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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
So if this was the movie Gravity, we could just scoot voyager over to see it as it passes by.
Comment · 9 years ago
Article also discusses the required preparation for safely eating said shark.
Comment · 9 years ago
> "If people live a lot longer it will be disastrous for the environment"
This one has been around FOREVER but he was surprised to hear it this year? doubtful. I think Sam actually picked safe examples for his contrarian essay. e.g Notably absent Damore.
Comment · 9 years ago
I hope all the loud voices that are against this move have codified their predictions in a way that they can look back and see if they were accurate.
Comment · 9 years ago
"A debt is just the perversion of a promise...."
That entire quote reads as completely incoherent to me. I feel like I would have to learn entirely new brands of logic and language to decipher it.
Comment · 9 years ago
A rush for the exits at 10 global transactions per second, or about the rate of Visa transactions in a Manhattan city block at lunch time.
Comment · 9 years ago
Government policy would cave-in if the private companies lacked innovation and told them it was impossible. You need existence proofs like Tesla, who are highly leveraged to making EVs work and don't care a wit about preserving the old business.
Comment · 9 years ago
I think if you have good natural instincts about artificial intelligence you realize that Hinton really is the god in this space. If you don't, you get distracted by LeCunn and Schmidhuber and whatever lesser minds. The capsule theory here is maybe not the best implementation, but the intuition behind it is still leading the way. The undifferentiated mass of neurons is not how evolution has solved our problems. 3d geometry is intrinsic to the low level design. It shouldn't be learned. It should be assumed.
I reject your generic devotion to process. The real leadership and the process are far different. The process of peer review might do a good job of rejecting bad ideas, but it does a lousy job of accepting revolutionary ideas. I bet you don't understand the difference.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm mostly only interested when they pass us on per capita income. It is notable though that some of their megacorps are achieving valuations akin to our largest. Maybe some day they will have a global brand.
Comment · 9 years ago
I remember writing the RBM in straight CUDA back in ~2008. Back then we had to do our tensor work uphill both ways against the gradient.
Comment · 9 years ago
Gah -- reminds me of the press at the time talking about detectable radiation on the West Coast of the US. Yeah -- you know what else is detectable radiation? Stars from light-years away. I was shocked to see Germany respond so strongly to Fukushima. I think fortunately for the world solar and wind have become so cheap we can give up on making the world more rational about nuclear power.
Comment · 9 years ago
He wasn't saying that air resistance is currently a problem. The current problem is that the robots don't move fast enough for air resistance to be a problem. He's basically pushing the question 'Going faster is obviously good. What happens if we go really really fast?'
Comment · 9 years ago
My memory of this was that Google PR thought that humanoid robots might end up leading to associations with automation and job destruction. Also, it was never clear to me how much influence the PR position had vs. other reasons.
Comment · 9 years ago
Can anyone give an intuitive explanation for why standard CNNs are unable to learn geometry?
Out of curiosity, why do you think you included 'not the biggest fan'?