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by anythingbot 9y ago
What you actually want in this context is some code that generates random deviates of probability distributions chosen randomly and a "guesser agent" that tries to guess which distribution was chosen. Then you can ask questions li
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by anythingbot 9y ago
A FB presidency? Americans will go wild. They'll be all > sign me up, put the chains on and lock me in
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by anythingbot 9y ago
Out of curiosity, do you believe mockery is a form of hatred?
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by anythingbot 9y ago
How do people feel about a Zuckerberg presidency? As president, is Zuckerberg going to "fight the hate" in America? Is Bloomberg asking Zuckerberg to outline such an agenda? > During a daylong brainstorming session, the group c
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Ask HN: How do you feel about a Zuckerberg Presidency?
7 points by anythingbot 9y ago|13 comments
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by anythingbot 9y ago
> dark voodoo If I have a function f and an element of the domain x, then the value y = f(x) does not change. This is not dark voodoo.
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by anythingbot 9y ago
SICP
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by anythingbot 9y ago
> reproducibility is difficult in science generally but can be insanely difficult for machine learning it is a computer algorithm, so by definition it is trivial to reproduce results, you just run the program again. > I ran into this
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Ask HN: Any suggestions for the anythingbot video feed? (botwillacceptanything)
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by anythingbot 9y ago
I updated the video feed and added a synthesizer anythingbot.org/video anythingbot.org/nonlanguage
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by anythingbot 9y ago
This actually isn't true; you can invent organizations of the imagination and mirror those. This "imagination driven programming" is actually quite dangerous and tends to devolve into state secrets and so on since you are sol
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by anythingbot 9y ago
You have to say which set of programs you will run, and then you have to pick how you will describe a set of programs (since the name of a set of programs is just data). Wikipedia lets malicious editors enter lies...these lies can be very d
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by anythingbot 9y ago
And the activity looks very similar to a neuron firing! This is, in a sense, THE BASIC LEARNING UNIT a.k.a. neuron. If you think about the way water flows through a river (the water KEEPS ERODING THE RIVER! How can this possibly work ?!?!!?
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by anythingbot 10y ago
identity-fixing monotone (in the prefix relation, a partial preorder) maps of cancellative monoids. It is possible to use them as a model of abstract sequential computation, so they can be used for applications such as mathematical models o
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by anythingbot 10y ago
I would like to propose wikipedia edit history and comment deletion milestones for the hn comment system, and in addition, a comment redaction facility that works like redaction of classified documents.