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trwm

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    Comment #40332037

    The whole thing reads like great literature. There should be a scientific magazine for papers that can be understood by the motivated layman. I accidentally read the whole thing in…

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    Comment #40327092

    How fortunate are they whose families are still alive to mourn them.

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    Comment #40326734

    There is a difference of degree between running Treblinika and supporting the US military. A piece of computer history everyone should know is that holocaust tattoos were IBM punch…

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    Comment #40306940

    We stop pretending that universal time exists and add location to every time stamp relative to some predefined clock at a known location. The issues of when something happened diss…

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    Comment #40283425

    The constraints of today would be much worse. I'd go so far as saying that making even Kubricks version today would be impossible.

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    Comment #40262021

    The multiplier effect is well known and understood. Nit sure why you're arguing against it.

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    Comment #40261360

    Yes this is called a positive externality. It is why outsourcing produced much more devastation than was promised and why onshoring will create much more work than expected. The en…

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    Comment #40234786

    Similar to OP if information is low density like a legal contract I can do 1200wpm after a few hours of getting used to it. Daily normal is 600wpm, if the text is heavy going enoug…

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    Comment #40232563

    >This is of course true, but there's something very broken with lisp: metaprogramming and programming aren't the same thing, Metaprogramming and programming are the same thing. It'…

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    Comment #40228409

    At this point this is a distinction without a difference. The only question is if splines are more efficient than lines at describing general functions at the billion to trillion p…

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    Comment #40228041

    Business processes don't need deep learning in the first place. It is just there because hype.

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    Comment #40228022

    Biases are just weights on an always on input. There isn't much difference between weights of a linear sum and coefficients of a spline.