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by minihat 3y ago
+1 from a fellow BCI PhD. EEG tech is not ready for this application yet.
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Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?(journals.plos.org)
1 points by minihat 3y ago|0 comments
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by minihat 3y ago
What will we do with a completed connectome? Imagine handing a late 1800s scholar a modern processor. Give him a wiring diagram, and a voltmeter. What could he learn from it? The connectome will be a big step, but not the penultimate one, i
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by minihat 3y ago
I used to use SO all the time while coding. Now I use GPT-4 instead. Those of you who anticipate continuing to use SO: why?
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by minihat 3y ago
This is just... false. Bard is not just a little worse than gpt-4 for coding, it's more like several orders of magnitude worse. I can't imagine how you are getting superior outputs from Bard.
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by minihat 3y ago
Try this: https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/ Attention is explained separately. I have not seen an all-in-one diagram and cannot imagine one being helpful, since there's too much going on.
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by minihat 3y ago
This is the right question. It is plausible to me that this is a way of condensing a vast training set into a reduced set of high quality examples.
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by minihat 3y ago
Battlefield Earth is the worst novel I've ever finished. I do regret it.
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by minihat 4y ago
"Did you know that squirrels can purr like cats? GPT-4 might be intelligent, but can it teach a squirrel to code?" I asked gpt-4 for a comment no hn user would ever make on this article. Now you need a category for stubbornly orig
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by minihat 4y ago
I gave GPT-4 the chance to respond. === Prompt: copy and paste of er4hn's Bard rap . Now it is your turn. Write a rap verse which roasts Bard. === Yo Bard, you tried to step up, but you tripped, In this rap battle, man, you just got w
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Meta to shut down popular VR e-sport Echo Arena(medium.com)
1 points by minihat 4y ago|1 comments
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by minihat 4y ago
A change.org petition to save the game has accumulated 7500+ signatures: https://www.change.org/p/save-echo-vr
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by minihat 4y ago
This is an ancient proverb and a cliche, yet sometimes it helps me to remember it: The night is always darkest before the dawn.
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by minihat 4y ago
>such a number is often dutifully provided to such journalists, who in turn report it as some sort of quantitative demonstration of how remarkable the event was. Apparently the conclusions are not common sense if you are a journalist.
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by minihat 4y ago
Schmidhuber is a prolific flag-planter who is notorious for publicly raising a stink when he deems he should've been cited, but wasn't. It's happened enough that it's now a meme in the ML community.
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by minihat 4y ago
I think the invitation to subscribe to the author's newsletter at the bottom of the page is ironic. Love the label "insight-porn" though. Concisely captures the nauseous feeling of ingesting your 100th self help book.
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by minihat 4y ago
>"The study looked at the IQ scores of brothers who were born in different years. Researchers found that, instead of being similar as suggested by a genetic explanation, IQ scores often differed significantly between the siblings.&q
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by minihat 5y ago
Have you seen the movie Ron's Gone Wrong? Not trying to make fun of your idea. I just expect you may find this movie especially enjoyable given the problem you are interested in.
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by minihat 5y ago
It can take a long time for conflicting theories to resolve in neuroscience. For example, the existence of adult neurogenesis in humans is still hotly debated despite at least a decade or two of papers on both sides. Meanwhile, it has alrea
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by minihat 5y ago
My friend has 600+ hours played of Factorio. He just beat the game for the first time. I bought it, we played multiplayer. And I taught him the mantra "great is the enemy of good enough". Our run took 14 hours. I also know many pe
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by minihat 5y ago
High school (in the US) is so easy for gifted students that they barely need even try to earn a 4.0 and be the valedictorian. Not all kids with good grades go on to do awesome things. But it makes sense that many of the best and brightest,
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by minihat 5y ago
Dear HN: Please don't let this comment discourage you from reading the article. Kalman filters are super useful tools across many domains. They are a primary instrument in weather forecasting, robotics, finance, and more. Data you see
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by minihat 5y ago
It seems problematic to disentangle the complexity of an entity from the complexity of the process which produced it. If we define complexity as the Kolmogorov complexity, the two are equivalent ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by minihat 5y ago
This cynical point of view is shared by a number of engineers I know. Another version of it is 'why is it worth learning the calculus of machine learning when that is mostly abstracted away by Tensorflow/PyTorch/JAX?' To
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by minihat 5y ago
I wonder if this data could be used to index papers based on the type of mathematics they employ. The same applied math turns up across domains - I would love to be able to see who else is using the same math I already know on their problem
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by minihat 5y ago
Yes, this is my intended meaning. I am a PhD student working on my thesis. After a certain number of hours of doing mathematics or algorithm design, I have to switch to easier tasks like reading papers in a domain I'm familiar with, or
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by minihat 5y ago
The actionable advice in this post: 1) Track where you spend your time 2) Apply deliberate practice to improve where you are weak/slow I am typically energy constrained rather than time constrained, as I imagine is the case for many wo
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by minihat 5y ago
The mission statement gives me some psychohistory vibes >The Venus Project is a non-profit organization that presents a new socio-economic model utilizing science and technology toward social betterment to achieve a sustainable civilizat
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by minihat 5y ago
Each time I teach neural nets to an engineer, there's only a 50% chance they can write down the chain rule. Colah's blog on backprop used to be my favorite resource to leave them with ( https://colah.github.io/posts
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by minihat 5y ago
Hi! Current neural engineering PhD candidate here. Your question is one I had early on when learning about brain modeling. Noninvasive EEG sensors measure the synchronous activity of millions of neurons. While circuit equivalents of individ

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