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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.

You can see implications that your teacher didn’t. That’s not a ‘new teacher’.

Intel’s OneAPI promises to translate away from CUDA: https://software.intel.com/oneapi

Intel’s DPC++ seems similar - computation graph, communicating via buffers.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/oneapi/dpc-compiler

Anyone pick out differences?

Possessive is also contraction: "x's" <- "xes" <- "x his". No citation, but I read that somewhere. Interesting that it started out so primitive-seeming.

Out of date.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.

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.

I don't think there is one, yet. 'Multiprocessor Programming': https://www.amazon.com/Art-Multiprocessor-Programming-Revise... has some algorithms, though.

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.

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?

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...

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

... 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.

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.

Some recent /opinion/, though not a study, from Canada: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/jo...

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?

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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:

http://condor.depaul.edu/mfiddler/hyphen/humunivers.htm

... 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?

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'.

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.

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.

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).

I disagree. I can't quantify it, but taking a few impressive-sounding (and -being) courses makes you look good in employers' eyes. It shows you to be a self-driven learner who tangles with hard stuff. At least somewhat. But you're right in that it's soft; a hint, rather than a certification.

it's not clear to me if actually reasoning and talking with another human is really required for learning.

Dialog. Being able to ask questions, to get clarity on some angle that the teacher took for granted, uncovering assumptions / knowledge that the teacher has that the student doesn't.