Dn_Ab

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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
Yatima, an Orphan Mind of the Konishi Polisi is an excellent example of a Synthetic Intelligence as a main character. Ve's alien but you don't really notice cause the writing is so good. The remaining fields — where no changes to
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
I think you're correct in that what you're working on comes before what comes after programming languages†; you're working on the penultimate paradigm. Being able to trace, visualize, give context to and zoom in and out of th
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
This is a wonderful post. One minor aspect which nags me is that when I read "any function", I think any "effectively calculable method". But regular feedforward MLPs are not Turing Complete (will you be going over recur
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
If you join a bunch of perceptrons together that limitation goes away. Another path is to make the problem effectively linear again by transforming into higher dimensions, kernels do this with one clever trick that allows them to avoid the
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
pjungwir's example code is actually really close to what you'd see in F#. In F# you'd typically write it in a more functional way with say a recursive inner function but I'll leave it imperative for clarity's sake:
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
I think once the aliens got past the whole meat thing they'd find much common ground as fellow bigoted beings.
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
Where Ocaml is better : - Single Core Speed (Ocaml is fast) - native compilation without requiring some installed runtime - Polymorphic Variants (Last I read, to be used only when regular variants are not sufficient) - Modules and Functors
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
Why would they? They neither mention other close cousins like Standard ML, second cousins like Haskell or distant relatives like Scala. This is targeted squarely at the 1% of languages that control 60% of mindshare wealth.
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
While you're correct that real money markets will do a better job of filtering the less knowledgeable, play money markets are still able to hold their own against real money PMs. There have not been many studies comparing the two, but
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
My own guess of their method is that it's built upon a philosophy of very short lifetimes for any given strategy. I'd guess they've optimized their ability to track the life cycle of a strategy, and perhaps generalized to dif
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
In many ways our relationship with AI is reminiscent of the one we used to have with gods and spirits. Thanks to the AI Effect , one day, we will be able to point to each aspect of intelligence and find that actually, it's just some b
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
Here is my natural (without any extra effort thinking about speed) F# solution: (for calibration I have the C++, unchanged, times) | 217 | 255 | 206 | 0.5 s (C++ 1.6s) | 317 | 355 | 306 | 1 s (C++ 4.8s) | 617 | 655 | 606 | 3.5
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
-> tptacek This has all the hallmarks of a Veblen Good. Cutting the price of the ices could well backfire if the key attraction is in signalling to all how much you're willing to spend for quality pre-melted water.
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
A little bit more than last year they did an impressive* demo from English -> Mandarin. There were slight errors that sometimes flipped meaning (but only slightly hindering, which made it more believable). This seems to be a first step
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
I picked up an allergy for WYSIWYG while reading through the works of Engelbart. It's not flexible enough and locks you down to a way of think which does not properly leverage the advantages of our new medium; related: >Our approach
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
The bias is not magical at all if it is against complexity - it's what underpins occam's razor.
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
The no free lunch theorem states that, the performance of any two search algorithms are equivalent when averaged across all possible problems. This fails to hold in coevolutionary settings - selecting a champion through self play. In such
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
I think Xcelerate meant polynomial - which is an exponential improvement. It is not known but strongly believed that quantum computers cannot solve NP-complete problems. Be wary of anything that has "quantum computer" and "ex
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
Simulating classical systems results in slow downs that are only polynomially with respect to system size while quantum systems slow exponentially. Consider that a quantum system of n qubits would require a classical system able to cope wit
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
The short answer for why dinosaurs got so large is because they could. That might seem a flippant answer but they had much less constraints than most animals left living today: Air sacs not only allowed more efficient breathing but were als
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
Analogies are lossy but one way to think of corecursion/recursion is that corecursion turns the seed into a maple tree and recursion eats the tree's branches and spits out a table leg or something. Corecursion is generative and (s
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
Wikipedia lists some active (in Germany and Iceland) and proposed demonstrations of the general concept. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-neutral_fuel#Demonstrati...
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
Chemical fuels have a great energy density. Problem is, they dump carbon into the air when you burn them (and also basic pollutants) Exactly! > So we just need: 1) fusion or similar "lots of 'free' energy" Utilizing
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
It's much more economical to extract from the ocean, higher concentrations and working from largest sink mitigates a lot of envirodamage of CO2: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA...
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
You're right that they're incorrect to say RPS can't be understood in terms of the Nash Equilibration concept. Possibly they mistook RPS's lack of a Pure Equilibrium to mean NE is inapplicable. Instead, it has a Mixed Na
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
Arthropod was supposed to be the next word of the title, but understandably, the author of the piece was short on time. The article's about the fossil of an ancient great ancestor of shrimps. The fossil has spectacularly well preserved
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by Dn_Ab 12y ago
To the contrary, your list smartens the languages up. Your list describes a typical functional programming language, and I certainly would not say most such users are mediocre: 'extra braces (or no braces in favor of white space), no j
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
You know, there are other languages than Haskell doing interesting things. Ada2012 for example, introduced design by contract with support for formal verification in conforming subprograms. This may be a near term more practical path than d
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
You know what would be totally awesome? A cryptocoin whose core workings are derived from Charity . A coin based on Charity† would offer stronger safety guarantees for complex contracts than any other existing or proposed coin (certainly
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
Sidenote: You can tell Woz is an amazing genuinely good person with no hint of pretension or self importance. A lot can be discerned about famous personalities by who they choose to follow. For example, you can tell whether the person has

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