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by jayajay 10y ago
Well, what are you supposed to do when a user who is asking for clarification is really just trolling you?
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by jayajay 10y ago
It is up to you. I tried to point you to the best of my ability. Let it be known. Anyways, I would appreciate if you removed the downvotes -- there is no good reason you have downvoted my responses to you.
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by jayajay 10y ago
A simple CTRL+F (CMD+F Mac) "SPW" comes up with 7 results in the Wikipedia article I sent you. I didn't define it, but I mentioned why it was interesting, and I linked to an entire paper discussing the phenomenon! Anyways, I
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by jayajay 10y ago
Evolution is a nice framework but, like Hund's rules, it warrants further investigation; it answers "what happened" but not "how it happened". Heuristics are pseudo-solutions and don't necessarily conduce a dee
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by jayajay 10y ago
I am not sure why you are attacking me. If you do not understand jargon, please read some more literature. SPW-R complexes. Look it up! Edit: SPWs, Sharp Waves, SWR, etc. are just labels for sharp waves. I can't believe I am getting at
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by jayajay 10y ago
"Why does X happen?" is not a useful question. We can ask "How does X happen?". Consider the reframing "What is the correlation between me getting angry and other abstract things happening around me when someone is
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by jayajay 10y ago
SPW: High frequency oscillation in the hippocampus which occurs during rest and sleep. The characteristics would suggest they are critical in memory management. If you google "SPW neuroscience", you will find many resources. http
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by jayajay 10y ago
You should read this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2039924/ I believe you are correct. Memories are maintained during sleep. Some are believed to get strengthened, while others are apparently
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by jayajay 10y ago
When I told Hinton about SPWs and that they are related to RBMs, he told me that he had a theory which required the existence of SPWs. That is not a coincidence, they seem to have been inspired by neuroscience and real neural network phenom
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by jayajay 10y ago
There is evidence to suggest that sleep and rest are important in verifying which memories to keep, as well. I did some undergraduate research (as a biophysics student) which actually looks at this from a neuroscience perspective. If you ar
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by jayajay 10y ago
> "lecturing the void" This seems, at first, to be a problem in academia, but, at further glance, is really a problem with education.
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by jayajay 10y ago
I am feeling that even a non-Stanford place would present more rigor than an online Coursera course. When I was in school, I benefited greatly from having 1-1 private conversation time with mathematicians, scientists, grad students, my frie
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by jayajay 10y ago
I think this seems right. The value in going to a school, taking classes, talking to students in the same boat and talking to professors is greater than the value of a very low-commitment thing like a certificate for watching 20 videos and
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by jayajay 10y ago
Do people in the tech industry find any more value in physics/math undergrads than CS? CS is not as rigorous. I always thought that physics/math undergrad + ML certificate might be just as competitive as a masters in ML coming fro
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by jayajay 10y ago
Wow, only 6% complete the task? I am testing my luck here, but do you have any sample/link to a data-set or questions you have asked before, or maybe a link to something similar to what you have asked?
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by jayajay 10y ago
Whoever does it better.
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by jayajay 10y ago
Developers can also become unhappy when they are working on products which they think either aren't important or aren't ethical.
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by jayajay 10y ago
Oh boy, fake news is just getting started! People are scared now? Wait until an entity can generate your voice saying whatever they want it to say, generate your body doing whatever they want it to do, generate scenes and events which
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by jayajay 10y ago
touche! Edit: Well, I slightly disagree. Even if the product doesn't require mass-adoption to be useful, it could surely benefit from branding/marketing and viral adoption to make it the desired product, in which case, it does sti
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by jayajay 10y ago
Who is the first doesn't matter. Who does it best, though? That is the real question.
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by jayajay 10y ago
> And we capture this knowledge and bring it into our tiny space, information encoded in structures along the skin of this rock floating in space. Hey, this is imaginative, even if it's armchair philosophy. Seems like you are thinki
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by jayajay 10y ago
Very misleading title! This article doesn't really discuss the "evidence", you will need to dig deeper. The article is a summary of what holography is, and not much more. > They found that some of the simplest quantum fiel
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by jayajay 10y ago
Hearing voices in sound (1 temporal + 1 pressure) reminds me of a random article I read a few days ago about finding patterns in images (2 spatial). I mention the dimensionality to just reflect that these are perhaps two instances of the sa
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by jayajay 10y ago
> Initially, the engineered bacteria were weak and sickly, and would die soon after they received their new base pair, because they couldn’t hold onto it as they divided. > Finally, the team used the revolutionary gene-editing tool, C
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by jayajay 10y ago
> "the treatment for heroin addiction is to simply not do heroin... ...they have to go through withdrawal." This is true for people who do not consume heroin a priori . For the others, suddenly stopping heroin use can be life
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by jayajay 10y ago
These are all good points, in agreement with the general consensus here. I think most people here can agree that uncertain (i.e. impure, unpredictable) doses of pretty much anything is far worse than having predictable doses. You also men
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by jayajay 10y ago
If this were several years ago and I was still a college freshman, I bet I would have tried heroin if it was available for 5 bucks a pop next to the Benadryl at CVS. Things much more innocent than heroin get in the way of a freshman, so yea
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by jayajay 10y ago
I could see myself getting annoyed if it's a student I have never seen before. I absolutely adore and love it when the same students come to office hours every time. For some reason, it makes me very content and happy, and it's
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by jayajay 10y ago
Impure drugs is certainly a big problem, and is the most compelling reason for legalization and healthcare instead of incarceration and war. Only a single order of magnitude is not enough of a safety margin, depending on the substance, and
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by jayajay 10y ago
Good points, but what about addiction and neurotransmitter equilibrium? If something is addictive enough, and highly available, do you think that it would become an unnecessary brain dependency?

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