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by bglazer 9y ago
What is SRA?
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Can A.I. Be Taught to Explain Itself?(nytimes.com)
3 points by bglazer 9y ago|0 comments
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by bglazer 9y ago
I was recently reading the section on importance sampling in David MacKay's "Information Theory, Learning, and Inference Algorithms". Page 373-376 in the linked pdf ( http://www.inference.org.uk/itprnn/boo
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by bglazer 9y ago
I really enjoyed this book. I was unfamiliar with quite a lot of the material, so I can't really evaluate it in terms of other references. As an introduction, it's fantastic. Nice coverage of practical, modern tools. Theory stuff
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by bglazer 9y ago
I may have misused or misunderstood tmux in the past. Honestly I'd rather just open another cygwin/terminal window. Every OS already does windowing really well. If I have a long running process, then ctrl-z, bg, fg work perfectly
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by bglazer 9y ago
From the article: "It's not likely to fix itself," said EIG co-founder Steve Glickman. "Entrepreneurs are everywhere, but capital flows are really isolated and captured in a handful of places." From YC's FAQ se
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by bglazer 9y ago
This is such a profoundly useless sentiment. What's the point of spreading the "Southerners are backwards" meme except to win some feeling of self-satisfied collective superiority? You're ignoring the fact that investmen
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by bglazer 9y ago
This is explicitly mentioned in section 6.6 "Implications for Other Online Communities"
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by bglazer 9y ago
Virtually every example of a "big hit" in that video ends with the person who got hit showing the fencing response ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencing_response ). That body pose indicates a pretty severe co
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by bglazer 9y ago
I've wondered if one could build a device that outputs different combinations of distinct scents for training dogs. Like condition the dog to understand "sit" = "bacon smell" and "shake" = "cat".
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by bglazer 9y ago
These are great suggestions, but they beg the question of how do we achieve some form of limited direct democracy?
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by bglazer 9y ago
http://blogs.ams.org/phdplus/files/2017/05/Wali-and-Brandon.... This poster presentation of non-Euclidean geometry is really one of the best demonstrations that I've ever seen of these ideas. The pr
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by bglazer 9y ago
It's been enormously exciting to watch all the developments around KIC8462852 happen in real time. There's been some monumentally terrible "it must be aliens!!" style reporting around this, but I feel like the reporting
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by bglazer 10y ago
How does one go about getting a 500 meter wide asteroid back to Earth's surface? It seems like there is a non-zero chance of accidentally creating Chicxulub v2. Or do you just leave it in low earth orbit and build a space factory?
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by bglazer 10y ago
> Not knowing LaTeX, the word processer of choice in mathematics, he typed up his calculations in Microsoft Word ... > He opted instead for quick publication in the Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, a periodical based in All
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by bglazer 10y ago
Perhaps you should warn people that video number 4 is an aircraft accident that possibly shows people dying.
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by bglazer 10y ago
Agreed!
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by bglazer 10y ago
Baby Jacks BBQ You're from Memphis? It's so rare to run into another Memphian on HN.
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by bglazer 10y ago
They're not in Memphis. They're in San Francisco. My guess for why they're named Memphis Meats is ”[a founder's] family also owns a chain of 43 BBQ restaurants based out of Memphis, Tennessee"
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Ask HN: Is a Master's Degree in Bioinformatics a Foolish Idea?
19 points by bglazer 10y ago|13 comments
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by bglazer 10y ago
I don't think I'll be able to do satisfactorily answer that question in a couple sentences, but I'll try. White people are a majority in technology, so it's assumed to be obvious to white children that they too can be a
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by bglazer 10y ago
I can tell you why it's important to note the race of an underrepresented minority who made a notable contribution. I teach programming to a group of black young adults. Self image is very important to most young folks. Just seeing oth
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by bglazer 10y ago
Not to be a pedant, but I think the DeepMind paper is actually an example of one-shot generalization, but not learning. From the paper: > Another important consideration is that, while our models can perform one-shot generalization, they
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by bglazer 10y ago
I wish that certain simple tasks in awk were a little less verbose, especially for command line use. The number one example for me is counting by string in a csv file: >> awk -F',' '{a[$1] +=1} END {for(v in a) print v,
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Algorithms compete to predict recipe for cancer vaccine(nature.com)
14 points by bglazer 10y ago|0 comments
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by bglazer 10y ago
How does this compare vs LSTM'S for sentence embedding?
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by bglazer 10y ago
One perspective on this comes from game theory and the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. In some cases the optimal strategy is "tit-for-tat". If your opponent defects and sells you out, then the best strategy for the next round is
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by bglazer 10y ago
Gambia was recently the subject of an attempted coup by a group of Gambian-American immigrants. It's a really fascinating story. A group of middle-aged middle-class immigrants from Gambia plotted, and attempted to overthrow Jammeh. ht
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by bglazer 10y ago
My fiancee is a recently graduated pharmacist. I was surprised by how much of her work is just counting pills and managing insurance. But, as with many jobs, a robot can't handle the edge cases. Doctors can be surprisingly ignorant abo
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by bglazer 10y ago
There have already been several accidents involving CIWS systems in autonomous mode. See the Incidents section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS?wprov=sfla1

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