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by hacker42 10y ago
It would also be handy to have some visual guides for the indentation levels of nested comments as on Reddit. I've hacked my own indentation marks using a CSS injection for now, but this is clearly still not optimal: @-moz-docume
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by hacker42 10y ago
That relies on noiseless, unbiased data, right? What if an expert gets ruled out by accident?
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by hacker42 10y ago
Memory usage is also annoyingly high in FF for me, but with 380 MB not as high.
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by hacker42 10y ago
What do you think is missing to capture the high-level structure of mathematical concepts?
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by hacker42 10y ago
This is great! Thanks.
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by hacker42 10y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4q0c3k/iama_law_stude...
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by hacker42 10y ago
Our memory is not a model, it is the actual memory we refer to when we talk about memory models. :) Moreover I don't think emotions play a critical role here in the sense that I could imagine a neural architecture without any emotion
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by hacker42 10y ago
Language basically seems to have two main evolutionary purposes: The first one is the obvious one that we use it to share a common concept space with one another. The second one I am not so sure about, but it seems that language also greatl
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by hacker42 10y ago
Don't know what fraction of them, but most of them look differentiable (as long it is not exactly some variant of the Weierstrass function).
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by hacker42 10y ago
Would be interesting to see this for various test functions with various starting parameters. Here is a large compilation of various test functions: http://infinity77.net/global_optimization/genindex.html
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by hacker42 10y ago
This course looks pretty good: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11902172
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by hacker42 10y ago
Interesting, I've never thought about the likelihood as a confidence, but it makes sense. But sometimes the confidence also seems to reflect the opposite of extremity (e.g. for the null hypothesis).
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by hacker42 10y ago
It is already acknowledged that the initial guess can be wrong. We don't need to consider all possibilities to come up with a prior distribution because that is basically the 'trick' of the Bayesian updating scheme: Just star
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by hacker42 10y ago
What would you respond to my other comment downthread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11985863
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by hacker42 10y ago
As a Bayesian you can maybe answer my question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11985312 I would appreciate it!
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by hacker42 10y ago
But it seems to me one can still define this in terms of frequencies using a more general definition of what is meant by repeating an experiment. For example, when you use a probability P as a degree of belief or certainty about whether a p
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by hacker42 10y ago
Are the gamer HDMI capture devices expensive because they have a low latency? (Besides the verticality of the market.)
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by hacker42 10y ago
That basically seems to ignore the exponential Ebbinghausian forgetting curve. I doubt it results in better scheduling of the cards.
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by hacker42 10y ago
I could never quite understand the divide between Bayesian statistics and frequentist statistics. Both seem to be ultimately about counting the frequency by which something occurs and normalizing this frequency with respect to the number of
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by hacker42 10y ago
2011, but it has been constantly updated since: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://stallman.org/facebook....
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by hacker42 10y ago
What has always bugged me about C++, but maybe I am overlooking some reason why this generally cannot work, is that it does not resolve circular dependencies such as this one: // file: A.h class A { B* _b; };
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by hacker42 10y ago
I was just hinting at what I think is the core problem. If you want to avoid radicalizing bubbles without blocking content, you need to encourage diffusion of ideas, discussion and confrontation. Perhaps, however, radicalized people are jus
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by hacker42 10y ago
The problem is that current social media software just makes it too easy for extremist bubbles to form. There is no feedback, no discussion, no diffusion, no guiding culture and plenty of false information spread by people who would be unab
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by hacker42 10y ago
So, can they rejoin? Or will the entire country collapse due to the awkwardness of reversing the earlier decision?
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by hacker42 10y ago
It is also better to be far ahead of unregulatable rogue states that would continue to work on AI. Secondly, deferring AI to a later point in time might make self-improvement much faster and hence loss controllable since more computational
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Physicist Leonard Susskind’s Open Letter on “The Lunatic”(scottaaronson.com)
13 points by hacker42 10y ago|0 comments
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by hacker42 10y ago
I think that depends on the language. A couple of ideas: Copycat standard unix tools such as grep, ls, dd. Implement an economy simulator. Implement a simple neural network (you can find the formulas for backprop online). A tennis tournamen
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by hacker42 10y ago
This was posted a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10325583 Did anyone see improvements following the exercises mentioned in the paper? For example these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFQqR
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Tinnitus in relation to neck/head muscle tension(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
161 points by hacker42 10y ago|61 comments
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by hacker42 10y ago
You might be interested in reading this: http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/Whatever%20next.pdf and watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQfO4byFhg

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