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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I suppose it is appropriate that this riddle appears twice on the page. =)
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I believe the default was 640x480x16 bit. I am not sure whether you could up it to 32 bit 1024x768 but I know you could in BGII. Still have my disks somewhere.
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I'm also really excited about Rust. What would be unimaginable exciting would be if Rust has any plans for iPhone or Android devices. Preferably without a 10MB runtime and a decent debug story. Elsewise, absent the runtime,F# is the most in
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
It almost certainly is. You can consider it from a logical perspective without even going into brain science. When a computer looks at a scene it sees in terms of learned rules or operations on high dimensional elements of a vector space in
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
My friend and I also did some 'arbitrage', we almost didn't do it because we were sure we had something wrong, I mean, aren't markets supposed to be efficient? We even made a program that calculated optimal amounts and alerted us when the o
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
The experiment you all came up with sounds great, a lot like Bell's experiment but without the detail of setting up correlations and their implications. Information cannot be transferred faster than light using entanglement. This is alread
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Schizophrenia like autism is not something to pin down to any one cause. The symptoms are like an equation and the defects are the values which cause the expression of the disease/satisfy the equation/describe the surface. There are many g
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I wonder if someday in 30 years people will look back in the same way and say: wow, you know there was once a time when search engines were major feats of engineering - and Decentralized Networks were deemed impractical! They just as us, we
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Oh yeah it's a great stretch. I learned of it from gymnastics. Alternated between a bent over knees with head on ground and arm forward in a kind of prayer pose and that stretch. The lying twist stretch is good too.
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I must strongly disagree with you. It sounds like you have already given up. On this forum someone posted a way to visualize factorizations of numbers in Haskell. Quickly someone put up a javascript version. Soon I expect someone will turn
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
One useful distinction I make is between types and datatypes. Types are a mathematical theory in which you are able to prove things about the terms of you program. Datatypes are like types but without the structure or logic. They don't prov
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
F# Type providers are a powerful solution to problems of the same class as your first example. http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/173076/information-rich-t... And smart use of data structures, algebraic types and composition for the latt
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Although SVMs and layered neural nets have similar expressivity, the similarity is very much like turing completeness. i.e. Can't tell aparts the haskells from the unlambdas. SVMs express certain functions in a manner that grows exponential
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Awesome response thanks. The increased ease of use for modeling is part of why I decided on it rather than an SMT solver. One should prefer ASP wherever the assumptions hold. I use(d) DLV-Complex but will check your link. But right, by more
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I have only made light contact with SMTs in my explorations but SMT solvers have massive applicability. They're used in theorem proving - verification, dependent typing, contracts - scheduling, planning, and for understanding/modelling cell
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Oh sorry guys missed the digit concatenation bit. In that case I get: (9 - (5/7)^(1/2)) / 3 I was tired when I saw that post, it was late/early. rmccue, I also seemed to have missed that you gave an error bound =(
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I have one of those, a symbolic regressor (not genetic) lying around in a broken state. The last working version gave: short: 2981^ (1/8) less short: (2574 + 4903 ^ (1/4))/950 I used: http://apod.nasa.gov/htmltest/gifcity/e.1mil
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
A simple way to look at it is kind of like the pigeon hole principle. If you imagine a binary string of length N. Then there are 2^N possible strings. To be losslessly compressed a string must be mapped uniquely to a string of length of at
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
The issue with digital goods is also the matter of uncertainty, the issue to do with scarcity or lack thereof and the trickiness of information as a good itself. In essense there is a built in inefficiency for information goods. But the poi
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I don't understand how the field of math can change course. I mean Hilbert, Frege, Church had an idea that turned out to be infeasible. But the field in general continued and has not been affected much by that goal nor the consequences of G
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I'm surprised he decided to use 3-SAT instead of pointing out the non-convexities which arise in optimization for many interesting markets. Or the problem with digital goods say. That these are exploitable is what leads to excess returns an
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
But he is not, in that quoted statement saying much. For example, if the problem is NP-Hard but not NP-Complete then we will not even be able to tell how well we are doing. Or for markets, aspects of it may invovle solving NP-Hard problems
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Great point. I am certain that NP-complete problems that can be efficiently approximated can be approximated by markets. No reason why you can't replace algorithms and expertes in your ensemble or regret minimization framework with humans.
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
True, there is a lot to be learned from behavioural economics. But neoclassiscal stuff is not all bad. The notion of bounded rationality which places limits on the rationality of people is kind of old. And in aggregrate; people, corporation
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Computational Complexity is about asymptotics so constant factors are irrelevant. In this case if perfects markets require numbers of operations that grow astronomically with respect to input and P <> NP then the best we could do ar
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Very good point. But it doesn't make Tesla cars a folly so much as put a strong constraint on their long term economic viability: the invention of fusion power or some other method of making energy abundant turned to making hydrocarbons eff
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Imagination. moe's got it. If as Brin suggests, Glass is available next year then scanning QR codes is one of the brain dead obvious launch apps for it. QR codes will be less variable and more reliable (under arbitrary conditions) than OCR
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I would guess the opposite. QR codes are too early. They need to be scannable by a device that doesn't require reaching into your pocket, fumbling with your phone and then trying to get the right angle. Combining a couple projections, I se
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Oh good! Something like this is what I asked for/about a 1.5 months ago. Although, I missed the crowdsourcing angle. Also glad to see that the Patent Office does want to be more productive =) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4339035
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
No, quantum entanglement does not allow Information to travel faster than light. Classic channel is needed to know what if any unitary transformations are needed. Otherwise requiring roll of massively many sided dice. Check out No Communi

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