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Anybody knows if there is any chance of OpenAI sponsoring H1B visas?

I love the idea but being in Europe my options for doing serious AI research outside of academia seem pretty much limited to Google and Facebook.

erostrateon Claimed proof of Riemann Hypothesis

There are dozens of papers attempting to prove the Riemann Hypothesis. Here is a list [1]. A joke from the author of the list: "It's easier to prove the RH than to get someone to read your proof".

[1] http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/mrwatkin//zeta/RHproo...

erostrateon Microsoft and Red Hat partner

"Linux is a cancer" Microsoft's CEO, 2001 (Steve Ballmer)

Source: http://slashdot.org/story/01/06/01/1658258/ballmer-calls-lin...

erostrateon Deaths Draw Attention to Wall Street’s Grueling Pace

>At least in finance you can get to a number where you can finally say 'fuck it', and go do what you really want to do...

I recently quit my job. I was working for a large investment bank. Many people talk about leaving to do what they really want to do, something interesting that they can be proud of.

Very, very few actually do it. Turns out no amount of money is ever 'enough'. Turns out adjusting your lifestyle from 400k$ to 100k$ is not so easy.

This golden cage phenomenon is well described here: http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/can-buy-me-...

erostrateon Apple’s approach to privacy

I don't know if Apple actually means that, but the EFF gives Apple 5 stars out of 5 when assessing which companies protect their customers from government data requests: https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-reques...

erostrateon Built for Eternity: The Hoover Dam

Into eternity is a documentary on a long term nuclear waste storage facility in Finland. It is fascinating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)

erostrateon What Is the One Fact Humanity Needs to Know?

My first thought was the same as number 3, the scientific method. But looking at history, many important discoveries were made long before the scientific method was formalised. It seems some weak, intuitive form of the scientific method came naturally to many people throughout history.

So I would rather go with something that took a very long time to be understood and was absolutely necessary to create any civilization. For example number 4, basic hygiene. Or agriculture: "you can grow edible plants on purpose by planting their seeds in the ground and watering them". The scientific method is not very useful if you have to spend your life hunting and gathering to survive.

erostrateon Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

The code is online if you want to play with it. https://sites.google.com/a/deepmind.com/dqn/

If you're interested, one of the main authors (David Silver) teaches a very good and intuitive introductory class on reinforcement learning at UCL: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.silver/web/Teaching.html

erostrateon Imposter Syndrome

An interesting stat to keep in mind about imposter syndrome: about 2/3 of people accepted at Stanford Business School feel they don't really deserve to be here. Source: "The Charisma Myth", Olivia Fox Cabane.