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by aab0 10y ago
Technically, it's not two layers. It's only two layers of parameters. A RNN runs the two layers repeatedly at each sequential input. So if my input/output is like '1000~>fizz', it can be seen as a feedforward NN
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by aab0 10y ago
FWIW, I would have been more likely to click on this if instead of the clickbaity title 'Solving a Century-Old Typographical Mystery', which makes me expect to be disappointed or be something I've already ready (like the type
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by aab0 10y ago
But also produced a lot of junk pseudoscience and rubbish when conmen were able to get the credulous endorsement of leaders like Hitler. Plus, you have to remember that Germany was one of, if not the leading scientific and technological p
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by aab0 10y ago
"If you found a security flaw in ethereum / DAO and stole a bunch of money, is it even illegal?" I'm sure it is. No one has ever gotten away with Bitcoin thefts by arguing 'all I did was input some numbers as allowe
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by aab0 10y ago
Neat. I should've guessed that there would be a USB adapter. Is it plug-and-play or does it require additional drivers?
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by aab0 10y ago
Math works - but which math? Therein is the rub.
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by aab0 10y ago
Kids would go berserk in a setting like that, can you imagine? No Instagram, Snapchat, games, and on and on. Can smartphones even be plugged directly into an Ethernet socket? They only have USB ports AFAIK. Any parent with kids >10yo who
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by aab0 10y ago
Yes, but if you're trying to get around the duplicate detector, you can usually just append a query string like '?2'. Or, if the server tries to interpret query strings and that would be bad, it'd be friendlier to the re
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by aab0 10y ago
> In places where they closely followed the instructions (use the camera during each encounter if you’re in a treatment group; don’t use it if you’re in a control group), the results were positive—a 37 percent reduction in use of force o
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by aab0 10y ago
Stambler's book also covers Metchnikoff: http://www.longevityhistory.com/book/indexb.html#_Toc3283199...
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I would say the implications are simple: first, acknowledge this reality and stop scientists from constantly making policy pronouncements like 'education correlates with increased longevity, let's make everyone go to school longer
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Anyone can find a drug which works in a petri dish. The real valley of death for drugs is everything after that. If ever a swallow did not make a spring...
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by aab0 10y ago
Anyone want to speculate about how much YC & Vogt just lost? They acknowledged him as cofounder based on a document in which he's listed as 50% owner; such a concession sounds like a complete victory for Guillory, implying he still
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by aab0 10y ago
> The other major part of what you said is assortative mating. Assortative mating is extremely well documented and not disputed. (In fact, it's one of the most commonly employed ways of trying to debunk twin/family studies as p
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by aab0 10y ago
There is plenty of scientific basis. Twin & family studies have long examined the topic of heritability as well as the genetic overlap for traits key to SES. However, even though they are correct, I know they won't impress anyone,
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by aab0 10y ago
Two distinguishable Gaussian distributions will have very different behavior in the tails. So if you knew two groups had slightly different means in wealth, then it would not be surprising to discover that at a particular cutoff in the tail
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by aab0 10y ago
Nothing funny about it. Genetic differences drive a lot of inter-personal differences; combine that with assortative mating, and that'll explain some of this intergenerational stickiness in a way that landholdings cannot.
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by aab0 10y ago
The security history of the JVM suggests that one shouldn't be optimistic there either.
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I've been thinking for a while that with the end of silicon shrinkages, we may start seeing the final cycles of the wheel, with a final stop at mostly specialized hardware for greater power efficiency.
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Interestingly, tthe amphetamines were originally developed as anti-asthma and decongestants, and this continued for many decades. Some of the early amphetamine abuse epidemics centered around inhalers; you'd crack them open to take the
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by aab0 10y ago
The need to print documents predates Unix . :) Remember that the official excuse for getting a PDP-11 for developing Unix was to work on troff.
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by aab0 10y ago
> "Several days" is typically plenty of time for almost all drugs except for marijuana, due to their half-lives. So enough for an unknown number of drugs and oh yeah - the most popular drug in the country after caffeine, alcoho
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by aab0 10y ago
'Several days' doesn't sound like enough for a lot of drugs. Aside from quoting employers complaining about not being able to find employees, I wish the NYT had covered some more on the topic of, does drug testing even meanin
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by aab0 10y ago
I'm sure a Gaussian process could model the equivalent of feedback control; they're pretty flexible (if not as flexible as NNs). The trick is coming up with something that can learn the feedback controls, or lack thereof, on its o
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by aab0 10y ago
> Worst case, it wants to "own" deep learning, so that nobody can really compete with them. Although I think that would be a little in conflict with their strategy to open source tensorflow. Only a little. Releasing all the mod
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by aab0 10y ago
So. I read the whole thing. And they cite several precedents. But what are the perils? They never say.
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So I assume that a question-answering RNN will crack that in a year or two.
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by aab0 10y ago
Isn't the problem here imports in general? Imagine these examples written in a literate Haskell file .lhs: 'Let us discuss graph search... > import Control.Monad'
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by aab0 10y ago
> Raw materials are the real limitation. Three thousand+ years ago people where transporting tin thousands of miles because few tin mines existed. I think that example demonstrates the opposite. Getting raw materials is not a problem; it
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by aab0 10y ago
> Never heard of such a concept. The idea is that when you want to hire them, you send your Bitcoin to a third-party like Bitescrow, who then arbitrates if the hitman doesn't come through. Usually in the hitmen scams, the third-part

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