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by compbio 12y ago
> examples where crowd behavior exhibits less "wisdom" When crowds act irrational there is usually a problem in communication. The crowd would still be able to solve problems better after they repair these communication channel
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by compbio 12y ago
A field in cognitive science that asks these questions is "gestalt psychology". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology
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> if the AIs that are supposed to do our jobs turn out to be very fallible as well? To state that AIs can be foiled by a specifically crafted adversarial attack, does not mean the AI is very fallible. Under normal circumstances it still
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by compbio 12y ago
You may be interested in this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tleeC-KlsKA#t=282 The speakers runs you through a hypothetical case study: a pet-door company and looks at the pitfalls of applying machine learning to it.
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Jan Sloot claimed a compression factor of around 8x in his patents. The claim in the news article is "All movies ever made would fit on one CD-ROM", which is incorrect and misleading. "The keycodes to unlock all movies ever m
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by compbio 12y ago
> The argument that 2^1024 is a very large number, but that the number of possible movies is larger than this strikes me as fairly compelling. It is compelling, because it is probably true. I think Sloot did not manage to create a device
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by compbio 12y ago
An incredibly fascinating story. Tom Perkins: "Mister Sloot, you have done an unbelievable job. You are going to be the richest man on earth." A TV-repair man working for over 20 years as a recluse in his attic. When his invention
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by compbio 12y ago
I do not get the problem of hiring a clickfarm for 1$ an hour to click on cat pics. If we take reputation, IP and cookie. All must be in order to pass. We want to spam a 1000 forms today. Scenario 1: The clickfarm itself fills in the Captch
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The spammers thought the same when Bayesian spam filtering started working: "I'll just program a Markov chain to insert some none-spammy words". It did not work out quite so well. I've also been thinking on how to defeat