In mathematics, orthogonality is the relation of two lines at right angles to one another (perpendicularity), and the generalization of this relation into n dimensions.
According to that Vice interview it's a fraction of a penny, and some giant corporations like Walmart were the only ones who actually stood to lose anything, which maybe helps explain why our corporate-controlled media was quick to portray him as the devil.
I think you're exactly right, it's a form of stress management primarily. What bothers me is when meditators act like they've seen the matrix. Like they go on a Vipassana retreat and then talk about how changed they are and do a 180 with their career or something else major in their life. It feels about equivalent to the 'enduring truths' you might receive on an acid trip.
Right or wrong, this appears to be a scientifically framed way of arguing "the problem's in your mind"... dealing with subconscious emotional issues, etc..
Reading between the lines it sounds like you're saying it's acedia, perhaps an extreme form. Acedia appears to be normally distributed in the population, so perhaps those who label it CFS are a couple deviations from the mean. Sure I've felt acedia too after years of working hard at a company I didn't care about with a stressful, long commute. Quitting, traveling for 3 months, exercise, indulging my neglected dating life, and ultimately a career change into a field I cared more about have kept me feeling active and motivated. If I hadn't made those dramatic changes though I very well might have messed myself up long term and developed a more extreme form of acedia.
I respect your work as a moderator dang, but when it has a healthy amount of upvotes and is just bluntly stating that religion is not going to be around in the future, I find that pretty sad that it's being censored. I did not speak in a respectful manner towards religion, granted, which I don't feel great about, but at the same time I don't really believe religious institutions deserve our respect because of the opportunity costs I listed. Is this view really 'starting a flamewar'? Would someone like Richard Dawkins or really even any of the primary authors of the French Enlightenment be allowed to participate on HN?
"Learn AI the Hard Way". It's actually just reading a bunch of papers and trying to implement them, and anytime you don't understand something spend as much time as needed until you get it.
I was watching a twitch livestream where he was coding an RL thing. His code was just wrong (I paused it and looked through it), but it compiled anyways and started outputting stats, so he declared "I'm such a baller! It's learning!" and then quickly concluded the program. It's one thing to find his style annoying, but he is neither a strong thinker nor coder.
Even so you are aware the Quora question is "What do scientists think about the biological claims?", so the ad hominem is not only a distracting annoyance but is also undermining of one's claim to objective impartiality.
From someone who's done both, they are not comparable, directly, but they have a complementary relation: The DN (digital nomad) life is absolutely an engine for the kind of creative and free thinking that engenders killer startup ideas. Startups are "the thing" you want to commit your life to, the world-changing vision that you're ready to sacrifice for; the DN/ lifestyle business/ remote gigs mode is the fertile ground, for when you lack strength of vision, you don't know what you want right now, so you slow down, gain experience, and grow your thinking.
Only ever doing one in your life without the other is unenviable, and makes it hard to fully enjoy and appreciate, or even excel at, whichever one you've chosen.
And many would not? Do people who don't like religious institutions have an obligation to be more respectful than the average person or else their arguments are invalid?
That's funny because if you look at my recent past comments, one is a review on Sapiens. It's a very preachy low-citation work whose interesting parts are the early chapters, but which you would already know the content of if you had taken a college anthropology class.
To address your argument, there is no reason to emulate our pre-historical past, if we even could.
I didn't mean to say they are slacking, just that it's funny over here the first thing we would think is 'slacker', but the idea of interpreting it as slacking just doesn't cross their mind.
Apparently in Japan napping at work is honorable because it proves you are working hard and late. Funny that the idea of "slacker" isn't the first thing that crosses their mind. East Asia is a different land.
Sapiens is a very preachy, low-on-citations work... the Goodreads reviews are interestingly divided ("Dude it changed my whole world!" to "This is not a serious work."), but the early sections on pre historical humans are still interesting to read, and seemed mostly correct from what I remember from
my college anthropology class.
I'm thrilled to see apps like these, because I believe the greatest potential AI has is to help people be really smart and educated with better judgment. Whether it improves critical thinking by asking challenging questions, or it has you think through complicated scenarios (even just things in your life), or teaches subject matter in an adaptive way that makes it really easy to get things, or just makes learning come to life (your own personal professor).
It's sad none of the leading voices in AI talk about this potential, have they ever? The ratio of talk about apocalypse or singularity to things like this probably tells you something..
