jderick

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by jderick 18y ago
Funny, but obviously my comment doesn't apply to anyone's spare time.
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by jderick 18y ago
The thing that gets me is how he still manages to put the exclamation point in yahoo!.
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by jderick 18y ago
You have to remember that many of these researchers are funded by government money (eg, university researchers) or shareholders (eg, corporate labs) that may not be seeing any return on their investment. In some sense, Netflix is stealing
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by jderick 18y ago
The machine learning guys have only a subset of the full dataset to work with. They have to send their algorithms to Netflix for testing on the full dataset. So it may be possible Netflix knows something they don't. It does seem quite st
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by jderick 18y ago
You probably do need to get the police involved to some degree. My nephew had a similar problem a while back and the phone company would only release the phone number to the police. Here is a pretty good link: http://www.privacyrights.org
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by jderick 18y ago
To clarify the title, all 50000 people were working as a team in a single game of chess. I originally thought this would be a pointless exercise, sort of like 50000 monkeys banging away at typewriters. It appears that was not the case. I
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by jderick 18y ago
I never said there was anything random. Only non-deterministic. Of course, we are arguing philosophy, so experiments are useless.
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by jderick 18y ago
I like the fact that there is such a 'long tail' here.
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by jderick 18y ago
I gave up on determinism when I learned quantum physics.
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by jderick 18y ago
"In October, researchers at the Georgia Tech Information Security Center reported that the percentage of online computers worldwide infected by botnets -- networks of programs connected via the Internet that send spam or disrupt Internet-ba
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by jderick 18y ago
I don't see how you can be a libertarian these days while addressing the current financial crisis without presenting some kind of rebuttal to the commonly held view that it was the do nothing (aka libertarian) government that was responsibl
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by jderick 18y ago
Would be interesting to figure out # of CEOs divided by total student population for Ivys vs state schools. Since there are few Ivys I imagine the chance that a student from an Ivy becomes a CEO is still greater.
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by jderick 18y ago
It is more just a set of techniques for generalizing theorems. At this point in time I would say there are a few roadblocks to doing some kind of data-driven probabilistic search for inductive proofs (like ACL2 does). The first is that th
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by jderick 18y ago
One interesting difference is that if you are learning a proof, then you know when you are successful. At least for my research, I generated a bunch of small cases of the theorem I was trying to prove, then tried to learn the general case.
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by jderick 18y ago
Pretty interesting.. actually looks somewhat related to my thesis: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~jderick/thesis.pdf I'll have to look at it more closely when I get a chance. I was working on learning proofs, rather than programs, but I think
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by jderick 18y ago
For some reason the most important ingredient for success always seems to get left out in these lists: Luck
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by jderick 18y ago
Can someone explain this? It seems the connection between quantum mechanics and free will are being dismissed out of hand. However, this seems like a deep question that probably has no simple answer. Is this just a 'religious' issue? Or