Cybiote

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by Cybiote 7y ago
Thanks, it is a well written article. The only part which tarnishes an otherwise excellent article is the language comparisons portion. Such things are best avoided as they almost always reflect the biases of or where the author has the mos
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The original Church Turing thesis concerns itself with computability and quantum computers do not violate it. The Extended version goes on to say a probabilistic TM can efficiently simulate all realistic models of computation. Quantum compu
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I don't know about uncomputable but for intractable, I think, and as rco8786 has already pointed out, dynamic programming sorts of fit the bill. Similarly, this is what reinforcement learning does for search. Recursive or sequential mo
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Buckminster Fuller made a similar observation or prediction even earlier, in the late 1930s. He called it ephemeralization, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization , the idea that increasing technological efficie
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This was a fascinating and wonderful read. As someone who also works on tools for thought, here's my review and criticisms. The material is long so this will be longish too. Review The bulk of the essay is on what the authors refer t
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By 100%, I mean that it should fail when it does not know the answer, not that it needs to be able to answer 100% of provided questions. It should not just output any answer. Alternatively, for the problems it knows how to do, a CAS should
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This is interesting, the authors encode expression trees in RPN format and use vanilla transformers plus seq2seq to decode solutions to certain integrals and differential equations. I suspect what's happening, given the constrained spa
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Here's a quite friendly elucidation by the inimitable Avi Wigderson, from: https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2009/wigderson-randomness-pseudora... > Let’s elaborate now on the connection (explained on the cover of
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To me there are two ways to look at this. Either the laws of physics as we have them are too general when compared to what can be encountered in reality (in other words, actual reality is simple enough that a Turing machine approximated by
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I did not read that as defending his art style, I saw it as getting at something deeper. His argument is not really about defending the quality of graphics in his games, they are much more about showing the calculus and weighing of his choi
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I think the ethics on this is quite clear. PRC is not trying to share their ideas in a fair manner. Rather, they are trying to shape and manipulate beliefs by distorting the amount of support there is for their preferred take. It's nex
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Adding a little to your wonderful post, another possibility for why the conflation of the original lisp as based on the lambda calculus is that its notation was heavily inspired by the lambda calculus, even though it was more properly a ref
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I don't have a question, just wanted to say I found the Stereo Spanning example to be a genuine piece of art. The choice of voice and script were truly excellent, having such a robotic voice read the bot's lines was great. Their r
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I can't be long here so this will be short. There are quite a few places differential geometry is very useful to know. Generally, if you want to know at a fundamental level "what does it mean to learn, what is inference truly?&quo
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I'm a fan of functional languages and believe their implementation choices induce a unique approach to problem solving. Not necessarily better but different, which is enough on its own to justify such projects. While I prefer the funct
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Ocaml and F# are great languages but, rather than lament what language this excellent math library/framework is implemented in, lament that there is no F# equivalent or that projects like Owl outside Python don't really get the at
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One thing to keep in mind when comparing DuckDuckGo to Google is that people do not use Google with an alternative backup in mind. When you DDG something and it fails, you can always switch to google. But what about when Google fails? Unlik
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Interesting that you think that. I don't see it as humble-brag, more a defense for a style of collaboration whose contributions are not typically recognized or are difficult to notice as such. I do agree he goes too far in discounting
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You're right that it uses itself as a prototype for decisions but the fact that it also maintains a probability distribution over possible hole cards and that it updates according to observed actions is already richer than the local de
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I agree it's a wonderful resource. Which is exactly why I disagree with your suggestion. The book is uncommonly clear in how it explains fundamentals and bringing in such a powerful library ends up moving quite a bit away from that. It
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Note that 1) is only true if your opponent is also not making many mistakes. Which fails to be true for most humans, where the combination of randomization and calculating state appropriate ranges is very difficult. This means that weak pla
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Adaptability is certainly not necessary (almost by definition) if you're playing a near to equilibrium strategy but adaptability is a useful skill to have in a general non-stationary world. That said, for this bot, I wouldn't say
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If you think about it, any AI that's stopped learning and is now efficiently doing pattern matching or pattern completion (assuming memory and attractor states), instead of running a complex search, is arguably a fancy lookup table has
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I get a similar "is this by some kind of super-human intelligence?" feeling reading stuff from Oleg Kiselyov. http://okmij.org/ftp/
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I consider this argument flawed because it equates intelligence with human intelligence. The field is Artificial Intelligence, not Human Artificial Intelligence. A dog is intelligent, as is a pigeon. Even bees and some mollusks, like the cu
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Your question is excellent but I sort of arrive at an opposite conclusion. Before I explain, I want to point out that bees and jumping spiders are exceptional as far as insect* intelligence goes. The gist of my view is that evolution is the
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The page contains superb, high quality work. I find the negativity in this branch incomprehensible. I and I suspect, many others, did not see any of the other times the author posted it. I am probably not alone in being glad they persevered
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Yeah, you're always going to be reliant on third parties in a complex world. What is important is how beholden or locked in you are in any given arrangement. If you are free to move from one contractor to another because they are all i
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Firefox has that feature for every page that can be given a reader mode/view.
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What you list remains insufficient to tackle the difficulty of extrapolation. Extrapolation of the kind we're able to do with Physics theories is difficult in the general case for all methods, not just deep learning. With even the rele

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