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by jmmcd 13y ago
Thanks. I think RePair can be regarded as grammar-based (though they don't say so), but I don't think it produces a grammar which would be useful in any context other than reproducing the original sentence. What I would really lov
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by jmmcd 13y ago
Wow, that PhD thesis is very interesting. I use grammars to generate music (and other things sometimes), but I would also really like to be able to infer them. Since you say it's obsolete, do you have any links to papers or software re
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by jmmcd 13y ago
Also http://www.agi-conference.org/2013/ which is held in conjunction with IJCAI.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
I think this was an exceptionally good article, because the writer has a far better understanding of Hofstadter's work than most journalists do of science topics (also better than most commenters in this thread, of Hofstadter's wo
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by jmmcd 13y ago
Stupid randint. I have to look it up every time. And I have to look up numpy's randint as well.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
Yes, but Gwern links to the wiki page on the NFL theorems.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
The NFL theorem (for search and optimisation) states that all algorithms for searching a fixed problem space perform the same, in expectation, when you don't know anything about the fitness (cost) structure over that space. There is a
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by jmmcd 13y ago
I've been collecting examples of the abuse and misunderstanding of the no-free-lunch theorems, and this is a pretty flagrant one: > "Any simple major enhancement to human intelligence is a net evolutionary disadvantage." T
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by jmmcd 13y ago
My personal gmail hate is that I can't select more than a screenful of text by dragging. If there is lots of text and I want to delete it, I click and drag to the bottom of the screen. But it's not able to scroll itself while I&#x
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Writer is thoroughly confused between "pleasure" and "unconscious detection of carbohydrates".
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> We never deceive you by “pretending to be you” in order to access your email account. I literally don't know what "pretending to be you" means.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
> > you need 1 Estimote beacon for every 100 square meters. > More like 314 square meters. But you can't pack circles tightly -- you have to use hexagonal cells.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
"catalyze a shift in the world's thought paradigm" is the quote, so it sounds like you're the one who needs to be careful of language.
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Moreover, it's skewed by which disciplines tend to publish in arXiv, as opposed to more traditional venues, ie conferences and journals. Physics has always been the main mover on arXiv, computer science surprisingly (?) rare.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
I like where you're going with this. My question is similar: instead of thinking about Julia serving web content, what are the possibilities for getting it to interact with JS in-browser? If Julia could drive something like D3, or even
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by jmmcd 13y ago
Our technology (ie, information theory) is already advanced enough to test whether the background radiation is noise or not.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
I like it, but: I guess you're talking about civilizations deliberately communicating with each other. If they don't already know each other, then maximal compression or encryption would prevent them recognising each other's
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by jmmcd 13y ago
Exactly. It's a giveaway: this product was not designed by musicians who regularly use music software.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
To add to a comment below -- naive Bayes is a simple classifier which doesn't really have much in common with full-on Bayesian methods.
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> But why is this stuff the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything? I’m not sure, but I have a crazy theory. Maybe all matter and forces are made of tiny little strings! Come now, be serious!
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by jmmcd 13y ago
The list diff is really a set diff, if I understand it right, in that it disregards order and multiple instances? That should only happen if the dict member is a set. Members which are lists should be treated using a Levenshtein-distance st
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by jmmcd 13y ago
Surely the n in the OP's example is the size of the input. The input is the phone book (or a given page in one case, etc) and n is the number of entries.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
What is the purpose of the people on the New Yorker end having to switch machines? How can the submitter trust that they've done that?
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by jmmcd 13y ago
some([0, '', -1, None, 2]) # -1 should be some(odd, [0, '', -1, None, 2]) # -1
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by jmmcd 13y ago
Yes this is a crucial point. For most end users, the version on PyPI, CPAN, RubyGems, whatever, is the canonical version. Only the original author has the right to push a new release there. So whatever solution Github and/or its community c
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by jmmcd 13y ago
I have a PhD in computing (of some sort, I forget) and I know about 3 SQL commands. I've been developing for decades, and I never need to interact with databases. Like everyone in my field of research, I keep my data in text files.
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by jmmcd 13y ago
I don't get it. I can't see any information on the homepage that makes it different from just using github.
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"just"
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Python http://sajjad.in/content/ALPR_paper.pdf
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It's a very interesting article. I wonder if you've heard of Push (a stack language) and PushGP (an evolutionary automatic programming system for which Push is designed)? http://faculty.hampshire.edu/lspector/push.html

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