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Comment · 26 days ago
If they are intelligent and curious, imagine if they let us come tell them tales of the world, works of fiction, musings of space, what if they swim around just letting us tell them of all the fascinating things we find out. Humanity may travel the cosmos, only to come home to tell our whale friends everything we learned. I wonder if there will be a whale someday with the dream of going to space.
Comment · 1 month ago
Looking at how awful the timing and acting is in the generated video content and text to speech tools I think it is safe to say this area will also improve with time. The artistic tone is subtle, and often lost to us non-native speakers anyways.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
My sister had ME/CFS after she had a burnout after her second kid. She was never permanently bed ridden but sometimes had to spend days resting or recovering after strain. She's not well today, but much better than at her worst. There wasn't really an accepted diagnose for it when my sister got it, and she had to fight to be recognised as sick.

I do wish Dianna the best recovery and future progress.

Comment · 1 year ago
It happened to me, though I resigned when I hit burnout during covid. My whole identity was just being good at my job, and then I was no longer that. In part I think some blame is also to be placed on these companies who try to make the employees feel like a tribe or family. Since I've always been alone it was easy to slip into that false sense of belonging.
Comment · 2 years ago
Is this method used during training? Seems to me there could be a point to only backpropagate when the model is wrong?
Comment · 4 years ago
A reverse Turing test. A discussion with a computer to convince it you are a sane human.
Comment · 8 years ago
You have two adversaries. Adversary A have control over your hardware source, and adversary B have control over /dev/urandom. If you XOR them A and B must cooperate to compromise your random generator. You can combine as many sources of randomness as you want, and each increase the difficulty for an adversary to defeat your generator.
Comment · 9 years ago
Frankly I do not see how 50/50, or any fixed number, can be a representation of the unbiased state. The unbiased state is unknown.

If you look at what the orchestra did and remove factors you know are irrelevant for the applicants then you should move towards a more unbiased state independent of what the number actually is. The problem is to find out what bias you have. One way is to compare the people who apply with the people you hire. You can see what traits you select on, then you can decide if you think those traits are good or bad.

Comment · 9 years ago
Do you have to know the target? Correct for bias you have, then question what it is upstream that is creating that bias.
Comment · 9 years ago
Google are countering an existing bias by hiring people contrary to the bias. The orchestra is removing the bias.

Is it possible for Google to remove bias? Isn't the real problem further upstream? I bet that if you look at all applicants applying for jobs at Google you will see the same skew as Google have in their offices already.

Comment · 9 years ago
I think I would say that I have some regrets not buying/mining. When I first heard about bitcoin I thought that it was pretty neat but I did not want to support it because I thought it is such a waste of exergy.
Comment · 10 years ago
Isn't it better to assume nothing is safe for children and to leave the internet as the wild wild west that it is? Have the Government set up their own CA to sign the stuff they approve of. A child safe web browser would just disregard anything that doesn't have a valid certificate.
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
If simply discussing current generations so yay for the Vive wireless lighthouse base stations and controllers but nay for its 12V 1.5A requirement. As for the oculus, yay for its 5V over USB but nay for its cable connected tracking.

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