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Hamiltonian for the Zeros of the Riemann Zeta Function(journals.aps.org)
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by cafebeen 10y ago
Reading about Workflow makes me wish HyperCard were still around. If all of iOS was essentially a HyperCard stack, this the kind of automation provided by Workflow would possibly be more natural and powerful. I hope this is a sign that Ap
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by cafebeen 10y ago
I use make for scientific data analysis, and it has saved me a tremendous amount of time. It's definitely worth the investment to learn the language, in my opinion. I know many folks have tried writing their own version to "fix&
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by cafebeen 10y ago
Tools like Make are also useful for simple data analysis workflows, and I'm curious to hear any thoughts from any Buck users as to whether it would be useful in those cases too.
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by cafebeen 10y ago
I think there are many companies currently or on their way to using AI to run a significant portion of their business, e.g. financial and advertising sectors. The hard part is demonstrating intention in that scenario, as many learning algo
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by cafebeen 10y ago
I think this is a major challenge too, although it depends. Some models are easy to reason about, e.g. Bayesian graphical models, while black-box approaches like deep neural networks are not. One especially problematic issue is: if a model
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by cafebeen 10y ago
It's not coddling as much as professional courtesy. Mistakes are often brought up at conferences and in peer review, but most scientists within a specific research area try to be on good terms with one another and don't see value
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by cafebeen 10y ago
Well, scientists are people too, so they have feelings and are not perfect. I think there are polite ways provide criticism and corrections, hopefully without humiliating people with good intentions. If it's a simple mistake, they ca
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by cafebeen 10y ago
Despite the title, software was not at fault here. Rather, the paper found a higher than expected false positive rate due to a choice in statistical modeling. The conclusion was that nonparametric tests can avoid the issue. So, none of the
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by cafebeen 11y ago
I'm just going to leave this here: http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/im2gps/
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by cafebeen 11y ago
For those who are interested, the human connectome project is in the process of acquiring and publicly releasing a database of 1000+ MRIs collected from normal subjects: http://www.humanconnectome.org/data/
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Caltech suspends professor for harassment(sciencemag.org)
2 points by cafebeen 11y ago|0 comments
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by cafebeen 11y ago
I think the article is talking about a bigger issue, which is expanding our idea of a "research contribution" to include software. The current attitude essentially considers software to be equipment for getting to a scientific re
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by cafebeen 11y ago
It's also interesting to think how they will deal with uncertainty. In my neighborhood, people don't follow the law at four way stop signs, and a rational and law-abiding agent might just end up being paralyzed by it.
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by cafebeen 11y ago
It's easy and cheap to get an MRI by volunteering to participate in an imaging research study. You can typically ask for the data, and they will actually pay you for your time.
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by cafebeen 11y ago
To expand on that: '“I understand the state-of-the-art papers,” he says. “The math is simple"', which seems like an attitude of someone without a solid understanding of ML. But who knows, maybe he's figured out somethin
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by cafebeen 11y ago
Yes, that kind of journalism exists, but does it have a place here?
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by cafebeen 11y ago
I think it's a fair comment given his quote "I know everything there is to know" and the headline of the article claiming he's "building a self-driving car by himself". I've always thought the "hacke
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by cafebeen 11y ago
However, humans have amazing ability to generalize from a very small number of examples, which is still a very challenging computational task.
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by cafebeen 11y ago
There's evidence that our savannah ape ancestors experienced unpredictable climate conditions, so it's not that humans are adapted to savannah life, but rather constantly changing conditions that require an adaptable brain: http:
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by cafebeen 11y ago
It's hard to say what he believes, but there seems to be evidence of what is normally considered misconduct, specifically, in using a sham peer review process and misrepresenting the funding sources. I don't think he has to say &
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Information Visualization Research as Pseudo-Science [pdf](perceptualedge.com)
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by cafebeen 11y ago
One challenge ahead--in most hospitals, the doctors have to choose to use these new tools and many aren't. Some don't see the need (maybe due to a generally conservative attitude), and others actually see them as a liability (if
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by cafebeen 11y ago
I think you're confusing junk reporting with the science, which is solid (DBS is remarkably effective for treating motor disorders). It's unclear how effective it is for treating other issues, which is why studies like this are d
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by cafebeen 11y ago
If we manage to build truly intelligent machines, I'd hope it'd be used to enrich people's lives, that is, all humans be the winners
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by cafebeen 11y ago
This is a surprisingly meta article... It claims there's a general lack of statistical understanding among experts, and then supports itself by making sweeping generalizations from a tiny sample size!
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by cafebeen 11y ago
Given the variety of things under the psychiatry umbrella, there is surely some of that, they don't seem much different from the larger pool of scientists, doctors, public health workers, etc. on the whole. But, there's nothing w
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by cafebeen 11y ago
If you think psychiatry is a cult, consider how many competing approaches there are within the field and how often experimental evidence is used to throw out old ideas and form new ones. This is pretty much the opposite of a cult. Though,
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by cafebeen 11y ago
No one's mentioned it because those aren't national parks, and the large national parks are quite far from densely populated areas like the bay area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_parks_of_the
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by cafebeen 11y ago
These are both good options: http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Informati... http://www.amazon.com/The-Elements-Statistical-Learning-Pred...

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