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Consider the problem of predicting an agent's binary choice. If an agent follows a strategy of always choosing the opposite of what the algorithm predicts, then the algorithm's pre…

People are not their governments. Viewing competing governments as competition between their countries - I think that is propaganda. The US government violates the privacy of US pe…

The money is there, it just mostly resides in the hands of the few. The mean net worth of an American household is almost $700,000 - that's total net worth of all households, divid…

FYI I see [dead] by your comments. Maybe you have been hell-banned?

Yes, and a lot of it isn't, which is what I'm saying :)

Money isn't the only motivation someone can have. People write lots of open source code for free, for example.

I think it's because of the common assumption that the system that controls your data must also house the application that interacts with this data. When decentralized applications…

I kind of think of imminent battle between decentralized/centralized as analogous to the Linux/Windows wars of yesterday. Over the short term you're probably right that centralized…

Privacy-wise Palantir is even scarier than Facebook.

Seems like an argument against the idea that patents encourage innovation.

It's remarkable how a company with so many resources can make something so poorly designed.

Can people join this network without downloading an application - will it be available in the browser? The reason I ask is most decentralized applications up to this point require …

The "grid" is a graphic design principle [1] that existed long before CSS. You can implement this in CSS with flexbox or something else. If you don't care about vertical alignment …

Well it's not exactly common. It's used to describe the very best moves at the highest level of play.

> the stark degree to which "AlphaGo output that move because the board will later be in a winning state" sometimes doesn't correlate with conventional Go goals like taking territo…

I wish the author included something about the Intel Management Engine. It runs closed source software with privileged access to your entire machine including support for remote ex…

Yeah, MCTS is traditionally terrible with ko. It would be interesting to learn how AlphaGo addresses or doesn't address this.

I recently encountered the Duhem-Quine thesis on wikipedia which I think presents a really interesting perspective on testability, something I never really questioned before in the…

Reminds me of nobackend.org

Now if only they would stop requiring JavaScript to see images :)

It would be nice if the ability to reason about execution timings were one of the design goals of WebAssembly, because this could make it safer to port to crypto to the web.