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by inimino 7y ago
Ah, I see, sort of gaming the test platform (or trying to) rather than actually understanding the math. So a case of "you get what you measure" and also an example of what happens when you force kids to learn something they have n
902.
by inimino 7y ago
True story: I didn't bring my calculator with me when I went to take the SAT Math subject test. Oops. However, I was already sitting there, and had already paid, and they told me I could take any SAT II test I wanted, so I randomly too
903.
by inimino 7y ago
Right, so the point is, you have your vectors and now you have a way to find 4-tuples representing analogous sets of words. Great! You built an analogizing machine! Now what do you do with the analogies? Neural networks can't get bored
904.
by inimino 7y ago
Ah, so what you're saying is that they would give up on the problem once they saw the answer, and then move on to a new one, rather than work through the first one until they understood the answer, right?
905.
by inimino 7y ago
Yes, sure, there's an isomorphism. Using that fact, is it then so trivial to show how this FSM approach works out if you don't have a binary tree to start with? I think it would make an interesting follow-up blog post. But failing
906.
by inimino 7y ago
> Whatever comparison you do, you should compare a representative subset of both populations in similar situations in life Well, yes and no. If you're an 18 year old who wants to program computers and you read Turing and Dijkstra fo
907.
by inimino 7y ago
I think we're agreeing here. The English major (assuming a good liberal education) is well-placed to understand his or her role as an engineer. He or she probably well knows how much there is to learn! Of course, as you point out, a &q
908.
by inimino 7y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "a new version of the problem with generated coefficients"?
909.
by inimino 7y ago
And the human race is not smarter than the human race, which is why we are not in a Clever Hans situation. There's no hidden signal, telling us when to stop, that allows us to fool other smarter creatures into thinking we're as sm
910.
by inimino 7y ago
I'd take an English major who is self-taught in computer science over a CS grad any day. And I'd take a bootcamp kid who went on to study the theory themselves over a Stanford kid who only knows this shit because he was tested on
911.
by inimino 7y ago
I'm not assuming! I know it. Word2vec results in similarity scores you can use to find analogies. Great! Now how do you know which analogies to look for? Which ones to remember? Which ones to pursue? You need some kind of intuition for
912.
by inimino 7y ago
"We," as in the human race. (Remember Clever Hans was a horse, being watched by us.) However, even on an individual level, haven't you ever had a new idea that didn't come from another person but just your own observatio
913.
by inimino 7y ago
Ah then agreed. My take is if you have a feedforward network, add time delays, because synapses aren't running in lockstep, and add connections arbitrarily with any two neurones, only limited by the physical distance between them, and
914.
by inimino 7y ago
Clever Hans learned to copy and mirror the expectations of smarter beings. We are not being watched by smarter beings who are constantly giving us feedback, so there's no analogy there. If we were performing for an audience of super-hu
915.
by inimino 7y ago
It's actually not why we invented science, but it is why we discovered philosophy.
916.
by inimino 7y ago
Past performance is not indicative of future results.
917.
by inimino 7y ago
Not everyone went to university.
918.
by inimino 7y ago
If it can't come up with new ideas and also get bored, it will suck at finding proofs!
919.
by inimino 7y ago
> Another facet is that we currently have "1 training regime" for digital neural networks, with which I mean: we use gradient descent Speak for yourself! There are plenty of other ways. Gradient descent is just currently in fas
920.
by inimino 7y ago
> I don't think the part that provides the grid is like the verifiers or provers we have implemented. Certainly not. But it is similar in that confidence increases once one decides to believe in something. > I think that the &quo
921.
by inimino 7y ago
There is no cheating in using the structure of the answers to eliminate incorrect decoys. This is something some kids become consciously aware of by themselves. Others are taught these techniques as "process of elimination" which
922.
by inimino 7y ago
"difference" is the word there. If you are allowed two words, "real difference". The way to find it is to find candidate words and try them one by one until you hear something that sounds like you've heard it a hund
923.
by inimino 7y ago
Yes, Muphry's Law strikes again. Noun. Words. Language is hard. Thanks for pointing out the correction!
924.
by inimino 7y ago
Agreed that understanding lags behind when money and cheaper computation (god I hate that term "compute" used as a verb, learn to English my dudes) drives the SOTA rather than actual understanding (on both researchers' and co
925.
by inimino 7y ago
> How hard was the text to decipher? Not very. Scholars managed to track down a scant few last surviving readers of the script and were able to decipher texts with their help. Without their help they would have had to decipher it. With t
926.
by inimino 7y ago
I missed the introductory part where you mentioned that these are binary trees only and not just trees. I think you should mention it more prominently.
927.
by inimino 7y ago
Right. But HN is a public website and not a walled garden. If Facebook were open to everyone with an internet connection and had no direct or private messages or anything secret I think you'd see a similar standard applied there.
928.
by inimino 7y ago
The company made a terrible product so it is no surprise if they are a terrible company too. That's the trap: using a terrible product made by a terrible company.
929.
by inimino 7y ago
Why can't it be both?
930.
by inimino 7y ago
In other words, McDonald's is the David going up against local historic authority Goliath in this narrative, or what exactly?

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