skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely this isn't purely continuous... the steps change dramatically from partial changes to one slider. There must be a number of ranges that define the steps and continuous values within thoes ranges, no? I want to know the number of unique sets of steps/ingredients.
I actually agree with your point on prerequisites. I think by absolute beginner I meant to say no experience with probability theory either. With the prerequisites you outlined, I think a determined person could do well with the material. Mainly posting this follow-up to correct myself so people curious on whether they'd be able to follow the course are better-informed.
What’s with the blank white pop up on the website?
DNS privacy is a nice idea, but every web page still has a facebook "like" button on it.
This post definitely seems to be generated by an ML model. There is little coherence and I don't totally understand how the first part (giving a talk on GPT-2) is at all related to the end. It was long bit of coherent individual thoughts randomly strung together in an attempt to make a coherent story. In short, I'm not entirely sure what point the commenter is trying to make. Also, there are a weird number of links referenced to individuals.
>This strikes me as making the whole system harder for new people to understand just to smooth over edge cases for power users that definitely have the ability to come up with workarounds.

This is exactly what it is, and due to inertia it won't ever change. At this point, there is no other choice but to either accept it or find peace in smth else.
I think you argument would be a lot better, if you were more careful about discussing the difference between the things that are done by the government of a country, and the experience of people living in that country. Ordinary Chinese people are not imprisoning Uighurs in their living room, and ordinary Americans aren't dropping bombs on Yemen on the weekend, both would find that abhorrent, so when they hear their own country described through these activities it's jarring, but feel less discomfort describing the other country through reference to it's worst atrocities.

If we wanted to, but I think it's unnecessary for this conversation, we could compile a list for the terrible things that China and the US have done, and both list would be horrific.

There would be two significant differences between the two lists at the moment:
The US military is much more active outside its own claimed borders
The Chinese government is much more active suppressing speech and thought.

I do not believe these differences are due to any moral superiority on either side - that would be a rather remarkable claim.

The people run over by tanks in Tienanmen, arrested for political dissent in recent years aren't Americans, they are Chinese people pushing for a more open society, a desire for fairness is not an American quality it is a human one. As federal agents abduct protesters of the streets in Portland, it should be clear - abuse of power is not a Chinese failing, it's a human one. I think the there is a very good case that the difference between the lists of Chinese and American atrocities is simply a description of the differences in power and accountability of the two governments. There are plenty of good reasons to fear that both governments would like to expand their power and reduce accountability to look more like a hybrid of the worst of both.

Your last sentence takes something that's real - white racism and assumptions of cultural superiority, and elevates it to 'the real problem', I think you're close, but you've missed a bigger picture. A Chinese friend of mine told me about breaking in to hysterical laughter as a child when first hearing about white supremacy, a the story as she tells it now (ironically) is that her reaction was 'what idiots, don't they know the Chinese as the superior race!'

Identifying with a group is deliciously pleasurable, identifying with a nation, with it's flags and songs and strong military even more so, and puts us in a vulnerable position, in which powerful people can use that identification, to weave an overly simple myth about our country that blinds us to complexity. Free speech, ending military aggression won't kill China or America, but it will destroy the power and fortunes of some within those countries.

When we engage in tit for tat whataboutism in these forums, we are averting our eyes from the flaws in our own countries, and advancing the fortunes of the greediest and most destructive people in our societies.
Whether or not the heat record is as extreme as presented, the fact is the arctic is getting warmer twice as fast as the world as a whole. And that is leading to huge changes, most notably permafrost melting, which has all sorts of consequences like destroying infrastructure on a massive scale.
Do you blindly trust GitHub your private source code?
Would you keep your (let's say) 1 billion dollar private codebase to a third-party company like GitHub (Microsoft) or Bitbucket (Atlassian)? What makes you sleep at night and not going paranoid about your intellectual property that may get stolen and sold secretly sometime by either hackers, rogue employees or even the actual company? Are there any big companies that keep their whole codebase on these providers or they choose to store code at their own data centers?
Just curious, the topic above aside: what would you say is the main reason behind why you'd like to strive for "mathematical maturity"?

