Dn_Ab

93 ms·

1. 721.▲
   by Dn_Ab 16y ago

   I thought on this a bit. And I do believe you are correct. Because as you note, he did in fact condition the space such that 1/3 is the correct answer and is stretching. He goes on to say "Now this means that if we want to claim that the
2. 722.▲
   by Dn_Ab 16y ago

   Think of it in terms of a set of tuples and not a set. {(B,G), (G,B) , (B,B) , (G,G)}
3. 723.▲
   by Dn_Ab 16y ago

   I think category theory could be the maths for software engineers to the mechanical engineers calculus. Once you get past the arrows and weird Greek nomenclature you realize its just algebra. It seems a reasonable compromise to using formal
4. 724.▲
   by Dn_Ab 16y ago

   What I wonder is, what is the coverage of features used by Every User? It seems unlikely that every user uses the same 5% of features. Thus the question is, does there exist some set of equivalence classes of feature usage across Office use
5. 725.▲
   by Dn_Ab 16y ago

   I disagree with everything you say on multiple points. Firstly, Mathematicians don't peak at an early age this is just one of the many nonsense Hardy spouted. And I say this as a non mathematician < 25 who just enjoys the history of sci
6. 726.▲
   by Dn_Ab 16y ago

   > Betting on a social guru with no technology training is like betting on the Mayans. I find this analogy to be incorrect and extremely muddled at best and insensitive at worst. Betting on the Mayans to what? As a civilization? They ar
7. 727.▲
   by Dn_Ab 16y ago

   While language does not limit or boost what is expressible, conceivable or knowable it does impose a default in how we structure the world and what details we take in as important. There was a fairly interesting article in the NYT recently
8. 728.▲
   by Dn_Ab 16y ago

   > It's not uncommon to have reasonably long conversations where you think you're communicating, only to find out that your conversations were entirely parallel . I suspect this is not unique to japanese. I bet this happens a lot in all
9. 729.▲
   by Dn_Ab 16y ago

   Unlikely since natural transformations are a statement on how a particular collection of functions behave under composition.
10. 730.▲
    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    yea, anyone who has ever done differentiation or messed with probabilities involving random variables has played with 'higher order functions'.
11. 731.▲
    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    yep. and i suppose you won't be surprised to learn its called the pipeline operator.
12. 732.▲
    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    Agree with all your points except the private military part... One day I'm going to write about the many ways by which people conflate joint, conditional probability and probability spaces... It is true that the chance of a random individua
13. 733.▲
    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    OT: What ML algorithms have you implemented? How has Scala helped/hindered this? I'm considering doing the same.
14. 734.▲
    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    You emphasize two points that I would also like to add to. 1) Functional languages makes parallel programming magically easy. This is something that is misleading as you point out. Functional languages (where you have not used mutable state
15. 735.▲
    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    exactly. The way I see it, as the average life span of a human increases the pace of life will slow to a more leisurely elven type speed. Things are a lot more complex and there is a great deal more to know than say a century or even half a
16. 736.▲
    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    I doubt its much like either, although a distributed network might be our current best but still poor guess. At any given time period people are always comparing the brain to their most salient piece of current technology. While at each ste
17. 737.▲
    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    I only skimmed the article but it looks like he is more or less talking about the expression problem brought up by Philip Wadler some time ago. Definitely multiple dispatch can solve this problem but if we stick to the original definition o
18. 738.▲
    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    Excellent point there are many types of polymorhism (hehe) ad hoc, subtype etc. As a functional programmer when I hear polymorphism I default to parametric polymorphism. This guy is not talking about polymorphism at all but instead the limi
19. 739.▲
    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    P = NP would touch almost every field known to man: maths (e.g. it would only be matter of search to take down the remaining Clay Problems), philosophy, engineering, biology, physics. The tie to physics is particularly interesting: for exam
20. 740.▲
    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    Here is a good link. http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/a-proof-that-p-is-n... The suspence is killing me. As an observer I'm worried that there is some small error in the core of his argument that will cause the whole thing to unra
21. 741.▲
    by Dn_Ab 16y ago

    Unfortunately I must say that this method is flawed. The are two key implicit assumptions that break the whole thing. The lesser one first - You are assuming that the sample you have taken is a good estimate of the true probabilities. You h