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Don't worry though, your domain expertise will remain very important. Just like how... uh... having a strong linguistics background is essential in natural language processing (formerly computational linguistics)... Anyway, "most

I don't consider myself a deep learning expert by any means. There are still a lot more things I don't know than things I know (it's not even close). I've

There's a lot of value to be created just by uncomplicating things that people have been overcomplicating.Programming is a prime example. Code is a powerful tool, and anyone can learn

For most of our history, the development of technology has been inextricably tied to war. Truly civilian technological progress is a very recent development -- it only really took off

Empathy is good. Calls for unity are good. But let's stop pretending that the "two sides" are symmetrical and morally equivalent. Stop saying, "oh, you think X is bad, but

"No code" is code you don't control. Simple abstractions are a superpower, but you need to able to peel them off when the situation requires it. Two anti-patterns:1. The blackbox.

There's nothing obvious about civilization. Under slightly different conditions, it could have never arised, or could have gotten stuck into a perpetual local minimum until extinction (e.g. no agriculture &

Ghibli movies, ranked.Great tier Ghibli:1. The Wind Rises (風立ちぬ)2. Castle in the Sky (天空の城ラピュタ)3. Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し)4. Nausicaä (風の谷のナウシカ)5. Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫)

Note: free speech and hate speech aren't best buddies. They're mortal enemies.If you want to foster an environment where people freely express dissent & unconventional views, as a precondition you

In the modern mind, "education" is all about young people developing skills that are useful to their future selves. Learn to read, learn to write, learn to program. Skills that

Here's the thing about AI: you get what you optimize for. If you optimize for a specific skill, like chess or StarCraft, your final system will possess this skill and

Every day since the pandemic started, there have been people claiming we were already past the peak. Let's be clear: we are not past the peak. We were not past