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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
The best explanation for this paradox and one that should be especially convincing to computer scientists is that the kolmogorov complexity of any brain aware enough to have consistent memories is higher than the universe which contains it.
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
Very true that AT&T was no saint but it should come as no surprise that Bell Labs is romanticized when one looks at how Epic their output was. From a sample of their employees we have: Information Theory , karnaugh maps, the transist
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
To start on this you would want a system that got rewarded based on how well it was able to predict aspects of its environment. This would have to go in hand with preferring stimulation, so you would need something like preference for inpu
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
This idea is a generalization of Solomonoff's work on induction from the dawn of Computing. Solomonoff was one of the initial 3 discoverers of Kolmogorov Complexity (Chaitin being the other). MDL is an attempt at a computable Kolmogoro
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
To counterbalance, it is important to know that the structure of fullerenes strongly affects their chemical properties and hence toxicity. It does not immediately follow that just because CNTs are rolled up graphene that graphene will be ju
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
> In a programming context if you today reduce all your variable names to single latin letters and all your function names to single greek letters, you will be widely mocked and reviled. Serious question. What do you think is the general
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
Very interesting I was not aware unsupervised pretraining was a distant second to availability of data and Flops. So really, deep learning is essentially the same old MLP of recent peasant like status (90's). Stacks of backpropagating
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
Ah such a shame. Tried to resist but I can't help pointing out you missed a chance to explain how when Fourier discovered the expansion, it really was an example of "one weird trick all the Mathematical Physicists will hate him fo
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
Such a wonderful product. Also an uncommonly informative video that sent my mind going at 826 miles per hour. If their product is a window to the future I looked out and saw, in 20 years: Loads of people walking around with even better 3D s
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
Very true, glad I'm not the only one to have noticed this. And I've got a suggestion for a search engine so intelligent - well relatively - it took google back to school and enrolled it in kindergarten. I find myself using it when
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
More than Erlang I think what Google really wanted was Ada. Since speed (ada can be very fast with low memory usage) and programming at scale were as much concerns as concurrency (they both take inspiration from CSP). Ada trades verbosity f
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
A minor correction. Erlang was inspired by actors while Go is inspired by CSP. Both models share a lot but have a few distinguishing factors in how they handle communication. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_s
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
I haven't written anything in Rust yet but one of its most interesting aspects is its support for linear types. I expect that will share the same kind of perspective enriching attribute of learning logic, array or functional paradigms.
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
There is nothing inherently bad with turing complete type systems aka allow powerful logic but aren't total (there are ways to avoid proof inconsistency). Other than the risk of non terminating type checking/compilation, the issue
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
I think he is focusing on VR. Though he prefers AR, he does not consider it as productive a way to spend one's efforts in the near term. " So my personal opinion (which is not necessarily Valve’s) is that it makes sense to do VR n
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
I don't see how one can string together more than three words without tripping over a metaphor - or at least a close relative. It is literally (not metaphorically) the scaffolding of the mind, the threads with which we weave concepts i
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
Not gullible, just giving her the benefit of the doubt. It could turn out that she had some guidance, or has worked with people (though not as a programmer) and is smart + good enough memory to osmos some good practices, or took some class
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
Exactly. Often it is not the innovators that end up benefiting from showing everyone the value of a new idea (1). Most innovative work is very long term and there are simply not many channels to fund such work. Innovation is often too far u
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
I can't say but whenever I hear about something that 'defies' theory [n] I like to take a moment and. Imagine that the anomaly in question was constructed by unimaginably developed beings. Of plasma, computronium and other un
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
The important bit is that the bus fares are completely irrelevant now. Most of my life I've thought that malaise amongst the oppressed was the stable state. But these protests suggest that is either wrong, or something has shifted the
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
I call convergent evolution on this one. A convex optimization problem. It's the simplest explanation. They need a broadly accessible response, so that gives like what 2000 words? By the time you account for the various pits of contrad
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
There is a lot of sense in this. From youth we've been trained that nuclear radiation is associated with cancer, Godzilla and mutant fish. My own irrational hate of Nuclear Fission plants comes from the hard learned lessons of Civilization
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
Actually, I still think you are right. You know how in pictionary when someone gives an absurd suggestion that is actually not so absurd because you end up mentally responding with 'I guess if you look at it like blah blah..'? I think that'
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
Why do you so handily dismiss the article without addressing its content? He is bringing 'expensive' care to people who would otherwise be ignored and making more money to boot. He is doing this by being more efficient, distributed, modular
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
Counterpoint. I was surprised by it. A couple weeks ago I decided to start recording any search phrases which I felt were tricky or required good language modelling. " baby features kept in adulthood " is the only one I've thought worth rec
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by Dn_Ab 13y ago
I'm uncertain from your description but have you heard of QuickCheck or http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/smallcheck/ ? QuickCheck might be available in some form in your language.
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
You misconstrued. Reject as little as possible (<> reject little) was the motivation with respect to more naive random walks which suffer at dimensionality. I was not talking about leniency of proposal, where you are of course cor
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Yeah I know that it is to aid in the computation of intractable inference, I should have been more careful in my wording. I am not saying it works by generating correlated samples, I'm saying because of how it works it will exhibit autocorr
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
My reading is that they're generating programs of gradually increasing length using markov chains (because the original superoptimizer work was generating random programs of progressively greater length until one worked). So not really a c
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Searching within a grammar was recently discussed in Gelman's blog. http://andrewgelman.com/2013/02/26/an-ai-that-builds-a-stati...

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