Dn_Ab

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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I don't think this is MCMC. The way I read it, monte-carlo was mentioned with regards to the idea of searching widely and sparsely. This is counter to the more targeted idea of MCMC, which generates a bunch of correlated samples to more eff
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Stop here if you haven't taken the poll. I think it is very readable but gives itself away by favoring certain phrases which suggest a template. Phrases like "we are done", "whenever", "therefore,[setting]". All the proofs are terse in gene
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Okay. So based on reading the comments I can surmise that this is just a wealthy kid who wrote an overly hyped trivial app, got his banker/attorney parents to pay celebrities to appear in his cliched demo video and due to the pull of his pa
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
You wish to be clinical about this? Consider. Your statement essentially assumes linearity, when such certainly isn't the case. Look at other industries, harassment lawsuits do not rise in tandem with number of women. This is obvious, one c
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Interestingly, I consider that a fair equilibrium. Not something to despair over. I think it would be worse if the director of the CIA could keep privacy but not random individual. That power does not affect ability to avoid lack of privacy
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Neanderthals buried their dead true but it is uncertain whether they performed burial rituals. So I would assign a value other than true or false. But it would be inline with the data to weight against burial rites by Neanderthals. Humans
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I think you're nitpicking. The good kind (good information in there) but still nitting. Developed, intellectually, culturally and so on is clearly what he meant. Reading the wiki link, it looks like sharks do not have this feature since the
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Right and excellent explanation. I was more disagreeing with your definition than saying it could not be done with "cross products" (although it's still bad terminology, biased to people that already know the concepts). That's why I couldn'
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Are you sure about that? The dot product gives a measure of the orientation between two vectors, the cross product gives perpendicularity and is vector valued (kind of, the distinction matters more for physics than graphics). It also only m
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
It's the first and part of the second. I've never heard of Korzybski but I arrived at a similar idea that makes physics easier to grasp. I prefer to say gravity is well modeled as curvature of a manifold instead of saying gravity is a ben
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
There is no science I can point to but I feel using language that way makes it as if the skill has become part of your identity. Makes it hard to detach. So that I insult Ruby or Apple and now I am insulting you. Google is dying means a big
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
After 15 years, my recipe for getting better. Remain curious and constantly confused. Do not use 'to be' verbs when describing interests or skills. Oh and most important. To do it all for fun not because you want to 'improve' yourself. The
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I don't think there is much point in trying to phrase it in terms of what X has that Y doesn't, such comparisons are fraught will peril and are more indicative of a person's past decisions on what language to take. Better to talk about trad
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Sure if you define the difference away anything can be the same. But you cannot expect them to always behave the same way. That is, { f_d(t) | t ∈ T} <> {f_s(t) : t ∈ T} where f : T -> T set takes a type and returns the set of
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
It is true that duck and structural typing have only a subtle difference. But it is also true that duck typing has to be at run time essentially by definition. Structural typing looks for structural isomorphsims - it is total. Duck typing l
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Incredible, subtextual is at least 30 years ahead of its time. I imagine they will be using it with a giant touch table/wall or a regular table, AR glasses and infrared beams to track your hands.
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
It's essentially a positive sum interaction. I dream of a future where nearly all interactions are as such.
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
There is certainly no argument against the fact that humans are no longer in the same league as chess bots but what is also true is that the combination of bots and humans can beat top specialist chess computers. Bots + Humans > Bots &#
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Because there are (especially in No Limit) many places human intuition destroys the bots. On top of this, the aids allow them to have some of the advantages of bots including, summary statistics of hands, betting patterns and styles for eve
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
It is very hard to make a bot that doesn't do stupid things. > 90% will fail and > 95% will fail to beat rake. Plus the top online poker players are basically half machine. They use stuff like Hold'em manager and various sites to an
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Which sites explicitly allow bots?
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Note that the person you are replying to specified No-Limit, which is much harder. It's been a while but last I looked the Alberta Group could only do Limit Poker.
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
This is not a generic claim on all to withhold comment pending details. Nothing so general. What I am saying is if someone asks for help, particularly in so public a manner, it would be useful to assume by default that things are more compl
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
There was his blog. Alas I did not frequent the right part of the internet to have fixed him to mind but those who read his blog should have seen someone who has for sometime struggled with his state.
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
In a comment below you state NOBODY KNEW THESE DETAILS AT THE TIME That is exactly why judgement should have been deferred. In the face of uncertainty, given the situation, withholding comment or querying neutrally would have been optimal
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
It would be interesting to see what tokenadult has to say about this. Myself, I do not know enough to form an opinion. One point of confusion I have is I do not think these comparisons can be meaningfully made due to certain dependencies. I
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West vs Asia education rankings are misleading(newscientist.com)
2 points by Dn_Ab 14y ago|1 comments
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I don't know if you have read Thinking Fast and Slow but your observations are in strong agreement with research. From what I have read (mostly Kahneman) most interviews as performed are useless and suffer from the illusion of validity. Ins
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
" after thinking very hard the mathematicians were able to classify all the different number like objects into sets " Granted I am only going from the quote but I see nothing in there that indicates he considers them disjoint. Given most pe
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
The problem with the article is that it dreams up a false conflict and then buries its thesis, a very valid and solid one, by trying to force a contentious narrative onto that just isn't there. Very few people these days are ignorant of the

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