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> It's hilarious how as soon as there's some new AI work done everyone starts wailing, "where's the humanity!"

Lay-people think AI refers to ALife.

Most of the talking heads would be immediately satisfied—giving none of these complaints—if they were shown an "AI" program that responds to stimuli by entering emotional states, and which learns to associate stimuli with the emotional states it has been in in the past, such that those stimuli will then become triggers for those states, and for memories associated with those states.

Such an agent wouldn't even need to use ML techniques, necessarily. It'd just need to be a high-concept tamagotchi that can respond to operant conditioning. That would already be an advance over the state of the art.

But, AFAIK, nobody's really working on ALife in the sense of "making an individual agent with a complex-enough internal model that it can statefully respond to you the way a pet does." ALife is only really studied at the very low level (C. Elegans connectome simulation) or the very high level (sociological/economic simulations using simple goal-driven agents); nobody's really working in the space "in between." (Except for the people trying to make chat bots seem friendlier, but they're mostly trying to fake it, rather than creating actual persistence-of-memory.)

I wonder why nobody's interested in medium-scale ALife research these days? It used to be a hot topic, back when it was conflated with robotics under the banner of "embodied cognition."
Not yet- it's otw!
100% agree. What's the use case for SVMs?

Linear models are simpler. GBMs are more powerful, more flexible, and faster.

Every ML course I took had 3 weeks of problem sets on VC dimension and convex quadratic optimization in Lagrangian dual-space, while decision tree ensembles were lucky to get a mention. Meanwhile GBMs continue to win almost all the competitions where neural nets don't dominate.

I suspect my professors just preferred the nice theoretical motivation and fancy math.
Everyone has to stop using services from financial institutions who use Equifax (i.e. almost all of them) until they cut ties with Equifax. If millions of people cancel close their BoA account in a single day, I imagine BoA would dump Equifax.

Of course, like most vote with your wallet schemes, this would never work in the real world. Anything that requires collective action of millions or billions of individuals, will either die with a whimper or make its way to history books as a once-in-a-century event. We cannot solve climate change by boycotting polluting companies; there is no way enough people join the boycott to make a difference. This is the same.

Like climate change, the only realistic path of success is political pressure. Equifax will remain as is as long as the legislature leaves them alone. If you want this to change, get involved in politics, write to your politicians, run for office.
Someone i knew at goog got let go for not passing background check like months after start date. Just had empty desk one day with no explanation from management. Kinda bullshit if you ask me...
This is a general problem in any scenario where you have a high concentration of people with big egos...
You have provided an example of the above approach:

> There is a name for the third position where government works together to guide industry without centralizing everything

SpaceX's customer is NASA.
It's a good blog, but only solves a much simpler version of the problem - it only computes prefix sum of a workgroup worth of data. It does not carry the sums forward from workgroup to workgroup, which is the entire point of the decoupled look-back approach.

The per-workgroup implementation in that blog is basically similar to mine, though I've put more effort into maxing out the partition size (using as many registers as available).
Is there anything new discussed?
Distrowatch + Youtube walkthroughs can help some in differentiating, but so far firing up a VM is the only good to way to get a real feel for the flavor.

> So much time and effort goes into building an _entire_ distribution when, at the core, 90% or more of the thing is identical to Ubuntu LTS. Am I missing something?

I think there's a lot of effort that goes into polishing the DE/WM for a specific flavor of Ubuntu. I say this as someone who installed i3 on Linux Mate, and when using Mate now, I see i3 notifications manager.
The settlement is an independent event from validating claims to the settlement.

>I don't quite follow - do you mean "leaked" by a different party simultaneously?

Yes

And, from my limited understanding of the case, the settlement is not set it stone. There are still appeals, the settlement has not been accepted universally. They apparently dont need to pay out while they still have their days in court. https://outline.com/zL6mgP

>Under the settlement terms, cash benefits cannot be paid, and credit monitoring, credit restoration and identity protection services remain on hold until the objectors’ appeals are resolved.
Doesn't that permanently disable some features on Samsung? I read they use a goddamn eFuse for it
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Great Points. Really appreciated. Will have to put extra effort to learn about the feature engineering part of the problem.

Also, if you know a few things about the data it becomes a little easier to explain what your model is doing and why it is producing those results.

