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> but I think most ML people now think of neural-network architectures as being, essentially, choices of tradeoffs that facilitate learning in one context or another when data and …

Not what happened though. Orkut actually launched a month before facebook and it was a 20% project, it wasn't a panick move or a big project for them. And it was great, imo google …

I watched two episodes of Komi Can't Communicate on Netflix and felt that. I thought it was good though, maybe it would have helped my socially anxious younger self.

A counterpoint is that at least on reddit the downvote button is rarely well used. It's always a "I disagree" button, so both bad and controversial things are pushed down. It's not…

It's happening on Brazil I think. It's very hard to hire for brazilian companies since people can earn an extraordinary salary by working remote. Our timezone is also pretty close …

The input lag is most probably due to page refresh on e-ink, and not hardware power.

That's the exact opposite of what he said.

That also looks like a cool project! I've made a bot to play a game called Gems of War. I've used some GUI windows thing to program the AI but it was terribly limiting and slow. I …

It's not bullshit. But at the same time, I wonder why so many people do these majors. They mostly end up working on a unrelated field. If they go to university just because they ar…

> Larger lunch tables were "driving more than a 10% difference in performances". A fact that would probably have gone undetected without such data analysis. Isn't this poor data an…

Wow, so cool, but so confusing. I can't figure how that would work. But I also can't figure how people can think of a cube by its properties instead of seeing it. This gives me lot…

When people talk about an "inner voice". Like when you did something bad and you berate yourself mentally for it. Don't you hear a voice? Or when thinking about an imaginary argume…

I don't know much about control, but apparently Emanuel Todorov knows about the basics of Boston Dynamics control in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7enj1FGoYwg around 1…

I tried it on Firefox and it works fine! I just needed to change the value of to a key I created on their website (or else it fails silently, it would be cool to have some console …

Thanks for this comment, it's beautiful. Did your changed perception persisted, at least a little, after your use of MDMA? Do you still have PTSD?

The first article is really anecdotal and there are a lot of other explanations, which the commenters talk about. Also, the illegality of LSD makes it so regularly people use somet…

MDMA is neurotoxic though. It's strange if only hallucinogens triggered problems in the other poster. LSD is not as far as I read.

>I think the psychedelics nurture the ability to recognize that feelings and narratives are not representative of reality >The ability to detach from self, to recognize a spectrum …

Having Alan Turing as a role model helped me immensely with internalized homophobia. When I was younger I honestly thought there weren't many intelligent gay man, and that it was s…

I'm not in Toptal, but a friend is and he asks for around $5k a month. Here in Brazil it's insanely good. I don't personally know anyone else who receives more than him here, actua…

This is one of the most beautiful and hopeful articles I've read in a long time. I was expecting a depressing read but was delightfully surprised.

To me at least, the lack of meaning comes to what we are. If we are just a really complex phenomenon, then why are we more important then other such things? If our consciousness is…

I love this one. Saw it when it launched and it frequently helps me see through some situations. Some models explains why, despite best intentions, things go awry sometimes. Someti…

He says he didn't, and that the summed price of the three courses are the same as if it were to be a single long course.