Dn_Ab

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   by Dn_Ab 16y ago

   It has to do with making parallel programming more palpable. See http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4178
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   by Dn_Ab 16y ago

   I think there are about two classes roughly. The mathematically pure functions crowd with emphasis on correctness and the expressive power camp (which also helps with correctness indirectly). I fall in the latter camp where functional progr
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   by Dn_Ab 16y ago

   Well the loophole is not really a loophole more like an escape hatch in that NFLT was shown to not be applicable for certain types of coevolutionary algorithms like say pareto coevolution. The way I understand it is that in essence the no f
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   by Dn_Ab 16y ago

   >It’s why we take lucky rabbits’ feet into casinos instead of putting our money in a CD, why we quit steady jobs to start risky small businesses. Again, I am probably biased but I think this indirect comparison is nonsense. While one
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   by Dn_Ab 16y ago

   I am probably biased but I think he makes the same mistake he is arguing against. Base rate neglect is due to an inability to calculate a conditional probability properly - assuming P(A given B) = P(B given A). In a similar type of fallacy,
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   by Dn_Ab 16y ago

   I am not sure I agree with your take on neural networks. Neural network is a vague terminology. But most people mean multilayer perceptrons which I agree are not very useful. But logistic regression is a very widely used 'single layer neura
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   by Dn_Ab 16y ago

   There are lots of techniques. Really simple and effective methods are naive bayes and kNN. Other methods include decision trees and logistic regression which seems to be popular at Google from what I can indirectly infer from their papers.
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   by Dn_Ab 16y ago

   Simulated Annealing with restarting is a simpler, less finicky and robust one to use in place of GAs. But since the No Free Lunch theorem for optimization says that the general applicability of any optimization algorithm is as bad as every
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   by Dn_Ab 16y ago

   >Also, the article mentions Harold Bradley as "among the first traders to explore the power of algorithms in the late '90s", completely omitting much earlier pioneers such as Peter Muller and David E. Shaw Don't forget the super pioneer
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    Thanks, that was helpful. I'll have to take on that course as I do need to work on communicating clearly. The unedited stream of thought thing does a good job of hiding what I am trying to say. counter-productive.
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    I am new here and so do not understand the intricacies of this community. Is there anything particularly offensive or especially stupid about my comment? I tried to be careful but perhaps I failed and so would appreciate any insight for fur
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    I think programming is a vague term. If programming just means rigorously encoding an imprecise set of instructions then while not easy I cannot say it is especially difficult. But if your programming involves complex mathematics,physics, l
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    Perhaps I should I have clarified with No Limit. Yes heads up limit poker bots are pretty high standard. But No Limit (and 6+ players) is the real interesting game to solve.
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    Game theoretically optimal strategies for poker can only be reasonably approximated so there remains room for even these strategies to be exploited.
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    I doubt it. Not for another 7-10 years at least to beat the likes of pros.
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    will the open tournament be limited to python as well? I've got a fair code base invested in F# already laying about.
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    Off the top of my head I know of haXe, York Haskell Compiler. And WebSharper on F# allows you to do some cool stuff.
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    My comment was an argument as to why Mozilla's choice not to introduce this dependency was not a bad one - there is no technical reason why the fast execution multiple language advantages of NaCl cannot be architected into a javascript vm.
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    And so the pendulum has swung back. I believe Mozilla's action is rational assuming my logic is not flawed. See if you can unravel it. Premise: The more indistinguishable a browser gets from its underlying operating system the more of the p
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    I'm neither a linguist nor a psychologist so I'm just going to chalk it up to how amazingly flexible the human brain is. I found out about that language from reading http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html . But I've h
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    Scala does that because ad hoc polymorphism doesnt resolve well with hindley milner type inference. F# also has this limitation and they get some of the way around this with a strict vertical projects file layout. The scope of its type infe
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    Having an unflappable sense of direction/true north is not transhuman though. You just have to have been raised speaking any languages that uses geographic coordinates instead of the typical egocentric ones. Such as: http://en.wikipedia.or
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    I liked this article. Especially the end bit on poker since teaching my laptop to play poker (NL Holdem) is a bit of hobby of mine. Its learning very well and is already much better than me (I am only above average from a random sample of h
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    While I side with his statement, I neither like the condescending tone of his phrasing. But i believe he means advanced, 'esoteric', fancy smarty pants stuff like functional languages. One can spend aeons frivolously debating why pragmatism
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    I am not a game developer but I believe its an issue of legacy, tooling, libraries, tutorials, documentation and tradition. As late as 2002 I was still seeing C vs C++ speed arguments in gamedev forums.
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    There is a joke that goes more or less that any sufficiently advanced AI is indistinguishable from 'just' statistics. But statistics (the unreasonable effectiveness of data) and the philosophy of probability are very profound topics that de
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    I read and enjoyed the article. Was not boring to me. I am extremely interested in machine learing and get excited about things like graphical models, MCMC, hybrid monte carlo, online learning, reinforcement learning, deep learners, sparse
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    Occams razor and statistical reasoning. The likelihood that the population contains a (normal) distribution with a not smart mean while also containing enough technical sophistication to create the products they do seems low. no business sk
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    ah conditional probability. I wonder how many thousands of years of development we as a society have lost from a lack of understanding of this concept. If there is a piece of maths that should be drilled into every student more than any ot
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    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    I prefer to look at general relativity not as exceptions to Newtons Laws but rather, Newton's Laws as a special limiting case of the more general theory of relativity. So I posit a theory: For any given theory, there are areas outside its