YeGoblynQueenne

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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
And now you're assuming I didn't read the article. Well done. I've read it, twice, once yesterday and once when it was posted on HN previously a while ago, when I made the same comment about that particular suggestion at the
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
Ah, so I'm right- your comment was 100% a put-down, aimed at shaming me for not having the illustrious career of McCarthy's friends? In that case, you are absolutely right that I have no need to apologise. But perhaps you should t
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
>> My point is that McCarthy has an expert opinion and is writing for people who are not struggling toward a first scientific journal publication. I don't understand what you mean. Do you mean that in the context of the article?
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
>> I wouldn't be so quick to give up on this and embrace the "papers should be boring" mindset I never said, nor meant, that "papers should be boring", or even that technical writing should be boring. What I s
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
>> I agree about consistent terminology, but I don't agree with your view that it is a virtue for technical writing to be boring. I don't agree either, I think it's _not a flaw_, not a virtue! Anyway, all I talk about i
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
Yes! My intuition about writing is that technical writing should leave every reader with the same understanding of the same ides, whereas creative writing should leave each reader with different emotions, images, thoughts- the ones in the r
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
Yes, yes, I get it. Who am I to challegne an authority in scientific writing, that has so many scientist friends to boot. And what do I know about writing anyway, I don't even have a single best-seller under my belt. Clearly, challengi
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
>> And don’t use the same word repeatedly — it’s boring. This is the worst possible advice to give about technical writing! What you should absolutely do if you want your readers to know what you're talking about is a) define you
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
This one: The UK Home Office hostile environment policy is a set of administrative and legislative measures designed to make staying in the United Kingdom as difficult as possible for people without leave to remain, in the hope that they m
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
I don't think that having control over machine learning systems must necessarily mean AGI. For example, suppose I train an image classifier to learn to identify dogs in images. And suppose I find that my classifier has learned to label
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
>> To get a sense for how reinforcement learning can be used to uncover counterexamples, consider this scenario. Suppose there is a mathematical conjecture predicting that the expression 2x – x2 is negative for any real value of x. Th
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
>> How did you overcome perfectionism? By being imperfect, I guess?
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
So, you're saying the UK governemnt is in truth welcoming of refugrees, immigrants and asylum seekers, contrary to what I said?
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
Well, AI research is full of pathologies and I don't decry the "influx" of people from the sciences into the field. I'm just worried that the people who enter the field don't understand what's going on because
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
>> Even though it's not practical, it's an approach that previously wasn't possible so at least some cheering for it is valid. The approach taken by DeepCode -- generate-and-test -- was always possible and is a staple i
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
Oh well, at least this is consistent with the UK's politics against accepting asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants, since forever.
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
It's cringeworthy, it discredits the interviewer and does a disservice to the interviewee who was probably not aware of the exaggeration.
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
They simultaneously have not enough information, and too much information. A human child can learn what a chicken is by seeing a chicken once, but "seeing a chicken" is not the same as the representation of a chicken as a set of p
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
In that case, a neural net will learn to predict the next frame in a video stream, but it still won't learn what a stick is or why it looks bent when it's in the water.
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
Is it more intuitive to say that a convolutional neural network can map sets of pixels to scalars denoting categories of objects? I think not, but it's harder to misunderstand the less intuitive description, and much, much easier to ov
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
AlphaCode works by first generating many millions of programs from a large language model trained on all of github and fine-tuned on a dataset of problems like the ones it's supposed to be solving. Then, those millions of problems are
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
[NOT THE OP] >> All you see is numbers and functions, and all I see is problems being solved by these AI/ML methods and often in quantifiably better ways than intelligent humans can. Maybe in playing chess and go, but in any othe
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
My apologies for mistaking you for the original poster.
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Noam Chomsky: US Military Escalation Against Russia Would Have No Victors(truthout.org)
17 points by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago|5 comments
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
All five recommended languages are functional languages very similar to each other. Why not recommend a language outside the functional paradigm, such as a logic programming language (Prolog, ASP, Mercury, etc), or, I don't know, an es
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A Flawed Dataset for Symbolic Equation Verification(arxiv.org)
2 points by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago|0 comments
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
More stories like that please!
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
That certainly is the case. Not for statistics specifically, but all the people at the top of the field, Bengio, LeCunn, Schmidhuber, Hinton, and so on, all have deep backgrounds in computer science, maths, psychology, statistics, physics,
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
Last reply is the most well-sourced: In short, according to official Dungeons & Dragons sourcebooks, powerful wizards often live in towers because they can create towers quite easily using magic, and have need of a highly defensible ho
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by YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
I think your comment does what the OP complains about, regarding gatekeeping etc. I don't know about OP, whose comment I find a little harsh, but personally I'm always frustrated a bit and despairing a bit when I realise how poor

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