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ckemere

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About ckemere

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering {Machine Learning, Neuroengineering Technology, Learning and Memory}

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    But what about the later "Repeat previous question" prompts???

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    Comment #48961104

    Perhaps a huge tell about national strategy is the fact that the owner has $10s of millions to loan to the company? US economic structure in post WWII era has increasingly focused …

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    Comment #48874292

    Voice of American *capitalists* used to the idea of investing capital to generate rent. Maybe AI can rebalance the market of capital and individual labor.

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    Comment #48780524

    I found this article frustrating. In my experience, the students who participate in the “co-creation of a contract” would likely also have done their best to comply with Professor …

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    Comment #48647605

    Comparing with China, I’d be curious about whether their companies face the same return-on-capital forces that US (and to a lesser extent western) companies do. So when we outsourc…

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    Comment #48601847

    Amazon warehouses still have a huge number of ununionized workers doing manual labor

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    Comment #48601815

    Training data of task completion. See, e.g., robots doing backflips. Presumably there’s an optimal robot for gymnastics but if you start with humanoid form you can train based on m…

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    Comment #48586810

    Upvoted them both. I’m an ECE prof, and the video summed up why working with students is so rewarding.

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    Comment #48244647

    Lots of complaints about corruption. It’s worth imagining how you would run a very low income developing country. Remittances and tariffs are the easiest items to tax for revenue. …

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    Comment #48222416

    Curious about the design choice. Why not use the TI parts with integrated microcontrollers rather than two separate chips? Or even a FPGA with integrated ARM9 like the Zynq family?…

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    Comment #48214120

    The obvious question I would have asked: given the concern that this may not be ethical if the brains are still “alive” AND the concern that a brain separated from the body probabl…

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    Comment #48140021

    Further counter argument- It seems that (elite) undergraduate students care about their professors research (versus just teaching). Else Harvey Mudd would be much much harder to ge…

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    Comment #48126726

    > and both sides want it to a degree Is "it" the propaganda (useful to politicians for achieving political power) or reunification? My sense is that the number of Taiwanese that ar…

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    Comment #48110224

    To the people who are thinking about other languages, "Lexical decoding" - recognition of a word during reading was the strongest predictor of reading compression (as opposed to ph…

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    Comment #47864711

    I’d love to take that bet. My deed (in Texas) states that my lot is subject to the rules of the subdivision which include a number of zoning style restrictions. (They’re called “de…

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    Comment #47820151

    Why can’t the markets just forbid transactions that happen within 48 hours of resolution?

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    Comment #47766468

    The title really should specify “to teach remotely”. And I think more broadly the context is the dream that widespread internet would make it easier to educate people “at scale” (m…

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    Comment #47752416

    Wasn’t great. Would love a second attempt focused on distilling not individualist v collectivist or immigration. (Except for relevant connections around sharing your creations with…

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    Comment #47745226

    I think that there are stories but unreported for good reason. I heard from a pastor friend that he showed up to a house where one of his congregants was inside (with ICE outside),…

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    Comment #47680919

    “The spirit of the world is the spirit of suicide” - Jacques Ellul

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    Comment #47612586

    Technically, the question was about Elon personally, eh (not Tesla).

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    Comment #47517529

    I’m quite curious about recruiting. I have only a N=1 observation, the kid who takes the orders at my favorite burrito place. He had been hyped about the Marines for two years, pre…

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