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That's an insanely broad brush. The mainstream press includes the NY Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, The Atlantic, and NPR. Please explain how they fabricate narratives,…

"Direct connections to the KKK" ? Did you read the article or his statement? He was 17 and fell in with white supremacists after/during an abusive childhood. If you want to dispute…

Is this worth buying/borrowing if you already know programming languages but not Javascript? Or is there a better approach?

Chemistry, biology, botany, and geology are dead?

This whole article, and your agreement, rests on a false dichotomy. "Fallacy" implies learning about mental models is useless. No one said mental models replace experience any more…

I don't agree. Paisley is a well-known pattern type and some people really dislike it. "Shirt without paisley" is not a common request but its meaning is clear (if you do an image …

"He developed a philosophy that assumed that the sun was the venerable source of all life, and since the coconut was the fruit that grows nearest the sun, it must be the most perfe…

Mendeley and Zotero are both free, but both have storage limits beyond which you have to pay (Zotero is 300M, Mendeley is 2G). If you only store references and annotations you'll l…

Knowledge discovery used to be a big part of ML, and the KDD conference included papers on association rules, clustering, rule learning, interpretable classifiers, etc. In my exper…

My reaction too. They've reinvented genetic/evolutionary programming. They should probably read some of the decades of work that have already been done on it.

The word is commonly misused. What they probably mean is sympathy, but that isn't really right either. The correct word would be compassion or altruism. But /altruism/ is a word th…

As opposed to corporate bureaucracies? If you think the free market magically makes everything efficient and free of politics and bureaucracy, try spending some time in a big compa…

There's an odd jump in this narrative. PCA is indeed a great technique, but the essay goes from PCA to neural nets without explaining why. PCA was around for a long time before NNs…

At one point Microsoft would refuse to interview you unless you were their first and only choice. If you ever hinted you were considering other companies---interview over. Probably…

I'm surprised it's taken this long. There is no peer review to arXiv. If you've ever reviewed for a conference or a journal (10-30% acceptance rates) you've seen the "raw feed" of …

Any idea on how this compares with the other deep learning intro courses available?

> I actually do appreciate many forms of art, but I feel that many artist (that I know) are just a mixture of regurgitators and expert salesmen. They make something random, then co…

Good answers. (And I hadn't realized Apple was planning on getting rid of Python, Perl, and Ruby from default installs! Wow.)

Sure, but you can invoke nearly all languages (and write one-liners) at the command line, e.g.: python -c 'import sys; f=open(sys.argv[1]);print(len(f.readlines()))' .zshrc But I w…

As a long-time user of Prolog I didn't find the explanation so horrible. Unification is indeed like variable assignment in the constraint-satisfaction sense: bindings are not state…

This isn't "evolution in action" in any inevitable sense. This only happens if the consumer values up-front price over TCO. Admittedly, with emphasis on quarterly earnings, this is…

You mean like the .excel command? "... causes them to accumulate output as Comma-Separated-Values (CSV) in a temporary file, then invoke the default system utility for viewing CSV …

Arguing that physics students don't understand equations very well is a poor way to make a point about GPT-2. GPT-2 fails at a much more basic level, and that's Marcus's point. Tal…

> it is astonishingly good at recognizing the _kind_ of answer that should be produced. The fact that it usually answers with a language here is a reflection of what it understands…

Isn't this sort of what Glib is getting at? Bringing higher level data structures and capabilities (extendable arrays, hash tables, heaps, etc.) into C. https://developer.gnome.org…