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by jhrmnn 7y ago
What you describe is forward compatibility, and Python (and most other programming language) doesn't have it.
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What about the absence of resistance to evil? Perhaps not evil per se, but one could call it absence of good.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
The German case confirms it is. A woman (from Shanghai, infected by her parents from Wuhan) gave a training seminar in Munich. She transmitted the virus to her German colleage (33 yr), but started to feel ill only on her flight back to Chin
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
This definition seems to reflect usage. The question then is: what is the operational difference between a company aiming at an IPO, and one aiming to maximize the total expected profit (that is, every company)? Or is the difference just in
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
I have a decent understanding of the approach and would vote for #1. I’d say almost all applications of ML in physical sciences are #1. In contrast applying methods of statistical physics to understand how deep learning (as in DNN+SDG) work
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
I (not OP) do, https://jan.hermann.name/publications/ (note the copyright notices, required by the journals, which pop up when you hover of the pdf link [didn't figure out a good alternative on mobile]). In rare c
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Let me try to reformulate OP's comment. In many European countries, there are three deduction levels: (1) the net salary, after all taxes and health and social care deductions, (2) the gross salary, after all mandatory employer contrib
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Conda virtual environments and Pip are orthogonal. Pip can be used to install into venvs. But as to why use conda rather than just the standard library venv module (python3 -m venv venv): conda can easily manage multiple python versions. In
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
I guess OP refers to the fact that even full knowledge of the visible spectrum cannot tell you how you will perceive the color through your three-dimensional perception system and the brain processor.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
I tend to think the same. But then I always question whether I just lack imagination in how to formulate the problem scientifically. Because it does feel a bit like an excuse.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
This year, I’ve been working on representing electronic wave functions with neural networks: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08423 I come from a physics background, and my impression is that NNs are a cool computational too
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Just wondering: why don't you use your phone's native email app and IMAP?
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Slight variation: import itertools def below(n): return slice(n+1, None) def above(n): return slice(None, n) print([ q for q in itertools.product((True, False), repeat=6) if q == tuple(
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
I think it is en EU-wide regulation. https://ec.europa.eu/info/business-economy-euro/banking-and-...
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Cynicism rarely wins points on Hacker News.
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Ok, fair point. So I guess whereas one could argue the explainability problem away, the predictability of failure modes is non-negotiable.
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But do all those techniques actually work better for humans than trying to post-hoc explain machine learning? Perhaps both cases are just about inventing stories around the decisions so they can be perceived as relatable.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
While I mostly agree, I’ll also point out that humans are also black boxes, who have often hard time explaining their decisions.
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Sure, not as easy as making an omelette, but considering there is a whole traditional profession devoted to making bread, which can feel intimidating, I would still consider it relatively easy.
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I don't think I use any machinery. All the equipment that needs any cleaning that I use is a bowl, spoon, silicon spatula, dough cutter, and a silicon baking pad.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
I'm still amazed how relatively easy it is to bake your own sourdough bread, and encourage everyone to at least give it a try. After a few practice rounds, the total time you need to put in for a loaf is about half an hour (<5 mins
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
AFAIK, the main difference between measuring (running) their device and measuring, say, the electron density of a molecule is supposed to be that their chip is easily programmable (in the computer science sense).
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With current world population and technologies, the sustainable level of CO₂ emissions per person is 3 tons per year. In Germany, with an above-average environmentally conscious way of life, I'm doing around 5 tons a year. In December,
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
My own personal theory of mind is heavily inspired by David Eagleman's Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. There he describes a model of mind in which a multitude of independent "agents" propose "ideas", which
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Because the price is not related to functional utility. Auctions do not remove that, btw. See art market.
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No. The author says that there are no "means" to speak of, there is perhaps a communication issue Stallman has. The author argues that such issues should be tolerated to a reasonable degree, otherwise the society as a whole may en
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Interesting! I would have never guessed that starting from Earth, getting to Mars is harder (by about 5%) than escaping the Solar system.
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But that goes full circle back to the repercussions criticized by OP.
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I guess this cannot be backed up by data. It's a moral belief.
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by jhrmnn 7y ago
Yet more accurate language: bad-behaving people from good-behaving people. I realize some would say it‘s the same thing, but I always like to make the distinction.

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