jawarner

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by jawarner 9y ago
There is, actually: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5645858/ .
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by jawarner 9y ago
Actually, this is a list of neural network simulators , so I was surprised to see even Theano, which isn't designed to represent a biological neural network at all.
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by jawarner 9y ago
> Evolution doesn't have a way to see into the future in that way. Model A: Let's say there is an environmental change every 100 years, and if a population is not diverse enough, then it dies. After 1000 years, we would expect
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by jawarner 9y ago
Why doesn't Hamilton's rule or evolutionary game theory in general justify a social-network aware view of evolution? What evidence or theoretical argument would constitute a species level view of selection?
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by jawarner 9y ago
This interesting theoretical tangent raises a good question about the way we measure information. A laptop only computes being-a-laptop. What makes it useful is that we have assigned meaning to the physical output. That is, there is a homom
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by jawarner 9y ago
Right, things/animals/people have value beyond their economic value. And to make decisions, we need to quantify in some way what this value is. To see this, consider a risk/cost curve for an environmental cleanup: $100k : 100
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by jawarner 9y ago
Agreed, I'm asking out of curiosity as I'm unfamiliar with the economics. Let's say a board of scientists creates a environmental cost curve for various levels of CO2: C(T) represents the marginal cost of emitting one ton&#x2
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by jawarner 9y ago
> There is a tribal sense of which side is correct that is totally unrelated to the facts I think it's important to acknowledge some role of the Left in alienating the Right in their framing of climate change: Greedy, evil corporati
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by jawarner 9y ago
A border adjustment tax accounting for the CO2 used in production abroad would balance out this problem.
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by jawarner 9y ago
Many energy companies (e.g. Exxon Mobil) have already invested in green technology, so industry push-back on climate regulation is not universal. Also representatives are democratically elected, so industry doesn't have total control o
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by jawarner 9y ago
> Unfortunately that will never be remedied Not with that attitude :-P Actually, climate change action does have support on the Right, e.g., in the Republican Climate Resolution. I don't believe we're at the political tipping p
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by jawarner 9y ago
> immoral They're playing the game to the best of their abilities by the rules set by the government. It's most convenient to think about this game-theoretically: assume companies will always optimize their profit, and then adj
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by jawarner 9y ago
> These kinds of problems are not factored into the economics of energy Do you believe internalizing these costs into the price of energy is sufficient to reach a sustainable equilibrium between the environment and the economy?
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by jawarner 9y ago
If you estimate the value of everything at "priceless," then it's impossible to make decisions which necessarily involve tradeoffs. Quantification lends specificity to complex systems.
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by jawarner 10y ago
I never understood this argument. If we are in a simulation, what manifold do the simulators live in?
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by jawarner 10y ago
This is not true, no French word has an infinite length. Any set of finite strings is countable.
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by jawarner 10y ago
Does there have to be a generating program? The set of all finite programs is countable, so it could not possibly describe the uncountable set of real numbers - this would be a surjection from a countable set to an uncountable set. In parti
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by jawarner 10y ago
The Economist is diverse across red and blue lines. That said it does publish from a unified worldview. From my perspective it's libertarian.
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by jawarner 10y ago
Grant Sanderson has a beautiful video on the Towers of Hanoi problem too [1], part of his animated math project. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLZHQObOWTQDMRtm8h9bG9P06...
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by jawarner 10y ago
Why not both? Media marginalizes the working class, and also ML-curated social media campaigns decided the election.
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by jawarner 10y ago
An election is a war of opinion, and whoever wields the strongest memes wins. Ten times as many people subscribe to Trump's subreddit as Clinton's, and Trump memes circulate other anonymous Internet culture hubs like 4chan. At sta
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by jawarner 10y ago
> And somehow managed to overcome the constant "fact checking" by major cable networks, the Post, NYT and generally a large majority of the established media. A person's consumption of media will dictate their voting patte
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by jawarner 10y ago
It sounds like techniques that brought you to the top aren't as successful with the new gameplay that the update introduced. My personal take is that the new update makes the game more accessible by relying less on mechanical skill. Yo
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by jawarner 10y ago
Right, AFAIK the framework itself functions independently of the services, so you can drop in whatever solution you want for push notifs / analytics / MDM.
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by jawarner 10y ago
Type systems (e.g. TypeScript) expose complexity well. Maybe I don't understand your comment - are you writing only simple apps which don't use objects?
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by jawarner 10y ago
> Further, in an octopus, it is not clear where the brain itself begins and ends. This to me is the central fallacy of the embodied versus central cognition argument. Why is there a need to define such a separation? Just view the neural
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by jawarner 10y ago
I'm not convinced that a "logical form" can exist. It suggests there is a one true universal language of description which does not rely on context. But I'd argue that any language reduces the objects it describes to sym
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by jawarner 10y ago
They studied undergraduates, so the problem is minimized, though I agree that age blocking would be appropriate.
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by jawarner 10y ago
I don't follow. The study did show correlation between altruism and # partners in the real world.
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by jawarner 10y ago
Minimalism makes sense for traveling, though otherwise it seems like more work to constantly borrow and rent things.

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