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Re:A Non-Obvious Answer to Why the AI Bubble Will Burst
on Saturday November 22, 2025 @10:50AM (#46015611)
He puts the bubble pop down to people needing human connection, 'feeling cared for', but his example shows the AI customer support simply getting nowhere.
Re:You can't pass the knowledge of the teacher. What's the "smartest" ...
on Monday November 20, 2023 @09:12AM (#38348444)
You can see implications that your teacher didn’t. That’s not a ‘new teacher’.
Re:Celerity – High-level C++ for Accelerator Clusters
on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @03:38AM (#22746563)
Intel’s OneAPI promises to translate away from CUDA: https://software.intel.com/oneapi
Re:Celerity – High-level C++ for Accelerator Clusters
on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @03:34AM (#22746549)
Intel’s DPC++ seems similar - computation graph, communicating via buffers.
https://software.intel.com/en-us/oneapi/dpc-compiler
Anyone pick out differences?
Re:Apostrophe society shuts down because 'ignorance and laziness have ...
on Monday December 02, 2019 @02:19AM (#21680519)
Possessive is also contraction: "x's" <- "xes" <- "x his". No citation, but I read that somewhere. Interesting that it started out so primitive-seeming.
Re:AI is mostly about curve fitting (2018)
on Saturday November 23, 2019 @10:16AM (#21614508)
Out of date. Reinforcement Learning makes truly ‘smart’ actions, courses of action. Calling something ‘curve fitting’ pooh poohs it (especially ‘just’ curve fitting) - calling it ‘distilling’ gives it the respect that it deserves.
Re:What's Coming in Python 3.8
on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @05:37PM (#20464318)
It looks to me like it could be an assignment to const, or, a copy vs a non-copy - it’s not obvious at all. I’m sure:
‘?=‘
was fought over and rejected, but that’s what I’d have expected conditional assignment to look like.
Re:Building a lock free continuous ring buffer in Rust
on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @12:47AM (#20101570)
I don't think there is one, yet. 'Multiprocessor Programming': https://www.amazon.com/Art-Multiprocessor-Programming-Revise... has some algorithms, though.
Re:Types will be part of Ruby 3 stdlib source
on Friday April 19, 2019 @09:38AM (#19699476)
Are you thinking of the way ints and chars (and floating-point types!) inter-convert? That is a weakness or convenience, but otherwise the typing is pretty strong.
Re:Vampire: First-Order Theorem Proving [pdf]
on Sunday April 14, 2019 @10:16PM (#19662814)
> VAMPIRE has a special mode for working with very large knowledge bases and can answer queries to them.
Does this mean it can somewhat replace Prolog? I forget why Prolog doesn't use full logic, but, does Vampire find a way to get around the need for Prolog's more limited, Horn clauses? Anyone know?
Re:YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algorithmic Ra...
on Saturday March 30, 2019 @06:20AM (#19528712)
> provably untrue.
So prove it. No, they look for and start the fights.
This is just one case, true, but it makes your case hard to prove: https://www.foxnews.com/us/dc-antifa-leader-is-third-charged...
Re:SIGIL, a New Doom Campaign by John Romero
on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @12:36AM (#18653455)
e1m8b: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom/Ports/d-f/e1m8... -- has mirrors
Be very gentle, the server seems taxed: e1m4b: https://www.doomworld.com/e1m4b/e1m4b.zip
Re:The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten by th...
on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @05:48AM (#18501658)
... promised to be "the most open administration ever" - and ended up being more closed even than GWB. There's really something to the idea that paying lip service mentally gets you off the hook.
Re:The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten by th...
on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @05:45AM (#18501639)
There was a politician and activist from Montana on (US) NPR radio today who advocated getting congress to pass an act that /corporations aren't people/. If anyone's new to the issue, Google 'Thom Hartmann corporate personhood', you'll get the flimsy history of how it came to be. Making them not be people would solve a lot of the problems of money in politics. Too bad there's now so much precedence, I guess.
Re:Debunking the Myth of the Job-Stealing Immigrant
on Saturday March 28, 2015 @07:36PM (#9283219)
Some recent /opinion/, though not a study, from Canada: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/jo...
