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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
The article can be efficiently summed as: Computer Science is not always Math, sometimes it is more of a Science or Engineering or something of all of them. I think this is one of those places where a word has different meanings to differen
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Luckily, our universe has exploitable structure. The No Free lunch theorem is as much a headache to Searching as the Halting problem is to programming - not really one.
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The problem is that what you call the actual answer - DPRK - is subjective. By picking DPRK you need a more intelligent algorithm than fuzzy string matching because you are looking for the right answer in terms of semantic knowledge of coun
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Not disagreeing but I think the story is more complicated than that. I think Applying yourself is necessary but not sufficient for even half the battle. Self Application is itself a skill that is randomly distributed across the population.
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I submitted this article not because I agreed with it but because I could not disagree with it. I am not satisfied with the internet as it is. I feel like what we have in the internet currently is amazing. It really does help level the worl
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When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?(wired.com)
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_delirium's post acknowledges your point but is looking for an even rarer person: "There could be more of them in the future, but someone who is top-notch at all of statistics, programming, and data-presentation has long been less common t
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
I see in this thread that a number of people are talking past each other, each with a different subtle sub definition of the word "know". I know of 7 basic subcategories of know - all but the last susceptible to phrasing: (1) Knowledge that
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
To work with ML stuff you don't need much. You can just download packages and get experience with how to best pick models, choose features and tweak (hyper)parameters. If you want to work on or understand it then you will need math. You nee
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
In case anyone clicks his link to Variational Methods and is confused to find an article on quantum mechanics, as inspirational and arguably related as it may be, I think he actually meant to link to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
I am much stronger in F# than Python and have already invested time in building a decent codebase in it. Also I personally think better in statically typed functional languages. I did not write the SO post which also is based on just word f
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
Hey I hadn't seen the technique above either. But I've certainly heard of your work. Unfortunately I am not able to share in the bounty that is NLTK. Anyways, it is really hard to judge these things (statistical recommenders) since the metr
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
Although it sometimes gives similar results, its not tf-idf. It is simpler so faster for this task. If it has a name I don't know it, its just an idea I had: Sentences with the most uncertainty associated with them with respect to the docu
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Here is a simple recipe to do similar that works decently well as a start off point: -------------------------------------------------------- Count how many times each word appears in the document into a dictionary or map structure Also mak
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I know that one :D, here I can help: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/d... I have considered this road, see this LtU discussion to see why this approach though wonderful, is still too limited for general program
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I believe Eurisko and Automated Mathematician generated programs that could be interpreted in such a manner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Mathematician
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This is brilliant and well explained - I saw where you were headed just before you got there. And had a little clap of delight to see my suspicions were correct. However, don't you think the reason for the success of Maxwell is because the
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
I view unit tests as a kind of proof by counter-example. You have a logical structure your program embodies. This structure is very hard to specify mathematically and prove deductively so you come up with key statements that must at least e
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
Depends on the program. If it were computing all the twin primes it would warm up. Here the input would be round about - how long you kept the program running. And since each time a bit was erased or a non-not operation was done > klo
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
As a fervent math addict whose enjoyment reaches into my choice of programming language (functional) and who would be delighted to be gifted a text on differential forms, I think this question deserves to be asked. Math teaching is being ca
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The article is very confused but I think what it is trying to say the researchers are building a Hardware based Recurrent Neural Network that operates with Real Numbers (i.e. analog). Hence it will be exponentially more powerful than a turi
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I think Moore's law can help to an extent with approach 1, especially the protein folding bottleneck. We also need better computational techniques, taking more from dynamical systems maths for example. I think approach 2 can also inform app
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
You are right. I did not mean that sequencing shouldn't be done, what I meant was that the simple idea of sequence -> nearest match -> most appropriate treatment won't work due to the massive amount of variance involved. So the sequ
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What I got from this: - Cancer is complex, its profile is not that of 1 disease but many hundreds of diseases - Sequencing Cancers and attempting to find a match to suggest a treatment will not work, each cancer is unique and itself made up
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Do you think that there are other portions of the universe capable of comprehending itself? Other than this pale blue dot, do you think there are parts of the universe that manage a reasonable projection of its entirety into a small low en
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Wow that sounds amazing. Thanks for that. I can think of how such an architecture would be useful to many types of Machine Learning algorithms. Especially agent and deep learner type networks, also meta-heuristic approaches. AI is a lot ab
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hah yes, you're both right, although I've played it enough that certain states of the CPU of my old computer started to get worn out. So I can now stop after a small number of 1 more turns. But no, I don't play on 15 minute breaks - I did n
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I do something similar with Alpha Centrauri. Especially if you play University or the Cybernetics, the idea of advancing tech to restart civilization on a barren planet, the writing and the speculative technologies motivate me to want to g
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I agree with what you said on Africa and other poor geographies. As you note, the problem is not that the money is being loaned rather than given, it's that most of the money is being diverted into corrupt pockets. But I would go further an
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
This reply may never be read... but I was responding to the question "Where do you draw the line?" So I pointed to where my line was drawn. The given thought was completely independent of what is appropriate for teaching.

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