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NIH Study of Drinking Will Be Shut Down Due to Proximity to Alcohol Industry(nytimes.com)
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by engnr567 8y ago
One key thing about the result is that it doesn't mean that the probability of survival is 30%. The prison director can choose an arrangement such that the strategy is guaranteed to fail. If the prison director is intelligent and after
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by engnr567 8y ago
I don't quite understand the sudden optimism around the feasibility of strong AI. The only major advancement in the last two decades seems to be neural nets in pattern recognition. Before deep learning, pattern recognition wasn't
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by engnr567 9y ago
The matrix exponentiation algorithm in the link you sent is O(log(n)). Yes, this might seem strange because the output (F_n) itself has n bits. But in practice most of the implementations would use long integers for output, so log(F_n) <
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by engnr567 9y ago
Exactly. And fibonacci numbers also have a closed form which can be (in theory) evaluated in O(1): http://austinrochford.com/posts/2013-11-01-generating-functi...
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by engnr567 9y ago
Based on my limited experience, most of the good engineers I know measure and care about quantifiable things like latency, throughput etc. They generally tend to get frustrated with fuzzy things like accuracy. (Data) Scientists, on the othe
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by engnr567 9y ago
When I was single, for most of my big projects I used to get 70-80% of the work done in 4-5 days of being in the zone. And then spend months on changing the bells and whistles. Now I have to be home at a reasonable hour and hopefully in a