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Wonderful when he unrolls a motor into his Linear Induction Motor used by Maglev Levitating Trains. Laithewaite was an engineer, used to tweaking things till they worked and then trying to understand & explain them. The fact that a smal
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Eric Raymond's take : "Neurotypicals spend most of their cognitive bandwidth on mutual grooming and status-maintainance activity." http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7060#more-7060
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Ah yes, many thanks, I was thinking of Popplestone & Burstall's functional language POP-II from Edinburgh. POPLOG was developed at Sussex. Did you work with Margret Bowden's robotics group ?
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It is CP1919, the first pulsar, discovered by Jocelyn Bell. It won a nobel prize for Anthony Hewish who led the project. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell on BBC radio's Life Scientific http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01
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Very informative, but Minsky was not at the debate, it was Michie, Gregory, & McCarthy. The Lighthill report destroyed the UK's lead in AI at Edinburgh. Edinburgh's AI lab, founded by Donald Michie, a wartime colleague of Turi
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I am not advocating any policy but OP brought up veto, the veto only belongs to EU founders not all members. Few discussions about the outcome of negotiations mention veto, a blunt instrument the UK has often employed in the past. The refer
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Veto is a very powerful instrument, only the initial members have it. The UK has a similar veto which gives it a powerful negotiating tool - a single member can prevent every decision by vetoing it. The Germans could veto but the UK can vet
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When Prof Andrew Ng first ran his Machine Learning MOOC, very many of us relied on Octave. An Octave dev showed up to help students and a fundraiser was organised in return. In the cases you mention, surely it would be trivial to prove if t
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Robert Plomin has proved a genetic influence for UK A-Level (exam) results. He uses the statistical method of comparing identical and fraternal twins to demonstrate that genetics accounts for twice the variation in exam achievement than dif
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Shortly before his demise Dr Kelly attempted to be a source that the 'dodgy dossier' was 'sexed-up' to journalist Andrew Gilligan. The BBC was chastised & curtailed for standing by journalism that in hindsight was tr
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Failure can be very valuable experience. You might fail at making money / market share but gaining the experience of how and why you failed is very valuable information. Failure is great business knowledge it makes you wiser and dealin
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For Volumising Mandelbrot's Equation the Mandelbulb is worth a look: "In 2006 Daniel White inspired by an idea of Rudy Rucker developed a mathematical equation with the potential for a real 3D equivalent to the famous 2D mandelbro
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David Silver's Reinforcement Learning Course teaches from Sutton & Barto's book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWv7GOvuf0
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The GPU => CPU memory bus is a major bottleneck for NVIDIA's growing Deep Neural Net driven adoption. GPUs churn through data once it is across the bus. A heirarchy of GPUs, outputs wired to inputs, mirroring the heirarchy of deep n
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There is some evidence that large deep nets evolve using convergent strategies and solutions across modalities - at least for words and pictures. Low level specific edge & feature detectors combine into parts of things, these then combi
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Are there any public datasets of poker games ?
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Yours is a good characterisation of Hebbian learning. Backpropagation in ANN & Hebbian learning in NN analagously strengthen correlations between inputs & succesful outputs - learning useful associations. Stanley & Riskonen&#x27
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Artificial neurons are a model rather than a simulation. McCullough & Pitts sought to computationally model neuron's information processing ability, not simulate their biology. Their 1943 paper "A logical calculus of the idea
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The game's author Lucas Pope compares the new dithering with blue noise here : https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg121719... Visually Werness algorithm is the best, and Pope concludes: "What Wern
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When a lurking mathematician, Brent Werness, invents a sweet new type of detail preserving dithering for Obra Dinn as a devlog comment. https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg121280...
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A sort of Proxy Turing Test would be that a computer could write a character with a convincing inner dialogue. If a machine author can produce a simulacrum of consciousness by good characterisation then that seems like a partial theory of
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Derek Yu drew the cover for Vol 13, Issue 2 http://squelched.com/issue/volume-13-issue-2-flaming-poo-bag...
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It is correctly called Scots. Scots is as old as English. It is just as much its own root British language though often misconceived as a dialect of English. Scots has its own dialects like Dundonian Doric. The other Scottish tongue, the la
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Yes. The cloth is modelled as particles connected by springs (semi-stiff rods). This is Verlet Integration, Verlet is good for cloth as Euler tends to tear cloth. Solving so many constraints simultaneously would be rather intractable so an
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I have heard this idea the Schmeisers benefited from Monsanto's Roundup-ready and I disagree. The Schmeisers didn't use Roundup, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled they experienced no benefit from the Monsanto Genes. For the wider p
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Monsanto Canada Inc v Schmeiser[1] is one datum. The Schmeisers lost their heirloom corn they had been growing for generations when a neighbour grew Monsanto corn, which pollinated some of the Schmeiser's plants. Because Monsanto had p
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Hahn was working with fission not fusion , he was not a 'fusioneer' but splitting the atom. Hahn produced amazing amateur nuclear work nonetheless, ( somewhat out of control when his reactor went critical ).
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> "Unbestimmtheit" (Indeterminacy) was on the part of the observer: not realizing certain aspects of nature at this stage in our knowledge—rather than proof that nature itself is fundamentally undetermined and uncertain. And ye
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The author conflates brains and minds. Of course brain wetware is not computer hardware, but Minds run on wetware as computation runs on hardware. He claims we don't use algorithms to catch balls but then describes the heuristic we do
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Misalignment of incentives with desired outcomes is often overlooked as a cause of social ills. In general people do what gets them pay and promotion. Bonuses and shares align owners and employees interests. In Shaw's introduction to

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