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by clickok 11y ago
Nice-- a beautiful, responsive website. What does the underlying stack look like? Now all that remains is to fill it with content, which may be somewhat difficult since contributing users would presumably have to be fairly knowledgable abo
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by clickok 11y ago
I suspect the project was created in preparation for the SIGBOVIK conference[1] or similar. It's sort of a satirical or mock conference; these guys have created a number of ingenious projects over the years[2], but this one might be t
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by clickok 11y ago
I think that the authors of such excellent publications such as "Visually Identifying Rank", "A Spectral Method for Ghost Detection" and "N-dimensional Polytope Schemes"[1] deserve a little more credit than tha
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by clickok 11y ago
If I'm going to be living in a van (down by the river), I would at least drive it to a river in a warmer climate. One with a higher exchange rate, lower taxes, and faster Internet, say.
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by clickok 11y ago
That might work; the concern is that this would take it too far off of the task it was trained on. That is, if it doesn't have a lot of experience being significantly down, then it won't play nearly as well when trying to catch up
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by clickok 11y ago
How strong is AlphaGo? DeepMind doesn't generally comment on these sorts of things, but I think they knew it would be strong, just not how strong. It is hard to accurately gauge the playing strength of such a program for the following
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by clickok 11y ago
I posted in the earlier thread because this one wasn't up yet[1]. Some quick observations 1. AlphaGo underwent a substantial amount of improvement since October, apparently. The idea that it could go from mid-level professional to worl
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by clickok 11y ago
And AlphaGo wins. Unfortunately, while I could follow the tactical aspect, I'm not familiar enough with the game to understand the grand strategy, so it was a bit of an odd experience-- something complicated was happening, but even bei
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by clickok 11y ago
Please do. I understand why chips can't continue to improve following Moore's law from some fairly high level perspectives, but I haven't seen anything that provides more detail than the typical pop-science articles but witho
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by clickok 11y ago
It's always nice to get a chance to deploy some functional techniques. You can get a Cartesian range (also called a von Neumann neighborhood) of size "n" and dimension "d" via: def cartesian_range(n, d): return
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by clickok 11y ago
A little pedantic: you already have thousands of different input sources, from the classic "five senses" to less conscious awareness of things like your limb placement and internal biochemistry (e.g., hunger). There are even peopl
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Countdown to 2016(nbviewer.ipython.org)
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by clickok 11y ago
This is really cool, even inspiring. Not just because it's one of the first examples I've seen of accurate, real-time detection powered by neural nets, but because they're getting these results via black magic, basically. The
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by clickok 11y ago
We just had a series of debates/discussions on this topic at my university, the results of which were pretty inconclusive. There are just too many possible scenarios which seem to require different responses, and in most cases to prov
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by clickok 11y ago
I haven't read Dick, but a similar passage appears in Infinite Jest , by David Foster Wallace: The proposed solution to what the telecommunications industry's psychological consultants termed Video-Physiognmoic Dsyphoria (or VPD
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by clickok 11y ago
Nice! I've wanted to do something like this for awhile, too, but haven't had the time yet. What's interesting to me, from a research point of view, is the degree of nuance the network uncovers for the clickbait. We all know
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by clickok 11y ago
If you have money, shaping the discourse on issues of your choice is surprisingly straightforward: 1. Come up with a bunch of candidate ideas/ lines of argument/ memes that promote your point-of-view 2. Ensure maximum virality by
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by clickok 11y ago
It seems to me that, while wealthy, these fuerdai kids are uncomfortable bordering on neurotic. They're mainly notable because of their connection to their parents, and anything that they do accomplish is suspect because they never k
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by clickok 11y ago
Yeah. There's a related XKCD[0], but let's just have an irony free moment of total seriousness for the following: be alert when walking places, getting hit by a car is extremely unpleasant . -- 0. https://xkcd.com&#x2F
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by clickok 11y ago
Another fun game you can play in traffic[0] is to factor the license plates of the cars ahead of you. Weirdly, I found that doing this sort of practice made me better at abstract mathematics. I used to think that Gauss, Euler and von Neuma
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by clickok 11y ago
...but there's all sorts of confounds there, too. Like is a lifestyle that features moderate drinking more likely to include longevity promoting things like exercise, friends, and financial security? I am not sure how easy this could
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by clickok 11y ago
The main objection against the ending refrain of "go home, yuppies" is that, since hackers (however you define the term) have valuable skills, they should be able to earn money using them. If the alternative is working in a menial
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by clickok 11y ago
Insofar as "rational fiction" is rational, it's just good fiction[0]. If we tack on the requirements that it "teach rationality" and "deconstruct" some setting, then maybe you might justify it as a separat
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by clickok 11y ago
This is an interesting study, but would likely benefit from some additional research[0][1]. From a journalistic perspective, though, the article on the study is terrible. Not merely because of the way it jumps to conclusions from a single s
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by clickok 11y ago
Once you get past how hard it is to find the thread of conversation, this thing is awesome. It is basically like chatting accompanied by automatically selected reaction GIFS. If it were converted to a forum of some sort, you'd basicall
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by clickok 11y ago
Interesting and cool. It's almost like a magic trick, particularly in the sense that an almost unbelievable result has been achieved through putting in a serious amount of effort. It's not just a gimmick, though-- projects like t
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by clickok 11y ago
Serious question: if you have some code that really has to be fast, is it viable to keep it in Python, or should you ultimately end up rewriting it in a compiled language? For example, I am writing code that implements networks that evolve
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by clickok 11y ago
I love stuff like this, and I think "unreasonable" is almost an understatement. It's "unreasonable" mainly because it occasionally captures subtle aspects of the data source for "free". If you've wor
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by clickok 11y ago
To nitpick (and maybe derail this subthread a bit), you can do some pretty weird stuff with Python's numeric types. Unfortunately, the fascists who designed the language refuse to allow me to modify certain builtins... AttributeErr
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Reinforcement Learning Neural Turing Machines(arxiv.org)
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