galimaufry

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by galimaufry 7y ago
I think it's gesturing towards the ideas in section 5 of https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf
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by galimaufry 7y ago
They are well-defined, but the usual framework that explains them ("non-standard analysis") is extremely abstract. If you are dealing with polynomials/algebraic geometry only then there is a very simple, totally rigorous appr
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by galimaufry 7y ago
I'm not an expert, but I've read highly-cited ML papers where the researchers barely bothered with hyperparameter search, much less throwing a few million dollars at the problem. You can still get an interesting proof of concept
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by galimaufry 7y ago
I didn't really understand the answer though. The computer is programmable, but the way supremacy is demonstrated is orthogonal to its programmability - it is still demonstrating superiority on just the one problem of simulating itsel
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by galimaufry 7y ago
> You don't see these college students go after someone with actual power just like you don't see the animal rights advocates throw paint on Hell's Angels for wearing leather. This is a strange example of inconsequential p
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by galimaufry 7y ago
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but at least in the US banks take on all risk of fraud. If someone starts writing bad checks in your name, that's ultimately the bank's problem rather than yours.
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by galimaufry 7y ago
Myanmar is not a typical example: social media drove violence, but social media was being manipulated by the army: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
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by galimaufry 7y ago
I have heard that J.P. Serre used the same method when writing his books.