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by fizixer 11y ago
It's a fallacy to assume if you're not able to task-switch efficiently, there's something wrong with you and nothing to do with the nature of your work. As an example, Feynman would avoid distractions as much as he could, wou
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by fizixer 11y ago
I just read this article for the first time. And even though it raised some interesting points that I completely agree with, he builds his argument based on some inaccuracies. Most importantly, his writing gives the impression that autoconf
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by fizixer 11y ago
Honestly I'm a beginner myself. Other then google search that you can do yourself, here's what might be helpful: https://triangleinequality.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/theano-a...
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by fizixer 11y ago
Also recommended, 7 part video series (link is video 1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxe2T-V8XRs
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by fizixer 11y ago
What about the feet? You'll start having problems associated with long standing hours[1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_complications_of_sta...
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by fizixer 11y ago
In recent past, I had this thought that Silicon Valley is sitting on top of, or very close to, potential future fault activity. And I have a hard time believing that the key component of human civilization (technology) is so vulnerable, and
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by fizixer 11y ago
I saw Shane Legg's talk recently and I understood the main idea but I had a question I wish I could ask him: He said general intelligence is 'as long as you provide a goal, the intelligence should optimize over that goal based on
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by fizixer 11y ago
Here's an interesting one: Mathematicians think programming is mathematics. Programmers think they're simulating the mind of a mathematician!
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by fizixer 11y ago
> Programming, wrote Dijkstra many years ago, is a branch of applied mathematics. This is as effective as saying "X is a branch of philosophy", where X is any discipline. It's probably true for every discipline, but what&#
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by fizixer 11y ago
One way of think of it is that: There are connections between Deep Learning and Theoretical Physics because there are (even stronger) connections between Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics.
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by fizixer 11y ago
off-topic but I was looking for a reader of my pdf-to-image converted documents. This reader looks really nice (and in-browser too).
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by fizixer 11y ago
At the same time this might be not be that different, i.e., customers of a company interfering with the internal decisions. If firing a certain employee is that bad for the company, investors would be a lot more upset than the customers. (a
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by fizixer 11y ago
I got lost in their naming convention, what is it, 2c? 8c? 9c?
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by fizixer 11y ago
Nothing wrong with C++ per se, if you're a C++ programmer. First, I assume this is a musl thread, so I'm assuming C++ people might not be interested in it in the first place (I'd be surprised if C++ communities discuss the bl
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by fizixer 11y ago
musl is great, but it would great if there was something at the compiler level that is better than both gcc and LLVM/Clang. LLVM/Clang is a step in the right direction but it's quite bloated because of support for C++, Object
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by fizixer 11y ago
noob/off-topic: I've seen people use the word DOM multiple times and I don't have an idea of what they mean. - I know from past that DOM vs SAX were two ways to read/write XML. Not sure if that is related. - Recently I c
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by fizixer 11y ago
Not sure why it tries to replace virtualenv which is already obsolete in favor of pyvenv which is built-in.
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by fizixer 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aumann's_agreement_theorem I think after sufficient debate, reasons behind one of the party's disagreement can be boiled down to things like: - stubbornness - conflict of interes
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by fizixer 11y ago
Yeah emacs is a very useful tool as part of your data science workflow. So is IPython notebook. So is vim along with tmux, a good tiling window manager, and shell-tools. However none of them are without flaws. None of them are free from req
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by fizixer 11y ago
I just finished a rant on a certain tex forum about how LaTeX adds 10x complexity (to TeX + plainTeX) for making end-user's life about 10% easier. My two cents: - Once you become a moderately advanced LaTeX user, you need more control
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by fizixer 11y ago
> SENS Research Foundation is made for relatively wealthy people who already have money and health who want to live longer. Ignoring the fact that you're pulling statements out of a hat, and assuming what you said is true, which one
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by fizixer 11y ago
Just the way we should've estimated the likelihood of curing cancer before we started pouring money in it. Probably we did, and then based on the importance of the matter, poured in billions of dollars anyway. SENS approach is essentia
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by fizixer 11y ago
> Blatant sensationalism. There is absolutely nothing here that would suggest consciousness. Putting biological consciousness on a pedestal might be blatant sensationalism itself. By consciousness, I specifically mean the behavioral capa
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by fizixer 11y ago
I've been thinking about this at a meta level and I can't get to reach any conclusion. Think of a simple instruction: draw a line from (a,b) to (c,d). How many ways can it be "encoded as an API"? we already have a gazill
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by fizixer 11y ago
Some comments seem to be appreciating (or getting disgusted by) the aesthetics but I think the "inceptionism" part should not be ignored: We're essentially peeking inside a very rudimentary form of consciousness: a consciousn
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by fizixer 11y ago
I would make a stronger statement: numerical algorithms (computational continuous mathematics) are seriously neglected in favor of combinatorial algorithms (computational discrete mathematics). Take any undergrad algorithms class: 99% of it
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by fizixer 11y ago
Do you have any information about what were the hot topics just before this new resurgence of NNs (meaning around late 90's, and early 2000's). I know symbolic AI was big in 60s, and 80s, but not sure about recent past.
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by fizixer 11y ago
Don't get me wrong. I'm a big fan of lisp family and learning racket myself these days. I'm just saying that a statement along the lines of 'lisp is an artificial intelligence language' is really not valid anymore.
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by fizixer 11y ago
> It is still the most favored programming language for artificial intelligence research. Correction: It is still the most favored programming language for GOFAI research. It's pretty clear at this point (to me and to most active AI
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Am I the only one who is seriously annoyed by the naming of this library? I mean if I work at Google and create a C library, should I name it 'Google Pointer'? or a C++ library called 'Google Inheritance'? maybe a Haskel

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