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zimzimon BERT: Pre-Training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

"We demonstrate the importance of bidirectional pre-training for language representations". can some one help me understand what bidirectional and pre-trained means?

zimzimon Einstein's travel diaries reveal attitudes towards people he met in Asia

not everyone

zimzimon The radical idea of a world without jobs

I think its clear, in our world, you should work on what earns you the most.

zimzimon The radical idea of a world without jobs

what do you mean stuck? what do you do after 5 that is so meaningless?

zimzimon An Interactive Introduction to Quantum Computing

I meant, physically, what gives different? why after applying the gate once on 1 there is a 50% the spins flip but when applying to 0 no-chance of that.

zimzimon An Interactive Introduction to Quantum Computing

why Hadamard of 1 is diffrent from Hadmard of 0?

zimzimon Rust: Enable WebAssembly backend by default

the actual product environment, not development research or testing.

zimzimon Leela Zero – Go engine with no human-provided knowledge

the game is a bit older

zimzimon Zimbabwe's Military in Apparent Takeover, Says It Has Custody of President

It was a different country. how well can ex-slaves and bushman run a country? democracy is not rooted in every culture, greed is :\

EDIT: just to be clear not every person in charge is ex-slave or something, but as a country even if they started financially strong it does not mean they had the culture to support it

zimzimon Zimbabwe's Military in Apparent Takeover, Says It Has Custody of President

Its not the kind of things you can get confirmation. He was called a traitor in official letter yesterday.

zimzimon Zimbabwe's Military in Apparent Takeover, Says It Has Custody of President

background: President is old and have succession problems. In recent years his wife trying to grab more and more power to be the next president but not everyone in the ruling party like that. last week she (from the mouth of the president) fired "number 2" in the country. since then everyone who was "friend" with number 2 was fired too. when they tried to get rid of the army general (friend of number 2) he refused to leave his office in claim that president wife doing undemocratic things. yesterday he did the "takeover". its not yet clear if the president will switched with the number 2 guy (the friend of the general).

zimzimon Why Are Some Countries Rich and Others Poor?

For the past century raw scores on IQ tests have been rising; this score increase is known as the "Flynn effect," named after Jim Flynn. In the United States, the increase was continuous and approximately linear from the earliest years of testing to about 1998 when the gains stopped and some tests even showed decreasing test scores. For example, in the United States the average scores of blacks on some IQ tests in 1995 were the same as the scores of whites in 1945.[61] As one pair of academics phrased it, "the typical African American today probably has a slightly higher IQ than the grandparents of today's average white American."[62]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence

IQ is a culture thing not a brain thing

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https://synaptic.juancazala.com/#/xor

just cutting the middleman

zimzimon Ask HN: Are there any tools to find similar YouTube channels?

you have "related-channels" in the channel page. also you can view the "liked videos" of channel you liked. you can browse channels by category by clicking on the "browse channels" in the side bar.

https://www.patreon.com/explore you can explore creators who uses Patreon.. not only youtube guys

zimzimon A Floating Mass of Fire Ants in Texas

colony remain 1 million ants!

zimzimon Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI?

https://www.youtube.com/user/EugeneKhutoryansky

another nice yt channel about math and physics.

zimzimon Game Programming Patterns

>On the prototype pattern: >... >..what? Then why did you bring it up at all?

From the intro: "Prototyping — slapping together code that’s just barely functional enough to answer a design question — is a perfectly legitimate programming practice. There is a very large caveat, though. If you write throwaway code, you must ensure you’re able to throw it away."

Prototyping — coding without architecture in mind? I dont find it relevant to his book.

zimzimon Using NeuralNets to make smooth character animations

Yes, but it is very game dependent. Maybe this "engine" does not suited for fast, action packed games, but I think what players hate is annoying and logically/physically wrong animations, not smooth and fair. Also you can train the NN on faster more reactive training data.

zimzimon Introducing Token

I can see your point, but, when it comes to the "Internet" it is Ok IMO. It is global already, people everywhere "consuming it". Facebook are "helping the poor people of Africa" now as well as the author hopes to.

zimzimon Introducing Token

they are common, people value communication. most of the phones are older models or very cheap Chinese brands.

zimzimon Introducing Token

they stated their aim is to help 2B people in develop countries. it is very hard to fix the government. there are networks here, poor villagers how use money have a phone, I think its better to by-pass the government. relying on private company is terrifying as relying on third world government. decentralized solution would be the best. also E-money is used here already, trough the cellular company but they have a monopoly backed by the government so its just another way of stealing from the people.

zimzimon Introducing Token

living in Zimbabwe now, there a severe shortage of cash, Im hoping a project like this one will catch one day. good luck

zimzimon Show HN: HireBae

very slow

zimzimon Attacking discrimination with smarter machine learning

Is it possible to make the equal opportunity and the max profit thresholds the same? maybe with a special tax system (the closer your threshold is to the "equal opportunity" the less tax you pay)? edit: i forgot its illegal to discriminate