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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Fisher information is key and turns up in a lot of fundamental places. I'm currently slowly working my way through a text on Information Geometry and another on Ideals and varieties. There is only a limited time one can devote to constant
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I've only recently come across the technique myself. I think the hype is because it is new (well new in old new thing kind of way). What I find interesting is the duality like relationship between MCMC and variational methods. Variational m
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Someday I will fundamentally understand Bayesian probability. By understand I mean to grasp the links between thermodynamics ,learning, blackholes , cosmology, optimization , probability, bayesianism & quantum mechanics. Stuff like wh
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What happens when* private citizens can have access to this? In Marrooned in Real Time , written 25 years ago, Vernor Vinge posits it would lead to the collapse of government and the rise of sovereignty of the individual. Is this likely? V
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I do not agree with your interpretation. What he said was: >>>"There's no Foxconn in the rocket business. And rocket technology is also considered an advanced weapons technology so you can't really have such a situation - so i
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Evolution does not work that way. Evolution does not refine beyond what is good enough, it does not refactor. Genomes do not adapt, genes which encode phenotypes that are best at getting its owners to maximize reproduction with respect to a
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
This service would be even more awesome with self driving vans optimizing logistics. Now to solve the delivery from van to door problem - as usual the last 1% takes as much effort as the previous 99%.
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I can imagine two future timelines where facebook turns out big. Facebook could do either: 1. Figure out when people want something and what they want. And insert suggestive ads in people's streams in a way that is not creepy. Or gamble t
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In case they come to dominate as the input devices to eyewear displays in a (possibly haptic) glove like form factor; I've been mentally preparing myself to not arbitrarily dismiss these devices and learn their use. Such resistance to chan
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I can only speak on why such a perception appears to hold. Anyone is free to spend their money in whatever manner they wish. But they cannot choose how people will percieve such actions, rational or not. The following reasons are why power
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I tend to find Searle's discussions on AI to be overly simplistic. I find that scenario highly unlikely. Regardless of how you choose to interpret the research on the neuroscience of where decisions to action originate, it is clear that the
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3D printing of organs is also really awesome. http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidn...
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The third world would not be well served by ipads. How much time have you spent there? Reading is not a common activity or ability. But who knows what 20 years will hold. For what it's worth, Ipads and other tablets are already sold there.
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> Just as we would not suggest everyone would be capable of calculus Programming is a broad spectrum. There are parts that are of comparative difficulty to calculus* and there are parts of similar difficulty to prealgebra. No one is sa
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I agree with him when he says computers should be smarter, more intelligent. I am working on a project that explores this idea. You would probably put it as programming a computer by communicating with it. Balancing preemption with annoyanc
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I have been through the range of experiences to say with 100% confidence that I do not fall in your set of We. So your rule cannot apply universally. Whether I had a very lot or only a little, I have never been one to compare myself materi
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You don't even need to travel through time to witness suffering, space is good enough. For perspective rebalancing reading, just pay attention to the news and average living conditions (not to speak of those who suffer relative to their ave
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Your conclusion on time is exactly why learning basic programming stuff like Variables, If then and For loops are powerful. That is because unlike plumbing, electrical, cars, landscaping and like reading, writing and numeracy, basic program
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Lets go over this carefully as the concepts are slippery. Lack of continuous experience of an event does not mean you died, it is merely memory loss. Assuming the very reasonable theory that consciousness is classical and emergent from the
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Yes, that's why I made a note of its dialect nature. But I still count it as something that sprung from interesting work in the JVM community that deserves to be noticed on its own. In this case, the output as javascript is almost incidenta
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Very interesting languages are being built for both the CLR and JVM. On the JVM the main ones I know of are Scala, Clojure and Kotlin. I think ClojureScript deserves mention even if a dialect due to the thoughts it allows one to think more
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Hi, one thing I found confusing in your syntax was that the function definition makes it look tupled but application is in the typical style of curried functions.
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Harder is an understatement =) The bubbles don't solve Steiner Trees per se, they just give decent approximations. They are susceptible to local minimums. Scott Aaronson has given demonstrations against these claims.
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My naive guess is hill climbing based on chemical gradients. I have a strong hunch that large networks settle at local optimums.
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It is not clear that what you have to say has anything to do with the article. This article is about a child who is clearly intelligent, manipulative and possessive of unhealthy behaviors outside the norm. Instead it appears that you prefer
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http://www.med.wisc.edu/news-events/news/psychopaths-brains-... The study showed that psychopaths have reduced connections between the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), the part of the brain responsible for sentiments such as empat
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In the 1970s, Doyne Farmer, then a graduate student, used the world's first wearable computer to beat roulette tables in Nevada, but never revealed how he did it. Wait, I thought Claude Shannon with some help from Ed Thorpe were the first
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hi antirez, do you have a top contender from the current crop or a suspicion of which/what C Next would be like? I would guess that you would also eliminate languages like ATS, Felix, Rust and Vala. What about languages like Cyclone, decac,
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Some people have noted that personal ownership of a self driving car is non-optimal in terms of effective use of this tech. But you make an excellent indirect connection. Since these things would be be most effective with a lot of usage, el
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It is a declarative language. But the underlying math of SQL is that of relations. It's closer to prolog than to Haskell. I don't know much about the theory of SQL but at least I can draw on the analogy of deriving algorithms in a Relationa

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