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by jules 11y ago
I'm not sure if that was serious, but women dominate in plenty of subjects. When are we going to accept that on average women are not interested in the same things as men? Trying to make everything 50-50 only makes people miserable. Gi
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by jules 11y ago
The argument that AI is either much better or much worse does not apply here. It's not an accident that they chose this point in time to play against Lee Sedol instead of 10 years ago or 10 years in the future. They chose this point in
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by jules 11y ago
If that is what is meant then you can't see that you're losing against any player that's any stronger than yourself by definition, because if you could see it earlier you wouldn't have made that move.
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by jules 11y ago
When I play chess against a computer I can see very easily that I'm not winning.
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by jules 11y ago
It would be great if his co-commentator was a computer scientist who is knowledgeable about AlphaGo's algorithm.
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by jules 11y ago
They might continue for a while. They probably have a lot of ideas they still want to try out. Plus they haven't played against Ke Jie yet.
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by jules 11y ago
That's precisely my point. This is not a traditional machine learning scenario, and treating it as such is silly.
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by jules 11y ago
Are you going to count all the games that the human played in their head too? What about the learning done in the human brain when sleeping? Do you count that too?
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by jules 11y ago
How do you count examples? The computer can generate its own examples by playing against itself. So in theory it needs 0 examples. This is not a useful metric at all.
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by jules 11y ago
That's silly. Why would you want to put human limitations on the computer? We don't artificially put computer limitations on the human.
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by jules 11y ago
That's not what a p-value is. A p-value is the probability of getting by random chance a result at least as extreme as the measurement. This is not the same as the probability that the effect you measured is due to chance. The latter i
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by jules 11y ago
Whether or not his action was political, their response that insinuates that he is not a true leftist is not only incorrect but irrelevant, though it's understandable that somebody in a field where virtue signalling is so critical migh
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by jules 11y ago
This is symptomatic of the postmodernist nonsense that Sokal pointed out. 1. Politicising what ought to be science: "What Sokal’s confession most altered was our perception of his own good faith as a self-declared leftist". 2. Cla
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by jules 11y ago
This is a bad title. The only point at which the post even talks about FRP is in the sentence "And are there practical reasons that a library based on the CSP language is useful in ways that, say, an FRP or functional reactive programm
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by jules 11y ago
Science has answered questions that we previously thought couldn't be answered many times, such as what the age of the universe is. Maybe the question of consciousness is different, but I wouldn't be surprised if science had some
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by jules 11y ago
Interesting that this is such a controversial comment, judging by the rapid fluctuation of the votes.
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by jules 11y ago
I agree that we're not special, but the hard problem is explaining why subjective experience exists at all. What are the arrangements of physical matter that give rise to it? Here's another fun thought. Presumably if we built a hu
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by jules 11y ago
Because there is a difference between being more than physical, and the physical giving rise to the subjective experience. Being more than physical means that we are physical plus some special sauce. This would mean that a robot that we bui
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by jules 11y ago
I haven't, but it looks interesting.
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by jules 11y ago
Based on what? We evolved from chemicals to single celled organisms, to multi celled, to worms, to fish, to mammals, to apes, etcetera. At which point in this process did we become more than our physical body? I don't see any reason wh
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by jules 11y ago
A human is a machine.
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by jules 11y ago
I may have expressed myself in a confusing way, but it was in fact my intention to express that while you don't need to worry about micro-optimization up front, you do need to worry about designing for efficiency up front.
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by jules 11y ago
The qualifier "micro-" is right. You have to pick the language, and design your data structures and algorithms for efficiency from the ground up. Doing that after the fact is a nightmare, and downright impossible if you made the w
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by jules 11y ago
I agree that for describing a specific graph, drawing it is sometimes the best way. Most of the time an automaton or graph is a mathematical object under study. The notation used to study graphs and automatons and prove things about them
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by jules 11y ago
For what it's worth, mathematicians work on paper so they aren't constrained by anything, but they still use textual nested syntax instead of visual dataflow graphs.
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by jules 11y ago
It's in dutch, but here's a newspaper article about it: http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1012/Nederland/article/detail/4108964...
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by jules 11y ago
The human traffickers. They distribute leaflets praising the benefits of each country.
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by jules 11y ago
Not everyone is dogmatic about free software. Slack is better than the alternatives, and denying it out of dogma is not a virtue. Many people are pragmatic and just enjoy programming and getting things done in the most efficient way. Rath
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by jules 11y ago
That is true but not for species that reproduce sexually. This is precisely why sexual reproduction is so successful.
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by jules 11y ago
Research into future programming languages, particularly into dependent types and future development environments. A relatively small amount of money can have tremendous positive impact on the world in this area.

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