zerostar07

> price of US stocks will go down, the valuation of your company will go down, the value of your house will go down, and more.

You say that as if it is a bad thing, but in europe foreign investment like this can be a source of inequality and makes houses unaffordable for the middle class

There are probably plenty of problems that do not require that much data to solve (e.g. in reinforcment learning). And google doesn't have all the kinds of data - they didn't own medical imaging data, they had to ask for it. There are some problems where they have advantage (speech / translation) and they 've probably already solved those problems, but their data advantage is not as important as they make it to be.

Whats more worrying IMO is that they 're hoarding all the researchers.

You probably mean the multiplicative analogue of the central limit theorem

> 20 years

On which reference frame?

those are backpropagating spikes, not errors

... and a model predicting and explaining this a decade ago: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18602704

Simiar with dubai, it is desert climate which means a lot of activities are impossible or insufferable. Malls and luxury hotels are OK but at some point you 're going to get fed up of so many gilded poles.

Understand. I think Dubai offers a level of luxury due to abundant cheap labor, general safety and an abundance of of supercars, but not sure how it fares as an entrepreneurship center. Or how they are going to fare if other cities with similar "luxury" offerings catch up in asia. IIRC real estate prices are still falling in Dubai, but people keep on building new empty buildings, which sounds unsustainable and goes against the optimistic image painted in the article.

Dubai is also benefiting from the general tax and secrecy crack-down in all of EU and OECD countries like malta, cyprus ireland, switzerland, singapore (Dubai was until very recently non-cooperative jurisdiction) but it's not clear whether this will last forever. It will be interesting to see whether the UK will seek to lower taxes post-brexit.

> living there and doing well

I 'm sure there are but its not clear a) if they started their businesses there and b) if dubai played an essential role other than being low-tax.

this is part of the special report, but reading the other titles does not justify the fairytale image painted here. https://www.economist.com/sections/special-reports

This looks like a paid advertisement to convince people to buy some of the stagnant real estate of Dubai.

it s a parallel machine, it seems

Or, let's just do some specialization of labor, the entrepreneur's job is not to preserve obsolete jobs, there are other institutions where this question should be addressed to.

Humans have enjoyed living next to their workplace (their fields) for millenia and enjoyed it. The industrial era is the uncomfortable abberation, not the other way around.

Which calls for an "Airbnb for servers", which will allow anyone to rent their phone for gigs in the server gig economy (at least until the servers unionize)

Yet Guardian still calls it macedonia though

To what extent do VCs and landlords overlap?

> We train each GQN model simultaneously on 4 NVidia K80 GPUs for 2 million gradient steps. The values of the hyper-parameters used for optimisation are detailed in Table S1, and we show the effect of model size on final performance in Fig. S4.

> The values of all hyper-parameters were selected by performing informal search. We did not perform a systematic grid search owing to the high computational cost.

Also, because they are focusing heavily on the RL part of the modeling. They obviously have obscene amounts of available compute, but that is not their competitive advantage.

> We also found that the GQN is able to carry out “scene algebra” [akin to word embedding algebra (20)]. By adding and subtracting representations of related scenes, we found that object and scene properties can be controlled, even across object positions.

This is incredible because it provides a way to link with linguisic understanding and manipulation of the rendering.

I m not sure if it s an effect of age, but i can barely watch a movie. I believe however its a consequence of technology that ‘just works: we demand (re-)solutions now and are impatient.

Which is a major reason why peer review exists, to prevent authoritative people pushing their agenda.

"Facebook confirms it receives your IP address!!!"

We need a new science of hysterias. The internet provides ample data for robust analysis and prediction. Any takers?

"We think you may have Parkinson's, would you like to visit the doctor?"

The industry did do some things, for one internet giants are in a certain competition to appear privacy-conscious. For another, adtech did introduced some options (e.g. adchoices) but they were arguably too little. The thing is however people don't care about their privacy as much as their governments would like them to care, hence the regulation. But it's opinionated , extreme regulation meant to disrupt everything rather than fix the things that need fixing, and that never works.

I m not personally afraid of the data that commercial companies have collected on me , as i was consciously using their websites when i did . But it's more uneasy to think of the data collected by various security services. I am glad that GDPR is making people believe all their private data belongs to them (this is not true in modern states - government owns much of your data). At some point people are going to start asking questions about private data usage by governements. E.g. it is only a few years since governments started buying and using stolen private bank files to search for tax frauds etc.

Not if you re not using your real identity, and even then its more complicated than if the companies were local. They would simply be shut down.

Europeans at large dont seem to care for freedoms like that. I mean we have blasphemy laws in many countries and not really free speech. We seem to love the american internet though, perhaps because we can have some actual freedom of speech there.

The consent boxes are what GDPR will mean to most people in a few months. Deleting your data is a good thing, but that option has been available from the biggest data hoarders for years, and it's not exactly popular. In fact most users dont even know/care it exists.

I don't think that's it. Brussels is indeed building its own kafkaesque state because they have little pragmatic sense of how things work. As an EU citizen i have little understanding of why these laws are being introduced and whether they have even been debated with us. GDPR is a mountain of bureaucracy that is already turning itself to another cookie law, with people being currently trained to click yes to consent on every website (i certainly do, its just easier than going through the alternative for each and every article i read). This law ... just seems impossible to implement but i wouldn't be surprised if it passes, even just to please the lawmakers who made it.