LPisGood

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811.
by LPisGood 2y ago
From China’s perspective, the things the US intelligence official could to China’s citizens is worse than what China could do to those same citizens. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for some citizens to feel the same
812.
by LPisGood 2y ago
That’s great for them, and despite all available evidence, I hope they can make it work. AI can definitely help people work sometimes, maybe to the tune of obviating some need for additional staff, but I doubt it.
813.
by LPisGood 2y ago
Luckily an AI can’t effectively replace almost any job.
814.
by LPisGood 2y ago
The great thing is that you can do both.
815.
by LPisGood 2y ago
I contend that if you submit a patch under any circumstances your change isn’t going into linux today.
816.
by LPisGood 2y ago
> The trick is to find the exact best number of test for each color so that we have good statistical significance Yes, A/B testing will force through enough trials to get statistical significance(it is definitely a “exploration firs
817.
by LPisGood 2y ago
I am talking about the literature which solves MAB in a variety of ways, including the one in the post. > MAB properly done is essentially just A/B testing Words are only useful insofar as their meanings invoke ideas, and in my expe
818.
by LPisGood 2y ago
I haven’t seen these particular shortcomings before, but I certainly agree that if your data is bad, this ML approach will also be bad. Can you share some more details about your experiences with those particular types of failures?
819.
by LPisGood 2y ago
A standard formulation of MAB problem assumes that acting will impact the rewards, and this forgetting factor approach is one which allows for that and still attempts to find the currently most exploitable lever.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
> you can't have your cake and eat it too I disagree. There is a vast array of literature on solving the MAB problem that may as well be grouped into a bin called “how to optimally strike a balance between having one’s cake and eati
821.
by LPisGood 2y ago
This objection is mentioned specifically in the post. You can add a forgetting factor for older results.
822.
by LPisGood 2y ago
Multi-arm bandit does beat A/B testing in the sense that standard A/B testing does not seek to maximize reward during the testing period, MAB does. MAB also generalizes better to testing many things than A/B testing.
823.
by LPisGood 2y ago
I’m not justifying discrimination. I’m justifying the comparison being bad, which it is.
824.
by LPisGood 2y ago
You’re confusing “algebra” with “an algebra.” You’re misunderstanding the terms here. For a simple example, group theory is absolutely a branch of algebra, and a group is not “an algebra”
825.
by LPisGood 2y ago
> So why isn't it when the genders are reversed? Men occupy a position of institutional and societal power that makes such a comparison unhelpful, at best.
826.
by LPisGood 2y ago
He’s a right wing populist who advocates punishing political opponents, opposes the press, is extremely anti-immigrant, and advocates for adversarial territory expansion. This is by the book fascism.
827.
by LPisGood 2y ago
I thought their model was cheap/bulk products
828.
by LPisGood 2y ago
And diversity was the goal all along, after all. More seriously though, it should be a policy that the change is atomic; complete or not at all.
829.
by LPisGood 2y ago
I think you may have reliably heard he is a fascist, which is objectively true, and confused that with unserious people saying this will be the last election.
830.
by LPisGood 2y ago
Is there any data out there that reflects this? That’s really interesting
831.
by LPisGood 2y ago
“God created the natural numbers, all else is the work of man.”
832.
by LPisGood 2y ago
I feel like you mean basic arithmetic, not basic algebra.
833.
by LPisGood 2y ago
Take any irrational a where 1/a is also irrational. Then a * 1/a = 1. Even moving from addition and multiplication to exponentials won’t save you: there are irrational numbers to irrational powers that are raational.
834.
by LPisGood 2y ago
Graduate students (who teach, do research, and some administrative tasks for the university) occasionally do. What American schools usually have is a “student government” which is approximately 90% roleplaying as elected officials, and the
835.
by LPisGood 2y ago
It opens up for abuse by offering to sell a spot.
836.
by LPisGood 2y ago
This is bonkers, and sort of smells. I’m not saying you have outright said anything untrue, but there is at least some ambiguity that my mind is filling in, potentially incorrectly. Can you clarify how you got the Swagger files? Were they p
837.
by LPisGood 2y ago
If you could use cloning to make lots of money more labs would be doing it.
838.
by LPisGood 2y ago
I see another person posted a credible source, so I won’t he redundant, but I do want to respond to ask why you elected to comment asking for a source - this story is very easily googlable.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
There were groups with guns and boats ready to resupply an insurgency.
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by LPisGood 2y ago
Putnam? Of math competition fame?

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