I had to lookup the name because I just remember his "Go Fucking Do It", which is one of the more ridiculous, low-effort, ingenious ways of making money from foolish first worlders enticed by a pretty landing page. "Set a goal, stake your money to it, and if you fail, you give your money to me; me, not a charity, and all of it to me, so you will have higher 'incentive' to succeed". The way it was spun as a "smart, incentivized way to accomplish your goals" was absurd, but I suppose enviable by other standards.
I remember when this guy was the moderator of the very large, r/digitalnomads, where his digital nomad products were copiously promoted. Most people didn't know this (I didn't), until I guess an inevitable backlash one day. I can only tip my hat, he is a hustler (not a bad thing), and it's rare to see such marketing acumen in a programmer.
I can understand why a profit seeking venture wants to get a patent if they can (even though I viscerally disagree with high level, low-effort software patents), but to advertise it on the footer, while sharing to the tech community that cares about these issues, is just plain bad judgment.
I mean also, given it's the glorious chicken-egg problem, with only 1 developer within 50 miles of my SF zipcode for the major web categories I searched, idk if they think an investor will hook at "They have a patent!" while ignoring this lack of engagement?
The idea that police should be conscripted is crazy when you consider that the vast majority of the population just doesn't have the nerves to stop that person in the sketchy car or dark side of the sidewalk, knowing there's a probability they will try to murder you, whether because they hate cops or to avoid arrest, while yourself carrying a lethal weapon. (A lot of police don't even have the nerves for it.) More innocent people would get shot, without question.
I've always just assumed Musk knew something we didn't know. About a stealth project or startup that already developed some form of what could be described as 'general intelligence'.
If not, if he just knows what AI professionals in the field today know, and such stealth project doesn't exist, then I really do think he's worrying about "overpopulation on Mars" as Ng put it. Because there are zero indications in publicly available AI research that we are even close to developing AI that can think for itself, we can't even describe how that would work in theory with any certainty (beyond guessing), let alone implement it.
Oh how I love Rails, the framework and language (Ruby) of developer happiness. But now working in AI, it's a Python game. This is maybe embarrassing to admit but I prefer having the Python pipeline, TensorFlow, numpy, etc. living on its own box, exposing inference as an api, so I can keep developing in Rails and its supporting ecosystem (background processing, push notifications, etc.) as the main app handling everything else.
Oh God no. The last thing in the world I want is to all of a sudden have to be publishing a ton of marginally useful crap or spend time reviewing others' marginally useful crap being sold as contributions because they have to publish. Or working with students. Why? I already have my big ideas, I have enough education and experience in the field to do stuff on my own, I just need a lot of time to hack on stuff and experiment.
IMO what would actually drive AI breakthroughs is to support people on a large time scale so they can quit their applied AI/ NLP/ Computer Vision jobs and focus full time on their moonshot research endeavor. For example, I work in AI, and this is not a useful proposal for me, in particular. But I do have at least a couple crazy AI ideas that might take > a year to develop, and I can imagine nothing better than a grant I could live on for a year and develop the AI. I know I'm not the only one. Someone mentioned a catch-22 with this idea, have to agree.
There's nothing tricky going on. You should have things that are comparable to what your clients will pay you to build. Mine paid me for their startups, and my portfolio has multiple, complete startup-like prototypes.
Honest feedback: those "one day" sites are not impressive, and they will not enable you to win decent contracts. I get what you said, but if you really do have 5+ years experience it confused me why you, someone who want to win clients for freelancing, have not spent any real time, even if a couple weeks, building something impressive for your portfolio. Or building something impressive x 5 given the time frame here.
I have a sweet portfolio site, mostly full of personal projects, that's made it quite easy to land remote gigs. My advice: put your 80-20 focus there.
I'm excited about the latest developments in AI too, but RL and consciousness are pretty extreme apples and oranges. I agree with Searle that it's a bit insane to wave away the role or even existence of consciousness ('metaphysical topic', etc.), especially in the context of developing a stronger AI. Just because we don't yet have a mapping of consciousness to types of structures, virtual or otherwise, that could be implemented in an AI system, doesn't mean we should pretend like we've moved beyond it.
I wonder how many power devs or consulting shops use their own version internally? I've built something like this over the course of a couple years for client projects (it now has 12, also BEM-style Sass templates from well-designed startups, I think pretty much all YC, that I can inject into new prototypes). Although they are tuned for specific framework integration with a bunch of bash scripts, not just standalone assets.