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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I don't. The slowing of the pace of innovation has been claimed for centuries but has yet to happen. Switching architectures, materials, moving to atomic scale - there is still plenty of room at the bottom. I'm excited for memrisotor tech m
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
They do and I started with Qbasic. Actually I find them more natural and find for-loops to be cumbersome. Fold took the longest. I think how well things stick is a function of how much you think the effort of learning it is worth and how mu
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
You're right. And it's well explained despite the subtle jabs at Quantum Informations theory =P. There are definite advantages to the physics focused approach. As a physicist (which I am not), in your practice of QM you get familiarish con
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Cool demo. Interesting questions. There are nobel prizes waiting for the answers to some of them. Warning: The following is not precisely target at your post. The core of some your questions are the kind answerable only with mu. Essentia
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
It is not a tight analogy. But: In set theory you pay a lot of attention to the internals of collections of objects. In category theory you are more interested in capturing structure and relationships. In imperative programming you specify
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I am hard pressed to find any practical use for Category theory. No that is not quite true. Knowing concepts like the fusion law, natural polymorphisms, initial and final algebras, ana/cata/hylo morphisms make many fuzzy patterns concrete.
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I'm going to quote myself from 1 year ago: ""The amount of information out there is growing exponentially. The amount that needs to be known before you can contribute keeps exploding with each generation. Such that the practitioner might kn
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
The benefit is its flaw. Because it is so abstract it is able to describe many, many things. It can serve as a basis for all of maths and unlike set theory really focuses on structure. Very roughly, think of it like functional programming t
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Ah. Your use of not true made it look like an outright dismissal of his whole statement. As for the order of when to pick the prior, I think what is more important is that the data not influence your choice of prior. If you were some oracu
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
But Baye's theorem is not obvious to humans. The intuition is P(A|B) = P(B|A). Base rate fallacy etc. etc. That said, Bayesianism is not the same thing as Baye's Theorem. You can be a frequentist and still apply Bayes Theorems or the like.
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
His equation is that for Universal Inductive Inference. It is correct. Fully bayesian but incomputable.
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
True. That is incomputable though. The trickiest part is figuring out P(T).
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
From a sheet I used to keep: Caffeine: Stimulant/Vasoconstrictor/dopaminergic half-life: ~5 hours Fat + water soluble Ideal dosage < 200mg; 50-100mg per day Benefits: boosts working memory, reduces re-uptake and increases production of
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I'm certain that the Sudoku part is a hook, to bring in more viewers and then keep them for a bit. And although the site is called technology review, it is basically just a general audience site so concepts like permutation matrix would be
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Sorry you're right, on that aspect I was mistaken. But the caveats listed in the thread and the weakness of the assumption of a uniform distribution in each bucket makes it difficult to draw any meaningful conclusions beyond what the origin
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
The article is not clear on this. But the data from the image is unrelated to the stat of 5 billion. The data was compiled over 7 days from 252 respondent 1 year ago. From that data, the median life time revenue of an app is about $3,000 an
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I wonder if the original author knows his content is being used like this. I found the post very misleading in the way it grossly misrepresents the authorship of the piece. You have to scroll all the way to the bottom to know that Michael
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
What I find interesting is that biotech and semiconductor have barriers high enough that you need to be high quality to even think of attempting. But lower barrier areas like web and software have a lot more people trying but similar numbe
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I only just saw your reply. I hope it is not too late to reach you. Yeah, I was going to say that the most common algebra in programming seems to be monoids. Being aware of them would probably make some patterns people apply ritualistically
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
There is perspective and there is selling a work short. This is much more than a blind statistical model of the parameters. In fact, your criticism would apply just as well if not more to the Higgs search methodology. They develop a number
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
We don't need full organism simulation for this to be useful. We just need tissue and cell level interactions that are accurate to have this be useful in drug search. As we want to look at effects on metabolism etc a coarse grain approach
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
You make good points but swing the pendulum too far the other way. No, a bunch of smart computer people won't solve problems that have flummoxed biologists for long. But a bunch of smart computer, biology, math, physics and chemistry people
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
At their scale I doubt they are using LSA or anything of similar complexity. My guess would be something like tf-idf coupled with any thing from naive bayes to logic programming for entity recognition. Final output would likely use some han
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
While all these techniques are related and LSI is a good model for what he is doing, I think his thought process is spiritually closer to PageRank. Although I don't think he merely adapted the page rank algorithm. Based on his emphasis on m
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I would be really interested in hearing what patterns from abstract algebra you noticed. Also would you say the patterns are more due to the nature of the problem or something common to all programming?
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Programming can be algebraic or a basic application of logic depending on how imperative you lean but algebraic thinking does help code. The best way to teach someone who knows algebra but is new to programming how to not excessively repeat
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
I really don't understand this assumption that all performance enhancing substances will destroy your body. Not all doping is steriods. Some of it is for enhanced healing and recovery, something that should be researched. And in many cases
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, Microsoft Research. Is being backed by companies with strong monopolies the only way to do world class research outside of academia? Supposing it is true that in the future, higher educations collapses to a currentl
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
Kevin Mitchell has a very interesting take on intelligence here: http://wiringthebrain.blogspot.com/2012/07/genetics-of-stupi... Basically he suggests thinking about the formation of intelligence to be something like trying to run an obst
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by Dn_Ab 14y ago
It's very important to me that I retain the information so I'm testing this on myself. My motivation is not monetary though. My approach is inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Craig_(Jeopardy!_contesta...

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