marmaduke

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1501.
by marmaduke 14y ago
There is no "production" in scientific programs. It runs once correctly to make the figure... more seriously, ontology is often a moving target, so the longer in takes to rewrite significant parts of the data structures, the less time there
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by marmaduke 14y ago
I was pretty darn happy with my eee pc: lightweight, good battery life, durable, and replaceably cheap (for a student). Somehow the x220 I bought afterward, for speed and one more inch of screen, compromised all those qualities.
1503.
by marmaduke 14y ago
I'm pretty sure it's spelled "instantiate" not "instanciate."
1504.
by marmaduke 14y ago
Your response has a higher content density than the original! Working in scientific groups & having studied philosophy, I find that I'm constantly reminding my coworkers to ask if their clever question is in fact the right one, to quest
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International team creates The Virtual Brain(thevirtualbrain.org)
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1506.
by marmaduke 14y ago
A bit late, but a few comments on how this thing actually works: In their model brain, they build functionality for 10 different tasks. These tasks were chosen to model those tasks used in psych evaluations, cognitive experiments, etc, so t
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by marmaduke 14y ago
there's a quote from a German minister during WWII: "Their German scientists are better than our German scientists."
1508.
by marmaduke 14y ago
> Neurons fire at up to 1MHz I think you mean 1 kHz.
1509.
by marmaduke 14y ago
This is the worst analogy I have ever read. I am convinced the author either did not understand the models to which he/she provided links, or worse, did not even read the words on the Wikipedia pages themselves. To wit, none of the commente
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by marmaduke 14y ago
> programming is complicated I'd like to hide in the corner and applaud the recognition of this reality. I grew up with Windows, I've been learning cli and vim and ... for 5 years and I still suck. But as Kennedy said, "don't wish for e
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by marmaduke 14y ago
I use Maxima daily, so I get "symbolic". I called BS because they provide no details, no citations, nothing to make me think they have advanced over Maxima, or even GCC in terms of optimization of arbitrary computations. Perhaps more import
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by marmaduke 14y ago
Simulation does not comprehension create; Reason there is modeling an art be. "new generation of hybrid symbolic-numeric methods," a sense of B.S., this does alerts strongly in me. - yoda
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by marmaduke 15y ago
I breezed through the PDF on the HTM Cortical Learning Algorithms and there's nothing new since the 80s -- over-fitting is still a problem. Perhaps there's an implicit assumption that because learning is online, over-fitting doesn't happen