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by ckuehne 15y ago
Whenever I see Searle's Chinese Room argument, or a version of it, invoked to show that brains cannot possibly be computers I am reminded of a passage of Terry Bison's "They're Made out of Meat" [1]: "They're made out of meat." "Meat?" "Mea
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by ckuehne 15y ago
Your reasoning is wrong. There is a crucial difference between believing that a computer can simulate a brain and believing that a windmill can do so. That is, that a computer can, in principle, simulate mills as well as city-states and all
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by ckuehne 15y ago
Or "Zeitgeist" and "Schadenfreude" for that matter.
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by ckuehne 15y ago
"just to validate what they already know to be true" Not to forget, making money from it, or, at least, bringing money to the associated laboratories or doctors.
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by ckuehne 15y ago
"The concept of a 'steep curve' is the physical analogy to a steep hill" Of course it is. That is likely the reason why the meaning got mixed up in the first place. The rest of your comment is rationalization (Otherwise, people would call i
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by ckuehne 15y ago
Thanks. I had seen the Wikipedia entry (but not the stackexchange and the Seth Roberts post) as well but did not post it because I found it interesting to see everyone come up with rationalizations for why their usage of the phrase is 'the
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by ckuehne 15y ago
"I feel like the graph is a poor choice in illustrating this idea. As it's central to the argument, the rest of the article falls apart, in my eyes." What, in your eyes, does the word "curve" refer to then?
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"Steep Learning Curve" is an Erroneous Metaphor(yann.lecun.com)
43 points by ckuehne 15y ago|25 comments
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by ckuehne 15y ago
Slight nitpick: The sentence is in present perfect not in present tense.
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by ckuehne 16y ago
Discovery. Trial and error. Observation of nature.
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by ckuehne 16y ago
Thanks. That was very helpful. Its easy to see but somehow hard to believe that this applies to 4 people as well (now everyone can see 3 blue eyed people) etc.
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by ckuehne 16y ago
The case with 3 people always bugs me in solutions for this puzzle: If Alice, Bob, and Carol have blue eyes how can they not know that everyone knows that there are blue eyed people?
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by ckuehne 16y ago
Of course the question arises: who will overturn the "overturner"?
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by ckuehne 16y ago
It was a great tragedy. But neither was the the number of deformed children nor the number of cases of cancer "countless". There have been put numbers on it [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Assessing_th...
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by ckuehne 16y ago
"The author confuses linear distributions with exponential ones, comparing them as stacked bar graphs without suitable differentiation of axis." Could you elaborate? By the way, the graph is taken from the original paper (click the details
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by ckuehne 16y ago
No prior experience required. Just German Abitur [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abitur
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by ckuehne 16y ago
I don't think money is the problem here. In Germany, Lufthansa, the largest airline and has the following model: the pilot program takes 24 months. Students have to pay 60k Euro which the get pre-financed by Lufthansa interest free. The hav
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by ckuehne 16y ago
"but if everyone in the town (that could) did it that is a massive impact!" No, it is not: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/c6/page_39....
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Why Laugh at Nerds(overcomingbias.com)
3 points by ckuehne 16y ago|0 comments
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Child-driven Education as an Emergent Phenomenon(ted.com)
1 points by ckuehne 16y ago|0 comments
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by ckuehne 16y ago
My fault. Just saw constant time and chain in one sentence and panicked ;)
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by ckuehne 16y ago
Well, there is perfect hashing [1]. Of course it does only work under several assumptions. And you pay for it in terms of time it takes to construct the hash function or in terms of space. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_hash_func
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by ckuehne 16y ago
You are kidding, right? The name chain itself suggest linear worst case behavior.
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N=?NP, Physics, Feynman, and Quantum Computing(youtube.com)
7 points by ckuehne 16y ago|1 comments
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The Neurobiology of Intelligence - Or: Why IQ is not a Statistical Myth(loni.ucla.edu)
3 points by ckuehne 16y ago|0 comments
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by ckuehne 16y ago
"The claim is implausible (if such parenting can make the kids neurotic ..." The claim that the parenting style causes kids to be neurotic is exactly what the OP argues to be false (see yummyfajita's sister comment).
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by ckuehne 16y ago
Sure. A digit is "a symbol (a number symbol, e.g. "3" or "7") used in numerals (combinations of symbols, e.g. "37"), to represent numbers (integers or real numbers) in positional numeral systems." (Source: Wikipedia) For example, the number
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by ckuehne 16y ago
I guess the OP does not realize that a correct solution to his ill-defined "question" > Print n digits of the Fibonacci sequence is (in Python): print "1"*n
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by ckuehne 16y ago
"I don't ask this problem, because I'm dying to know the 12th digit of the fibonacci sequence. I already know that's 144." That was certainly news to me. Who would have thought that the 12th _digit_ of the Fibonacci sequence is 144.
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by ckuehne 16y ago
Still there are mammals that live eusocial. The naked mole rat comes to mind.

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