Eliezer does not curate any web forum. He says he is not planning to bomb any data centers, but he's also said that if he were planning to bomb data centers, he'd lie about it in public, so...
The author and most of his associates generally qualify as techno-utopians, and speak routinely of the "glorious transhumanist future". Smarter-than-human AGI really is different from all previous technologies, in much…
Off the top of my head... * A plan exists * The plan itself predicts non-obvious results in smaller systems, and those tests have passed (prediction written *before* running test) * A bunch of smart people have looked…
I have yet to see a large static typed program that didn't -- somewhere -- run into the limits of static typing and contain a set of workarounds, using void* or linguistic equivalent. That's code a dynamic language…
This isn't a question a non-engineer phone screener can ask. Coming up with first pass filters that don't require an engineer to interpret is harder.
I zoomed the image in and out a bunch -- no change. When I zoomed in enough, I could see the checkerboarding in A, but the overall color stayed the same as B.
I also had trouble calling either "more even". The first one has greater division at the darker end, and the second at the lighter, but they about balance out. The extreme for me was figure 12. A and B are so similar I…
Last time I manually packed structures I was doing GPU programming. I forget the details, but the CPU and GPU had different alignment requirements so anything other than a manually packed structure broke in weird ways.
Is there a good reason for making day 42 (out of 84) the primary endpoint? Did they at least decide to do that before looking at the data?
Because passwords are terrible. Lots of users pick guessable ones unless you have extensive password rules to stop them, and those rules are a huge pain to your users. Lots of users have terrible password hygiene,…
Not so easily. If you're trying to learn really difficult things, classes are a huge help.
Rename doesn't always do what we want. The one serious investigation I've seen [1] unhelpfully states that "[W]hen a file is appended, and then renamed ... many file systems recognize it and allocate blocks…
The timeline: 1934: This is predicted 1997: This is done http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/16/science/scientists-use-light-to-create-particles.html 2014: We will "demonstrate the feat within the next 12 months" 2015:…
First thought: The usual pattern is that only one X chromosome gets transcribed in any given cell.[1] This keeps the dosage of all those proteins correct. Otherwise there would need to be a separate set of dosage…
Actual descriptions of medical tests routinely give both rates. They often call them "sensitivity" and "specificity". Good luck remembering which is which. But if only one rate is given, that indicates they're equal. If…
From the article: > I’m angry, and I’m a little upset with myself because I want to be useful. I'm thinking the same thing. What I'm wishing is that I held a position of influence at a private high school, so I could…
The case in Boston a while back involved a white victim. Granted, that was TSA, not the school, but it seems like a pretty similar group of idiots. https://boingboing.net/2007/09/21/mit-student-arrested.html
As I understand it, eigenfaces require preprocessing to orient and align the images. That doesn't seem to have come up here. Maybe Amazon is really consistent about centering models in dress photos?
That's there. Search for: > The misclassifications are interesting too One problem seems to be that it concluded she'd dislike anything the exact opposite color from her favorite shade of red. A common flaw in linear…
What do we know about Sundar? It sounds like he's really taking over Google. Is he likely to be up to it?
Bored and overwhelmed. At least a few years ago Larry really wanted to understand everything Google did. It wasn't possible, and the attempt was distorting things. This is a better solution.
Or so that once there's good news from a spinoff, they'll be able to announce it. A small profit there would get lost in the bigger revenue streams under the old model. Remember how the media kept running "How long can…
It is weird that this exact phrase kept getting used against the Irish and not other discriminated-against groups. Nothing for Poles, Slavs, Italians, Russians... Or at least that's what I'm finding on the LoC search. A…
So we want to insert a value. We find an empty slot. We find the bucket it's in. Do we have to realloc the bucket and move all downstream data down by one? That sounds slow.
I notice that once you go down the "is it for a legitimate business" branch, the answers are all "NO". They could have omitted all the follow-ups.
