Eliezer

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961.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Bet against. And by the Fermi Paradox I'd be really shocked (and dismayed!) to find life that common. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/05/25/...
962.
by Eliezer 17y ago
If anyone actually believes that, I'd like to bet with them about it.
963.
by Eliezer 17y ago
In precisely the same sense, nothing implies anything. So why single out causality?
964.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Giving up my dreams? I refer you to http://yudkowsky.net/ .
965.
by Eliezer 17y ago
A common misconception, but you'd have to read quite a bit of Judea Pearl to understand how certain patterns of conditional statistical independence do allow us to declare causation. See this page for a start: http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/home
966.
by Eliezer 17y ago
If the media ever report on your life, you will find that it's even worse than you think.
967.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Sounds too good to be true, and by golly, it is! What makes me come alive is writing fiction. This is not what the world most needs from me. Not everything that sounds like deep wisdom is wise.
968.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Read Seth Roberts to discover why practically any sufficiently large dietary change will cause you to lose large amounts of weight... at first. Roughly, your brain learns a flavor-calorie association that tells it how much food is availa
969.
by Eliezer 17y ago
I guess any bug that occurs below your accustomed abstraction level is "crazy". Good way of looking at it. So the ultimate crazy bug would be an error in the laws of physics? Actually, one better than that would be discovering an error
970.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Further evidence that we're in the future: http://www.nvidia.com/object/3D_Vision_Main.html With the right monitor, glasses, and video card, you can play Batman: Arkham Asylum in 3D.
971.
by Eliezer 17y ago
If this is the craziest bug you've ever seen, my guess is that you've spent your whole career programming in languages that lack raw pointers.
972.
It is unquestionably the future(threepanelsoul.com)
41 points by Eliezer 17y ago|15 comments
973.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Seconded hard . If you have to read only one of these, read Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems .
974.
by Eliezer 17y ago
The TSA is run by idiots who didn't ask Israel in the first place.
975.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Whaa? R&D on techinques and machinery should have economy of scale, not diseconomy of scale. And the Israelis would be happy to tell us how to do it.
976.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Right. You need the total number L and D of items each user has liked or disliked. You need the total number of liked items LT, and the total number of disliked items DT, which have the tag T. Then you just iterate through the tags and m
977.
by Eliezer 17y ago
I must have been seriously tired when I gave you the original answer, but I frantically scrambled back and rewrote it and it should be correct now. It's really scary the way my ability to do elementary math deteriorates after going on a tw
978.
by Eliezer 17y ago
OK. Naive Bayes is ridiculously simple. [EDIT: Oops, it looks like I myself managed to get it backward on the first write! Whaps self in forehead. Rewritten now.] Let's say your user likes 40 items and hates 60 items. So the prior od
979.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Yeah, so, you got four choices here. First, you can use something off-the-shelf. Two, you can read up on Naive Bayes, a very simple way of solving the problem which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. The reason it's called "naive" is t
980.
by Eliezer 17y ago
If this paper weren't biased, it would mention the chief source of evidence in favor of the idea that smoking damages your lungs: Men who smoke die of lung cancer at 23 times the rate of nonsmokers. Now, that may not be from a randomiz
981.
by Eliezer 17y ago
I was looking at that and thinking Haskell-biased.
982.
by Eliezer 17y ago
I think I understood all of that except Haskell as seen by LISP fans. Haskell is a cute but vicious cat? What?
983.
by Eliezer 17y ago
You're thinking of Cyc, not OpenCog.
984.
by Eliezer 17y ago
> Actually, it's always true There are such things as "gains from trade", you know. Not all assets are worth the same amount to all players! If you buy an asset that you think anticorrelates with your other assets to reduce variance,
985.
by Eliezer 17y ago
An amazingly effective firewall; the brokers clearly didn't know anything the traders did.
986.
by Eliezer 17y ago
LARGE SPOILERS AHEAD: I liked Avatar, but to me the obvious science fail was the telepathic connection between the Na'vi and the animals. Evolution doesn't work like that! Rattlesnakes do not grow rattles for your benefit! I'm afraid tha
987.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Knowledge is power.
988.
by Eliezer 17y ago
OO.org Writer will be adequate as soon as they come out with a decent Outline view. Until then, I and a whole whack of other people are staying on XP rather than Ubuntu primarily because OO.org lacks this one feature! http://qa.openoffi
989.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Is it safe to blame the existence of netbooks on OLPC? I wasn't following along in detail but I got the impression of a certain amount of causality there.
990.
by Eliezer 17y ago
Rule 1: Find subject matter that actually is interesting. Rule 2: Find subject matter that the reader doesn't already know about. There. Your job just got 300% easier.

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