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by david_ar 11y ago
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by david_ar 11y ago
Daniel Tammet has some pretty impressive synaesthetic abilities. From Born on a Blue Day : > I never write anything down when I'm calculating, because I've always been able to do the sums in my head and it's much easier f
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by david_ar 14y ago
I really don't understand arguments like this - the problem is that some people have digestive systems that are "too" efficient, and so the "solution" is to cripple their ability to properly absorb nutrients. It seems rather wasteful.
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by david_ar 14y ago
I never disagreed with the equation (of course it's correct). My point is that the prior always comes first, even in UII. You're not simply picking the hypothesis that best explains the data (assuming by best explains you mean has the great
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by david_ar 14y ago
I like to think of Bayes' rule in terms of hypotheses and predictions. Take the hypotheses to be "is a woman" and "is not a woman"/"is a man", and the data to be "is over 6 foot tall". Our priors on the to hypotheses are roughly equal (50%)
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by david_ar 14y ago
Not true. Maximum likelihood picks the hypothesis/theory that best "explains" the data, hence you run into issues with overfitting, etc. A Bayesian starts with a prior over a set of hypotheses (the P(T) term), and then uses the data to upda
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by david_ar 15y ago
I really like this approach (even if I'm still not entirely convinced about the benefits of dotsies). For a while, I've had this idea of a book that starts in standard English, and gradually alters the grammar and introduces new words - so
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by david_ar 15y ago
There's something mildly fascinating about SUBLEQ - I got as far as designing a CPU for it a little while back. http://da.vidr.cc/projects/subleq/