Re:The Little “Fighter” That Couldn’t: Moral Hazard and the F-35
on Saturday March 21, 2015 @01:55PM (#9243551)
> I've heard that the Marines actually have really good air support, because they have their own planes
Why can't the army buy the same planes, are they not being manufactured any more?
Re:Einstein: The Negro Question (1946)
on Saturday December 13, 2014 @04:50PM (#8746574)
Such self-fondling pabulum around here. If Aristotle can be wrong, so can Einstein. See: IQ data.
I bet at least the number of people who posted want to say the same thing, but have refrained from posting. I bet frikkin' Paul Graham thinks the same thing (maybe gentler) - he's alluded to 'inexpressible ideas about race' (paraphrase) in one essay.
Re:How L1 and L2 CPU caches work, and why they’re an essential part of...
on Saturday November 01, 2014 @10:26AM (#8543138)
There's Ulrich Drepper's "What every programmer should know about memory" - http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/. It's long, it's from 2007, but its fundamentals are right.
Re:Life Extension Factor Klotho Enhances Cognition [pdf]
on Friday September 12, 2014 @08:24AM (#8307607)
http://rockstarresearch.com/increase-longevity-and-intellige...
> It turns out that lots of people get their klotho levels increased as a side-effect of taking prescription forms of “activated” vitamin D (VDRAs) for chronic kidney disease (CKD). But there’s no reason to wait until you’re almost dying and need dialysis to start benefiting from this knowledge. Instead, this implies that taking something like 0.25 mcg/day of Calcitriol or 1 mcg/day of Paricalcitol right now for someone without the beneficial KL-VS variant of the KL gene might actually give a huge longevity and IQ boost.
Also, maybe exercise! http://mangans.blogspot.com/2014/07/klotho-increases-both-lo...
-- just reporting what I've read, I have no idea whether it works / is safe.
Re:Chinese government reveals Microsoft’s secret list of Android-kille...
on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @04:14AM (#7903326)
> The claims are not supposed to tell you how to implement the invention
That part of the original deal around patents has been lost, then - to wit, that after the 17 years elapsed, the world would know how to implement this 'non-obvious invention'.
Re:Don't mess with Newegg
on Friday May 23, 2014 @07:15PM (#7791894)
No, the difference is in the added word troll, not simply a defender. Trolls are non-practicing, and produce nothing and protect nothing. I'm sure a legitimate 'little guy' with a patent would get all the sympathy he deserves here, unless perhaps, as you mention, it's a software patent.
Re:Google's POWER8 server motherboard
on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @06:21PM (#7670306)
If it was a snotty 'ummmm', I personally would object to it in real life, too. And I think others would as well. Also, you don't need 'ums' in writing.
Re:Alan Kay at Demo: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental
on Sunday April 06, 2014 @12:59PM (#7541541)
That 'universals' guy seems actually to be Donald Brown, and his book is 'Human Universals'. http://www.amazon.com/Human-Universals-Donald-Brown/dp/00700...
The book is expensive, here's a list:
Re:How to Get a Job at Google
on Saturday February 22, 2014 @11:58PM (#7284988)
> ... the ability to learn, process on the fly, and pull together disparate information. Which is indeed distinct from IQ.
Do you have cites for that?
How Google missed the boat
Yeah but will it satisfy us, if we can't see it making analogies, can't see its semantics; identify with it? This same lack of breakdown into pieces we understand will make it hard to tweak and advance NNs beyond 'good categorizers'.
Re:It’s Time to Make OpenStreetMap Your Only Street Map
on Monday February 03, 2014 @06:11PM (#7174228)
I still use Google maps and search, I just do it in my main browser (FF natch) which has a cookie whitelister that rejects Google cookies.
Re:Ask HN:How to switch career from programmer to data scientist?
on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @04:04PM (#7066150)
Unfortunately Kaggle doesn't seem to have as many entry-level competitions as it once did. Some learning ones, sure, but you need something to let you move up to 'Masters Level'. Also, it looks like the whole process would take a couple of years.
Re:Hacker news for data scientists
on Thursday December 12, 2013 @04:37PM (#6897449)
> hn predates reddit.
It doesn't. Paul Graham has said he made it to be like Reddit 'used to be' (in the early days, most of Reddit's users were sock puppets of the founders, and it was pretty high quality).