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that's an optimistic way to frame the situation; there's heavy opposition from the content industry to limits to geoblocking, and unsurprisingly the industry seems to have support …

curious: what kind of txt editor(s) would make sense for non-code writing, say a novel, say w markdown or something similar? Especially if the person writing is non-technical so st…

sounds like General Game Playing task. Well, MCTS alone is often used in that domain, and it wouldn't surprise me if Ke Jie was a weaker checkers player than just a brute MCTS, nev…

Hm, well you are no doubt right that it doesn't generalize well to a change of rules. Reminds me of that game DeepZen played. It was trained with a komi of 7.5 and it played too so…

> AlphaGo essentially baked good movies into value and policy network by playing millions of times. I don't think that's a very good description of how AlphaGo was trained at all; …

but humans obtain their watts very very inefficiently, so there's prob at least an order of magnitude to give for the same kind of system-level efficiency. Consider a field to feed…

yup indeed; and also it started already in December, not just January as stated above. Should've double-checked my memory before writing stuff...

It absolutely should be dominant in a long game too. Even if it loses some of its strength at such time settings, it shouldn't lose THAT much, it was just too superhuman. The play …

Nono, you missed the REAL computer supremacy event then; it was the 50ish (!!!) games MasterP bot played in january against the field of top go professionals on some asian go serve…

> There are quite a small number of old martial art that's pretty decent still. could you mention a few more? And distinguish if its possible which of those were generally practice…

hey, that's not bad; didn't even expect SGU had such detailed transcripts. But actually looking for it now, the particular study I had in mind seems to be from a science or fiction…

ah, I'm sorry but I really don't remember. this was some years back.

could be, I really don't know. I can imagine perfectly benign scenarios too; if our long-term memory grows with time, maybe there's just more possible connections/associations to f…

yeah, but apparently barely declines untill say 60+. Speed suffers however. "The adult years were remarkable in that complexity remained at a high level for a protracted period, in…

well, if only categorisation of extremism online were better. Recently I was searching youtube with the word "Lokiarchaeota", an exciting very recent find in the origin of the euka…

I don't exactly see what ITS brings to the table here, being a multi-stage rocket as anything else that puts stuff in GTO. But anyhow yeah - the physics should favor them by practi…

as far as I understood the starshot discussions, they weren't optimistic about managing to pack any interferometry equipment in such a small package, so there'd be little hope of p…

at destination? There's no propulsion beam there; all acceleration would have been done at launch, in the vicinity of Earth. You can't point lasers over light-years of distance.

Why? Its supposed to be significantly more efficient, given that its breathing air for launch which enables much higher specific impulse than anything a chemical rocket even could …

I dont want to go look it up to verify and properly link a citation etc, but I think Schumpeter argued that monopolies are actually good for innovation, at least of the (what's the…

The device really should implement speaker identification before accepting commands, yeah. Seems like a task a machine learning focused company like Google really should be able to…

> The US certainly has many issues, but I find calling it a "Police State", while praising the Islamic Republic of Iran in the same sentence quite ironic. you mean, praising it as …

I'm also missing a lot of context here, but I was looking at the leter and she says she's especially sorry she slandered John Sullivan and Ruben Rodriguez. Wondering exactly how sh…