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Same here. It's a bunch of facts, some context, and more of a rant about the question than any attempt at answering the question. You could even write an article asking why that or…

You're right that this is spectacularly wrong. I dare not even read the rest of the page just in case my brain accidentally absorbs other bad information like that paragraph about …

Part of the cleverness of GANs was to have found a way to train a neural network that generates data without explicitly modeling the probability density. In a stats textbook, when …

I also found that the best system is having the first layer of folder organization be "which period of my time is this from?". Conceptually, it's easier to think of "music from hig…

You're setting a very high bar there, and then claiming that losing access to your gmail account isn't worse than that therefore it's not life changing. Email ends up being the for…

I'm sorry that that was your PhD experience. It's a pity that enthusiastic students end up there, often because they're not given the right environment to thrive (e.g. a good lab a…

Well, I guess he stopped doing it at some date before 2007. That's why he told an audience of 500 people about it. He sorta "cashed out" by making it a fun story about him being cl…

I met James Randi around 2007 when he came to campus at UBC to give a talk. He told the following story about a magic trick that he worked on for years, which concerned guessing th…

I have also had bad experiences with "Backup and Sync", which led me to abandon Google Drive right when I was seriously considering ditching Dropbox. Given Google's reputation to d…

Nobody is going for absolute certainty here. That bar is too high in any conversation. His point was mostly that, way before you achieve the kind of AGI portrayed in fiction, you'l…

I have a friend who was participating often in psychology experiments at Stanford, and he became familiar with the whole procedure of letting the subjects believe that they were in…

> Most people I know have moved on from using email for personal communication and only use it for business. That experience completely differs from mine. Maybe I just prefer email…

The point would still stand even if Starbucks was indeed instantaneous. There's is something nice about being able to spend 2-5 minutes to prepare your own coffee. Sometimes you do…

One of the problems with coming up with a good theory is that, at the end of day, we're building a system that's particularly suited for a certain kind of patterns. If you're build…

Here is something to consider. Assume for a moment that people use rare Pokémon cards as a form of payment, because everyone plays Pokémon. You can buy a card with Pokémon cards. B…

Sure, the rules are simple, but if you listen to the guy who says that he grew up here, he explains that field has NEVER been reserved. It’s easy to imagine how some bureaucrat upd…

I had not caught that note from the author. Thanks for pointing it out.

It's cool to see that much dedication. It's useful when people take the time to summarize knowledge in a book to serve as reference. But ... I have the feeling that the author, who…

That's already a known method to transfer "knowledge" from one model to another. I should double-check before quoting a paper, but I think that this one talks about this ( http://a…

If you want to train neural nets, you can either rewrite everything from scratch and get a bug-ridden sub-optimal implementation, or you can use a kind of off-the-shelf library. Th…

I like that third point about dissecting well-chosen Reddit threads. I would certain like to watch a few youtube videos of "Let's read Reddit with Neil deGrasse Tyson".

Hacker News feels like a strange place to talk about video game appreciation, but here is goes. I've played an insane amount of Diablo 1, an unreasonable amount of Diablo 2, but wh…

Nice ! It's not really a paradox, though, because "being a double-edged sword" is a comparison that's being made with regards to the decision of using that particular single-edge s…

Well, your house is used as collateral for the loan, otherwise the bank would never lend you that money. I'm not an economist, but I don't think that, in the case of Greece, the "h…

I had a look at the sample chapter and I like the way that you're explaining concepts with sketches. I've already learned all the material listed in the table of contents, so I mig…