for your Texas company, if it is large enough, to start a public search for a new place of business, and encourage other cities to submit open bids. As they race to the bottom, your own city and state will feel like they should offer you tax breaks to stay. So you accept those, and you get free money. Or, if your intention as CEO was to move closer to your kids in Denver, then you accept their offer.
It does have the potential for negative effects; people will lose money that it was not sensible for them to risk. In that situation, it's worth trying to get people to clearly see the risk they are taking on.

I think there isn't really hate for it anyway, it's just that there is obviously a large amount of downside risk, so it is frustrating to people that see the risk to also see people talking about how Bitcoin is a great and safe investment (and there's nothing unique to Bitcoin about that frustration).
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Bitcoin uses tons of electricity (mostly from the cheapest sources: coal) to guess random numbers. And as the price of Bitcoin increases, there's more incentive to mine. Bitcoin speculation is absolutely detrimental to the planet.
It's not clear that this is a correction.
Don't forget the big picture that lots of people lost lots of money in the last couple of weeks.

People blow this off by saying that people shouldn't have invested money they couldn't miss, but those are the same people who kept telling everybody to 'hodl' and that it'll go to 100k. It may still, buy the people who need it the most can't wait for it to crawl back to 20k.
The battery was fine in mine too, and not disconnected. I had to jump it but it still had enough charge for the radio etc. and I've been using the same battery since.
I'm still trying to figure out if Tether is actually affecting the price

- Can you buy/sell bitcoin for tether?

- Has tether ever released an audit?
I debugged a boot issue on the Apple Newton this way. The latest flash image was a brick on production hardware (no available LEDs, GPIOs, etc.) but not on development hardware. But I could flash a new OS image.

So I wrote some small loops that did different stuff on the bus (so that they sounded different) and salted the boot path with them, then listened in on my portable AM radio. Found the problem inside of an hour by moving the loops further down the path.

There were probably other ways to do this (could have coaxed a hardware tech in the lab to solder in a GPIO), but this way was more fun. :-)
>One thing I find rather odd is how noone raises an eyebrow that apparently the US happily admitts to having some enormous spy network in China.

What do you think the CIA does? Are you really so naive as to not believe that US spy agencies don't, well, SPY? We have both declared and undeclared agents, as every major country does.

>It is especially puzzeling if one compares it with the reaction to foreign countries supposedly making posts or buying ads on Facebook or Youtube with the intent of influencing elections in the US.

It's not "puzzeling" at all. Big difference between spying and actively trying to influence an election.
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> Bono, rock singer (U2). Born in Dublin, Ireland, so is an Irishman.

:D
I was assuming C, where there is a difference.

int main()
{
printf( "%d %d\n", 'A', "A" );
return 0;
}

produces:
65 197730221

since the value of string "A" is its base address.
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The underrated scary thing is that this stuff is so new, no one has a good theory on how to properly price any given crypto. The price is purely changed as they change hands at the exchanges
Only true if there is no way to convert a bitcoin to USD.
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@alexchamberlain Luna is not strongly connected to Atom. In fact, Luna gui runs in HTML and you are able to run it in your browser without Atom right now. However, we do not officially support it. We have chosen Atom just to bring a decent text editor to Luna Studio - thats it. We are planning to release web-based Luna version with some kind of web-text-editor in the future. It is not our priority right now (we want to focus on improving performance and delivering more rich data manipulators), however if you think you could help us with it, we would love to support it as much as we can!

What do you think about it?