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by aab0 10y ago
> You'll find plenty of information if you actually seek it out rather than simply making a knee-jerk, snarky comment, but here is one example article which articulates some of the issues that have been under consideration in recent
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There are 3 datasets here, the 23andMe discovery dataset (n=300k), the previous Psychiatric Genetic Consortium ('PGC'/'MDD' in the paper), and then a second 23andMe heldout validation sample (n=150k). The set of 5 h
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To continue the mortgage example, you could also just not buy a house and put that money into a stock index... The land may not be usable for another few hundred years, but what is the opportunity cost of all that upfront remediation? It&#x
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> I want to state a feeling that I have: that we would have never done this if we respected Laotian people or thought of them as our equals. Only by thinking of them as simple poor brown hill folk could something like this happen. So, in
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Magic Leap has also gotten a lot of buzz because tech publications are willing to write about them despite almost total lack of details. Look at the article Kevin Kelly wrote for Wired about Magic Leap: http://www.wired.com/
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It's a demonstration that even in a niche most people wouldn't think of, drug administration, there's already dozens of cost-effective medical uses, and the number is going up as more research is done and sequencing goes down
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Genes can be useful for treatment: http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/07/23/065540.f...
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You don't even need the instance if it's a static site that can be served directly off S3. With S3+Cloudflare for a Jekyll blog, you can handle peaking to thousands of hits a second without noticing it at like $10/month.
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"Effect of intranasal insulin on cognitive function: a systematic review", Shemesh et al 2012 http://press.endocrine.org/doi/full/10.1210/jc.2011-1802 https://www.researchgate.net/pr
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It's not. I'm not diabetic, but there's some interesting research on intranasal insulin and cognition, so I thought I might try it out. At my local east coast Walmart, I bought on March 13th 2016 a 10ml vial of Novolin R insu
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by aab0 10y ago
That is quite a visual design. 'Cardinal' indeed. Anyway, doesn't answer the fundamental question: if I am scared enough to spend $4010 (the cost of the preorder) for a drone prototype which can't fly more than 20 minute
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PR puff piece. Plenty of boasting about how reliable their auto chips are and how auto chips must be reliable, but little about the techniques or possible failure modes.
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It seems kind of strange that he never thought of using computer proof systems for checking whether his proofs were right in class, and that he took a pattern-matching approach rather than using any of the existing AI proof-deriving systems
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It's a rubbish example. The DNMs do not get better thanks to exit scams and takedowns. They get worse, as sensible and experienced administrators depart with a fortune, to be replaced by mendacious incompetents. Nor is the technical si
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by aab0 10y ago
If you use RL, you might not know it. Multi-armed bandits, for example.
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Petroleum engineering regularly makes the list of degrees with highest pay...
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> I don't think they're compressing this and decompressing it client side. The speed quotes made it sound like client-side was a concern. Why would you go to all the effort of devising a new image compression format saving 20%+
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by aab0 10y ago
So it's just a char-RNN? I was hoping this was using one of the seq2seq frameworks for actually writing code, like https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06640
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A lot of 2015-2016 work can be seen as addressing the latter two. For memory, all the work on neural programming, soft and hard attention, content-addressable memory and 'memory networks'. For unsupervised learning, adversarial ne
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There's no reason Tesla/MobilEye couldn't be using an off-policy reinforcement learning algorithm, no.
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Psychopaths aren't simply a normal person with some morals turned off. They exhibit a number of other differences, including some that you might consider closer to 'brain damage' than 'rational', like an insensitivi
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But how long is that going to take? Resistance has very high fitness in the presence of humans using antibiotics (avoiding death); resistance has very small negative fitness in the absence of humans using antibiotics (saving a tiny bit on m
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> What is not mentioned is a new class of antibiotics discovered in 2015 Call us when any of them survive the valley of death that kills 99%+ of substances with interesting in vitro activity to reach clinical use and the hypothetical bec
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I think it's more than that. The Minuses have a definite air that the others, more randomized, don't. I think it's a little Andy Kaufman like - much humor is ultimately malicious, and when you strip out the punchlines, you&#x
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(Usually we call that 'power', not 'sensitivity', in a null hypothesis testing framework.)
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"In the majority of its settlements, China accepted less than one-half of the territory it originally claimed. [1]" If those original claims are as overgrown as the nine-dash line, that looks like a huge success for China.
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The genetic similarity here is estimated within the cohort; the Framingham cohort is by design ethnically homongeous to try to eliminate that sort of population structure confound. This way, the homophily is not picking up on the obvious st
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I wonder about the novelty. He doesn't give very specific dates (was 'mid-January' this January, last January, or the January before that?) but does say "The process, including my registration at an Illumina-sponsored se
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"I would really love to see an analysis that did an A/B test using more traditional CF and this, and see what the revenue lift was, because "accuracy" as measured here doesn't necessarily map onto the objective that
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A multi-armed bandit will occasionally provide 'random' items as part of the exploration phase. Perhaps that's what's going on, and not any sort of diabolical self-fulfilling prophecy.

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