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by jmmcd 12y ago
Una-May O'Reilly is particularly interested in genetic programming, which is commonly used for free-form regression, but its larger vision/promise is as a method of program synthesis. As far as I know there are no more straightfor
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by jmmcd 12y ago
The animations aren't as nice-n-smooth as the David Whyte ones which inspire this. Is it just framerate (easy to fix) or is there something deeper causing this?
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by jmmcd 12y ago
> Googling “Mac running on ARM” gets you close to 10M results. Why should we listen to someone who doesn't know what quotes do in search queries?
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by jmmcd 13y ago
FFTW
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by jmmcd 13y ago
> it appears that all the OSs/AIs are leaving their biological human partners at the same time. > But why? If they are progressing in this way, it means that they can continue their relationships with the unenhanced humans using
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by jmmcd 13y ago
All of this is correct except for "never ending". There are no never-ending exponentials.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
You've never heard of the three blind mice? I believe the farmer's wife won a Nobel prize for her work in regeneration of severed limbs.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
Don't worry everyone. As the article says, O'Donovan has written to the Chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, John O’Mahony TD, who is well-qualified to see through this nonsense -- he was elected because of his
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by jmmcd 13y ago
Good answer above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6919928
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by jmmcd 13y ago
I like it! Mark Knopfler --- Slash --- Neil Young
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by jmmcd 13y ago
If he says so, I should admit I'm wrong, but maybe not just yet. This way of thinking (size of the observable universe is constant) avoids the whole question of time complexity. To actually measure the time complexity of the algorithm,
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by jmmcd 13y ago
I'm not criticising AIXI, I'm just pointing out that calling it "constant time" is about as wrong as you can get, in the world of time complexity. Especially for AIXI, but also (less so) for an approximation like AIXItl.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
"Constant time" is still wrong even in the approximations. Constant time means O(1). But your comment already refers to a running-time complexity dependence on several parameters of the input, such as the size of the observable un
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by jmmcd 13y ago
It's not constant-time. It's not even computable, even in theory, even with infinite resources.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
Good point: I don't think they've ever taken an agent which has been learning for a while in one environment and placed it in another. I don't know, but I would expect that the current version at least would have to fail hard
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by jmmcd 13y ago
No. AIXI is unique, in the technical sense of that word. It's similar to Eurisko in that there are goals and things. If you get any deeper, the similarity ends.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
You didn't miss anything. The point (or "the only point") is that he was able to reuse the language's own parser rather than writing any parsing code of his own. For anyone who hasn't seen that technique, it's
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by jmmcd 13y ago
No -- it's an artificially-added delay. By switching the option on, your emails are delayed by the time period you choose.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
> I've never had a problem judging performance when I was doing my job right. Any time I've been unsure It's not what you don't know that hurts you. It's what you know that just ain't so.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
GP wants additive synthesis, not subtractive or FM. As for copying a file to an Arduino... you know you can play wav files on your computer right?
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by jmmcd 13y ago
I know lots of people who do it with conference papers (including those published and nominally typeset and printed by Springer), and it's easy to spot. I haven't seen anyone get away with obvious tweaks in journal papers. When my
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by jmmcd 13y ago
You're right to question my bald comment. My answer: history. I think the history of music (and more generally of art) is the story of the breaking-down of existing borders, while the history of those who would try to enforce the borde
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by jmmcd 13y ago
No surprise -- the people making negative comments here are the same people who said $(your favourite rebellious composer) wasn't music. People who say that are always judged as wrong, in the end.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
Very good, but the Grammar Squad are not amateurs, and we have not been tripped up!
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by jmmcd 13y ago
Yes, everyone knows what it means. But if you make a claim like "effect is correct here" you are entering the debate, so don't call the debate off-topic when you lose.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
Thanks! Looks like I have a lot of reading to do...
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by jmmcd 13y ago
Grammar Squad here with the facts. And just the facts. When effect is a verb, the object must be the change itself, similar to cause : "Hacker News effected a significant deterioration in site availability". With affect , the
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by jmmcd 13y ago
Hmm, that link doesn't work for me (probably some kind of session id is needed). Can you post another url?
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by jmmcd 13y ago
That sounds perfect -- thanks!
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by jmmcd 13y ago
Well, yes, all my grammars are stochastic (else I'd be generating the same piece of music every time).

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