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by dlkf 7y ago
> The onus of proof is on you to explain how a highly idealized ANN has the same expressivity as a fly's wetware. I've made an argument - it's essentially a functionalist one. The intelligent things insects do - object det
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by dlkf 7y ago
> if (some) animals don't feel pain, then how do they know to avoid dangerous behaviours? What is the mechanism that keeps them from, say, jumping into the fire? This is exactly why the robot analogy originally raised by Hendrikto i
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by dlkf 7y ago
> 1. Most neural network architectures have fewer "neurons" than 10^5. Maybe the word you are looking for is "parameters" That's a fair point, I shouldn't have said "typically." But some of the lar
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by dlkf 7y ago
> an insect is a lot more like you than a robot If you mean that insects are more similar to humans than they are to robots, I'm actually not convinced. When we are deciding what kind of mental mechanism to attribute to insects to e
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by dlkf 7y ago
Do you have any supporting examples?
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Construct Validity in Psychological Tests (1955)(conservancy.umn.edu)
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by dlkf 7y ago
> It would just as likely or even more likely be something like personal wealth maximization by an employee or group of employees, personal relationship improvement, ego gratification, maintaining/improving social standing, effort m
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by dlkf 7y ago
The article was a disappointment: only one sentence was dedicated to motivating the business problem, and there was no description of the application. People act like the utility of this stuff is apriori obvious, but to me it's really
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by dlkf 7y ago
Patterson is a stellar wordsmith. I still miss his advice column in Slate. The commenters saying this doesn't distinguish finance (eg. "fashion groupthink pervades pretty much every career field") are missing the point. The t
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by dlkf 7y ago
You are potentially conflating two different issues. > Think of the privilege you had when you were younger. You could do something stupid and nobody could whip out a high def camera to record it and make it part of your history forever.
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by dlkf 7y ago
> As of last fall, its Wayback Machine held over 450 billion pages in 25 petabytes of data. This would represent .0003% of the total internet. > Universities, governments and scientific societies are struggling to preserve scientific
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Math, Philosophy, and AI: A Dialogue with Gian-Carlo Rota and David Sharp (2007)(web.archive.org)
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by dlkf 7y ago
Nobody has articulated my feelings about Foucault et al better than Chomsky: > There are lots of things I don't understand -- say, the latest debates over whether neutrinos have mass or the way that Fermat's last theorem was (a
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by dlkf 7y ago
Well put. Compatibilist arguments typically hinge on some bait and switch and this is a popular one. The author does this exact thing in his weather example: > At the level of individual air molecules, there is no such thing as weather.
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Nature and Nurture: A Parallel Distributed Processing Perspective (1994) [pdf](stanford.edu)
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by dlkf 7y ago
This is a great essay. An exciting practical use case is seen in Duolingo. They use a regression model to learn the half-life of individual words for users. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvgGSg-VWAE
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by dlkf 7y ago
How many people are there that satisfy both of the following criteria: 1. They want to build, train, and deploy a machine learning model into production. Presumably as a microservice, part of a web application, etc 2. They don't know h
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by dlkf 7y ago
> you don't have the right to decide how your child should be educated, a committee will decide intimate details of yours and your family's lives, where they go every day, what happens when they get there, what the curriculum i
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by dlkf 7y ago
I find this concept of the "history of emotions" unconvincing on so many levels. Between the mind-body problem and our coarse understanding of the brain, it's hard enough to talk sensibly about emotions in the present. That l
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by dlkf 7y ago
I believe the conclusion is basically true, but I also feel that sampling from the Github project showcase list induces a selection bias that is going to support it. The analysis would be more convincing if the authors had gained access to
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by dlkf 8y ago
> Matches should be sorted alphabetically This should only be done in lieu of information about frequencies. If I type "repub" into Google, "republic of korea" appears before "republic of ireland" because it
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by dlkf 8y ago
I use wordpress > where dealing with mathematical symbols and highlighting code is not tedious It will render LaTeX and will perform code syntax highlighting > I would like to reach out to a wide variety of folks including developers,
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by dlkf 8y ago
That's fair. My specific interest lies in Help Center content / software documentation, in which some degree of reusability is critical.
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by dlkf 8y ago
I think the most interesting thing about the article isn't the solution. It's the problem: how do you organize a long piece of writing (O(100k) words) into logical units whose length isn't dictated in advance, and which don&#
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by dlkf 8y ago
This is great. I think that the state of computer science education is partly to blame. When I was a student, a disproportionate amount of time was spent on advanced topics that will almost never arise in the course of a typical programmer&
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Self-locating belief and the Sleeping Beauty problem (2000) [pdf](princeton.edu)
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by dlkf 8y ago
> Malcolm Gladwell’s books are enjoyable—there is no denying he tells compelling stories—but ultimately they rely heavily on anecdotal evidence. In general, I find that books by journalists cherry-pick examples to fit the argument, and g
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by dlkf 8y ago
> For human interaction, voice is vastly preferable. This is trivial or false. If you define "human interaction" as "the sorts of interactions where we'd rather talk" then sure, voice is preferable by definition.
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by dlkf 8y ago
Lets say you were just hired as the President of a furniture company. The owner says he knows it's good furniture but even despite huge investments they can't seem to sell any furniture. Your job is to turn things around... https
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by dlkf 8y ago
> Instead of clicking a button to swing an axe, in VR you can naturally swing that axe with your own hand. I agree. This is exactly the sort of inconsequential activity where VR will really excel. > Instead of dragging a mouse to draw

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