jmmcd

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by jmmcd 9y ago
I've got 99 problems, and some solutions, but a clue what this is isn't one.
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by jmmcd 9y ago
That sign isn't quite famous enough for me to have heard about it. What does it mean?
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by jmmcd 9y ago
I don't think they do it to upsell on the phone. I think they do it because: 1. They want investors more than they want customers, and they think investors like "media intelligence" better than "list of contacts". 2
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by jmmcd 9y ago
I wouldn't necessarily go along with your logic here. If you decide not to have children for one reason or another you can implement that decision without suicide. A lot of people have suicidal thoughts at some stages in their lives, t
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by jmmcd 9y ago
I really hate that smart comment. Two big differences are that with overpopulation on Mars, (1) we would be able to address it before it happened or while it was happening, on a time-scale of decades, and (2) even if there was a total disas
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by jmmcd 9y ago
I think Sympy's latex solution is probably more complete, but of course it requires a bigger install (but Sympy is already in Anaconda). Their example: >>> print(latex(Integral(sqrt(1/x), x))) \int \sqrt{\frac{1
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by jmmcd 9y ago
"inspiration". And I don't think they even fully understood the original, because this joke makes no sense in the new version, but did in the original: > What filter will you use, if you want more than two conditions or if
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by jmmcd 9y ago
Ah, very interesting! I agree that would be useful. But I think this thread has ended up with a proposal very different from the one I started replying to.
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by jmmcd 9y ago
The point about infinite training data is potentially useful. The other one I still don't agree with. Your goal is only to understand the NN insofar as it models the original data. Any errors the NN is making are not worth learning abo
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by jmmcd 9y ago
No, it doesn't make sense. The training data (inputs and NN-predicted outputs) that you're feeding into the DT is at best the same as the training data (inputs and desired outputs) you had originally.
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by jmmcd 9y ago
Next twist: Blackbird provides the prior art and claims the bounty.
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by jmmcd 9y ago
Excellent, but please everyone don't copy it mindlessly.
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by jmmcd 10y ago
I agree with other commenter that the overview effect is real but an error. Just because earth is smaller than Saturn doesn't make it insignificant, or make our concerns - wars, religions, reality TV and all - petty. There is absolutel
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by jmmcd 10y ago
Dunno about the US, but in Ireland it is EUR60 for a 10-minute GP visit.
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by jmmcd 10y ago
I can accept the claim that it reduces the incentive to work (a bit), but not the claim that there is any trap that prevents upward mobility.
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by jmmcd 10y ago
> UBI reduces the incentive to work, and risks stranding millions of people in a subsistence living trap, able to just about get by, but cut off from the opportunity for upward mobility, as this essay details well. The claim is prima fac
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by jmmcd 10y ago
The biggest lack compared to my normal Latex usage is a `\mathrm` command or similar. For example I believe the chemical elements should be set in upright, not italic.
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by jmmcd 10y ago
I was surprised to learn just the other week that `\frac x3` will give what you want, in Latex.
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by jmmcd 10y ago
If you don't have data to "put into the net" then you don't have a problem that you want to solve.
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by jmmcd 10y ago
AIUI, part of the system is unsupervised , i.e. is trying to learn "representations" for data independent of any translation task with a right/wrong answer. Unsupervised learning is a hot topic in machine learning.
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by jmmcd 10y ago
Is there any data showing a bimodal effect of wealth on number of children?
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by jmmcd 10y ago
Being ambiguous to humans doesn't make it an ill-defined task. A machine which perfectly mimicked the judgements of just one human would be doing pretty well, well enough that we couldn't justify saying "judging emotion is a
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by jmmcd 10y ago
Great point! The same type of argument is going in the AI subfield of computational creativity. A computational system might produce a piece (of art or music, say) which nobody initially likes, but could provide a justification/interpr
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by jmmcd 10y ago
Recognising objects in pictures is something that, in principle, a machine could do better than humans, because there is ground truth. I think it's not possible in principle for a machine to do better than humans at recognising human e
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by jmmcd 10y ago
> This will always be a big problem in AI I agreed with everything you wrote except for "always".
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by jmmcd 10y ago
> "Scott Fitzgerald’s new novel, The Great Gatsby, is in form no more than a glorified anecdote, and not too probable at that." That remark is from a highly favourable review, but you have to actually read it: http:/&#x
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by jmmcd 10y ago
I'm reading this and thinking yes.. YES.. I recognise the phenomenon she's describing, I see a lot of downside in online discussion.. and then: > One reason I have hope for a solution is that I do find I can speak more openly o
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by jmmcd 10y ago
There's a good point to be made about continuous functions, but the author hasn't made it, because he/she doesn't know the difference between continuous functions and time-series. > What is a continuous function (or c
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by jmmcd 10y ago
But we know potlatch really happened in North America in just those conditions.
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by jmmcd 10y ago
For me, any such number is an artefact of the data -- they've included things like the name and demographics of the idea's author, which will be clearly useful in practice for a "Show me more ideas like this" application

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