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hashgraph?

https://hashgraph.com/

>natural rights philosophy >evidence

choose one

i wish they would commit to paying taxes in the US instead of building new stores here

you're right, entirely right. But I think this is what people want: Developers can control and fork the code at will because they have a majority (51% >) of the coins.

Coins are used for some kind of service that it provides (transaction fees for decentralized exchange, computation, storage). Developers fund development from the initial selling of the coin and have incentive to increase the price.

I wonder if the two tiered model (ETH/Gas, Factom/Entry Credit, there are lots) is better or worse

So much money grabbing happening right now, and often they don't have any kind of service or working software yet. Definitely a lot of specutlation, are these all tulips?

getting your feet wet

andrew ng's machine learning course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

to get up to date on convnet architecture

Fei-Fei Li and Karpathy's cs231n: https://cs231n.github.io/

if you want to go deep

geoff hinton's neural networks for machine learning coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/neural-networks

Richard Hamming developed error-correcting codes while working along side Shannon at bell labs, his book The Art and Science of Engineering: Learning to Learn and the associated lectures he gave at the naval postgraduate academy are tremendous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw

I think the PDP books are super interesting, have you read Jeffery Elman's Rethinking Innateness kind of a successor to PDP. Elman did some of the first work on recurrent neural networks I think

Geoff Hinton, some of who's work was in PDP, was an experimental psychologist by training.

So as far as net neutrality goes: it's very vague, in favor of companies like Netflix that want cheap peering(?) at the expense of ISPs (which are acquiring each other, getting huge similar to before Bell was broken up). It's a corporation vs corporation fight

Why aren't ISPs public utilities? These technologies were developed using tax payer money at DARPA, or in government sanctioned monopolies like Bell Labs

I would be interested to hear more about the relationship between South Korea's subsidy of internet and the rise of starcraft and the high tech service economy there

just a couple counter examples I wanted to point out:

giantbomb.com (ads + subscription only content) 4chan (I would like someone to explain it more deeply to me, but I think they run their own ads, do they use an outside service?)

steemit seems like a ponzi scheme. Could someone explain the whole "powering up" system? I think it's counter example to Proof of Stake, like there isn't the economic incentive there is for Proof of Work

market participants not taking externalities into account. i.e. this transaction benefits both you and me, but doesn't take into account the effect of the transaction on the environment/others

they could of nationalized the banks, but no instead they just give them handouts

but yeah, I wonder why they didn't decide to save bear stearns, maybe it collapsed and that was the reason they decided to save the rest

best source about the 2008 crisis? I really like noam chomsky and michael lewis' work

actually, the corporate nanny state will just bail them out. See: Long Term Captial Management, S&L crisis/Continental Illinois under Reagan/Bush Sr, 2008 crisis

They have an implicit subsidy, Too Big To Fail: access to cheap credit because creditors know the nanny state will bail them out.

Why don't we call it welfare when we give money to the rich? Capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich. We don't need market discipline, but YOU do

Deep learning tho

haha literally the next page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15709199

I would rather employ someone who has a music degree and learned web dev in their free time than the majority of shitty comp sci programs or an mba

As far as postmodern literature departments, sure they are worthless, and maybe counter productive

exactly the reason the central bank of sweden created the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel as part of a marketing scheme of it's 100th anniversary

also, he is the the great grandson of george boole or something. that blew my mind

opp, apparently not haha. Interesting, I guess working at Uber wasn't that great

I think classifying it as a framework wouldn't be too far off, gives you statistical distributions to work with as primitives (x is drawn from a Normal distribution instead of just being assigned to 5 for example).

And then it uses PyTorch to perform Variational Inference(?)

They acquired Geometric Intelligence a year(?) ago, and renamed them Uber AI. I think there is demand for Edward/PyMC3 backed by PyTorch instead of Tensorflow/Theano. Theano is being depreciated next year, which backs PyMC3.

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2016/decemb...

Seems okay, they are taking cues from Edward/WebPPL, and have some pretty good researchers, headed Gary Marcus.

0.1.0 definitely not feature full, but Pyro seems promising.

PyMC3 is fine, but it uses Theano on the backend. Theano will stop being actively maintained in 1 year, and no future features in the mean time. That was announced about a month ago, it seems like a good opportunity to get out something that filled a niche: Probablistic Programming language in python backed by PyTorch. They are taking cues from edward and webppl, which from a casual glance seem to be the best libraries for python and javascript respectively http://edwardlib.org/ http://webppl.org/

But Edward is backed by TensorFlow

That announcement by Theano’s main developer Pascal Lamblin and Yoshua Bengio: https://syncedreview.com/2017/09/29/rip-theano/ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/theano-users/7Poq8BZ...

"Dear users and developers,

After almost ten years of development, we have the regret to announce that we will put an end to our Theano development after the 1.0 release, which is due in the next few weeks. We will continue minimal maintenance to keep it working for one year, but we will stop actively implementing new features. Theano will continue to be available afterwards, as per our engagement towards open source software, but MILA does not commit to spend time on maintenance or support after that time frame. "

https://www.wired.com/2016/12/uber-buys-mysterious-startup-m...

Uber acquired Geometric Intelligence and renamed it Uber AI. From this article:

"But it hasn't published research or offered a product. What is has done is assemble a team of fifteen researchers who can be very useful to Uber, including Stanford professor Noah Goodman, who specializes in cognitive science and a field called probabilistic programming, and University of Wyoming's Jeff Clune, an expert in deep neural networks who has also explored robots that can "heal" themselves."

I don't think i'm knowledgable enough to do anything other than refer you to sharding (we don't need to store the whole chain, just like in distributed computing) and the recent paper by Vitalik (Ethereum) and Joseph Poon of Lighting Networks on Plasma, which seems like MapReduce/Hadoop/Spark stuff with a blockchain

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Sharding-FAQ

http://plasma.io/

http://lightning.network/

I have like 400$ in all the stuff on coinbase (BTC, LTC, ETH) + Factom (Austin startup, head developer is Paul Snow, used for maintaining trail of ownership?), 0x (decentralized exchanges), Augur (decentralized prediction market), and Ripple (private blockchain functioning as a clearing house for banks)

If you need to put your money somewhere, and you've filled up your Roth IRAs, are in index funds, real estate (?), I don't see why not. I think the baseline argument is diversification, the high volatility, and lack of regulation

Now is probably not a great time because the price (of bitcoin) is so high, or maybe it is... No one really knows, it's all pure speculation

I wish I would of put a lot more than 400$ in Nvidia last year personally: https://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:NVDA

the paper, for those interested: http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2874&c...

for sure, I think i'm just sensitive to the use of script kiddie haha

Atleast you're thinking about it, company I work for definitely prioritizes freedom over security if you know what i mean

>defend against DDoS but not sanitizing user input

>calling a pentested a script kiddie

welp, my work is done here

.parquet fam, it's all about columnar data stores now

this is really cool, openframeworks-esque in browser javascript

if you like this I would highly recommend looking at openframeworks.

the interactive browser part excites me want to try to make something with deeplearn.js

really wierd, most of my exposure to foucault is indirect.

this debate with chomsky on human nature is interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfNl2L0Gf8

so you could sue someone for not calling your the right pronoun (ze/zhe)