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by air7 9y ago
I like to play a little game I call "HN matter anti-matter" where I notice contradicting articles posted on HN and imagine them colliding and erasing each other... In this case: Yes, We Get Wiser with Age (nautil.us) https:&#x2F
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by air7 9y ago
> Parameters like number of filters, filter sizes, architecture of the network etc. have all been fixed before Step 1 and do not change during training process – only the values of the filter matrix and connection weights get updated. Is
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by air7 9y ago
My main goal was to create a player without embedding any human developed strategy (such as left-down-up). This would obviously be less optimal but more general purpose. If you are interested in domain specific algorithms, the same StackOve
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by air7 9y ago
2048! Towards the end of the 2048-craze era, I wrote a solver for the game that unlike other solvers that came out, had no built-in algorithm about how to play. It was quite simple: It simulated games from the current position using random
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by air7 9y ago
tl;dr: There are no "Great Men" in science (like Eisenstein, Newton and Galileo) because everyone used previous work, and had highly competent rival scholars working on the same problems. If one would have been "thrown under
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by air7 9y ago
I remember hearing about a social scientist "discovering" that in any classroom he visited, there always seemed to be 4 kids that were either all friends, or were all not friends. He wrote a paper that attempted to explain this us
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by air7 9y ago
I keep wondering what is the economical explanation for the existence of the gender pay gap? Assuming women and men employees are (generally speaking) equally skilled yet differently compensated (for whatever reason), rational employers wou
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by air7 9y ago
This is quite literally why we can't have nice things. Fairness in this context (and often) is a highbrow word for unacknowledged, uncontrolled jealousy.
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by air7 9y ago
Win-win swaps could be done automatically by the lottery system. This eliminates the non-fairness objection (as this optional upgrade can happen to anyone). It does theoretically create room for strategizing though: If there is a very popul
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by air7 9y ago
Math? Primes will only appear in columns whose index is coprime with 12. That's because 12n+2 is divisible by 2. 12n+3 by 3, etc for 12n+4, 12n+6, 12n+8, 12n+9, 12n+10. (For n>0. that's why there are primes on the first line)
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by air7 9y ago
tl;dr: Scenario: Studio sends 10ks advanced copies of their film to reviewers before screening. One of them gets leaked. They want to know who leaked it. Custos embeds a "watermark" in the copies that contains a private key of a b
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by air7 9y ago
I'd add that the information channel is not the meaning channel . Any information that a human processes contains a huge amount of prior knowledge and context. Just compare the size of this comment in text bits vs. the (hypothetical
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by air7 9y ago
I agree and think that is the main point here. Within our social norms, any type of generalized genetic comparison between groups of humans is very much frowned upon. I think that's because it bring back past traumas such as Slavery, t
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by air7 10y ago
The prevalence of suing in the US always surprises me. I wonder though: Can Kyle Zak (the plaintiff) be just anybody? Does he need to prove any damage occurred to him as a result, or is the violation of TOS enough? "Zak is seeking mill
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Ask HN: What are the real, non-hyped consequences of losing privacy/tracking?
6 points by air7 10y ago|4 comments
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by air7 10y ago
This reminded me of that story of people who have such strings for names: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160325-the-names-that-brea...
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by air7 10y ago
Similarly, I once also looked into such a site, collecting data from on-going auctions. While the interface showed very little information about the bidders, the underlying JSON data carrying the real-time bids had addition fields such as u
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by air7 11y ago
Very cool indeed. I wonder what the business model is, if there is one?
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A 2048 AI with no hard-coded knowledge about good game play.(ronzil.github.io)
2 points by air7 12y ago|0 comments