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I would imagine that if you are training on the text of a novel, then anything that happened earlier in the text may be relevant for predicting the next events. Especially if it's …

Thank you for sharing. <3

You and londons_explore seem to be talking about different things. I read their comment as being about just generating fake reviews that don't need interaction.

Yeah, their institute just put out a quarterly update a few days ago: https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/quarterly-update-summer-2017/ . It mentions their previous Fermi Paradox paper, "That…

My summary of the link: Possible solution to the Fermi paradox: there is no paradox. The normal approaches find that there should be a very large number of civilizations by pluggin…

I'm confused. There are a lot of things I might associate things like "behavioral economics" with, but New Age wouldn't have been what I'd have expected. Where do you get that from…

As someone who's been into a CFAR workshop, I think their problem is the opposite, actually. The article's description makes it sound complicated, but the fact is that a lot of the…

If they were focusing in that part, I think the revenue sharing + cloud combo could open totally new opportunities that would also justify the investment in a custom OS. I'm thinki…

> The main problem with this project is that the SoluOS itself is mainly a UI/UX innovation, but for some reason they had to provide HW and OS too. Why can't I install this on my M…

DragonBox ( http://www.dragonboxapp.com/ ) is fantastic. I have literally seen elementary school kids argue over who gets to be the next one to solve equations playing it. If you h…

Great essay! I added a link to it at the bottom of my own article.

I have to disagree with your assertion that this animation wouldn't be pretty.

Would the climate issue thing be any different even if nobody applied any Bayesian methods and only went by frequentist statistics? It's not that this is a problem with applying Ba…

Do policy issues such as "how to deal with China" get discussed in the TGIFs or e-mail lists? I would imagine that such discussions might become very long-winded and very prone to …