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by haffi112 9y ago
How do they decide when the sheep gets a reward? To me it looked like it was quite ambiguous sometimes what the sheep was doing, it kind of waddled to the left/right and once it was at the right choice it got a reward... Anyone knows h
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by haffi112 9y ago
I know smart contracts are based on being able to prove that you solved some given task. The task can for example be to find a value which hashes to match the one in the contract. However, that task is not so interesting within an organisat
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by haffi112 9y ago
But how should one validate that it actually does something sensible?
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by haffi112 9y ago
Or it is just a chance event? As it is not a controlled experiment and the story concerns a single individual I find the conclusion to be rather shaky.
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by haffi112 9y ago
> The first version of this document was drafted by my students: Hossein Falaki, Earl Oliver, and Sumair Ur Rahman. The paper is two pages. Why aren't these people included as authors then...?
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by haffi112 10y ago
Are you planning on sharing your setup? This sounds like a great way to organize research in a group at a university.
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by haffi112 10y ago
On a national level have a look at Iceland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Iceland
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by haffi112 10y ago
> One idea is that intestinal worms - which dampen immune reactions - could be more common and this may help protect the heart. In case you are interested in this point, then have a look at helminthic therapy ( https://en.wikip
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by haffi112 10y ago
This thought experiment on a paperclip maximizer made it very clear to me: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
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by haffi112 10y ago
https://algo.is/ is great
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by haffi112 10y ago
I keep a list of things that interest me with sublists about interesting observations I make about each item on the list (I use workflowy for this task - no affiliation). The observations can be anything from ideas, to blog posts, books, on
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by haffi112 11y ago
Next challenge: Can AlphaGo beat 10 or 100 humans playing together against it?
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by haffi112 11y ago
Well, he was 93 years old. That's still kind of beating the odds in a way.
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by haffi112 11y ago
The more spicy food you eat the less crappy food you eat...? That could actually be the explanation (not a variable I saw corrected for in the text at least).
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by haffi112 12y ago
You could apply this argument to anything addictive, such as smoking...
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by haffi112 12y ago
The guy who doesn't work with eaters. Second order eater.
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by haffi112 13y ago
I meant likes on particular posts on the page. Not the page itself.
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by haffi112 13y ago
Well, there is one solution which wasn't mentioned in the video, get the bots to like your posts so they get visibility leading to actual users seeing them.
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by haffi112 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised that you could make the convex optimization algorithm independent of the lens. That would just be prior information for the algorithm which you won't necessarily need.
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by haffi112 13y ago
I would think not. By lossy compressing the image you have already lost information necessary to reconstruct it again. The method uses information from all three color channels to reconstruct the image. So all the information is there, the
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by haffi112 13y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this but a really good option is Prismatic (getprismatic.com). You basically just follow topics/sites and it suggests to you more sites/topics which are similar. Browsing from there I get all the big artic
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by haffi112 14y ago
Prizes from competitions.
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by haffi112 14y ago
Then you might have the problem of over-fitting the training set. See here for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfitting
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by haffi112 14y ago
You can instead of selecting according to the largest expectation select according to the largest value you achieve with a certain variance deviation from the calculated expectation. Law of large numbers will apply and you will have tighter
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Every odd integer larger than 1 is the sum of at most five primes(terrytao.wordpress.com)
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by haffi112 15y ago
You missed the Morpho programming language ( http://morpho.cs.hi.is/index.html ).
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by haffi112 15y ago
So, where will the next bubble be?
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by haffi112 15y ago
I'm currently reading Gödel, Escher, Bach an eternal golden braid. I definitely recommend it.
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by haffi112 16y ago
Reason I quit using Facebook.