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FHorse··on Multi-Task Learning in the Wilderness: Karpathy on Autopilot progress [video]
I also work in ML/DL. I'd use a different word than "surprised". "Appalled" is more appropriate. If the video proves anything, it's that everything they do is a hack. There is no principled way to do anything. There is something seriously wrong when they have to resort to oversampling to deal with catastrophic forgetting, aka, learning instability. Yet I'm supposed to trust my life with this thing? Today's DNN are still incredibly crude. There are fundamental problems that need to be solved before we can deploy them in anything other than toys.
FHorse··on Researchers find neurons that encode time and predict timing behavior in rats
This paper says nothing about where the source of the timing signals come from, unfortunately.
FHorse··on Researchers find neurons that encode time and predict timing behavior in rats
One can also think of the hippocampus simply as a working memory - short term content addressable memory. If the rat happens to be working on a spatial task, like in a maze, you get place/grid cells. If it happens to be working on a timing task, time cells. The content is simply task dependent.
FHorse··on A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic income theory
Witnessed the total lack of motivation of people to do anything for themselves. It was the result of the policy at the time. When the policy changed, the behavior also changed. BMI provides no incentives for people to do the right thing, which is to work hard to better themselves. Quite the opposite. By removing any requirements, it enables unmotivated people to just sit on their ass. Nor does it discourage antisocial behavior. Just giving people free money doesn't do that in itself. All it does is set up an expectation of free money.

I believe the best way to spend the money is to help people who work hard to improve themselves, regardless of their income level. The money is given according to the impact of the money. So people with low income would benefit proportionally more because the before and after difference is larger percentage wise.

Edit: The thing that should redistributed is not wealth, but opportunity.

FHorse··on A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic income theory
Having lived under a communist regime and also in the ghettos of NYC decades ago, I can tell you just how idiotic this is. But I guess there's no shortage of idiotic ideas when you are playing with other people's money.
FHorse··on Maxwell's equations predict that the speed of light is constant
Did you prove that the speed of light is constant in different inertial frames?
FHorse··on Show HN: Solid side income from market inefficiencies
Who takes the risk of buyers not paying and sellers not delivering? What about the risk of prices changing in the middle of a flip? I'm afraid I know the answer already...