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The title of this article feels like "has electricity killed oil lamps"?

There is absolutely no way to achieve the impact of Henry Ford without actively trying extremely hard to be the next Henry Ford.

From the paper: "All models still underfit WebText and held-out perplexity has as of yet improved given more training time."

I'm thankful for all the extremely improbable things that had to happen for me to have the experience I'm having. I am thankful - To have been born to loving, educated parents -To …

Will people never take Betteridge's law of headlines seriously? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

This spore guy deserves more credit. Everyone appreciates a good pun from a fungi.

This is a heap of nonsense. Not only does this summarily dismiss the enormous challenges in digital signal processing required for removing arbitrary background audio, it exposes s…

This has the smell of a comment written by someone with limited real-world experience. Simply writing down the list of problems you would have to solve to build Shazam would take a…

Alternatively, it helps illustrate the complexity of the problems solved by natural selection over long periods of iteration.

One reason is that the amount of training data is many many orders of magnitude smaller. FWIW it seems the structure you're talking about exploiting is at a morphological and synta…

Theravada Buddhism.

High modularity refers to when a system's components can be cleanly separated and recombined. If I were to guess, I'd say that amelius is saying that it becomes increasingly common…

You may have meant s/tenant/tenet. I'm only pointing it out because the typo is an extant word that may be interpreted to mean something proximate (but not identical) to what I thi…

The point of this post is to call attention to the fact that while Objective C is actually a 30-year-old language that is the foundation of the entire Apple development ecosystem, …

The main breakdown products of aspartame are aspartic acid and phenylalanine. You may have been born with a genetic mutation that makes it possible for you to taste phenylalanine, …

Small Introduction to Markov Chains, after all

The main correlate is the impact of faculty output. This also is not necessarily correlated with the quality of the education students receive. But then, department rankings should…

If what surprised you was Figure 1 in the paper [1], note that it depicts only CS departments. The CS department at UW is widely considered among the best in the United States. Not…

I don't think it is a mistake. I think the author is trying to make the case that startups end up having round-number valuations. I don't think he is making the case that the numbe…

Yes; in order to qualify as a skeuomorph it doesn't need to _not_ serve a purpose, it just needs to retain design cues that were essential to the function of the original but not t…

Nope. Skeuomorphism is a design concept whereby things that are in some way derived from other things retain design elements that were necessary in the original but aren't in the c…