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by gone35 9y ago
Buried lede IMO (if factual): I can say that I have personally spoken to researchers from top universities (Stanford, MIT, Harvard) who have seen the “artifacts” that the article references, and other similar ones that are even more secret
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Hacking UFO Tech, SETI, and the Boundaries of “Respectable” Science(hackernoon.com)
3 points by gone35 9y ago|1 comments
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by gone35 9y ago
10,000 hours That 10,000 hours thing is largely a Malcolm Gladwell invention, fwiw.
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by gone35 9y ago
Definitely far from clickbait in this particular case. It's hard to tell unless you are somewhat close to the field tho.
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by gone35 9y ago
There's a tendency for anyone who learns information theory before statistics to think that information theory is tremendously relevant - but no, rephrasing maximum likelihood or Bayesian methods in information theory terms may someti
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by gone35 9y ago
It's not just funding. For one, the dynamics of the known molecular pathways involved are complex [1], and so far non-trivial to manipulate. Furthermore, even with an actionable mechanism, targeting the tumor itself is highly non-trivi
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by gone35 9y ago
Japanese original: https://wirelesswire.jp/2017/12/62658/ -- Edit: Apparently it's just that GeForce cards have(/had?) no warranty for use in "data centers" --but academic use is not precl
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Nvidia’s New Policy Limits GeForce Data Center Usage(wirelesswire.jp)
242 points by gone35 9y ago|145 comments
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by gone35 9y ago
Paraconsistent logics are demonstrably weaker, so there is that...
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Rescuing Economics from Neoliberalism(bostonreview.net)
10 points by gone35 9y ago|3 comments
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by gone35 9y ago
Unsurprising. Krulwich is particularly notorious for sloppy science writing/reporting/whatever he does.
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by gone35 9y ago
9:05-12:30 I'm sold. A mindblowing vision for what the universality of computation can truly do... Thank you.
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by gone35 9y ago
See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytope_model https://www.cs.indiana.edu/~achauhan/Teaching/B629/2010-Fall... http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~pouchet/lectures/doc
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by gone35 9y ago
Yes and no[1]: Due to the complex history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition of the Third World. Some countries in the Communist Bloc, such as Cuba, were often regarded as "Third World"
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by gone35 9y ago
[...]since it is not internally consistent -- and since nothing is -- everything becomes an object of belief at some level. Giant enthymematic jump right there.
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by gone35 9y ago
Edited by Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University. [1] Evidently so. I wonder what Andrew Gelman will make out of it. [1] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/07/18/1706541114.full
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by gone35 9y ago
- Asteroid strike - Superbug pandemic - Supervolcano eruption
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by gone35 9y ago
I support research funding at all levels, and have nothing against mostly theoretical research, but is it really the best use of resources to throw $1 billion at reinforcement learning without any similar investments into addressing mass u
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by gone35 9y ago
"Respected research math is dominated by men of a certain attitude. Even allowing for individual variation, there is still a tendency towards an oppressive atmosphere, which is carefully maintained and even championed by those who find
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by gone35 9y ago
Not my field either but prima facie it does seem suspiciously close to good-old hallucinated feedback-like techniques, POMDPs, etc in the planning / ML-oriented robotics community (see e.g. [1]). Didn't read too carefully th
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by gone35 9y ago
Listen to those back to back and if you still find no subtleties or sensitivity go check a doctor ;) Now seriously, it's fine not to like them, but you have to concede these are very well done pieces of art. De gustibus non est dispu
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by gone35 9y ago
11. "Do we have the IP core for this?" 12. "Where is my electron microscope?"
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by gone35 10y ago
If your examples are made only of the thing you're trying to explain, they're not examples. That's just recursive definition. Some concepts demonstrably can't be exemplified otherwise.
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by gone35 10y ago
No: all that fructose can definitely be bad for you. http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/fresh-juice-drinks-health...
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by gone35 10y ago
IMO, in word2vec terms: Pico Iyer = Thomas Friedman + Deepak Chopra. (I bet it actually is the case.)
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by gone35 10y ago
If you don't like the way The Outline looks, that's your opinion, but we made it that way ON PURPOSE. It's not just how it looks (utterly horrid on desktop, IMO), but its ostensible (anti-)usability too... [FWIW, it freakin
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by gone35 10y ago
[...] and test them against data No, in fact they don't. It's hard to believe, I know.
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by gone35 10y ago
Understated comment of the decade!
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by gone35 10y ago
Your response, and the ostensible fact my critique went completely over your head, probably shows you should definitely spend more time familiarizing yourself with the discipline, before going around defending it. You should start with &#x2
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by gone35 10y ago
Sure. The first NBER paper in [1] features the following jewel (p.34): "B. Calibration To quantitatively decompose the contribution of different factors to the growth of shadow banks and fintech firms, we first have to calibrate the mo

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