freedryk

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by freedryk 2y ago
Forget video games. This is a huge step forward for AGI and Robotics. There's a lot of evidence from Neurobiology that we must be running something like this in our brains--things like optical illusions, the editing out of our visual b
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by freedryk 3y ago
The biggest question I see with this study is it doesn't seem like subjects had access to tools outside of the AI. Were the subjects without AI able to do google searches? If not, then what is the performance gain of the AI users over
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by freedryk 3y ago
We have reasonably accurate sea surface temperature data from 1945 to present, about 78 years. We have less accurate measurements back to the 1880s. Finally, we have proxy records going back thousands of years, based on isotope fractionat
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by freedryk 3y ago
What's really astonishing about this is that to increase sea surface temperature by 1.5 degrees C, you need to heat the whole ocean mixed layer, which in summer is around 50 meters deep. E = c_p * rho * h * dT ~ (4e3 J / kg K) *
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Using Machine Learning to Analyze Landing Pages(medium.com)
2 points by freedryk 8y ago|0 comments
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by freedryk 8y ago
This is a totally uncontrolled test. How do they know leads wouldn't have dropped anyways? Without an A/B test you can't draw any firm conclusions from this.
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by freedryk 8y ago
Vancouver, BC has been operating a driverless train system for its rapid transit since 1986.
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by freedryk 11y ago
This is so true. It's even worse than spelling bees though. Dyslexia is less of a problem for non-english speakers because our writing system is so messed up. We we have letters that not only represent multiple sounds, but redundant
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by freedryk 11y ago
To elaborate on Fede_V's comment, Deep Neural Networks seem to work well on classification problems because they can automatically build abstract features from a dataset and combine them in different ways. Like, in image data they wil
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by freedryk 11y ago
For me it all changed as soon as the PhD ended. Suddenly the cost to employ you skyrockets, and it becomes apparent how few permanent positions there are relative to the applicant pool. My PhD was pretty great, but my experience afterward