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by ihnorton 14y ago
Some suggestions: Help build better tools for researchers. * Julia (julialang.org) is very promising and could use talented developers to help build the ecosystem. * Numba ( http://numba.pydata.org/ ) looks amazing and should build on the e
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Aaargh! Physicists! Again!(scienceblogs.com)
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How Computerized Tutors are Learning to Teach Humans(nytimes.com)
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by ihnorton 14y ago
It's worth noting that they are from the same linguistic family. Having studied Latin, to me Russian seemed pretty familiar conceptually once I got past the whole cyrillic thing. I am admittedly nowhere near fluent, and I realize the experi
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by ihnorton 15y ago
I think there is a necessary discontinuity between a self-modifying solver algorithm that acts within an internally-consistent formal framework; and an intelligence that is able to modify the formal system itself. On some level this might b
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by ihnorton 15y ago
for folks in the Boston area, this meetup might be of interest: http://www.meetup.com/Theoretical-Computer-Science-Problem-S...
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by ihnorton 15y ago
There's an app for that! search for "3D Brain" (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) on your device. Also available online: http://www.g2conline.org/
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by ihnorton 15y ago
There is some evidence that methylphenidate (ritalin) effects wave activity (synchronization/latency) see eg (not paywalled): http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/v21/n2/full/1395347a.html For some background see here: http://en.wikipedia.o