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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
I was curious as to what proportion of each language achieved a perfect score. A quick script [1] sorted by Percent which reached perfect score and then by qualified resulted in the below - mean of advanced/lang is: ~90%, most (26) langs ei
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
Mere mortals like myself cannot access that paper. Its behind a paywall. could not find on google either
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
I remember reading about this some time back and being amazed. I forgot about it in the meantime. Now I see it and I am like wait that is "just" genetic programming. A month or so ago I spent about a day playing with genetic programming wit
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
Best as I can tell I don't think we disagree. You are saying that antimatter should react the same way with respect to gravity as matter does right? Then I agree. I do not think antimatter will be found to fall up or be repelled.
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by Dn_Ab 15y ago
Well, in the same manner that a cow is spherical. :) I use it to motivate that antimatter is not so different from matter and not this exotic thing.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Antimatter is not going to help you there. You need exotic matter of the negative mass kind. which are not thought to exist.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Antimatter is just matter moving backwards in time, so it interacts with photons (which by the way, is its own antiparticle). This is one line of reasoning which strongly suggests antimatter should fall down not up in a gravitionational fie
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
The Kelly criterion is essentially just optimizing the expected value of the log of your net worth. It was known in some form to Daniel Bernoulli in the late 1700s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox#Expected... . Anyway k
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
For me it is the price barrier. Being able to use a language like F# on the iphone would be awesome.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Its a niche for now. But local intelligence in mobile software is going to matter more and more as ad hoc and sensor networks become more common - otherwise the explosion of data might as well not have happened.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
It's not that clear cut though. I've been thinking about this question since I was about 9 and the conclusion I came to as I stepped off that circle is that the distinction is meaningless because they are dual to one another and hence not s
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Wow. Thank you. I wish I could upvote you more. I have never looked into Google's "MapReduce" but if what you say is true then my assumptions on it were completely wrong. I assumed it was 1-1 with map and reduce. But if it is generating a s
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
The way I like to look at it is: even if I am not particularly smart, I am not going to let that fact get in the way of anything I wish to do [n]. I say don't underestimate the power of concept reframing, perspective changes, weaknesses lev
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Feynman's I.Q. was reputedly 125. He was a genius.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Unfortunately, in terms of learning the same proportions of the total sum of knowledge as the old renaissance men, attaining real renaissance personhood is impossible at current life spans. Boosting learning velocity/capacity/efficieny shou
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Very well explained. Thanks. And its how I understand it. I see search as having to do with combinatorial exploration and optimization as having to do with exploring vector spaces. You switch to heuristics in search when the space is too bi
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I agree with you, most of those methods are local and optimization is a form of search typically used for continuous and usually differentiable spaces. One can also say search is a form of optimization. But Based on my readings genetic algo
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
In functional languages we have the modern motivations in two parts. Well one really, but one of the sub parts is so big it deserves a section of its own. Contributions to AI in the form of automated mathematicians is a descendant of Axioma
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
It goes the other way too. Reinforcement learning and control theory are also very useful for general machine learning. That's part of the problem - engineers, statisticians and computer scientists keep inventing different views of the same
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Ever since Euclid listed (collected?) his axioms the march towards AI became inevitable. People don't realize how much AI "failures" have contriubted to computing, programming and society in general. Some examples include lisp, functional p
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I don't believe it needs to be that way. Why was one of my personal heroes, George Green able to do what he did? Through Thomson, Maxwell, and others, the general mathematical theory of potential developed by an obscure, self-taught miller
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
By your parenthetical I assume you know of chaotic systems. But yeah, its been some time since I read philosophy but I vaguely remember that you still aren't guaranteed free will just cause things are undeterministic. This is because since
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
This is also an issue in Dependent Types. But the case is not as clear cut as you paint it as some argue that the expressibility lost and complexity gained in the system by forcing type checking to terminate is not worth it in practice. ht
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I really like what they are doing in Nemerle 2. http://code.google.com/p/nemerle-2/ (Not associated in any way)
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
This post is not fair to history. First, many theologians of old were first rate thinkers. Although much of their work was practical (philosophy in this case heh) they made contributions to logic, physics and uhm philosophy. Perhaps you hav
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Oh I did not know that. I guess I was tricked by the wording in this sentence: "Artemis is built on an analytics platform called InfoSphere Streams that, like Watson, emerged from IBM research into ways that software can make decisions on
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Watson is used here the same way people use Hoover and Kleenex. I thought the article would be about IBM beginning to refit their question/answering inference system for aiding in diagnosis at hospitals. But it is not. The article is about
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Arguing which language is better is like trying to place a total ordering on the complex numbers or figuring out if the hulk or superman would win in a fight, futile. Each language is different and excels at it's own niche. Ocaml has functo
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Well, no. Because the distance, especially the idiomatic distance, between C and Java is much more than the distance between F# and Ocaml. The core languages of both are essentially equivalent. Ocaml and F# have diverged a fair bit in their
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
The concept is mind boggling and very humbling due to the time scales involved. We can talk about an event that won't happen (we won't observe) till a thousand years from now although it already happened 6000 years ago by inferring from phy

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