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by dmreedy 10y ago
That is a theory. There are many other theories too. The OP's observation was that we don't really have a firm grasp on which theory or theories is/are correct, in the way we (believe) that we understand something like the na
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I find the OLED toolbar pretty interesting, and apparently well-implemented, but I am a little wary of how readily it recommends itself to a keyboard-based workflow. Most keyboards are designed such that I don't ever need to look away
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Live from Microsoft's Surface PC Event(live.theverge.com)
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I sure think so. It's got a great trackpad and the best keyboard, laptop or otherwise, that I've ever used (with deference to big buckling spring switches), if nothing else. Strange they don't mention it other than as a refer
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I think it might be a little more nuanced than that. While I'll agree that most people aren't in the business of making the world actively worse, neither are they in the business of making the world better* . Therefore, a lot of p
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Not the only IBM product to use Prolog, either. A large chunk of the relationship extraction code for the Jeopardy! Watson DeepQA system was written in Prolog as well[1]. Obviously something of a natural fit for the language. ----- [1] htt
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Bertrand Russell is also a delight to read; as someone who made history of philosophy their portfolio, his 'deep cuts', as it were, are often quite quick and incisive. You can feel that wry smile of his.
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You certainly didn't need to know the names for them. That doesn't necessarily disqualify them from a role in the learning of language. That said, you still may be right. But at the moment, it's a question of dogma, not empir
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My hunch is that the more apt analogy is to Skinnerian Behaviorists, or apostles of the Hilbert Program. Deep learning is a very a powerful tool, and the current zeal for it has yielded rapid progress in previously stagnating fields. That s
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This is a retread of the traditional I'm-actually-a-dualist argument, and a pretty naive version of it at that. The brunt of the argument is the citation of Searle's chinese room, which is treated as proven fact. I'll give it
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I would love to see a breakdown of the kinds of errors these systems make. WER is an interesting broad stroke, but it doesn't necessarily tell me how useful a given system will be for some given application[0] (unless, of course, it is
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Absolutely breathtaking. Interesting that they phrase the headline almost as if to imply uniqueness. My impression was that Saturn's hexagon was the unique situation (occurring, hypothetically, only under very specific conditions). Is
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One could even make the argument that a literal translation of 'star-crossed' would be equally correct; if the corresponding construct of adverse astrology exists in the language being translated into, the literal translation pres
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This is pretty much it. The rules for Go are known. A perfect game of Go is an NP problem. We don't know how to frame the problem of Natural language interaction like that. We don't if it's even possible to do so.
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This is super-interesting as a facet of the "Intelligence is Compression" model. It's tempting to anthropomorphize and say that the system is building an opinion about what an image, fundamentally, _is_. I'm inclined to
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I am curious how a framework like this would detect and handle something like a pivot. It does seem like the logical conclusion of the agile-mentalities that have been developing and the iteration logic embodied in Boyd's Law (which is
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or, more colloquially, "the devil you know"
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Yes, I was specifically referring to the findings from those kitten experiments. Of course there are plenty of other things that the visual cortex is involved in, as far as we can understand it at least. I'm talking purely about the ma
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Just wanted to add that there _are_ certain portions of the brain which do seem to be layered, namely fundamental image-recognizers in the visual cortex. These were a lot of the inspiration for layered neural nets, and may explain some of t
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I will admit I was overstating for comedic effect, and that was somewhat unfair. However, I disagree with your defense here. I would say, semi-seriously, that one can definitely find a story in a pair of shoes. It may not have quite the sam
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> So maybe it’s not such a New Thing. What is a game like No Man’s Sky, really? A set of symbols that specify a world but do not themselves constitute it. A rich grammar that’s inert without the trigger of human attention. > >Doesn
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I'm going to take the pretentious and predictable* route here and recommend The Design of Everyday Things. It's not about REST APIs or whatever particular instance you're after, but it is more philosophical about what APIs ar
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It is a very nice shot, glad you risked it.
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> It was decided, I was going to take this photo. However, I was not going to take my time taking the photo. > The Port Authority's policy is not law. This is a public place, and I can photograph whatever I want. The rebelliousne
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This is a very neat paper, but: 1) They appear to have crafted the skeleton of a grammar as it is with their nodes, super nodes, and slot collocations. This is directly analogous to something like an Xbar grammar, and is not learned by the
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it comes down to the limits of available Information with a capital 'I'. If you're working within the encoding system (as you're recommending here with the "all the text in the world" approach), then in order t
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Nothing would stop us from simulating human brain-like (or analogously powerful) structures to build a machine that genuinely understands natural language. I'm arguing that we can't just learn those structures by statistical optim
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It can be the case if Chomsky was right, and Universal Grammar and other similar structures are a thing. That would mean that part of our ability to understand language comes from the particular structure of our brain (which everyone seems
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> All of the information of our world is contained in text Even if this were a true statement, it's still the case that it might not be enough. There is a class of functions that are simply not learnable without some prerequisite kn
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image caption is a separate, albeit related problem to what I'm talking about. Ontologies are much the same; they are interesting for the problems they solve, but it's not clear how well those problems relate to the more general p

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