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by masswerk 4y ago
The entire trope is creepy, the usual portrait of the male private eye detective as is the portrayal of his object, the "damsel in distress". (Mind that the "damsel in distress" is commonly an excess signifier in the set
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The standard length of 5 bytes has some advantages when it comes to looking up variables. But, I agree, integer is really more like a clamped float in Commodore BASIC. (However, integer array values are stored in just 2 bytes, each, hinting
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Something which should happen: AI productions must be allowed to express doubt, levels of low confidence and the like. In a (hypothetical) 1960s SciFi film a knowledge system may have responded like this: > assumption: subject deceas
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Now, I'm traumatized.
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The case of the missing 4th Commodore BASIC variable (and the 5th byte)(masswerk.at)
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Hum, they missed the obvious issue: `+=` requires shielding by `void()` for optimal sound. (It should be obvious how `=` acts as an antenna here, if not properly shielded. In Algol, assignments were still properly grounded by `:=`, which ga
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by masswerk 4y ago
> One thing grammar does not do is constrain grammatically-correct language to produce only the truth. In all fairness, this belongs only to context-free grammars. Also, I'm somewhat concerned that we may see a resurgence of behav
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Lacan was much influenced by Hegel in his philosophical foundations, or rather, by the French interpretation as by Alexandre Kojève (who was in turn inspired by some, who started rather in a Neo-Kantian tradition, like Heidegger and Alexand
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by masswerk 4y ago
Hum, a hyphen is still an entity of its own (it may be even a short, slanted dash in some fonts), then there's the en-dash for association (e.g. "ZDF – Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen"), and there's the "Gedankenstrich&
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Another job for the en-dash: association E.g. in names, "Initech – Infinite Tech Company" (We may even argue that ranges or dates are a special case of this, as we associate two or more particles in order to form a broader concept
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If we subscribe for a moment to the tradition that conceptuality, creativity, even certainty, are born from negativity, that crucial "what if not" assumption, the ponderability of existential alternatives, we may indeed defer that
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by masswerk 4y ago
I think, Chomsky's point is that certainty and negativity are two related concepts presupposing each other, forming the very basis of conceptuality as we know it (or, maybe better: how it is relevant for us). Stochastic probability is
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by masswerk 4y ago
Minsky is not my idol. It's just that it's part of reality that Minskys writings exist, that theses contain certain things and that they were published at certain dates, and that BTW Minsky happens to have built the earliest known
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It may be observed that Chomskys piece is in this sense much a modern take on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, who also starts in his exposition with the core theme of negativity, as the very base of "sense certainty" (better
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by masswerk 4y ago
> To his credit Sejnowski correctly picked on a weak point in the oped: Chomsky’s ChatGPT examples falling apples and gravity were anecdotal and insufficiently nuanced. This, I fail to understand. Clearly, Chomsky started with an exposit
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This answered directly to a comment attempting to differentiate religious from other imperialist practices. I can only see "aboutism" in this, but no "whataboutism" – that is, maybe in those arguing it may be just like a
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by masswerk 4y ago
This is ridiculous. Pls. reread the threads, you'll find the answers. (I really don't care about what substantial corpus of research on reinforced learning networks in the 1940s, which is of course not existent, you seem to be all
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Hum, as someone who grew up in the times of the linguistic turn, I'm somewhat missing the groundbreaking revolution here. The entire idea of "text" was based on this.
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> Computers and the internet looked like bubbles until they didn’t. The funny thing being, it isn't that clear how the (personal) computer revolution worked out: The IBM PC was envisioned as a dumb smart terminal that would rely on
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by masswerk 4y ago
Well, who wrote before 1952 about learning networks? I'm not aware that this would have been already main stream, then. (Rosenblatt's first publication on the Perceptron is from 1957.) It would be nice, if you contributed anything
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That claim was never made, but by you. The claim was, Minsky had practical experience and wrote about experiences with gradient descend (aka "hill climbing") and problems of locality in a paper published Jan. 1961. On the other ha
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For the link and claims, see the the very comment you initially answered to.
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The link has been already provided above (opus cit), it's directly connected to the very question of gradients, providing a specific implementation (it even comes with a circuit diagram). As you were claiming a lack of detail (but appa
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by masswerk 4y ago
So you may like better, > “Multiple simultaneous optimizers” search for a (local) maximum value of some function E(λ1, …, λn) of several parameters. Each unit Ui independently “jitters” its parameter λ1, perhaps randomly, by adding a va
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Well, his papers are out there to read.
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Minsky was actually a pioneer in the field, when it came to working with real networks. Compare [0] “A Neural-Analogue Calculator Based upon a Probability Model of Reinforcement”, Harvard University Psychological Laboratories, Cambridge, MA
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"seem to work to some degree", appears much like a second order argument to this debate… ;-)
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This dismissal of Minsky misses that Minsky had actually extensive experience with neural nets (starting in the 1950s, with neural nets in hardware) and was around 1960 probably the most experienced person in the field. Also, in Jan 1961, h
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> In particular, the influence/extent of the pixels "overlap", which requires a separate notion of composition/interaction; and some areas may even have negative influence! Indeed! Compare the edit. (Sorry for this ot
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I think, a better way of putting it may be, pixels are samples at points, rather than representing actual point samples. Meaning, while they are sampled at a specific location, these are not actual values, as this would require ideal sens

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