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Given the Baidu work, I think we can safely say that Hinton et al's forecasts 4 years ago were on the money. Deep approaches are now clearly dominant and have yielded fantastic per…

A 'further reading' is not a reference; 'further reading' means 'here are additional sources you might find relevant about material not covered here'. Which of 'Triumph of the City…

The post reads like a (very poorly written) rehash and plagiarism of Diamond...

'Prosper'!='exist'. He claimed they existed. They did not, barring ancient people being some sort of bizarre near-super-human race which can laugh off protein and iodine deficienci…

They probably also benefited from low-hanging fruit. No one today has the opportunity to invent 'logic' or 'the Pythagorean theorem' or 'the tragedy'.

You can see underwater, but you don't see as well as they do: > The kids had to dive underwater and place their heads onto a panel. From there they could see a card displaying eith…

> Human intelligence has remained approximately the same for 50,000 years. The ancient world had its geniuses at the same rate as the modern world. No, they didn't. Human genetic i…

> The level of sophistication of science in medieval Europe may be way ahead of what we assume (have we even tried to measure it?). I think he's not gesturing towards medieval Euro…

I wonder about the legal aspects. The reuse in one set of cases may be legal, but what about the others? If nothing else, you would think that the NYT or USA Today would have a cla…

And that expansion was done for the revenue it could deliver now, not in 2108. If the original Suez Canal had not been constructed in 1869, then this new one could still have been …

> The only reason that things like canals get built is because people can charge money to recoup their costs. In the case of the Suez Canal, though, it wasn't finished in 1869 for …

The Ainu barely exist anymore, and the whole thing about the Burakumin is that they aren't visible and all their descendants hide any connection. A better example would be the Kore…

It's always 'climate change'. Dozens of megafauna disappear? 'climate change'. Whole tribes with fortifications suddenly disappear? 'climate change'. Wholesale population replaceme…

Sounds like 'all public Google+ photo albums'. (I say public because given what Facebook reports about daily photo uploads, a cumulative 126m seems like it would be way too small f…

The point about ECC and accepting lower error rates makes a lot of sense. It's the end-to-end principle again: since all of these HDDs are going into a global pool in which each of…

Some previous submissions: http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/why-is-there-no-gen... http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/why-is-there-no-gen...

When I was younger, I didn't understand the appeal of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism 's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax ; proponents came off as cranks. But th…

Ditto. I signed up for the free Prime offer, after a while decided it wasn't going to be worthwhile for me (a lot of the total delay between ordering and receiving seems to be on A…

> I know it because I grew up in one. You did not grow up in North Korea. North Korea is not the USSR, and it operates differently. I laid out several ways in which it differed in …

They feed westerners a propaganda machine to fill the time and provide a trip. You need paying customers for the hard cash, but you can hardly let them wander around in the general…

That's possible. It's using Andrej Karpathy's char-rnn. Presumably it's doing something like running the trained model with 'th sample.lua -model something.t7 -primetext '$WORD, ' …

That's absurd. We are talking about a totalitarian regime which does not care in the least what the West thinks, which carefully ushers tourists who feed it the hard foreign curren…

I'm sure one could: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11127534 But rolling out a paid service like that comes with a lot of expectations that being part of a free app doesn't.

You're being paranoid for several reasons. First, you will presumably be keeping the classifications you get from the API (if for no other reason than $2/1000 can really add up and…

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