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by f00_ 8y ago
I copped Cybernetics awhile ago and just kinda skimmed it anything about Leibniz in there?
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What do Go users think of Scala? Seems like the alpha language
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i'm thinking about using privacy.com, what ended up happening? What is a billing network?
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I did this while i was actively trying to learn korean, playing Maplestory 2 and League of Legends on the kr servers Minorly successful, fun atleast. I'd suggest it
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literally the chicago boys, and right-libertarianism of reagan-thatcher how about russia's market reforms? tell me about that deng xiaoping liberalized china's economy, but now the greatest example of a capitalist economy is total
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by f00_ 8y ago
first thing that came to mind was how anti-communism played out in vietnam, chicago boys of chile, and the contras in nicaragua you could also argue the underdevelopment of the third world by washington consensus (free market) policies oh a
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I don't think there is such a clear distinction between fact and values ala Hume’s conception of a "matter of fact" or Kant’s distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments. economics isn't a deductive science. i p
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it's not an exact science in the same way physics or chemistry were. by the arguments of market fundamentalists/etc you'd think they think economics is a deductive science part of his whole thing is that economics isn't
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by f00_ 8y ago
the consensus is "uncertain" for [2], some of the questions don't make sense or are really vague. Behavioral economics is all about critique of the rational actor in rational expectations theory, I think that fits in with cri
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by f00_ 8y ago
die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
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maybe some censored data problems here? I'm interested in seeing a jupyter notebook analysis on driver fatality rates Does anyone have experience doing survival analysis? I've read a lot of the documentation of CamDavidsonPilon&#x
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by f00_ 8y ago
non-paywall link: https://outline.com/ejH8Nf
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how do you define "field of computing"? It's taught in most beginning CS courses, has wide adoption for scientific computing and business. It seems like most apps are prototyped in R/Python before functions get ported to
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but the largest employeers destroy unions, and have more bargaining power than a single employee
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The way he talks about religion, I think he's way into Jungian archetypes and psychoanalysis and shit. I originally thought his critique of postmodernism/continental philosophy and stuff was interesting, reminiscent of chomsky His
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I haven't actually read the article, just thought you'd be interested in Mariana Mazzucato's discussion of Apple in The Entrepreneurial State "which argues that the United States' economic success is a result of pub
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by f00_ 8y ago
maybe you'd be interested in opentimestamps or factom, they use the bitcoin blockchain to timestamp documents https://petertodd.org/2016/opentimestamps-announcement
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by f00_ 9y ago
connectionism is an approach to the philosophy of mind, the most successful approach as evidenced by recent deep learning hype the only book in the OP I thought was even mildly relevant was the one by Dennet, and it's generally acknowl
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I think the most interesting and relevant strand of philosophy of mind is the connectionism of Rumelhart, McClelland and the PDP Research Group (including "godfather of deep learning" Geoff Hinton), exemplified in the tome "P
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I thought it was interesting the same technique (convolution) was used in two different applications: photoshop/gimp for image filters and in convolutional neural networks (CNNs). What is the purpose of convolution in CNNs? the setosa
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by f00_ 9y ago
does amazon, heroku, or google not allow this?
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Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) and Autoencoders are the ones that come to mind. There are also all the models used in research leading up to the "deep learning" craze: Helmholtz machine, Boltzman machine, Deep belief networ
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by f00_ 9y ago
After reading "Backprop as Functor: A compositional perspective on supervised learning", it came to my attention that the spaCy backend (thinc) is built with higher order functions instead of a computational graph (unlike tensorfl
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I think the streaming business is really interesting, I assume the reason Twitch (Amazon) is so successful is that they own their own infrastructure. Youtube is a competitor for the same reason. Using Akamai/other CDNs is just crazy ex
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by f00_ 9y ago
that is great, both of these reminded me of deepexcel: multi-layer neural networks implemented with a spreadsheet!: http://www.deepexcel.net/
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I think you're getting hung up on "tax day should be happy because we're showing solidarity with our fellow citizens". If you have any resources to link to me about Switzerland's politics/economic history pleas
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I have read a bit of Sowell, bought a collection of his work for my boss, whom I argue with all the time. But when it comes down to it people who read Sowell/Free to Choose/Capitalism and Freedom, when trump imposes tariffs on Sou
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I'm primarily thinking of the US/UK under Reagan/Thatcher. Regan breaking the air traffic controller strike, thatcher and the coal miners. Brutally repressed, unions have no rights in these countries anymore. If you try to or
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Chomsky considers himself a conservative in the tradition of eisenhower, a classical liberal in the tradition of hume and von humboldt. Most of what is considered "conservative" now is far right, the Democrats like Obama/Clin
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The labor struggle has been so propagandized that it's impossible to talk about. Unions are about organizing to allow people to control their economic destiny. They've been violently repressed since the very beginning. The right-w

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