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Also check out @beenwrekt 's previous post, which found that if your simulation is fast & faulty, your bipeds could end up with silly walks. argmin.net/2018/03/20/muj…
This passed the standard success threshold.
The simulator's physics seems to have some shortcuts that made silly walks practical.
And apparently there was nothing that says you HAVE to walk forward.
There's also this video montage from the same simulation engine.
I'm not sure why running solution #1 involved pearl clutching
And the humanoid in running solution #2 also looks alarmed
Running solution #3: epic silly walk.
Imagine if the terminator robots moved like this.
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"in fact this occurrence, far from illustrating some kind of malign intelligence inherent to AI, simply reveals a problem with computers that has existed since they were invented: they do exactly what you tell them to do."
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@fioraesoterica summarized it very well:
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I trained a neural network on 1,228 types of cookies and apparently these are what cookies sound like to it.
aiweirdness.com/post/180892528… grandma's spritches, hand buttersacks, low fuzzy feats, walps, quitterbread bars, merry hunga poppers, lord's honey fight, fluffin coffee drops, spice biggersNutty Loispers *then Wholes
okay so i had a try at training the neural net on the cookie recipes themselves.
and um @@@@@ Noo No CA Cracker DECOR<br /> <br /> cookies, deserts, holiday<br /> <br /> <span class=1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar (or beaten
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1 tablespoon baking soda
1 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 egg whites
1/4 cup sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 cup brown sugar
3 each egg whites
2 1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon powdered sugar

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here's another neural net cookie recipe. it was looking almost normal for a while there. @@@@@ NooN ----FILADONOUSED----<br /> 2 tablespoon egg whites<br /> <span class=1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup flour
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup wheater water
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup mark
1 cup butter or margarine
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This list by @vkrakovna (and the paper that supplied a bunch of them) is one of my favorite things about machine learning. I'm collecting another unofficial list of unpublished examples.
Like this one by @_joelsimon, who evolved new floorplans for an elementary school. It produced a cavelike warren of bubble-rooms because nobody had told it to do straight walls or windows. joelsimon.net/evo_floorplans… Left: Optimized for minimizing traffic flow bewteen classes and material usage. Right: Also optimized for minimizing fire escape paths.
And this ongoing thread by @sterlingcrispin whose robot dogs have learned to tap-dance, flop on the ground, do pushups, and even hack the simulation physics to glide - basically, anything but walk.
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1 like = one bit of publishing advice you're not going to like
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On his 55th birthday, Kim Seokjin, also known in his neighborhood as “insufferable old Kim”, makes a wish to feel genuine happiness. The next day he wakes up 22 years old again and on the day he first meets his ex-boyfriend, Min Yoongi.

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Hindsight is 20/20. Could be fun to revisit the scene of the crime and take a look, who was present at Trump Tower on the eve of 11/816 (h/t @loonyberg)

One guy says his wife was in Russia 😊

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Kellyanne Conway, Steve Bannon, of course.

Matt Mowers, "...national field coordinator and battleground states director: "I think I was there just before 5 A.M. We had a war room set up on the fifth floor—that unfinished floor in Trump Tower that was the original campaign HQ."
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Below, are some pictures to help you understand what it is exactly

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So, we know how the choppiness index works now.
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Unreal. Atlanta (and Georgia) still have plenty of prosperity & inequities. But what prosperity they do have is directly related to infrastructure spending and investment in public education.
Let's really break it down for right-wing Louisiana State Senators who somehow think we're going to tax cut our way to prosperity. In New Orleans, a whole lot of middle class folks feel they have to send their children to private school, and they shell out beaucoup $$ to do it.
In Atlanta and most of Georgia surrounding the metro, middle class parents send their kids to *public K-12 education.* That allows them to spend those thousands of dollars on something other than K-12 tuition.

Think that might have something to do with Atlanta's prosperity?
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