(from what you wrote, I gather it's not for reasons of vocation?)
> The majority of new drug development is the result of publicly funded research. Drug companies mine that research

Isn't the entire point of publicly funded research to spur scientific and economic development? Are you proposing that public research should be hidden away so that private companies don't do anything useful with it?
For us curious latecomers, what was the original title?
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Cancel culture effects the poor more than everything, here's a good threats about this topic with examples https://twitter.com/SoOppressed/status/1282404647160942598

My favorite is this article that details the case of a Palestinian business that is wrecked because of some very ugly tweets his daughter wrote seven years prior. Even after firing his daughter, they still kept punishing him. https://forward.com/news/national/448382/the-ceo-of-holy-lan...
It's called a "crossing" because otherwise it would be the "Outerbridge Bridge".
That's what downvotes are for. They're certainly not useful comments to allow to bubble up to the top.
Right...but at the end of the day that's what intelligence is. You are just an interconnected model of billions of neurons that has been trained on millions of facts created by other humans. Except for this model can vastly exceed the amount of factual knowledge that you could possibly absorb over your entire lifetime.
I doubt it.

As for your second point, that’s possibly the worst straw man I’ve ever heard.
Building a simple chat-like note taking app exactly for this.

Try InstaNote on iPhone (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instanote-pro/id1499393902?ls=... or Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.instanote.i...)

Keep very simple free form text, or lists, audio notes, images, documents. Everything is backed up in the cloud. Has built in support for sharing and repeated reminders.

The main goal is to make the interface super simple to use, support journaling like note-taking and fast search.
I too have occasionally lost Apple notes due to what I've imagined must be cloud sync issues.

Whatever the cause, sometimes notes disappear and that is unforgivable.

If I cannot trust that something I store in a note won't ever disappear, unless I explicitly delete it, then I cannot trust the system period, and thus cannot use it.

I can't tell you how many times or how often it's happened. I think I must be on the third or fourth re-creation of my "Restaurants" list in the last couple of years, and that's just the one that comes to mind easiest.

Really disappointing that they couldn't get that right.
I just finished an MS in math and statistics a long time after doing a non-mathematical undergrad degree. I feel a lot of what is called mathematical maturity is actually getting comfortable doing proofs, which I think is hard to learn while also learning more advanced math. I would recommend working through "Mathematical proofs" by Polimeni/Chartrand/Zhang. Unlike math at an earlier level, you can't just check your answers against the official ones to see if you made a mistake - writing proofs is more like writing essays, the grammar is the easy bit, it's the process of putting the arguments together in the right detail and the right order that's important and hard to do without feedback. So you also need to get feedback from mathematicians on your proofs if possible. The best way to do that if you don't have a buddy who happens to be a mathematician is to learn to use LaTeX and ask questions on math.stackexchange.com.

An alternative is to do the proof and abstract algebra courses via (asymmetric) distance learning at https://westcottcourses.com/courses.html

I know someone who took these courses and felt like they got good feedback on their homeworks from the profs running the course.

Feel free to get in touch if you want to chat, I spent a long time trying to self-learn this stuff before starting my math MS, so happy to help in any way I can!
so... 1. mailing lists are noisy and 2. you don't check them very often.

regarding 1. isn't twitter noisy too?

regarding 2. can you really blame this on the mailing lists?
> The US Foreign Service still enforces mandatory retirement

This is just bad strategy.

The foreign service is the field where wisdom and experience count the most. The only thing new in the world is history you don't know.
GPT-3 is nothing like a Markov model.
Meanwhile on planet Earth, my Metcal production iron doesn’t even have a computer in its brain.

The important bit of the iron is not really the brain but the latency of the control loop and the absolute power delivery which is easy enough to solve with a couple of lm358’s on the ts100 element/sensor.
> Rentier capitalism is a term currently used to describe the belief in economic practices of monopolization of access to any kind of property (physical, financial, intellectual, etc.) and gaining significant amounts of profit without contribution to society

A UBI recipient has not monopolized anything. UBI is just a citizen's dividend (eg. see Henry George) for forgoing access to their share of land/natural resources and allowing landlords/capital to monopolize them. Or alternatively, the payments landlords/rentiers pay to society in exchange for the privilege of their monopoly.

But really the argument for a UBI is more about just having a more robust safety net so that nobody has to face destitution and people have the freedom to pursue whatever work they want and take greater risks (eg. starting businesses, research), especially as automation eliminates vast swaths of the labor market. Clearly this is completely different in both spirit and effect from say a minority class of private landlords leeching off workers and contributing nothing to society.

> How can you say "someone has to do the actual work" in the same comment you end by advocating UBI?

Why can't I say that? You think everyone is going to stop working if we implement a UBI?

> I can't disagree with you per se when everything you write seems to cancel out in a vague cloud of doublethink.

Hard to discuss anything with you when you haven't written a coherent argument. If you have something meaningful to say, then say it, don't just list a bunch of vague random questions and try to put the burden on me to figure out what your point is.
How I deal with things like that is to ignore them, and if asked about it, politely point out that my contract does not require me to be available outside of working hours. If I am off work, I am truly off work. I will respond the next business day.
What would be an example reply to an automated email notification?

It would be like replying to a push notification on your phone...
> How much of that first vial was paid for by taxpayers?

How does being funded by the taxpayers mean anything?
I disagree. Yes, it is just a decoder of transformer. But it looks like we are really close, with some tweaks on the network structure, reward function design and inputs / outputs. On the same time, GPT-3 also points how far away we are at hardware level.

Let me put it this way: I don't know how challenging the rest is going to be, but it surely looks like we are on the right path finally.
This link covers what’s involved in getting a UK visa.

https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas
curious to know what is better solution of this problem?
Almost as bad as the taxation without representation some cities have to endure.
That about half of the world's production comes from the Congo(DRC) also makes it undesirable. Both because the Congo is unstable but also because it destabilizes the country. It's like a spiral of chaos for them, which is too bad because in theory it should be good for them to have an export that brings in money. The resource curse is unfortunately real.
Why the Monero Blockchain Is Untraceable
DOOM running in a computer with hundreds of CPU cores
Adidas = Adi Dassler
your first statement is correct. if you can leverage none of the language's strength, why do X thing in it? what can be gained?

IMO that's what makes languages "great": domain specificity.

General purpose languages beg the scenario of a person who only knows 1 language and tries to do everything in that language instead of learning a more appropriate one.
I think we all end up on our own journey of trying to find the note taking style that works best for us, and the variety of styles (git, onenote, evernote, pen & paper, notes app, etc.) has lent to a variety of applications being built to cater for each.

I've got my own slightly different style of note taking that works really well for me, but only when I start to work on multiple projects simultaneously and I need a way to track tasks across them all. When I fall back to one or two projects, then my note taking needs disappear. I joined the fray anyway and turned it into a web app so I could at least have something that _I_ want: https://screwnotes.com
How many lives are we willing to sacrifice if we remove any reason for people to develop treatments? Profit is motivation for innovation.
They weren’t talking about group membership, but about misunderstanding some basic things about how the world works.
I can’t speak to healthcare generally but one of my college roommates was from China and she just could not wrap her head around the politicization of birth control in the US. I remember her asking us if Americans thought it was dangerous or addictive because she couldn’t understand why it was so controversial that the affordable care act required birth control to be covered.
I once found a solution to determining the timezone when it wasn't available - a field with only a date was unnecessarily and incorrectly converted to UT, meaning that the zone could be derived from the offset from midnight and applied to other fields.

If enough things are screwed up, you can possibly find the solution to one issue in another.
I'm actually happy if basic and understandable classifiers are used, this might make the model tell us something about the underlying biological principles.
That's kind of the point. Feel free to not spam me.
Minimalism in Web Development
Contracting at 15?
That's a good way to lose your Global Entry membership too.

https://www.racked.com/2018/1/8/16849298/amazon-counterfeits...

>past violation of customs laws or regulations on your record may make you ineligible for Trusted Traveler programs
>China's great if you have a decent amount of money

Besides Scandinavian countries where the social security net is amazing comparably, isn't that the same in most of the world? I'm not sure being poor in China is worse than elsewhere?
Those videos are almost certainly fake

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/hsryyn/windows_ta...

https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/hlo6nd/pokemon_the...
It took my fat fingers a while to be able to successfully copy-n-paste the link on mobile. Here’s a proper link to save others the hassle:

https://lemire.me/blog/2016/06/27/a-fast-alternative-to-the-...
As a (former?) frequent traveller, I can tell you this is first time I've ever heard China described as "free of racism."
It’s nuts how we’ve all managed to talk around the core issue in this discussion.

‘Free Hong Kong’ has no racial or ethnic slurs or any profanity.

I wonder if I can buy a jersey that says “Free Uyghurs”. Where’s the line?
I haven't been persuaded yet that AI will ultimately replace human creativity. Rather I think AI, once it gets "good enough" it will start being used to supplement human creativity. In other words I kind of think there will be less of a dominance of AI (in terms of creative pursuits) and more of a collaborative relationship between humans and computers.

I kind of see this OpenAI project as maybe a good first step toward collaborative creativity between authors and computers. I think writers block is a thing because writers might not have someone to bounce their ideas off of. Perhaps due to the author trying to preserve intellectual property / secrecy of their project, or perhaps the people they CAN share with may not be in the same space creatively as they are.

If I am writing something but run into a creative block I'd love to have the ability to run my book, essay, etc. through some AI system to see if the ideas it spits out might not inspire me with new ideas.
Your quote is the "common demands" I mentioned. Video games will improve your ability to do tasks very similar to what happens in the video game. The actual research done isn't relevant to the article, they just used it as one of many papers supporting the "common demands" theory.