Eliezer does not curate any web forum. He says he is not planning to bomb any data centers, but he's also said that if he were planning to bomb data centers, he'd lie about it in public, so...
The author and most of his associates generally qualify as techno-utopians, and speak routinely of the "glorious transhumanist future". Smarter-than-human AGI really is different from all previous technologies, in much…
Off the top of my head... * A plan exists * The plan itself predicts non-obvious results in smaller systems, and those tests have passed (prediction written *before* running test) * A bunch of smart people have looked…
I have yet to see a large static typed program that didn't -- somewhere -- run into the limits of static typing and contain a set of workarounds, using void* or linguistic equivalent. That's code a dynamic language…
This isn't a question a non-engineer phone screener can ask. Coming up with first pass filters that don't require an engineer to interpret is harder.
I zoomed the image in and out a bunch -- no change. When I zoomed in enough, I could see the checkerboarding in A, but the overall color stayed the same as B.
I also had trouble calling either "more even". The first one has greater division at the darker end, and the second at the lighter, but they about balance out. The extreme for me was figure 12. A and B are so similar I…
Last time I manually packed structures I was doing GPU programming. I forget the details, but the CPU and GPU had different alignment requirements so anything other than a manually packed structure broke in weird ways.
Is there a good reason for making day 42 (out of 84) the primary endpoint? Did they at least decide to do that before looking at the data?
Because passwords are terrible. Lots of users pick guessable ones unless you have extensive password rules to stop them, and those rules are a huge pain to your users. Lots of users have terrible password hygiene,…
Not so easily. If you're trying to learn really difficult things, classes are a huge help.
Rename doesn't always do what we want. The one serious investigation I've seen [1] unhelpfully states that "[W]hen a file is appended, and then renamed ... many file systems recognize it and allocate blocks…
The timeline: 1934: This is predicted 1997: This is done http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/16/science/scientists-use-light-to-create-particles.html 2014: We will "demonstrate the feat within the next 12 months" 2015:…
First thought: The usual pattern is that only one X chromosome gets transcribed in any given cell.[1] This keeps the dosage of all those proteins correct. Otherwise there would need to be a separate set of dosage…
Actual descriptions of medical tests routinely give both rates. They often call them "sensitivity" and "specificity". Good luck remembering which is which. But if only one rate is given, that indicates they're equal. If…
From the article: > I’m angry, and I’m a little upset with myself because I want to be useful. I'm thinking the same thing. What I'm wishing is that I held a position of influence at a private high school, so I could…
The case in Boston a while back involved a white victim. Granted, that was TSA, not the school, but it seems like a pretty similar group of idiots. https://boingboing.net/2007/09/21/mit-student-arrested.html
As I understand it, eigenfaces require preprocessing to orient and align the images. That doesn't seem to have come up here. Maybe Amazon is really consistent about centering models in dress photos?
That's there. Search for: > The misclassifications are interesting too One problem seems to be that it concluded she'd dislike anything the exact opposite color from her favorite shade of red. A common flaw in linear…
What do we know about Sundar? It sounds like he's really taking over Google. Is he likely to be up to it?
Bored and overwhelmed. At least a few years ago Larry really wanted to understand everything Google did. It wasn't possible, and the attempt was distorting things. This is a better solution.
Or so that once there's good news from a spinoff, they'll be able to announce it. A small profit there would get lost in the bigger revenue streams under the old model. Remember how the media kept running "How long can…
It is weird that this exact phrase kept getting used against the Irish and not other discriminated-against groups. Nothing for Poles, Slavs, Italians, Russians... Or at least that's what I'm finding on the LoC search. A…
So we want to insert a value. We find an empty slot. We find the bucket it's in. Do we have to realloc the bucket and move all downstream data down by one? That sounds slow.
I notice that once you go down the "is it for a legitimate business" branch, the answers are all "NO". They could have omitted all the follow-ups.