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by Fishysoup 7y ago
For "Africans"? Really? Everyone is aware of Watson's contributions (though there is of course ample evidence that he stole a lot of the work from Rosalind Franklin and gave her no credit for it, then said things like "o
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
"Two and two may equal four" being a bunch of nonsensical racist slandering based on no evidence. Every result ever has pointed that all races and genders are equally "intelligent" and well-suited to the same tasks. And
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
Read the reply just above yours. I'm not a climate scientist but I am a scientist, and contradicting, competitive studies are the norm. If they didn't exist no progress would ever be made. If you're gonna make up demons you s
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
This is complete nonsense. First of all, there has been and still is plenty of research on gender differences and even differnces within the LGBT spectrum from biochemistry to psychology. Genetics is the same with all kinds of insights comi
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
I get the feeling OP is saying this sarcastically, as a way to criticize China.
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
It's the bullshit process by which people get funding. Make something that has some potentially interesting engineering value, hype it up to hell and back, and funding agencies, investors etc. are more likely to back you. Probably this
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
The article is bad, but the point of silly analogies to various technologies remains. Regarding the questions you addressed, my suspicion is that the brain's primary trick is to model the organism and the environment. Planning ahead, r
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
There is no real evidence that we have free will, and the general "suspicion" in the field is that we don't. Yes the brain is made of particles, but their arrangement is very particular and very complex, leaving cognition and
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
The comment was about universal Bayesian brains and other things that are quite a stretch to say the least. Of course, since our brains are made of physical matter, they must perform computations that other physical matter can perform. The
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
Thank you for this. I spend a non-trivial amount of time telling people working in AI and machine learning (which I also do) that the brain isn't some parameter optimization machine and that analogies from whatever technology or math p
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
There are several foreign workers but they mostly work for established international companies with offices there. Few of these companies are Japanese (people do work for Japanese companies but usually outside Japan). It's not only abo
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
Haven't read that one, but "Buddhism without Beliefs" is also a great read on Buddhism without the supernatural stuff people have attached to it over the centuries.
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
Please point out to me, except for Vasilis Leventis (presumably), a party that isn't corrupt to its bones, dangerous or just plain insane. New democracy and what's left of pasok are so corrupt it's funny. KKE is ridiculous, a
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
Greek here, agree with pretty much everything you said. Just wanted to point out that everyone running for public office is corrupt so that doesn't really give you any choices. Everyone who can leave the country does so. The people sta
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
What are its promising uses outside of web development? From the little I've seen it looks like a beautiful functional programming language, but I'm not even tangentially involved in web development.
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
Sure, the article is largely meaningless. But I've spent a couple months playing with this package and it is a lot more general than Stan etc.
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by Fishysoup 7y ago
It's not a PGM package. It's designed to work with arbitrary Julia programs and can be used for program induction etc. In that regard it's more like WebPPL or Church than Stan.
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by Fishysoup 8y ago
Or additions to / restructuring of the current regulatory bodies so that they can respond to such things faster.
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by Fishysoup 8y ago
Steve Bannon is - inspired, I guess? by this method and he and others at Breitbart build on it to trick people into forming associations between things that aren't really there. "The opposition with Jordan Klepper" has an exc
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by Fishysoup 8y ago
It's very sad to see how normal people on the inside think this is. Even at the Master's level, for many people this is a bragging competition for who gets to sleep less and generally suffer more. That culture is completely toxic.