BaronSamedi

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by BaronSamedi 10y ago
I don't disagree with your point. I was mostly thinking of general education and the high school curricula. On the other hand, I'm not a big fan of the PhD style program. It seems old-fashioned and possibly obsolete to me. I would
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I think rewarding popular teachers would be a feature rather than a bug. As for the too-easy problem, well, if you had to take a certification exam (like, for example, the bar exam) then you would have to choose the courses you thought woul
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Setting targets won't solve anything since this is a structural problem. You cannot leave those structures in place and expect a different outcome. That is just treating the symptoms. In my view the solution is simple: instead of letti
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Experts in the field of AI have a long history of being wrong. "AI is 20 years" away has become the standard joke in the field. There is no reason to grant expert opinion on this topic any weight.
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I think your question about drives is a very good one. At the micro end of the artificial life spectrum (like in Tierra) I think it is answerable: a drive to survive and replicate, and a desire (for lack of a better term) for computer resou
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You don't have granular control over these permissions. You can either accept or refuse, you can't select which ones to grant or not. I think this is a terrible way to do permissions and poor security. I'd like to see true u
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by BaronSamedi 10y ago
This is a problem that a good project manager and the company's development culture can solve. Ops also frequently has things they need from developers but rarely get.
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by BaronSamedi 10y ago
We may not need AI to automate software development. If genetic programming techniques started making serious advances it might be possible to evolve software. Call it "test only development"--write the tests and then grow a progr
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by BaronSamedi 10y ago
I get the idea behind the "reality has a well known liberal bias" shibboleth. I think, however, that a more accurate and less self-serving formulation is that reality is non-partisan. Reality doesn't care about anyone's
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One of the things the old expert systems like MYCIN could do was answer the question "Why", as in, why did you come to that conclusion? And it would show its reasoning. I may be mistaken but I don't think that the new, neural
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I completely agree. "Style" is a great book--short and practical.
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The IBM book "Developing Quality Technical Information" is the best I've read on technical writing. For writing style, pickup any novel by Hemingway and copy it. You can also Google "how to write like Hemingway" for
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by BaronSamedi 10y ago
I support research in AI of all kinds, however, its history is one of vastly over-promising and under-delivering. Modest but demonstrable progress is better, in my view, than yet more hype.
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I would say that it is a point of deep learning rather than "the whole point". For an AI to interact with the real-world then building models from vision (as we do) makes a lot of sense. In the virtual world, however, it makes no
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by BaronSamedi 10y ago
An AI which can learn any game from "looking" at a screen is a very ambitious goal. I doubt it is achievable in the near term. Humans can do it because of years of learning about the world. Personally, I prefer the more modest and
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Unless I missed something it looks like the AI has to learn from screen pixels instead of getting game state data. I don't like that approach at all. I understand that it's easy to implement for OpenAI but I think having the game
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by BaronSamedi 10y ago
There is a whole field in cognitive psychology, cognitive learning theory, devoted to this topic. One element of learning theory that may be of interest to HN readers is their notion of a "schema" (not an RDBMS schema). Schemas ar
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An historical perspective, which older programmers at their best bring to a project, is important in my view. When you look at the history of software systems you see that the better technology rarely wins in the marketplace. A lot of thing
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Where is the FDA on this one? The problem should be solvable by bans. FDA does random sampling, if your product is found to be adulterated, then you are banned from importing into the US for 5 years.
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Obviously it means: a) get some boxes, b) get some ingredients, c)place said ingredients in the boxes until they reach the top, and d) eat them. Doing this, however, is a poor health decision according to the OP.
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I wonder how good or useful a civility algorithm might be in this case? Aren't sentiment analysis tools pretty good now? Finding examples of rude and uncivil comments on the Internet certainly won't be a problem.
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My reaction was the same. I would argue that the requirement is even stronger: the hypothesis must be verified by different scientists over time. One of the key roles of the scientific method is error correction for bugs in our mental machi