Found a good resource which explained the trust component: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.04938.pdf
I'm talking about declaring bankruptcy immediately on graduating, at age 21 (not mid-twenties), and it's off your record seven (not ten) years later, at 28.
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Even if that means lower throughput from all your other apps over that several hour period? That is worth not having to wait a few extra seconds to go back to the less-used app?
That's a fair line of thought, but their comment was: data hasn't surfaced -> can't know where an identity theft came from -> Equifax petitioners lose their right to the settlement

When the reality is: Equifax agreed to pay a settlement -> Equifax has not yet paid yet (and whether the material surfaces or not was not a stipulation of the settlement that they agreed to)
https://standardcrypto.wordpress.com/2020/04/30/a16z-struggl...

( A16Z struggles to earn passing grade in crypto fund II “learn by doing” project )
my brain's classifier would predict upon hearing just huevos => mexican spanish. i'd imagine southern cone speakers would say pelotas, but might be way off here.
So should dense industrialized countries solve their climate contribution by annexing unindustrialized territory around the world?
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Would like to recover a Google account of mine that has been hacked multiple times yet I the owner of it can't get the hell in real secure
I realize you're being somewhat facetious, but a key difference with ISA is that you don't actually pay the "tax" if you don't go to college. this doesn't make much difference for successful people, since most of them probably went to college anyway. but if you're a lower/middle income person who didn't go to college, it seems sort of unfair to have to pay towards other people gaining an advantage over you in the job market.
That's because it's not a stimulus cheque. It's an insurance payment. You can't stimulate the economy while you're (for good reasons) shutting it down. I don't know how it is in the US but here in France I can't even go buy an appliance, or to the restaurant, or even get a fucking haircut.
Depends on what your timeline is for changes, but you can also learn how to use it and do it yourself.

My experience is that if an org decides to use <HIGHLY CONFIGURABLE TOOL> then they will do it wrong the first time without external assistance. This holds true even for popular tools like Postgres, AWS, Terraform, or even Git.

Anecdotally, I don't know of any tool that is highly configurable that makes it easy for users to set it up and then scale it over time without learning the specific domain knowledge. Jira is no different in that sense. If you have an example of a tool that bucks this trend, please share it, I would love to play with it and see what I can learn about how to better serve users in this type of use case.
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Exactly. Most people didn't even get picked for payment. I don't want a shitty monitoring service I want to see Equifax bleed
>when neither have faced this before

>The fact that mistakes have been made doesn't mean there's nothing to their field and anyone can do it

I was not making that claim. The premise is: should every non epidemiologist keep their mouth shout and trust the domain experts blindly? Don't they have the right in a democracy to question the science and therefor the legitimicy of the suggested policies?

That's a hard sell, when the field of experts themselves have little consensus.

I might be seeing this from a different bubble, over here in the Netherlands. We have had our equivalent of the CDC show and explain their models and policy choices in detail. We got powerpoints and everything.

Now before you make assumptions: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/11/countries-preparednes... .. the Netherlands ranked 3rd in preparedness.

Yet, it turned into a shitshow. It was already going wrong in Italy, when they claimed their models suggested we have it fully under control if only we wash our hands, and they then let one of the biggest social events happen (think mardi gras). Even though we already had our first cases.

Italy's expert initially said they had it under control. They suggested cultural differences in health and healthcare made it such a bigger problem for China than for them. Then it went to shit in Italy. Then the dutch experts said, after a few cases, they had it completely under control and the reason it went wrong in Italy was cultural differences in health and healthcare. Yeah, racist ignorance.

And all their preparations didn't include supply chain management or the human factor. For example: the relationship (worldwide) between the lockdowns and the available of PPE -vs- the availability of PPE and the spread of the virus. Because none of those things are part of the known models. So they just exclude it entirely.

So, given all of that, yeah, I would like to see their homework in more detail, and we should all put in the intellectual effort, to sort this stuff out.

>Are there no software bugs?

More than any other engineering discipline. So software engineers do actually have more experience debugging collapsing systems build on the wrong assumptions.

>Can just anyone come in and fix those?

Yes, mostly. Its called a pull request.
> can be egoistic when around people they are interviewing, when around less senior colleagues, or around more senior colleagues they don't report to (due to jealousy).

100%. Amazon is known for an organizational culture strongly oriented toward this kind of behavior (textbook sociopathy, btw).
Well they’re typically not as superscalar in processing, which helps. But I wouldn’t make an assumption that ARM chips generally are more secure — plenty of weaknesses have been found, and doubtlessly many more exist. Security research has shown there are always new untapped directions to exploit, and really nothing can be assumed to be actually secure at this point. Like I said before, Intel is the big target, especially as they run the servers you access over the internet. ARM devices tend to be local and thus aren’t as valuable for side channel attacks. Instead, most attacks for ARM chips tend to be at the sandbox/OS level.
Fair enough. I would agree at least, that spending needs to decrease. Figuring out how, is, as you've touched on, a whole other issue.
>As https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/education_spending points out, from the 1950s to the present, the share of GDP spent by government on universities went from 0.4% to 1.7%.

A four-fold increase in funding as a percentage of GDP isn't relevant to the more important metric, real funding per student.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/state-hig...

> But the long-term trend is that spending by states has gone up relative to both enrollment and inflation.

Real funding per university student has not increased, and this claim is not backed by your source. See my source above for rebuttal.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas/2012/09/23/texas-colle...

"State officials used to brag about the affordability of college, but the costs have ballooned since 2003, even when inflation is factored in.

Less money from state

That year, to help close a budget cap without raising taxes, lawmakers cut the amount of taxpayer money the state sent to universities — an overall 11 percent decrease per student — but removed ceilings placed on tuition so campuses could make up for the lost revenue."

> But tuition has outpaced inflation in good years as well. Which suggests that the long-term trend has other causes.

Yes, that state funding doesn't return to prior levels (See my first source)

> Salaries for the people teaching vary from $40k for a postdoc to an average of $95k for a full professor. Which means that in an average classroom, a handful of students could hire the teacher as a private tutor, give the teacher a pay raise, and themselves save money! This basic fact suggests that it should be possible to teach students for a lot less than we consider normal today.

A university is more than its teaching staff. There's research, buildings to maintain, academic support staff and programs, and plenty of other things as well.

> But attempts to quantify all the different factors, such as https://www.nber.org/papers/w21967, find that the biggest single factor is the combination of restricted supply and artificially increased demand (thanks to the availability of loans and financial aid).

One source which happens to ignore many of the factors I mentioned above does not prove your point true. Most importantly, tuition ceilings imposed on universities by state governments. Luckily the paper discusses its shortcomings:

"Given that our model effectively lumps private and public colleges together, it appears that changes in state funding support and changes in other sources of non-tuition revenue largely offset each other. In future work, we plan to disaggregate the model along the public/private dimension."

The source groups private and public colleges together. Private colleges do not receive state funding and therefore would not have to hike tuition in response to lower stand funding. This noise averages out the effect that state funding cuts have on public school tuition rates.
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Most likely, this is nothing to worry about.

If you passed the interview loops at a FAANG, the background check is mostly to cover their ass to ensure you will not harm existing employees. Any past record of physical violence is a problem.

This seems like a non-violent misdemeanor incident. As a former hiring manager at a FAANG, I would want HR to approach me with any reports to ensure a fair process and decision.

Maybe consult an employment lawyer if the offer process goes cold.
Opting out should be available

And a corporate death penalty should exist. Destroy the company completely.
I don’t get the connection?
Wealthy people don't need credit cards, car loans, and mortgages, and most other kinds of loans that would show up on a credit history. They may use them, and if they do they should have a really good score unless they're bad with money. But if they choose not to (as they'd be able to, more easily than others at least), there score would drop until their credit history was blank.
I assumed it meant wealthy people continually get a clean slate when they mess up. So there is no concept of maintaining credit when allotted unlimited "redo's".
Thanks for reading!

Oh, there's tons of sensitive data beyond just financial details.

As an extreme example, suppose I ran a paid email service and allowed Stripe to collect any data they wanted, including page contents and keystrokes. That would give Stripe a massive amount of sensitive user data.

As a more realistic example, suppose that I ran a dating site and the log of URLs that Stripe currently collects exposes which profiles users are viewing and whom they're communicating with. If a user's credit card details are stolen, that's a bummer, but it happens all the time. If a user's dating site behavior was published, many people would consider that a serious violation more severe than having to order a new credit card.
>data hasn't surfaced

What it really comes down to, is if "data hasn't surfaced" means "we dont know if the data was used" or if "data hasn't surfaced" is something you can prove hasnt happened. It's the difference between "we dont know" or "we know your identity theft wasnt related to this."
Pretty lame advice. It will come up possibly after you give your notice and you’ll be fucked. Also “the one candidate from Utah” srsly?
Thanks a ton for these. Added this to things I know that I don't know list. ;)
I think you missed the parent's "+ other related tools". My company uses Jira plus Confluence plus Bitbucket, which are each more or less shitty, but they are more or less interlinked. And that interlinking does actually add value. It doesn't matter whether Jira is inherently better or worse than anything else. It doesn't matter whether an isolated Jira installation could be replaced with something else. The network effect keeps us locked in as well.
"Machine Learning: a Probabilistic Perspective" is more an encyclopedia of algorithms I would say, and it has lots of typos. I personally would not recommend it (except for the amount of algorithms that it covers, many of which are usually not found in other books).
This is truly great on so many levels. The cheesy sarcastic late night infomercial demo is artistry. Thanks for sharing this.
This is truly incredible.
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I have been a heavy Ubuntu user for awhile now and currently I have a Dell Precision 55 with Ubuntu 18.04 (came with it) for work and a Lenovo X1 Extreme with PopOS (18.04) that I installed on my personal machine. I think I would install PopOS over vanilla Ubuntu in the future...and I have not had a similar feeling for various alternate distributions like Mint, KDE, or even distros outside of Debian/Ubuntu (e.g. Manjaro). PopOS is the first distribution that I feel like adds a layer of polish and user-friendliness that I find worth it.

