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What happened to the artificial-intelligence investment boom?(economist.com)
4 points by kgwgk 3y ago|0 comments
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by kgwgk 3y ago
On the positive side, the frequentist approach doesn’t need assumptions about the pre-data probability of the thing of interest. On the negative side, the frequentist approach doesn’t produce a post-data probability for the thing of interes
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by kgwgk 3y ago
Note that there is no way to answer the question “what’s the probability of X conditional on the data observed” without taking into account “what was the probability of X before that observation”. The thing with non-Bayesian analysis is tha
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by kgwgk 3y ago
> It's just weird that the end result depends on something assumed. It would be weirder if the result didn’t depend on the things assumed. I don’t know what kind of questions are you thinking of but outside of mathematics they are r
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by kgwgk 3y ago
You need at least something to be ignorant about but for a given "this" you can specify what you do know and calculate a probability distribution representing just that knowledge avoiding any unwarranted belief. If you have a die
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by kgwgk 3y ago
Well, you asked for a clarification about the difference. Of course you're free to not care.
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by kgwgk 3y ago
"Inverse probability" is just what statistical inference was called before frequentist ideas were introduced. It was in the second half of the last century when the "Bayesian" label was introduced - amusingly in oppositi
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by kgwgk 3y ago
> My understanding is that a 95% confidence interval implies that there is a 95% chance the true statistic lies within the interval. What are you saying it means? If you calculate one thousand confidence intervals in 950 the true statist
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by kgwgk 3y ago
The problem with frequentist confidence intervals is that they don't really tell us anything about the probability that the statistic of interest for our population is contained in the interval - regardless of the size of our dataset.
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by kgwgk 3y ago
> the frequentist concept of confidence distribution is gaining acceptance, which is the proper frequentist equivalent of the posterior, so this distinction between Bayesian and Frequentist is disappearing The major distinction remains:
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by kgwgk 3y ago
There is a concept of minimum knowledge (maximum entropy). There is a concept of invariance (like translation invariance where you have no reason to prefer one position to another because the origin could be anywhere - or scale invariance w
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Adobe, Figma to terminate $20B deal over regulatory hurdles(reuters.com)
26 points by kgwgk 3y ago|1 comments
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by kgwgk 3y ago
The BBC can if you click on that link... Shane MacGowan: Pogues singer dies aged 65 (I don't know why the submission title doesn't coincide with the page title though.)
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by kgwgk 3y ago
Worse is better.
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by kgwgk 3y ago
Or someone goes down on the gamer providing the missing cognition component.
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GM Slashes Spending on Robotaxi Unit Cruise, in Setback for Driverless Cars(wired.com)
3 points by kgwgk 3y ago|4 comments
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by kgwgk 3y ago
Ok, so defining the monthly rate as yearly rate / 12 will lead to mistakes if the yearly rate is not twelve times the monthly rate. (Of course any other definition of monthly rate will also lead to mistakes when it's inconsistent
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by kgwgk 3y ago
> (beware though, Wikipedia is bound to lead to errors by defining the monthly rate as yearly rate / 12) Lead to errors relative to what? The mathematical idealisation or the actual practice? Are you referring to this page? https:&
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SamAltman, Greg Brockman will be joining Microsoft, says SatyaNadella: Bloomberg(twitter.com)
2 points by kgwgk 3y ago|0 comments
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by kgwgk 3y ago
> They released a language model to the one community well equipped to handle the limitations of such models. It was advertised as experimental. [...] Then there are the well documented Twitter clashes between Yann Lecun and opponents, w
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The future is quantum: universities look to train engineers for an emerging indu(nature.com)
3 points by kgwgk 3y ago|0 comments
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by kgwgk 3y ago
From an article of his published a few days ago: In my parody article, “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity” (Sokal 1996), I wrote as part of my conclusion: [P]ostmodern science pro
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by kgwgk 3y ago
They were deliberately misled and lied to - there’s nothing they could have done to prevent that! https://twitter.com/Alfred_Lin/status/1720240388311810382
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"The Racialization of Epistemology in Physics": A Critical Analysis (Alan Sokal)(journalofcontroversialideas.org)
3 points by kgwgk 3y ago|0 comments
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by kgwgk 3y ago
> it sounds more like attempted Acqui-hiring. Except for the missing “acqui” bit, maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acqui-hiring
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by kgwgk 3y ago
Agreed. Most people understand quickly that after a 50% loss a 50% gain is not enough to break even.
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by kgwgk 3y ago
> The Scunthorpe problem, AOL didn't let users set their hometown to Scunthorpe because of the "cunt" substring. This is a classic. Clbuttic!
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by kgwgk 3y ago
"Stock market" is normally used to refer to shares of public companies traded in stock exchanges. They don't need to make public announcements to communicate with private investors. There will be time to make the IPO attracti
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by kgwgk 3y ago
Why would the “stock market” care? It explicitly talks about reassuring costumers.
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Blue Apron Announces Agreement to Be Acquired by Wonder Group for $13 per Share(investors.blueapron.com)
2 points by kgwgk 3y ago|0 comments

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