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by aab0 10y ago
Climate change also serves to hobble their rich industrialized enemies and provide an excuse for building nuclear plants.
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by aab0 10y ago
HP has been hyping memristors for a while now, and it seemed unlikely then and even more unlikely now given their corporate woes. Unless there's something new like a shipping product, why the submission?
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Running a Winter Olympics is also 'simply an engineering task at this point'.
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> The antagonistic pleiotropy theory actually advocates exactly that inverse correlation, more investment into young years for increased reproductive fitness at the expense of worse later years. Which would be great if you had any eviden
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> Considering that natural selection is generally considered to not operate on post-reproductive phenotype (prime case is antagonistic pleiotropy literature) I consider any conclusion based on these measures pretty suspect. Again, why? I
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> Still doesn't make much sense to use a secondary trait like educational attainment (58% heritability at highest) over a primary one like IQ (>80% heritability). Educational attainment is phenotyped much more often than is IQ, s
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by aab0 10y ago
"Aware of the conventional wisdom that robotic cars are about to cause an epochal “disruption,” automakers are eager to demonstrate that they are fully engaged. A result has been a drumbeat of announcements auguring the imminent arriva
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Intelligence is as much a behavior as education is. You observe it by what people do and how they perform. There is no physical or neurological correlate of intelligence like height or brain size or white matter integrity which measures int
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by aab0 10y ago
Payday loan-style businesses would let people monetize their BI. And that wouldn't work well with rent, which is usually paid in lump sums.
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Salary negotiation is outside their comfort zone; yet it doesn't seem to help.
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> "haven't learned wage-slave mentality yet" > In the ensuing outrage, a PowerPoint presentation written by St. John surfaced which included a slide in which he referred to engineers with Asperger syndrome as being &quo
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by aab0 10y ago
I think you've badly misunderstood the paper and its results and are taking some sort of Occupy Wall Street mindset... The 'gradients' the paper is talking about are not exotic gradients which apply only to the general popula
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You could try finetuning training; take the Pascal imageset, do image augmentation (ImageMagick has routines for darkening and 'midnight'-coloring images) to mimic nightime appear; retrain.
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> It is however a strawman since no one is claiming that the money in themselves are the issue. I am, uh, pretty sure that people do claim all the time that money is a pretty big issue and this is why we need more income equality and wel
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by aab0 10y ago
How necessary is the deep model there? It seems like a simple motion detector would work just as well since he doesn't mention using the lawn himself.
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Nifty. You could probably turn this into a useful planning tool for RV camper types if you turned it into a constraint-solver or integer programming problem by using RV or camping locations and adding costs for relocation, to get a cost-eff
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by aab0 10y ago
I feel a little embarrassed how long I spent clicking on the temperature curve before finally noticing the little dragbar underneath which is how you change the target temperature on that. The lack of geographical or movement constraints ma
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"And while prices for mobile VR equipment have come down, it still costs about $850 for each Samsung Gear VR headset plus the Galaxy smartphone that slides into it — costly enough that the firm doesn't have a rig for each client.&
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"These types of direct property funds — where the fund itself owns the building or property outright — represent a small piece of the mutual fund world. Yet they have accounted for a growing share of investment in commercial real estat
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by aab0 10y ago
What do you expect from Taleb?
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It's probably up there with the Korean DMZ, Chernobyl, and Bikini Atoll as unintentional nature preserves.
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by aab0 10y ago
The glyphs look amusingly like circuits.
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For 'redirected walking', you need a lot of room because you can only bend a little. The Void has done it and researchers have, but they usually have warehouse-like spaces. It won't work in a normal 3m^2 sort of residential r
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by aab0 10y ago
If you want to distinguish a particular method, but you can definitely tell that overall, the methods are collectively outperforming chance and so in this dataset, it is possible to infer the direction of causation.
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Probably the best way would be making it self-documenting: installing some sort of plaque or stand describing it and why it is scientifically interesting. Then any work crews sent out to destroy it can see the plaque and exercise some discr
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by aab0 10y ago
No, because a classification accuracy is not a p-value. By construction, a random guesser would achieve 50% accuracy in guessing whether A~>B or A<~B for each pair of cause-and-effects in their dataset. So getting >50% accuracy is
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by aab0 10y ago
Some psychedelics would probably make the experience far more effective as well.
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One theory is Durkheim's suicide hypothesis: South Korea's industrial development has ripped apart the traditional society (already badly damaged by the country's partition and the Korean War), and social norms and society ha
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> The best they ever got from cyrotrons was a special-purpose device, not a whole computer. But they reportedly did get a gigahertz clock rate, decades before anybody else. What did they do with it?
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You should read https://intelligence.org/2013/12/21/josef-urban-on-machine-l... and the citations! After that, you almost wonder why no one had applied NNs before.

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