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queensnake··on A Non-Obvious Answer to Why the AI Bubble Will Burst
He puts the bubble pop down to people needing human connection, 'feeling cared for', but his example shows the AI customer support simply getting nowhere.
queensnake··on You can't pass the knowledge of the teacher. What's the "smartest" possible AI?
You can see implications that your teacher didn’t. That’s not a ‘new teacher’.
queensnake··on Celerity – High-level C++ for Accelerator Clusters
Intel’s OneAPI promises to translate away from CUDA: https://software.intel.com/oneapi
queensnake··on Celerity – High-level C++ for Accelerator Clusters
Intel’s DPC++ seems similar - computation graph, communicating via buffers.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/oneapi/dpc-compiler

Anyone pick out differences?

queensnake··on Apostrophe society shuts down because 'ignorance and laziness have won'
Possessive is also contraction: "x's" <- "xes" <- "x his". No citation, but I read that somewhere. Interesting that it started out so primitive-seeming.
queensnake··on AI is mostly about curve fitting (2018)
Out of date. Reinforcement Learning makes truly ‘smart’ actions, courses of action. Calling something ‘curve fitting’ pooh poohs it (especially ‘just’ curve fitting) - calling it ‘distilling’ gives it the respect that it deserves.
queensnake··on What's Coming in Python 3.8
It looks to me like it could be an assignment to const, or, a copy vs a non-copy - it’s not obvious at all. I’m sure: ‘?=‘ was fought over and rejected, but that’s what I’d have expected conditional assignment to look like.
queensnake··on Building a lock free continuous ring buffer in Rust
I don't think there is one, yet. 'Multiprocessor Programming': https://www.amazon.com/Art-Multiprocessor-Programming-Revise... has some algorithms, though.
queensnake··on Types will be part of Ruby 3 stdlib source
Are you thinking of the way ints and chars (and floating-point types!) inter-convert? That is a weakness or convenience, but otherwise the typing is pretty strong.
queensnake··on Vampire: First-Order Theorem Proving [pdf]
> VAMPIRE has a special mode for working with very large knowledge bases and can answer queries to them.

Does this mean it can somewhat replace Prolog? I forget why Prolog doesn't use full logic, but, does Vampire find a way to get around the need for Prolog's more limited, Horn clauses? Anyone know?

queensnake··on YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algorithmic Rabbit Holes
> provably untrue. So prove it. No, they look for and start the fights. This is just one case, true, but it makes your case hard to prove: https://www.foxnews.com/us/dc-antifa-leader-is-third-charged...
queensnake··on SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero
e1m8b: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom/Ports/d-f/e1m8... -- has mirrors

Be very gentle, the server seems taxed: e1m4b: https://www.doomworld.com/e1m4b/e1m4b.zip

queensnake··on The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten by the Public
... promised to be "the most open administration ever" - and ended up being more closed even than GWB. There's really something to the idea that paying lip service mentally gets you off the hook.
queensnake··on The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten by the Public
There was a politician and activist from Montana on (US) NPR radio today who advocated getting congress to pass an act that /corporations aren't people/. If anyone's new to the issue, Google 'Thom Hartmann corporate personhood', you'll get the flimsy history of how it came to be. Making them not be people would solve a lot of the problems of money in politics. Too bad there's now so much precedence, I guess.
queensnake··on Debunking the Myth of the Job-Stealing Immigrant
Some recent /opinion/, though not a study, from Canada: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/jo...
queensnake··on The Little “Fighter” That Couldn’t: Moral Hazard and the F-35
> I've heard that the Marines actually have really good air support, because they have their own planes

Why can't the army buy the same planes, are they not being manufactured any more?

queensnake··on Einstein: The Negro Question (1946)
Such self-fondling pabulum around here. If Aristotle can be wrong, so can Einstein. See: IQ data.

