BooglyWoo

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by BooglyWoo 9y ago
Also sounds a bit like Thompson's Lamp. EDIT: Whoops, that's pretty much the same thing as Zeno's paradox.
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by BooglyWoo 9y ago
I don't want to ban anything; I was just explaining how the potential effects of Popper's intolerance paradox cannot easily be solved with legislation.
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by BooglyWoo 9y ago
Because it's hard to unanimously and unequivocally identify those who are intolerant as such. Owing to the beguiling nature of language and rhetoric, the intolerant can thrive and propagate by arguing that they're not in fact into
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by BooglyWoo 9y ago
As another user TheOtherHobbes noted, humans share this characteristic with insects to some extent: > Wild solo humans are only a little smarter than wolves individually, but being able to share and externalise invention and learning cre
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by BooglyWoo 9y ago
In this case, the guy has been spearheading a very high performance, innovative methodology for real-time object detection. Companies interested in that task should be falling over themselves to hire him.
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by BooglyWoo 9y ago
Can't recommend the Mandelbrot book highly enough - he was a student of Paul Levy, and he wrote extensively about why Gaussian is not a good choice to model financial time series.
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by BooglyWoo 9y ago
It's a good article in a lot of ways, and provides some warnings that many neural net evangelists should take to heart, but I agree it has some problems. It's a bit unclear whether Fchollet is asserting that (A) Deep Learning has
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by BooglyWoo 9y ago
I think Bart's blood revitalised Mr Burns once.
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by BooglyWoo 9y ago
Have you seen hypernom.com for visualizing 4 dimensions?
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by BooglyWoo 9y ago
"Classical" CV and deep-learning CV needn't be opposing one another. There are several cases in which the classical approach is emulated by deep networks - implementing the same carefully thought-out pipelines but in a way th
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by BooglyWoo 10y ago
I think these images are called "Lissajous Figures".
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by BooglyWoo 10y ago
This site has an excellent series of in-depth interviews with Mandelbrot; profiling his early life, his capacity to think mathematically "in pictures", and goal to link seemingly disparate fields such as "social" and &qu
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by BooglyWoo 10y ago
Naive question maybe: why do news articles not cite sources and have a references section at the end, like academic articles?
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by BooglyWoo 10y ago
> You would think so. But my dad is a varsity Professor with a PhD, my mom has a Masters in English. They believe literally every cock and bull story they see on Facebook. I would guess that the difference between you and your parents is
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by BooglyWoo 10y ago
Mandelbrot cites his ability to "think in pictures" as fundamental to his process and insights. He offers some interesting reflections and anecdotes on this subject in this interview describing his classes préparatoires aux grande
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by BooglyWoo 10y ago
Me too. My reading of the Blue and Brown books led me to believe Wittgenstein's conception of meaning is inextricably tied up with the notion of "learning" and exposure to language and its use. Rather than meaning being conti
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by BooglyWoo 10y ago
I'm not sure that quite addresses the problem here. After all there is no clear definition of 'what dogs look like' (in the sense of a collection of logical rules), but deep learning models excel at detecting them, when provi
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by BooglyWoo 10y ago
I believe this problem is common to many types of machine learning classifiers (not even just neural nets). See the discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8721650
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by BooglyWoo 10y ago
I'm not convinced that a person who's never seen animals before could tell the difference between all future dogs and cats from a single training example. Humans draw upon a lifetime of learning and experience to achieve this &#x2