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One could argue that NVidia's advantage comes from a similar vision epiphany that led to them developing CUDA years before it was viable. The result is similar.

I played with NNs in the late 80's/early 90s, with little more than a copy of Hinton's paper, a PC and a C compiler. Obviously, I got no practical results. But I got the intuition …

There's a saying in Germany: if 10 people are at a table, a nazi sits at the table and they don't leave, 11 nazis are sitting at the table.

Therefore constant vigilance and effort against it is required.

I don't know. Many of these ideas sound like "give me more of the same", reinforcing my current tastes and beliefs. The thing about going out there and interacting with stuff you d…

> society as a whole is in agreement that minors are better off without access to pornography Once a significant part of said society can't (or won't) differentiate sexual educatio…

It's not a matter of life and death, I agree - to some extent. Startups have very limited resources, and ignoring inconclusive results in the long term means you're spending these …

If the law has specific clauses about this that the contract disrespects, these conditions are not worth the paper they are written on. At least in Brazil you can't enforce somethi…

I am responding to this from my living room in Berlin, sitting on a sofa that belonged to my father, after having dined on a table he inherited from my grandfather. Both were broug…

Actually the split between Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting (which later became Accenture) happened years before the Enron thing.

I have an issue with calling any of the diagrams created by all the tools mentioned "ER Diagrams". Entities are not the same thing as tables, and Sr diagrams are not relational dat…

...and you just described why this is not ready for prime time. Managing a number of physical devices tied to completely opaque secrets stored by unclear providers in places you ne…

A common saying in the stats field goes like this: "Predictions are hard, especially about the future".

How about a hefty fine and the risk of some jail time?

I don't necessarily agree. Blocking ads on a private site is more like going into a bookstore, reading the magazines and books and not buying anything. At some point the store cler…

That's an interesting point, which leads me to my main reason for coming to these comments and leaving my 2 cents: there are way less best practices of there than one would believe…

Also brazilian here. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from the consequences of illegal speech. One is allowed to go public and speak their minds, but if their speech is ille…

That's the legal justification for blocking X now, not the root cause. Musk did more than refuse to appoint a representative in Brazil (which could be a subsidiary or any legal res…

This is a Justice from the brazilian Supreme Court, they are the highest position in the court system, and allowed to make individual rulings and apply sanctions like this. These d…

I think we have a problem of semantics here. Your notion of "the brain internalizes insights" is very close to what the author means as memorizing patterns. They even gäbe a few ex…

And there is your arbitrage opportunity. If you can model how analysts will react to a particular timeseries, even if it was random until that point, you have some information abou…

https://docs.databricks.com/en/machine-learning/foundation-m...

Almost everything you said. I learned Taiji after Karate, Judo and other arts, and I love how its principles can help me improve the techniques in these other arts. But it does hav…

There is a slight problem with that - it doesn't invalidate the idea of testing, but you do have to think about it. Taiji is not ring/cage wrestling, it was created as a fight art,…

That "very excellent tai chi fighter" is, if I'm not mistaken, Chen Ziqiang - son of Chen Xiaoxing and nephew of Chen Xiaowang, part of the family that the Chen style comes from. H…