I have high hopes for future Ubuntu (desktop) release which seem to be making moves in the right general direction, but at the moment PopOS is probably where I am going to hang my hat.
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I'm pretty sure you could rewind the tape a couple of decades and find the same presentation about XML.
I always thought the value of an AIO was in packaging. Sure, I can buy a huge case that has vast amounts of open space and configurable venting. Or I can jam everything into a smaller case, install an AIO, and ensure I’ve got reasonable airflow for the heat exchanger.
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SSL/TLS is super important. I'm glad Redis added it. Now if only Varnish would get in the game.
Excited to follow your progress! I view this problem as the one of the biggest gaps in today's "Cloud Data Ecosystem". Tools like Stitch and Fivetran make it super easy to extract data from source systems; next-gen cloud data platforms like Snowflake make storing, transforming, and querying that data a breeze (especially with the help of tools like dbt and dataform); and there are a ton of powerful and easy to use BI tools for visualizing and digesting that data. But the minute you need to send that data to other systems, it's back to painful, failure-prone, and mind-numbing scripts.
It's a little bit of an ordeal - you have to request a bootloader unlock and then wait two weeks. But doable.
Shannon's work has had vast influence.

Here is a great, short overview of the topic => https://youtu.be/_PG-jJKB_do

There is no entropy regarding question of whether the Jade is an attractive presenter.
> How many people's primary computing devices are ARM-based devices at this point?

At home, it's a high percentage and has been for many years.

In office environments at work, it's still near zero (emphasis on primary). A couple hundred million people across middile and upper development nations use desktops and laptops every day at work. They're not going to switch to ARM systems anytime soon for that work. Good desktop processors are a few hundred dollars; ARM has no great angle there (including on pricing). For businesses the cost of a decent Intel or AMD processor is a modest share of the overall system they're buying for the employee to work with.

In developing nations with primitive economies, certainly smartphones are much more common for primary work purposes. And that's a case where ARM pricing does bring a huge advantage that Intel and AMD struggle to compete with. Cost obviously matters in personal businesses where your income is $50-$200 per month. Numerically this category wins, primarily due to the intense poverty of three billion people in India, Africa and China. This market alignment based on incomes probably won't change much in the coming decade, as ARM's ability to push into higher value office work environments as a primary will be very limited.
Thanks, I didn't know that. I don't think that's how the term is used these days though.
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Ah. VMware does something similar for hot provisioning VMs from a point in time memory snapshot.

So you guys boot the image in the background, then capture a memory dump of it so you can quickly launch VMs from that snapshot? Or you boot the VMs the traditional way the first time, and then just suspend them when not in use?
Large companies in many cases are systems in some local optimum of efficiency. If any part of the system improves, the overall system is worse off. Naturally, there is resistance to any change from the bottom. Change from the top is not done because they only perceive a cacophony of noise from below. Sometimes it is done in an existential crisis.

External consultants are kind of an organizational hack. In contrast to top management they can take the risk of being wrong. In contrast to the workers they are not part of the inter-department politics.
Just wait till they:

- start encrypting all the data they collect (with real encryption, not base64 encoding)

- saving up the data for hours or days at time and sending it in bursts (so there is no immediate connection to a remote server)

- sending the data to plausible U.S.-registered domains (rather than to Singapore and Russia)

- monitoring at the kernel or firmware level so that it doesn't matter what browser or apps you use

- turning off data collection when it suspects a security researcher (due to signs of debuggers, development tools, network monitoring, usual network settings like to proxies or DNS, etc)

We won't be able to prove anything. So disheartening.
Except it also lists $3700 of other fees.
Who gets to decide what is the "point" of music? Music is a twenty billion dollar industry. An AI system that can spit out highly "realistic" and "pleasing" music can change the music industry as we know it.
Look at the clockspeeds and power consumption of Intel's original 14nm process. In comparison to that, the power consumption is low for a given clockspeed.

That they've got the power consumption down is precisely what allows them to then increase clockspeed which then brings it back up.