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tom_wildeon Extract-0: A specialized language model for document information extraction

Sceptical. Performs really well on 1000 docs. Let’s see it for real..! No model supplied.

https://github.com/herniqeu/extract0

To quote Mulder: I want to believe.

tom_wildeon A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal

Well that was a fascinating diversion. This is bonkers!

https://norsam.com/products/buddhist-nano-film/

tom_wildeon A new video captures a 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal

What beats M-Disc? Genuinely curious just having bought one.

tom_wildeon Wiz becomes the fastest-growing software company ever (2022)

For anyone else wondering what CIA is:

https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/Confidentiality...

tom_wildeon How to build a second brain as a software developer

I recently took on a new, super complex project and can attest to Obsidian beyond useful. I’ve put all notes and info into it, everything.. and it’s really paid off. I now see this process rather like unit testing whereby the structure of the notes mirrors your own thoughts but with a better, searchable memory.

tom_wildeon How to think clearly

Can concur. This works for me when faced with some tricky code.

tom_wildeon Automating my job with GPT-3

Same. :|

tom_wildeon Researchers are racing to find out why methane levels are increasing so fast

Reduce / Recycle / Reuse

Tell me which of those is going to make the situation worse?

tom_wildeon Researchers are racing to find out why methane levels are increasing so fast

Well.. for both your points here there are no guarantees. Progress isn't linear and just because we can adapt doesn't mean we will.

What is known is that our entire eco-system is failing to adapt fast enough to keep up with the rate of change - what makes you think we can beat it?

Its disappointingly reductive to throw the towel in and, really, that point of view is no better than 'the world is ending in 12 years'

To deal with a problem you must first acknowledge that it exists - any action is clearly going to beat sticking ones head in the sand.

tom_wildeon Researchers are racing to find out why methane levels are increasing so fast

What about their children and their children's children and ... (you get the idea)

It s a bit myopic no?

tom_wildeon Uber cracked two 80s video games by giving an AI algorithm a new type of memory

Link to Uber Engineering page on this: https://eng.uber.com/go-explore/

From the linked page:

To enable the community to benefit from Go-Explore and help investigate its potential, source code and a full paper describing Go-Explore will be available here shortly.

tom_wildeon Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

You haven't met Serena yet then...

tom_wildeon Ask HN: How to Seriously Start with Machine Learning and AI

Yes, see: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

It starts out reaaaally basic but give a thorough grounding of the maths and the intuition behind it.

tom_wildeon Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning

Coursera - Andrew NG's course => Classic starting point, very thorough and digestable introduction to Neural Networks. I found he covered the 'how the heck do I use this?' rather well.. :)

From there, Coursera has a paid(?) DL course by Andrew NG or there's Fast.ai which looks good.

Good luck!

tom_wildeon WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers

www.nengo.ai

wow, this is really cool! thx for sharing :]

tom_wildeon A Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex

Sounds interesting, any papers that I/we should read..?

tom_wildeon AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch

'rollouts' ELI5? I didnt pick this up from the paper..

thx :)

tom_wildeon An Interview with Stanley Kubrick (1969)

+1 See it in 70mm if you can. :>

tom_wildeon Avogadr.io – Molecular Wallpaper Generator

oO that's so awesome!

tom_wildeon A new analysis of age and life satisfaction

+1 !

tom_wildeon JavaScript Fatigue or My History with Web Development

The only winning move is not to play.

tom_wildeon Neural Episodic Control

Shout out to the author, I'm enjoying this content thankyou!

tom_wildeon Bitcoin arbitrage without market risk

How does the engine know the direction the converge will take? I'm missing something here.. :?

tom_wildeon How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains

~7000 elements per compound eye according to this page:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/brookfieldfarmhoney.wordpress...

tom_wildeon The Reality of Developer Burnout

I strongly recommend running as a burnout cure...

tom_wildeon Practical Deep Learning for Coders

If you're getting started I totally recommend Andrew NGs course...

tom_wildeon Enough JavaScript to be dangerous in 2016

Nice discussion, but where's the example src code?

tom_wildeon How I stopped the RSI pain that almost destroyed my programming career

This may help someone out there. I had chronic tennis elbow for years, tried a huge array of options to fix it and failed... until: I found a _vertical_ mouse.

Turns out it was a micro-injury thing...

tom_wildeon Voyage in digital forest (WebGL)

GFX HEAVY

tom_wildeon Ask HN: What are your passive income sources?

did you apply Deep Learning / ML techniques here? ;)