humanfromearth

It might be an incredibly bad idea to have multiple AGIs everywhere in the world, but that's the least bad that I can see too.

Also this is amazing, making serious effort towards AGI is what we need. We'll play with RNNs configurations for a long time, but I think it's a good call to fund people who think about the broad picture.

I agree that we're Adobe of the IDE world is crap.

But is it really 100$ so expensive for an average developer? Consider how much money you're making because you have these tools.

Great achievement. Let's hope we see first fusion reactions and then sustained fusion soon.

Yes, that was I was expecting.

1. I upload a video 2. Jukedeck finds me the perfect audio for it.

The only issue I can see with this is a lot of HTTPS connections with your analytics platform from your web service. If you choose to use a work queue/proxy to do it, it's additional work/point of failure, etc.. It's not as 'simple' as adding a JS at the bottom of your page.

Gentoo: My linux educator.

The fact that you needed to make your own kernel and configure a lot of things on your own made me learn a lot about Linux and GNU. Much more than debian or redhat. There is great value in that I think.

Don't you try thinking critically here ok?!

I'm really glad Chrome forces the update. Because I would be sad supporting Chrome 32, 33, 34, 35, ..., 40, 41.. in my Chrome Extension. I would hate using polyfills everywhere and modernizers for my webapps. All I need to care about is 1 version. The latest.

Sadly this doesn't happen sometimes as people still don't upgrade, but most do which is fine for me. I hope it stays that way.

As for crashes, that's pretty bad to be sure, but I didn't see the OP try filling a bug-report.

We'll buy it when we raise series A. We'll use our hipster version until then. Thanks.

If there is life there is probably bacteria and viruses. But it's unlikely they would be harmful for us.

They need to match our platform.

It could be potentially a very stupid idea, but creating multiple AIs at the exact same time with similar resources available to them for development in different locations of the world would create a balance of power.

What I'm trying to argue is that it kind of works for us even in the most aggressive situations: If you bomb me I bomb you.

If one AI is super-aggressive then others could decide to stop it.

If it wants to convert all matter for making paper clips other AIs would say: I don't want to be a paper clip and actually have the power to do something about it. Where as us.. we'd be powerless.

In the case where all band against us, well.. we'd have many problems.

All of this to say that developing one single super-human AI in a box is worse in my opinion.

@davecheney

Thanks for your work.

If I publish my project on github and use gb with it, then people who want to contribute have to install gb as well.

Do you think that in the future there is a chance to do the building of a gb project without the gb itself?

TL;DR: Don't use `go get` if you want reproducible builds.

It's early for me to tell, but looks like gb is something like a mix between a gvm (virtual env) and godep (vendorizing).

I'm skeptical about things like "don't use the standard, use my thing", but I will try it anyway.

I'm a customer of Free.fr in France and have been to Portugal and Romania recently and had no roaming charges (though it was limited to 7 days and 3GB). I don't know if this is something all operators do, but it was great.

I was able to use Google Maps and didn't have that 'roaming' feeling associated with it. It was amazing!

Sharing a personal anecdote:

I'm somebody who was part of this affirmative action population. I come from the poorest country in Europe called Moldova, the unemployment is high, education low, your typical eastern-european anti-intelectual culture, you get the idea.. Anyway.. when I was 15 I got a scholarship in Romania because there were quotas for us 'moldavians'. At the time Romania was not much better off than Moldova, but certainly when it comes to math and CS to me at least it looked years ahead of the programs we had in Moldova! So I packed my bags and left for a much better education and what I would say now without reservation: a better life. Looking back I think I was very lucky to have gotten the education and exposure to an environment with great teachers/programmers. Maybe I could have succeeded in Moldova, who knows.. It's possible I suppose, but unlikely.

Ok. I see your point. Positive discrimination is harmful, but I think it only applies when it's abused. From my vantage point I don't think we are there.

Do you think that any amount of positive discrimination is harmful for a given population?

