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by joeyo 9y ago
It looks like it is believed to be effective at crossing the blood-brain-barrier. Is that equivalent to acting just in the brain? No idea, but it seems unlikely.
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by joeyo 9y ago
The promise of the "electroceutical" approach is localized neurotransmitter release: you want to enact increased ACh in the body (and localized within the body, if possible) but not in the CNS, where it would likely result in unde
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by joeyo 9y ago
Even if the effect is negligible on CO2 levels (as I suspect it would be), I too am curious how much extra plant, algae, etc proliferation we should expect for each 10 ppm increase in CO2.
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by joeyo 9y ago
The human body adjusts to a remarkable degree. The first days or maybe weeks of a new bike commute can be a sweaty experience but it ceases to be a problem quite quickly. If you were in the gym, that would be your cue to increase workout in
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by joeyo 9y ago
I agree with your principle ('publicly funded work shouldn't be patented'), but that's not the legal framework we have, and it hasn't been that way since Bayh-Dole was passed in 1980 [1]. Until that act is reversed,
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by joeyo 9y ago
The Costco Citi Visa gives pretty solid cash back percentages [1]. What do you use that's better? 1. https://www.citi.com/credit-cards/credit-card-details/citi.a...
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by joeyo 9y ago
In the long term, even that won't be tenable: machine-learning will be able to block all the right pixels.
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by joeyo 10y ago
Codetermination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codetermination_in_Germany
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by joeyo 10y ago
"To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly." -- Geoff Hinton
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by joeyo 10y ago
Domestic United flights with DirecTV show advertising when the screens aren't otherwise in use.
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by joeyo 10y ago
They discuss a few possibilities. The first is cross-cueing, which they describe as " ... behavioural tricks, such as touching the left hand with the right hand" [1]. However, they also discuss a number of reasons why they think c
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by joeyo 10y ago
Based on the article, it's much simpler than that: "Fraudsters offering fake prizes and job opportunities swindled tens of thousands of U.S. consumers, giving Western Union agents a cut in return for processing the payments, autho
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by joeyo 10y ago
Maybe so, but I don't think we want the sword to be the solution.
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by joeyo 10y ago
I could imagine a visual form of it being a conditioned reflex. The stapedius reflex is also triggered by vocalization, so clearly some level of top-down modulation is possible.
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by joeyo 10y ago
In what way does unsupervised learning "use immediate feedback"? It's unique in that it does not use reward or error feedback signals derived from labeled data!
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by joeyo 10y ago
Given that the arXiv predates widespread Unicode adoption, I think we can forgive the faux pas of using a Latin X to represent a Greek χ.
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by joeyo 10y ago
It is pronounced like it's spelled; the X is a chi.
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by joeyo 10y ago
My favorite of these is the ship that the muni metro goes through at the embarcadero portal: http://sfist.com/2016/07/22/fun_fact_the_muni_metro_runs_thr...
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by joeyo 10y ago
It may not be true for all branches of machine learning (fuzzy logic, for example?), but the vast majority of modern ML techniques are equivalent to or can be viewed as types of statistical machine learning.
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by joeyo 10y ago
Well, the ventral stream is the "what" stream, so that's the natural one to draw comparisons to for the task of representing objects. The "where" pathway for the most part represents space with a place code, that is
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by joeyo 10y ago
You may be right that NN activations don't resemble neural receptive fields (though Tomasso Pogio and others disagree [1]), but I strongly suspect that to the extent that NNets are able to learn to represent statistical invariants, we
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by joeyo 10y ago
In my opinion d-prime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_index
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by joeyo 10y ago
> Think of the classic stereotype that all asian faces look alike > to europeans: that's ok for still labeling a human face, and useful. > But for image compression to have different quality based on the > subjec
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by joeyo 10y ago
While I agree with you that the reason why modern video codecs work so well is because they embody knowledge about the statistical structure of natural scenes, there is no reason why a data driven / neural network approach could not al
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by joeyo 10y ago
The really amazing thing is that the "Predictor" device actually exists [1], and has since 1963 when it was invented by neurosurgeon W. Grey Walter. Here's a description of it from Dan Dennett's Book Consciousness Expla
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by joeyo 10y ago
I think this is what you're getting at, but the really interesting question regarding corvid intelligence (in my opinion) is whether their pallium implements the same or similar computations and uses the same or similar representati
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by joeyo 10y ago
Maybe so, but once you enter into business arrangement to bring people into your home, other considerations start to apply. You can always choose not to rent out your home...
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by joeyo 10y ago
My attempts at using ed end up like the session illustrated here: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.txt
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by joeyo 10y ago
[ The following is not tax advice. ] Stipends are generally considered "awards" and not "wages", so Social Security and Medicare taxes are not withheld. There's no free lunch, of course, because each quarter that th
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by joeyo 10y ago
> He said his ex-wife and his lawyers had claims to a > “portion” of the money, without being more specific. I imagine his lawyers (and ex-wife?) will be a little annoyed.

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