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I finished my master's thesis in Inductive Logic Programming recently at Oxford. I'd say that the field has continued improving since Aleph, which was written in the late 90s. Anyo…

Here's what I got when I put in "Will I am was spotted at a cafe with Beyonce." "This is the first time two Black people were spotted out in public together." "They were there for …

This isn't an anti-AGI argument and it doesn't disprove humans. Humans have the same problem. It's harder to write a program to do a thing than it is to just do the thing. It's app…

Thank you. I just finished my master's thesis in program synthesis/induction. You're explaining this better than I could.

This was part of the lawsuit. They communicated with each other about offers made to each other's employees and agreed not to counter-offer above the initial offer.

That link is a wild ride. I expected a design blog. Instead I got a communist indictment of startup culture through the lens of the commodification of illustration.

This is an excellent post. Thank you! I felt like the part that wasn't in line with Kuhn was the idea that there was something wrong with a field if incremental improvement couldn'…

I actually think you're being too generous. Most people who work in ML are not ignorant that it has risks and flaws. Many people are very resistant to the idea that their particula…

I believe they are disagreeing whether "engineers working in this space are out to lunch" and since I have been "an engineer working in this space" I was asking for more clarificat…

> I don’t see any path from continuous improvements to the (admittedly impressive) ‘machine learning’ field that leads to a general AI > I share the skepticism towards any progress…

> Are you at all close to this space? I am. > The example Cory puts on policing My most upvoted comment on this website was discussing this exact scenario. https://news.ycombinator…

I love the implication that there's this shadow company, Fronk. Seemingly defunct, they're actually thriving secretly behind the facade of a failed startup. Every marketing manager…

>Is it worth reading them already or does it feel unfinished? Mistborn is a complete trilogy although he continues to publish other novels set in the same world. Way of Kings is on…

Maturity (or seniority) is a form of growth and it has stages. I would call this article Stage 2: Do the approved thing. It's an important stage. But people who stay in this stage …

This essay seems to have been published 20 years ago. In the modern version, the experimentalists use terms like "deep learning" and "neural nets" and the theorists use terms like …

Arthur's pass is where I had my best Kea encounter! I made it to the top of Avalanche Peak. The hike just about killed me. As I was sitting there admiring the view and trying to re…

Kea are very playful. They're also annoyingly naughty. But they're beautiful and I love them. Here's a story about Kea I heard from a park ranger when I was in New Zealand. The ran…

The McDonald's idea is brilliant. When no one wants to make a suggestion, propose the worst possible one you can come up with. People will race to improve it because, while they do…

If you host user-generated content, you will have to decide on community standards and do your best to enforce them. This will be expensive. You are legally obligated to police thi…

Well, you can't undelete data you didn't collect. So I think there's this natural tendency toward omnivorous data collection in every tech company. Then we rationalize it by tellin…

Yes. We had free speech but we weren't prepared for unedited, viral free speech. We weren't prepared for cameras in every ordinary person's hands. We also weren't prepared for our …

I agree. When an author writes "Everyone has ..." we often learn more about the author than everyone.

> I think the best approach would be giving the candidate a broken app and have they debug it live I had a company do this and it went really poorly for me. It was a python app and…