I bet at least the number of people who posted want to say the same thing, but have refrained from posting. I bet frikkin' Paul Graham thinks the same thing (maybe gentler) - he's alluded to 'inexpressible ideas about race' (paraphrase) in one essay.

queensnake··on How L1 and L2 CPU caches work, and why they’re an essential part of modern chips
There's Ulrich Drepper's "What every programmer should know about memory" - http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/. It's long, it's from 2007, but its fundamentals are right.
queensnake··on Life Extension Factor Klotho Enhances Cognition [pdf]
http://rockstarresearch.com/increase-longevity-and-intellige...

> It turns out that lots of people get their klotho levels increased as a side-effect of taking prescription forms of “activated” vitamin D (VDRAs) for chronic kidney disease (CKD). But there’s no reason to wait until you’re almost dying and need dialysis to start benefiting from this knowledge. Instead, this implies that taking something like 0.25 mcg/day of Calcitriol or 1 mcg/day of Paricalcitol right now for someone without the beneficial KL-VS variant of the KL gene might actually give a huge longevity and IQ boost.

Also, maybe exercise! http://mangans.blogspot.com/2014/07/klotho-increases-both-lo...

-- just reporting what I've read, I have no idea whether it works / is safe.

queensnake··on Chinese government reveals Microsoft’s secret list of Android-killer patents
> The claims are not supposed to tell you how to implement the invention

That part of the original deal around patents has been lost, then - to wit, that after the 17 years elapsed, the world would know how to implement this 'non-obvious invention'.

queensnake··on Don't mess with Newegg
No, the difference is in the added word troll, not simply a defender. Trolls are non-practicing, and produce nothing and protect nothing. I'm sure a legitimate 'little guy' with a patent would get all the sympathy he deserves here, unless perhaps, as you mention, it's a software patent.
queensnake··on Google's POWER8 server motherboard
If it was a snotty 'ummmm', I personally would object to it in real life, too. And I think others would as well. Also, you don't need 'ums' in writing.
queensnake··on Alan Kay at Demo: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental
That 'universals' guy seems actually to be Donald Brown, and his book is 'Human Universals'. http://www.amazon.com/Human-Universals-Donald-Brown/dp/00700...

The book is expensive, here's a list:

http://condor.depaul.edu/mfiddler/hyphen/humunivers.htm

queensnake··on How to Get a Job at Google
> ... the ability to learn, process on the fly, and pull together disparate information. Which is indeed distinct from IQ.

Do you have cites for that?

queensnake··on AI
Yeah but will it satisfy us, if we can't see it making analogies, can't see its semantics; identify with it? This same lack of breakdown into pieces we understand will make it hard to tweak and advance NNs beyond 'good categorizers'.
queensnake··on It’s Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map
I still use Google maps and search, I just do it in my main browser (FF natch) which has a cookie whitelister that rejects Google cookies.
queensnake··on Ask HN:How to switch career from programmer to data scientist?
Unfortunately Kaggle doesn't seem to have as many entry-level competitions as it once did. Some learning ones, sure, but you need something to let you move up to 'Masters Level'. Also, it looks like the whole process would take a couple of years.
queensnake··on Hacker news for data scientists
> hn predates reddit.

It doesn't. Paul Graham has said he made it to be like Reddit 'used to be' (in the early days, most of Reddit's users were sock puppets of the founders, and it was pretty high quality).

queensnake··on Thrun pivots Udacity toward vocational education
I disagree. I can't quantify it, but taking a few impressive-sounding (and -being) courses makes you look good in employers' eyes. It shows you to be a self-driven learner who tangles with hard stuff. At least somewhat. But you're right in that it's soft; a hint, rather than a certification.
queensnake··on Udacity launching paid course enrollment
> it's not clear to me if actually reasoning and talking with another human is really required for learning.

Dialog. Being able to ask questions, to get clarity on some angle that the teacher took for granted, uncovering assumptions / knowledge that the teacher has that the student doesn't.

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