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New comment by dncrane in "Steps Toward Super Intelligence Part I: How We Got Here"

dncrane — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 13:53:12 +0000

> But these heralds who have volunteered their clairvoyant services to us [...] just know that [superintelligence] is going to happen soon, if not already. And they do know, with all their hearts, that it is going to be bad. Really bad.

This is an unfair characterization of the the most prominent figures in this area. This article by Allan Dafoe and Stuart Russell from 2016 refutes it: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602776/yes-we-are-worried...

New comment by dncrane in "Can “effective altruism” maximise the bang for each charitable buck?"

dncrane — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 03:48:29 +0000

> For one, so far everyone predicting doom about AI has been a layman a subject.

This is a myth. It was arguably true 5-10 years ago, but concern with AI safety is not a fringe position even among the highest levels of AI researchers now.

Stuart Russel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_J._Russell) is the co-author of one of the most popular AI textbooks in the world and he has repeatedly said that he thinks the alignment problem is important and that AI presents an existential risk: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602776/yes-we-are-worried... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvmeTaFc_Qw

Marcus Hutter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Hutter) is another respected AI researcher who, along with, Tom Everitt (http://www.tomeveritt.se/) (a researcher at DeepMind, one of the most advanced AI companies in the world), is also working on the alignment problem: http://www.tomeveritt.se/papers/alignment.pdf

You can read through list of grants granted by the Future of Life institute for AI Safety research, almost all of which are to researchers associated with respected universities, not laymen, here: https://futureoflife.org/ai-safety-research/

New comment by dncrane in "Show HN: Ear training using midi.js"

dncrane — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 15:13:36 +0000

I posted an earlier version of this about 2 years ago. Since then I've added a bunch of music theory exercises and created a system for teachers to use the exercises in their classes by giving assignments, tracking scores, etc.

The new music theory exercises use vexflow (https://github.com/0xfe/vexflow ) for drawing the staff in addition to midi.js for the sound. The teacher-account backend uses Django.

Show HN: Ear training using midi.js

dncrane — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 15:13:20 +0000

Article URL: https://tonesavvy.com/music-practice-exercises/?s=compact

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15168765

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by dncrane in "Billions’ worth of high-tech research seeking to make death optional"

dncrane — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 02:09:30 +0000

How long would you personally like to live if you could be healthy the entire time and not age any more or any faster than you'd like to? 50 years? 150? 1000?

New comment by dncrane in "Show HN: Ear training using midi.js"

dncrane — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:41:40 +0000

Thanks! Those are all good ideas.

One of them is already implemented: Keyboard shortcuts are available in the advanced options for most exercises.

New comment by dncrane in "Show HN: Ear training using midi.js"

dncrane — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:11:22 +0000

Good idea! There's an advanced option that puts a "listen" button next to each interval on the sidebar in the intervals exercise, but this would be a good more general feature to include for whenever someone answers incorrectly in any exercise.

New comment by dncrane in "Show HN: Ear training using midi.js"

dncrane — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:53:50 +0000

This is a great point, I'll work on adding more guidance to the exercises.

New comment by dncrane in "Show HN: Ear training using midi.js"

dncrane — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:48:34 +0000

Thanks, that's a really good point. I agree that the patterns generated could be improved, but haven't come up with a good automated way to generate an unlimited amount of better ones. Please email me any thoughts you have about the best way to do this, I'm definitely interested in improving these (my email is on my profile page).

Show HN: Ear training using midi.js

dncrane — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:15:58 +0000

Article URL: http://tonedear.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10117072

Points: 230

# Comments: 34

New comment by dncrane in "SymbolHound"

dncrane — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 22:06:24 +0000

Hi, I'm the developer of SymbolHound. You're right, SymbolHound's index is a little lacking, especially for new languages. This is because it's based almost entirely on a stackoverflow data dump (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creativ...) from when I first made it (2011). Swift was released in 2014, so there are no results. I'm planning to update it when I have the time.

New comment by dncrane in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2013)"

dncrane — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 16:19:51 +0000

SEEKING WORK - Remote (I'm based in Connecticut)

Full-stack web developer. I'd especially like to help you build your MVP.

Primary skills are Python/Django, HTML/CSS, Javascript, and learning whatever needs to be learned to build your project.

http://dncrane.github.io/

dncrane@gmail.com

New comment by dncrane in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2013)"

dncrane — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 15:24:00 +0000

SEEKING WORK - Remote (I'm based in Connecticut)

Full-stack web developer. I'd especially like to help you build your MVP.

Primary skills are Python/Django, HTML/CSS, Javascript, and learning whatever needs to be learned to build your project.

http://dncrane.github.io/

dncrane@gmail.com

New comment by dncrane in "Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator"

dncrane — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 23:30:47 +0000

I frequently see users who don't realize that the email field on their profile page is not visible (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6593160) and that they have to put it in the "about" section. There should be a text warning next to the email field saying that it will not be visible to other users (or a checkbox to make it visible).

Encouraging interviewees to say “I don’t know” improves performance

dncrane — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:28:17 +0000

Article URL: http://morehappy.me/2013/10/08/encouraging-interviewees-to-say-i-dont-know-improves-performance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6521413

Points: 45

# Comments: 70

New comment by dncrane in "Anxiety over the new Gmail Compose"

dncrane — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 01:46:30 +0000

> the link downloads immediately and there is no way to get the de-obfuscated link

If you go to your downloads list you can right click and do "copy link address" (at least on chrome and firefox)

New comment by dncrane in "Ways to make yourself happier"

dncrane — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 21:35:23 +0000

This is a good technique, it's called the "george bailey effect" (after the main character in "It's a Wonderful Life")

More info:

http://morehappy.me/2013/07/06/to-boost-happiness-imagine-ho...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2746912/

New comment by dncrane in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2013)"

dncrane — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 15:38:17 +0000

SEEKING WORK - remote

Most interested in python/django work.

See my CV here: http://symbolhound.com/cv.php

contact: dncrane@gmail.com

New comment by dncrane in "Show HN: My First iPhone Game – can you beat it?"

dncrane — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 00:12:30 +0000

> any suggestions on how to fix this?

Could you have separate input boxes for each segment of the phone number? (as in #2 here: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1015 )

New comment by dncrane in "Stanford's new course on building a startup"

dncrane — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:38:31 +0000

There are some good notes for Peter Thiel's class here: http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup