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Negotiating ransoms: when to play and when to fold

zetter.substack.com
39 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·31 comments

Trigonometry in CSS and JavaScript

tympanus.net
1 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·1 comments

Analyzing HN moderation and censorship (2017)

drewdevault.com
18 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·7 comments

Privacy Without Monopoly, EU Edition

pluralistic.net
5 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·1 comments

See, Hear, Explore: Curiosity via Audio-Visual Association

blog.ml.cmu.edu
1 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·0 comments

You’re More Likely to Fight Misinformation If You Think Others Are Being Duped

news.ncsu.edu
4 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·0 comments

How Amazon is tackling the A.I. talent crunch

fortune.com
4 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·0 comments

PHP 8.1.0 Alpha 1 available for testing

php.net
1 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·0 comments

Theses on Techno-Optimism

librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com
1 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·0 comments

Defending Against the Next Stuxnet

cacm.acm.org
1 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·0 comments

Rocket from Relativity Space Will Be Completely 3D Printed, Completely Reusable

spectrum.ieee.org
2 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·0 comments

DeepSpeed: Deep Learning Optimization Library

github.com
4 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·0 comments

Audrey, Alexa, HAL: A History of Automatic Speech Recognition

computerhistory.org
1 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·0 comments

The next Venus missions will tell us about habitable worlds elsewhere

technologyreview.com
1 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·0 comments

PLV8: V8 Engine JavaScript Procedural Language Add-On for PostgreSQL

github.com
3 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·1 comments

Google used reinforcement learning to design next-gen AI accelerator chips

venturebeat.com
2 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·0 comments

The U.S. Needs a National Strategic Computing Reserve

scientificamerican.com
2 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·0 comments

Self-Sustaining, Intelligent, Electronic Microsystems from Green Material

umass.edu
2 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·1 comments

DarkSide Update: The FBI Hacks the Hackers?

blog.wolfram.com
2 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·0 comments

Why Can't Computing at the Heart of Bitcoin Be More Useful?

spectrum.ieee.org
59 points·by tmfi·5 years ago·148 comments

comments

tmfi
·5 years ago·discuss
Links to the other parts in the series:

"Getting Creative with Trigonometric Functions":

https://tympanus.net/codrops/2021/06/02/trigonometry-in-css-...

"Beyond Triangles":

https://tympanus.net/codrops/2021/06/04/trigonometry-in-css-...
tmfi
·5 years ago·discuss
Link to paper "Self-sustained green neuromorphic interfaces":

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23744-2
tmfi
·5 years ago·discuss
See Microsoft's announcement: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2021/05/25/accenture-github...
tmfi
·5 years ago·discuss
It could be down to the flame-war detector being triggered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22159031
tmfi
·5 years ago·discuss
See creator's previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26667847
tmfi
·5 years ago·discuss
There was a Show HN recently by one of its creators:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26666142
tmfi
·5 years ago·discuss
Reminds me of FutureMe [0] which I've used in the past to set goals for myself for the year only to receive the email and realize I had failed miserably. Eventually stopped using it. It wasn't a reliable way to keep me on track.

[0] https://www.futureme.org
tmfi
·5 years ago·discuss
"let’s actually look at who’s running the levers of these systems. That means shifting away from just focusing on things like ethical principles to talking about power."

"We’re looking at a profound concentration of power into extraordinarily few hands"

I think you are using the wrong definition of power to frame this article
tmfi
·5 years ago·discuss
There was a good discussion recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26620186

and another briefer one from two years ago when this article was written:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19309764
tmfi
·5 years ago·discuss
See recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26650738
tmfi
·5 years ago·discuss
This is an April Fools joke.

Previously submitted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26670545
tmfi
·5 years ago·discuss
I think this is the preprint article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02266
tmfi
·5 years ago·discuss
See current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407323
tmfi
·5 years ago·discuss
See recent hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26240901
tmfi
·5 years ago·discuss
The author is using the term AGI to refer to human intelligence to make their point that "we have to stop romanticizing or fear-mongering about the pointless concept of a human-like intelligence being produced by software."
tmfi
·5 years ago·discuss
The author, confusingly, is using the term AGI to refer to human intelligence.

Main points from the article:

"Artificial general intelligence is something we have plenty of here on Earth, most of it goes to waste, so I'm not sure designing AGI based on a human model would help us much."

"Superhuman artificial general intelligence is not something that we can define, since nobody has come up with a comprehensive definition of intelligence that is self-sufficient, rather than requiring real world trial and error."

"Superhuman artificial general intelligence is not something we can test, since we can't gather statistically valid training datasets for complex problem and we can't afford to test via trial and error in the real world."

"Even if superhuman artificial intelligence was somehow created, there's no way of knowing that they'd be of much use to us. It may be that intelligence is not the biggest bottleneck to our current problems, but rather time and resources."
tmfi
·5 years ago·discuss
To be fair the article is from 1995. I'm guessing it was considered fairly original back then.
tmfi
·5 years ago·discuss
There is a recent related article from Amazon Science if anyone is interested:

"Does the Turing Test pass the test of time?" https://www.amazon.science/latest-news/does-the-turing-test-...