Given the underrepresentation of women in tech I think I'm ok with them being chosen over satisfying your ambitions.

Also working hard to better yourself is a continuous process and it doesn't stop when you get hired at BigCorp, continue doing so and you'll get results no matter your gender.

For those who are interesting finding out more I would recommend: Mining the Sky by John S. Lewis. It's an excellent book that discusses in length the composition of NEO, possible retrieval methods and economics of such an endeavour.

http://www.amazon.fr/Mining-The-Sky-Asteroids-Planets/dp/020...

For this to work, there would have to be a lot of people using this extension.

If anyone is curious:

Stats from GA so far: 1h first page on HN == 600 page views, 11 extension installs and 1 in total comment.

Maybe you're right. But there are down-votes in Disqus. Maybe it's going to be more like StackOverflow where most useful comments pop-up?

gitter.im is awesome! But it's more like a slack for github. I wanted a few comments on the project page to get an idea if I want to explore this project or not.

Is it going to accomplish this goal? No idea..

They can only fool the DNN because they know their weights. In theory, you could do the same for people's brains.

As long as you don't publish the specs of your net you should be fine I guess.

It's the thing I've been looking for since Sequel Pro, but or PostgreSQL.

I've been using it in Alpha and it's really the best DB client I touched since Sequel Pro.

I tried using Watson a month ago without much success. I wanted to do a classification of some random text, and say that this text for example is this category. But as far as I could understand it only allows using their own datasets.

It's not possible to train their service with your data, unlike wit.ai for example. Seems obvious to me that people would want to train with their own data.

I retract my previous statement. Musk is not a luddite. He's a clever businessman.

And you think I don't want to live on my own platform in some giant habitat with drones that do everything for me. Where disease and famine is eradicated, where I can change my body however I want and I have no concept of money? Sure! Just as much as the other guy, but to get there we need some hard science, funding and steady progress.

AI is one of the hardest problems facing us so doing things we so notoriously bad at like estimating the difficulty of a such problems will not get us any results.

I encourage skepticism and careful research as opposed to ignorance and fear-mongering.

On that note why was not Lecun's FAIR project not on front-page HN? Instead we have this shit... Is there any hope that we'll grow up?

We'll figure something out when we get there.

What I found quite annoying lately (more than usual) is that there is a lot of "what if machines, terminator, bla bla bla death! destruction!".

I'm not sure if it's the recent developments with the deep neural nets, maybe it is.. Maybe it's the high profile neo-luddites like Hawkins or Musk. I wish I could have a megaphone and shout: AI that would be classified as having comparable human intelligence is way too far and there are a lot of pieces missing. Just because we can identify with 95.4% accuracy some MNIST dataset or 200 species of dogs, or some guys playing baseball, it's still a long way to getting to a working AGI.

But instead on focusing on doing the actual work that would get us to these machine 'thugs' or at least promoting more research in that direction most prefer to sit in their armchair and argue to the death the hypothetical T-1000.

Thankfully there are smart people out there doing real work and getting results so that is reassuring.

My problem with these extremists is that they produce hype. Hype that got us the AI research winter last time.

People could have opted for indefinite life-span if they so chose: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture#Death

They had lots of children, overpopulation was not a problem because of huge habitats that hosted billions of individuals (and that were built with relative ease - The Player of Games). Also I don't agree with the intellectual degradation argument, it's just silly in the Culture AGI context.

Whatever the value of life I think it's best for the individual to decide what to do with it. Most would probably euthanasiate after a while anyway. I would very much prefer suicide than a random age related problem, but I don't really have a choice do I?

Not sure if anybody offered here, but if you're in Russia and looking to leave and Paris sounds like a good place, maybe I could help out. Currently I'm doing a lean startup and that means that I don't have a lot of resources, but I do know a few people who are hiring.

The area is: golang, python and js mostly.

alex @plugaru org

p.s. I speak russian.

I highly recommend this video that explains how Philae works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-77-Z_DHTlY