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by hharrison 13y ago
To respond to a bunch of other posters here: There's a fundamental difference between data scientist and statistician, I think. I see statistics as an academic discipline and data science as an applied discipline. More concretely, the
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by hharrison 13y ago
The same thing can be done in bash: ## arrow up "\e[A":history-search-backward ## arrow down "\e[B":history-search-forward (in .inputrc)
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by hharrison 13y ago
You're right, and flipping through my copy of I Am a Strange Loop for the first time in a while I find some things that are reminiscent of non-computational theories. I guess I was/am caught up on the computationalism vs. non-co
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by hharrison 13y ago
Well, you said "you cannot not reduce it [AI] to statistics". And I'm saying, not only is it possible to not reduce AI to statistics, it is desirable. It's the reduce part that I have a hard time with.
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by hharrison 13y ago
I agree with your point, but the solution isn't to instead model the underlying biological nuts and bolts (assuming this is what you mean by "underlying behavior of human brains"). Even if those approaches approximated human
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by hharrison 13y ago
I haven't checked any of his recent projects, but from his books he's firmly rooted in the symbolic tradition. He adds some interesting wrinkles, sure, but wouldn't he still be diametrically opposed to someone like Rodney Bro
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by hharrison 13y ago
Well you might say Wundt was the father of structuralism and James the father of functionalism - a deep divide which is still felt today. I suppose this shows the author's bias, implicit or not.
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by hharrison 13y ago
There's a huge middle ground between reducing cognition to statistics (as you seem to be proposing) and "abstracting away" the statistics. You seem to be accusing any approach that's not "statistics all the way do
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by hharrison 13y ago
There are more divisions than the article can get into, of course. I think the main one is between AI to solve engineering problems and AI to better understand the mind. The article is about doing the latter when everyone else's defin
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by hharrison 13y ago
Maybe the article doesn't get it across, but the anti-establishment crowd doesn't think that doing things the "human way" is always the best solution. In fact, they acknowledge that it's often, even usually, not. Ho