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by jeromebaek 8y ago
This is huge. Not only does it pressure publishers like Elsevier, it also legitimizes Sci-Hub in a way: if UC, one of the biggest and most reputable Universities in the world including Berkeley and UCLA, says thry won't pay for Elsevie
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> Repeat after me: calling something logic doesn’t make it so. Calling someone rational doesn’t make it so. Opinions from Youtube men are not facts. Getting mad about philosophers you haven’t read isn’t reason. Finally somebody nailed
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
No timestamp, when was this article posted?
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Or, perhaps, the reason for the decline of history is because it is written by the "winners", and has, for the most part, failed to shed outdated, colonial modes of thought. History is progressing very fast, exponentially faster t
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
In what use case is chrome OS a "productivity hack"? The only thing mentioned is less distractions, which just isn't true, given everything you can do with Chrome OS.
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Funny, some suggest Occam's Razor is just a paraphrase of Gödel's theorem.
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Can you propose a control experiment? What will that look like? Cold, but not too cold chambers? Hot chambers?
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
You are correct, thank you for pointing it out. But my point still stands because there exists a bijection between DFAs and NFAs.
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The difference between Godel and Atiyah is that Godel's later (and more "philosophical") works are very hard to dismiss, because literally nobody understands it . Though it hasn't stopped people from trying: https:&#x2
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> any particular DFSM has bounded memory use (based on the number of states) and bounded running time (based on the length of the input string). This is wrong. This DFSM does not halt: node with arrow pointing back to the node on empty i
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> people are not proper Turing machines. They have limited storage and limited running time. In this sense, people aren't even proper regex machines. They have limited running time. But do you really believe the brain has less compu
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What final "assumption" are you referring to, a definition or an axiom?
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I think the reason is shallow thinkpieces like this :)
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Obviously I'm not talking about people like Quine; if that's your definition of "philosopher", Gödel himself would be a philosopher. You make good points, but altogether my issue is that, at the current moment , few ang
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
If there's nothing to be grasped in "Gödel's Wonder", why do you think the man himself, who, we can reasonably conjecture, understood his theorems more than anybody else, spent the remainder of his life "grasping&qu
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
Once I had a similar conversation with Scott Aaronson about this. I said the theorem shows the limits of logic; he said it shows the POWER of logic. My reply was: what does it matter? It just depends on perspective. As in: "logic is so
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
For some reason it's fashionable to bash philosophical implications of Gödel's Theorem(s). Not only is the internet filled with articles like this, there is at least one book dedicated to bashing on philosophical implications of t
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
Interesting paper. I'd like to know how this compares with even more naive methods like simple summation. If this method is an application of Cover's theorem it should handily beat summation or any other simple method that places
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
An old product like FaceTime comes with tons of legacy code. Mistakes like this while fiddling with legacy code is not unreasonable.
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There was an outage on Outlook?
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This is called mutual recursion. Interpretors rely on it heavily.
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"how much the feature is responsible for the overall derivative" part is obvious. But I'm curious how the assumption can be justified - how do you isolate a feature to a certain linear subset? And how do you know that this fe
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by jeromebaek 8y ago
Why are people worrying about Bing shutting down? Bing brings in billions, and it's bigger than Twitter. Not to mention that Microsoft needs a search stack for the rest of the company.
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Economics is, as the first economist for Google put it, "intellectual prostitution". You can justify any policy with the right amount of jargon. The interesting bit isn't really the economics but the moral assumptions behind
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I don't think we are using the same definition of the word "dynamic" here.
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The author has seriously misunderstood Wittgenstein's contributions to philosophy of language. >And it’s now quite clear where the Wittgenstein’s theories jump in: context is crucial to learn the embeddings as it’s crucial in his th
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I'm curious about the applications of this to machine learning in public policy. In papers like Big Data's Disparate Impact ( https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2477899 ) we see misguided and u
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I don't think it's plausible that an army of Microsoft engineers would label a NSA key, NSAKEY ...
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> There is at least one bright spot: Citi Bike has become an essential part of the city’s fabric. The bike-share system has 12,000 bikes across Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and Queens and recently announced plans to expand under new o
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Can someone from MIT confirm that only Python is taught in the MIT intro to cs class? We also teach SICP as the intro to cs class at Berkeley (cs61a.org), and we start with Python, but then change to scheme by the latter half of the semeste

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