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sabertoothed··on What Is Digital Humanism?
Your definitions are wrong.
sabertoothed··on What Is Digital Humanism?
Why did that trigger you?
sabertoothed··on Ask HN: 27 year old with a MSc degree in CS. No job experience. Am I screwed?
Why don't you specify what you are good at and maybe people offer you a job here?
sabertoothed··on Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (2016)
Evolution was just an example to illustrate how far religious superstition reaches.

Disbelief in science in general has a massive impact - causing deaths.

Even disbelief in evolution causes deaths, e.g. if we don't do enough to deal with antibiotic resistance.

sabertoothed··on Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (2016)
Islam is not the predominant problem in the US. Really not. Nearly half of US Americans don't believe in evolution. Christian fundamentalism causes much more harm at the moment than islamists.
sabertoothed··on Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (2016)
Politics and religious beliefs are intertwined. Especially in the US (in the Western world).
sabertoothed··on Fukushima: Wild boars take over Japan's evacuated towns [video]
Not OP but German as well. Can confirm statement.

Sources are easy to find but are mostly in German, e.g.

https://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/umwelt/article139797061/Geh...

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/tschernobyl-folgen-r...

http://www.umweltinstitut.org/themen/radioaktivitaet/tschern...

sabertoothed··on Uncertainty in Deep Learning (2016)
Why is resolving uncertainty a human trait? Human, as in non-humans don't do it?

Why would resolving uncertainty lead to a false sense of confidence?

Without some explanations it's impossible to understand what you want to say.

sabertoothed··on Trump Concedes Health Law Overhaul Is ‘Unbelievably Complex’
I doubt it. I don't think he is that smart. He can't even talk like a normal person.
sabertoothed··on A JavaScript deep learning and reinforcement learning library
I am working in that niche as well - probably even in a special niche of that niche.

Could I get in touch with you via PM?

sabertoothed··on A JavaScript deep learning and reinforcement learning library
To add to the other comments:

RL is also extremely useful in scenarios where rules cannot easily be made explicit. Think of riding a bike or flying a helicopter or gripping objects with a robot arm. Here we can more easily define the reward function - but the agent has to figure out how to do things (to maximise expected reward).

sabertoothed··on Trump Concedes Health Law Overhaul Is ‘Unbelievably Complex’
The problem is not the first sentence. It is the second one.

We all knew it was complex. He said it wasn't. But had no clue.

sabertoothed··on Tesla Says Model 3 on Track as Quarterly Loss Beats Estimates
You're not wrong; but you are not right either.

Of course, most of the revenue today is generated from selling cars. But we were talking about the value of the company. And this includes expected _future_ returns. And, obviously, Tesla has more than just aspirations. They have built a large part of the Gigafactory already.

Honda certainly is not a car company - but much more than this as well. This was not a good example for your case. Same with GM. I am not sure if your intention was to list companies that are much more than car companies? You were just making my case.

sabertoothed··on Tesla Says Model 3 on Track as Quarterly Loss Beats Estimates
Tesla is not only a car company anymore.

The commenter above is right on this one and it is not a subjective statement. This is a fact.

sabertoothed··on Learning Machine Learning: A beginner's journey
You might want to look up the definition of 'learning' from Arthur Samuel / Tom Mitchell. That might help you in your confusion.
sabertoothed··on Learning Machine Learning: A beginner's journey
It is about both. Machines AND learning.
sabertoothed··on Show HN: Buggle TD – a free tower defense game for iPad
This is just to let you know that we are working on all the issues you mentioned. We already updated the game balancing. An updated GUI is in the works. And we would like to send you digital hugs via our new static website:

http://getbuggle.com/legal.html#

Many thanks again, icefox.

sabertoothed··on A German proposal to criminalize fake news
I don't think you are right, here. At least from a factual "as is" legal standpoint but also from my moral standpoint ("what should be" / normative).

I am not sure which standpoint you are addressing.

The easiest standpoint to defend is the factual / descriptive "as is" legal standpoint:

Insults / defamations are legally not allowed in most countries.

False advertisement IS indeed an exception to free speech. See here [1].

But maybe you were not talking about descriptive claims but normative ones. This would be a very different discussion.

[1] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

sabertoothed··on A German proposal to criminalize fake news
While I agree with your overall sentiment, your statement "censorship which is evil and stupid" is clearly overly simplistic and, hence, wrong.

100% free speech does not exist in _any_ country (not even the US) - and it would not even be desirable. A society is better off overall if there are limits to free speech (think of insults, false advertisement, incitement, etc.).

You probably have to argue in a more nuanced way.

sabertoothed··on Ask HN: Good way to find out about best workflows / technology stack?
I am currently contemplating an idea around processing *.svg. Here, for example, I could not find any nice library for Python that deals with this mess of XML tags in SVGs. I could run it in JavaScript on a server or maybe still in Python.

It would be nice to have a website to look for similar projects and how they defined their stack.

Thanks for your reply!

sabertoothed··on Show HN: Buggle TD – a free tower defense game for iPad
You're a star, mate. We should definitely stay in touch. Incredibly valuable feedback for us.

Edit: typo

sabertoothed··on Show HN: Buggle TD – a free tower defense game for iPad
OK, I have read it three times and copied your suggestions into a structured table.

I agree with everything you said. That was valuable.

Can we buy you a beer somehow?

sabertoothed··on Show HN: Buggle TD – a free tower defense game for iPad
Wow, thank you! This is even more than I hoped for.

I will carefully read through all of this and come back to you.

Many, many thanks!

EDIT: Your feedback is probably the most useful and richest we have ever gotten.

sabertoothed··on Show HN: Buggle TD – a free tower defense game for iPad
Clickable link: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/buggle-td-tower-defense-50/i...
sabertoothed··on Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth
Thanks. I was too naive.
sabertoothed··on Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth
Oh.
sabertoothed··on Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth
I am confused. So when you donate you choose the charity yourself and transfer it directly? Is that what it means?
sabertoothed··on Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth
I cannot find the information which charities will receive the money. Should this not be mentioned?

EDIT: It's OK. I was naive. I had thought it was a joke AND had a good cause.

sabertoothed··on Fidel Castro has died
I would not call freedom of speech and free elections "western democratic prescriptions". If that is what you meant.

But I would (honestly) like to thank you for your response.

sabertoothed··on Fidel Castro has died
Interesting how you did not address his/her first point...
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