The article is talking about how those things won't improve your general intelligence, as many people did think playing chess would randomly make you smarter.
> Having these examples in their hands or on their screens likely initiates a mild cognitive dissonance

You’d be surprised, but no, it doesn’t. And from my experience, older people sometimes just kind of don’t like America, in the same way older Americans don’t like Cuba. Government says their government is bad, don’t really know the people but maybe they’re “brainwashed” unlike us, but the few I’ve met are okay so no reason to really do anything but ignore the country.

Younger people I’ve talked to seem to know a considerable amount about America, and quite a lot of bad. The idea seems to be that companies build things in China because their country can’t and companies like the NBA and so on focus on them because they’re more important now. Which, well, isn’t clearly wrong. If all those American things up and vanished, it’d be a topic for a week and people would stop caring. It’s more normal for products and media to just vanish.

The NBA isn’t an ambassador of anything. It’s a corporate sports team that knows China doesn’t really give a shit about them, but it’s a good chance to get money from what’s likely to be the largest economy in about a decade. That’s all any of these companies are doing, and their road of good intentions is just pumping money into China’s goal of being number 1.

I think it’s entirely fine for the NBA to decide that they want to decide they want to be friendly towards the Chinese market. I also think it’s fine for America to drop the NBA for being the weak, hypocritically “woke” corporation that it is. Either drop politics altogether and be a regular soulless corporation, or actually stand up for what’s right but not only in specific, comfy locations and with safe political statements.
Yes. If you trust someone not to manipulate the sensor (or whatever you use to go from physical world to digital), then you might as well trust them not to manipulate the Excel sheet collecting all the data.
> Chinese ethnic minorities visiting Beijing are themselves something of a tourist attraction; tour guides leading Westerners around point and stare and talk about those minorities sort of the way you'd point and stare and talk about a wild animal you found roaming the streets.

On a related note, in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China saw fit to have the flag be brought in by 56 children wearing the traditional costumes of the 56 officially-recognized ethnic groups in China. They were all Han.
"This comment was also written by GPT-3"

Would you please show us the input text, or rules, you gave to GPT-3 to create this comment ?
> You are just an interconnected model of billions of neurons that has been trained on millions of facts created by other humans.

...but I didn't pop out of the womb that way, and as you said, over my lifetime I will read less than 1 millionth of the data that GPT-3 was trained on. GPT-2 had a better compression ratio than GPT-3, and I'm sure a GPT-4 will have a worse compression ratio than GPT-3 on the road we're on.

Rote memorization is hardly what I'd call intelligence. But that's what we're doing. If these things were becoming more intelligent over time, they'd need less training data per unit insight. This isn't a dismissal of the impressiveness of the algorithms, and I'm not suggesting the classic AI effect "changing the goalposts over time." I fundamentally believe we're kicking a goal in our own team's net. This is backwards.
How is that different from using a service in the states where the NSA spies on everything?
When the answer is not simple or require new thinking your local gp doctors are not the group to ask.
Sure, it's always possible to design a system that avoids the type system of a language. At worst case you can just resort to creating an un-typed lambda calculus and re-implementing your logic there.

Community habits and language frictions matter a lot. In Go, doing the equivalent of `Result` requires custom private types for every combination, with private fields and accessor methods that protect against misuse. And you still only gain runtime safety. And they can still make a zero-valued var and use it without "initialization" (unless you use private types, which are an even bigger pain for a variety of reasons). Any other approach makes it trivial to bypass - public fields can just be accessed, multiple returns can be ignored, etc. In Rust, the community and language make `Result` common, and then you gain compile-time safety in most cases, and warnings in all others (AFAIK, as Result is annotated as "must use", so you get a warning or a `_ =` as a visible marker that you're ignoring something).

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tl;dr multiple returns of course bypass this, but in practice you won't see that in Rust unless it's intended to allow ignoring the error. Underscores on out-param funcs are a good point, but they're also fairly rare / serve as a visual warning of shenaniganry.
People are upset because more and more companies are ceding to a government which is actively committing genocide, suppresses ideas and free speech of its own people, all so that these companies can make more money.
What is BD, OR and PMF?
> This is classic example of monopoly pricing.

No, it's a classic example of a expensive product (due to R&D costs) that has a monopoly because no one has developed anything close to it, partly because of Gilead's knowledge and partly due to constrictive government regulations.
"The taxpayers"? I'm a tax payer, and I want no such thing. Speak only for yourself please.
Nym is interesting, a mix network with incentives for running nodes.

https://nymtech.net/
Michael Mauboussin's recommended reading list [March 2020 - scroll down]
What about clean drinking water and clean air? I certainly missed that in China.