jal278

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Spotify Mash-up: Where Is the Drama?(static.echonest.com)
1 points by jal278 12y ago|0 comments
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by jal278 12y ago
What I thought was compelling is that a well-known indie game developer had the really smart idea to target the online-poker skilled-game competition niche that's opened by short-sighted US laws
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A Mildly Satanic New Video Game That You Can Only Play Online with Money(kotaku.com)
14 points by jal278 12y ago|5 comments
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by jal278 12y ago
Perhaps spreads will increase -- but that 'extra cost' seems pretty trivial: Stock trading worked just fine when those spreads were larger. The average citizen isn't reaping the benefits of lower spreads, perhaps financial fi
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by jal278 12y ago
I don't believe that the article's criticism would be effective also against art (also, games can be art) -- striving to make something beautiful that illustrates the human condition or makes us feel something, is a non-trivial ef
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by jal278 12y ago
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks." [0] The reason why this article resonates with many readers is that it expresses frustration with the triviality of how our economy all
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by jal278 12y ago
The danger here is that technology is increasingly giving us nearly cost-free methods (e.g. leveraging machine learning/ big data instead of human supervisors) to oppressively optimize profitability at the expense of human happiness. W
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by jal278 12y ago
You would think with so many colleges in existence, that some of them would resist this sort of policy -- are there counter-examples to the trend towards increasing 'adjunctization'? Also, if the cause of adjunctization is rising
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by jal278 12y ago
While the mainstream view is evolving (ha..), the selectionist (competition-centric) view has been largely dominant in biological thinking (e.g. Richard Dawkins). It is giving way to a more balanced view of how natural evolution produces in
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by jal278 12y ago
Something like evolving virtual creatures would be a fun (although pretty ambitious) addition [1]. There's a processing 2D virutal creatures model called sticky feet [2] (source available) that perhaps could be ported to js pretty quic
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by jal278 12y ago
The key claim, from the original paper: > Second, we find that deep neural networks learn input-output mappings that are fairly discontinuous [...] Specifically, we find that we can cause the network to misclassify an image by applying a
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by jal278 12y ago
Just hacked this together: http://joellehman.com/playlist/ Which should let you download you playlist in CSV
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by jal278 12y ago
In summary, Orwell finds that his books are most full of life when he writes mainly with: > (iv) Political purpose. — Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter othe
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by jal278 12y ago
A recent and relevant approach to addressing campaign finance is Lawrence Lessig's MayDay [1] movement, which is sort of a SuperPAC virus (a SuperPAC to end SuperPACs). [1] https://mayday.us/
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by jal278 12y ago
That's true -- but implicit in that statement is that regulation is never desirable. What about situations where government regulation is desirable or necessary (e.g. limitations on environmental pollution)?
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by jal278 12y ago
The piece provides several examples of regulatory capture [1], where concentrated efforts by private interests overcome diffuse interests of the public for their own profit. The problem is that while a private interest group can focus all t
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by jal278 12y ago
While somewhat obvious when you think about it, this point is rarely addressed: > You can't learn calculus just hanging around people who know calculus, you actually have to study it. It may be that for us to really master the issue
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Thrown out of court: How corporations became people you can't sue(washingtonmonthly.com)
2 points by jal278 12y ago|0 comments
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by jal278 12y ago
> I worry that the proposed changes will simply create a new market for consultants to help affluent parents prepare their children to ace that competition, too. I wonder how well disadvantaged students and their parents would be able to
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by jal278 12y ago
> Your job, and every job, goes to a machine. [...] This sort of thinking is textbook Luddism The quick condemnation as "Luddism" is counter-productive because it allows side-stepping critical thinking about how new technologie
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The 2010 Flash Crash(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jal278 12y ago|0 comments
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by jal278 12y ago
Great quote from that paper: "There are some subtleties involved [...] since it takes light roughly 4 milliseconds to travel between Chicago (where ES trades) and New York (where SPY trades), [...] We would also like to suggest that t
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by jal278 12y ago
While the particular measure of poverty may be in question, and in general poverty may be a tricky intuitive concept to nail down, the entire conversation is not thrown into doubt: We can quibble all day about the meaning and quantificati
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by jal278 12y ago
I appreciate your point, but I think you're wrong, given a sufficiently powerful AI -- one that is truly more intelligent than a human, which is a real possibility in the next 100 years. The smarter-than-human AI would be better than u
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by jal278 12y ago
I think you may be discounting non-linearities in the progress of automation due to machine learning and AI; assuming AI makes massive strides in 100 years (which seems almost certain), there may be very very little (if anything) that human
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by jal278 12y ago
I'm not sure that the phenomenon you've encountered is unique to the evolutionary computation community: If you go to an academic conference dedicated to specific methodology, because the attendees have a vested interest in that m
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by jal278 12y ago
Overfitting is when your model is over-fit to the data you are training on [1], but what we're talking about here is slightly different -- the EA has maximized the given objective function correctly , but it turns out that your object
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by jal278 12y ago
As a researcher studying evolutionary algorithms, one thing these algorithms are quite adept at is finding holes in the objective functions you give to them. They are like automated lawyers seeking loopholes. You want to evolve a controll
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by jal278 12y ago
The main insight is that it is possible to create a mutually beneficial situation whereby you leverage the expertise of grad students and post-docs to help business while simultaneously allowing those same academics to get a taste for reali
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by jal278 12y ago
I'm no fan of imperialism or the military, but I think it is possible for a self-interested nation to treat its own citizens well while acting immorally abroad. However, I don't think such differential treatment is desirable, and

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