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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Yeah. It must be pretty energy intensive for the brain consider all that rewiring that occurs. I take the interlaced GIF approach to learning hard things.
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Oh cool =) I don't really think in terms of classification and optimization anymore and don't really see much distinction between minimizing a loss or objective function. But I did rant on because I am really passionate about how much unnec
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I have already explained in the post above why optimization is very a much a part of machine learning. Now, you say that that classification and optimization are two different things and that is true. But really, it can be more fruitful to
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I do not think that he knew thousands of if-then rules would be needed, likely his estimate. But that aside I believe that such a search space could be handled by GP. That very problem is what I've been tackling for sometime now. Its positi
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Then you will know that Genetic Programming can be used for classification, structured learning, symbolic regression and even meta learning [1]. For classification you can build a program that searches for a program that best uses the inpu
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Last I checked (been a couple years now) Hierarchical Finite State Machines and Behaviour Trees were big for that sort of thing.
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I don't think thousands should be taken literally. I don't think he has actually built it yet - I sort of saw it as an optimistic estimate =)
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
No, I am certain you are confusing Genetic Programming [1] for Genetic Algorithms [2]. I am a fan (do a lot with them) of the prior but have never really been impressed by the latter. Wikipedia says Genetic Programming is a specializati
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Such a great question. Want to predict cow movement while taking into consideration sudden events, food and sun, using thousands of if then rules? Sounds like the perfect problem for one of the following tree learners that not only manage t
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
hmm I am most creatively intelligent in a state between sleeping and waking. Everything just flows. But sadly, it only lasts not more than a minute. Then I am awake and wistful about the sudden drop in what feels like 10-15 IQ points.
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
My definition of Machine learning is more inclusive than yours. What about regression? I suppose you would put that with tracking. Density estimation, Structure learning, Matrix Factorization, Ensemble Methods, Boosting, Clustering or merel
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
First of all allow me to apologize for earlier summarily dismissing your argument (quick mind). Which I did because I thought you did not have an airtight proof. I still you do not but now see that it is a very good argument which I dismiss
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
First off he heads such a disagreement by capping conversation lengths: humans can't have infinite length conversations. Second of all: This is an assumption: "The human does not. The human can run any program and produce a different outpu
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Yet a strong AI should be able to construct any string mapping whatsoever. Why? I do not see why a strong AI must be able to construct any string mapping whatsoever. And for the reason that conversations have lengths that are bounded (as
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I have already quoted a strong argument against such an impossibility: http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf Practicality is another matter for which, what you have is not a proof against. Like I said, you can use arguments from
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
No I am not assuming anything other that what you wrote. Consider an AI to be a chat program which maps strings to strings I could just as well have written a chat program that for any question (including this), merely looked up the corr
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
That's assuming the consequent: you are assuming that such an enumeration strategy is requisite for strong AI to occur. [EDIT: I misunderstood what you meant by enumeration, my statement of your assumption is wrong. What you do assume is t
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Right, the only real argument against nuclear is unfortunately a big one. Humans are simply not far-thinking and reliable enough to be trusted to properly manage all stages of a nuclear plant's lifecycle. But rather than give up - Is there
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
With respect to medication, I find your list not much more convincing than personal testimonials which are themselves not at all informative. Trying to figure out the body by doing a bunch of double blind tests is like trying to figure out
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I wonder if the idea is worth more than the act. By actively talking about how, if 1 fan can make something viral you have created an external something that can catalyze the spread. The idea of 1 person trying to make something viral is in
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I have two questions about Clojure. (1) How fast is it compared to Java and is the method for speed based on rules or tricks? (2) Compared to other lists how natural is metaprogramming? I've recently started playing with Scheme and the feel
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Understand that I did not post that question for reasons of vanity. I really wanted to know what led you to that belief (I have not found much evidence supporting it) and am still interested in knowing, in order that I might update my belie
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Causal links cannot be drawn with that paper. This study was unique in showing that telomere length determination by paternal age was generationally additive. It was not designed to determine if older paternal age translates into longer l
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
From what is this based on? It is not congruent with literature I have read on the matter. For one, gametes from the aged father are vastly more likely to incorporate denovo (typically deleterious) mutations. PLoS Medicine: Contrasting Effe
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I agree. This is needed. Many people are missing the point, which is that there is no real government in those places. The fact that the entrenched powers are warlords and oligarchs means the gating and exploitation angle people are worryin
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
That quote brings to mind the following from the Hitchhiker's Guide: "There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." I think with respect to startups the q
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
There is still something to be said about languages that try to reduce the amount of time you spend Testing, debugging, profiling and optimization. Where the goal is to aid you in getting as much of the concept intact to the computer with a
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I too received a different image from the words. Something that captures the equivalent vision for math learners that light table holds for programmers. Not necessarily an emphasis on visual - sometimes that is right but not always. Key be
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
There are many definitions of duality in mathematics so I am not entirely clear on 6. For example the notion of duals from category theory has already been very helpful in understanding or developing many algorithms. In fact a generous view
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
He is not talking about causation or not. He is talking about using evidence to affect his (subjective) posterior probability of the truth of a statement.

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