mjburgess

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by mjburgess 5y ago
To do this you need uncountable turing machines, and that set isnt a computable function. Hilbert space is infinite-dimensional and real-valued. QM says that there is no `rand(seed)`, rather there is only `rand()` that is what "no hidd
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by mjburgess 5y ago
All laws of physics aren't computable. None of them are, they are all defined over the reals. You've a bigger issue with talking about the computability of those laws. I am assuming that somehow the reals can be ditched (which, in
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by mjburgess 5y ago
Quantum non-determinism isnt computable. A universal turing machine is just an implementation of a function from the Naturals to Naturals (ie., expressible as a binary -> binary). QM systems cannot be described by such functions, hence t
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by mjburgess 5y ago
The question is whether what causes us to understand things is a computational process. See my comment to the other reply, an others in this thread about chaos/non-determinism to see why I doubt. Ie., I dont think our organic growth
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by mjburgess 5y ago
If, on the occasion I say, "I like you" my saying it is caused by my liking you -- then you can describe this process however you wish. Since my liking you is caused by my immediate environment, it isn't reducible to a we
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by mjburgess 5y ago
A computer is just an implementation of a function (in mathematical sense), ie., a finite set of pairs (IN, OUT) where (IN, OUT) in {0,1}^N, {0,1}^N. Ie., its an implementation of {010101, ...} -> {010101010, 01010...} . If we all agree
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by mjburgess 5y ago
Approximately, You "actually understand" if in saying words, w, about a situation, s, the reason, r, you say those words counts as as an understanding of s. So if you're asked, "what is the weather today?" and a sys
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by mjburgess 5y ago
I think it is significant that the room, even as a system, does not use language. A hashtable lookup cannot be what it is to "act in the world with words". When I say, "do you like what I'm wearing?" -- regardless
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by mjburgess 5y ago
No, there's no sleight of hand. It seems you just agree that the man doesnt understand Chinese. > at the scale of physical systems. Alas, they are. Even classical mechanics isn't deterministic. Most systems are chaotic and requ
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by mjburgess 5y ago
The argument is against this view of consciousness. More intuitively: our words are things which do things in the world. When we acquire them we do so by being embedded in the world. When we use them we use them to change the world. (Largel
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by mjburgess 5y ago
So i'd put parametric vs. non-para on a scale. It can be done in terms of the final model parameters, even -- but this may seem initially weird. If the parameters of the predictive model are a weakly compressive function of the dataset
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by mjburgess 5y ago
I'd say its more the opposite. The lack of much "academic & public understanding" of neural networks comes down to the severe lack of statistical modelling and empirical theory-building knowledge in the compu-sci communit
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by mjburgess 5y ago
There is such a thing as ancestry (coming from a similar historical geographical location) which leads to common features (eg., skin color). However, eg., if you take all people labelled "black" around the world, you'd find a
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by mjburgess 5y ago
Yes, deliberately so. Whether an action is prejudicial is not a statistical question, but an ethical one. The temperature of frozen water is likewise, not a statistical question, but a scientific one. Both questions "require a theory&q
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by mjburgess 5y ago
There are several independent meanings to the word bias: (1) statistical bias = a systematic gap between estimation and reality; (2) a prejudicial bias = an action taken against a person/group on immoral grounds; (3) partisan bias = a
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by mjburgess 5y ago
The issue is that the machine has no causal model of how the predictions are leading to the data. You could, as you say, try to single-out some variables and rig how they're processed. Here I dont think that helps: so long as you predi
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by mjburgess 5y ago
I prefer the British system: parliament is sovereign and the primary source of all power. The executive is derivative of the lower-house and the courts merely resolve issues between laws (and it used to be that the courts, derived from the
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by mjburgess 5y ago
That's the story -- is it /true/ ? Several maneovers have made the supreme court vastly more powerful than ever envisaged. The SC declaring for itself (in Marbury v. Madison) the right for itself to review the law itself. And
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by mjburgess 5y ago
In most cases there isn't a significant harm to any individual. If the government has been set up as a reliable enforcer of the laws then it makes more sense for it to collect the fines -- as with being personally fined for a breach of
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by mjburgess 5y ago
The paper item "a cheque" is called "a check" in the US -- which presumably happened because "a cheque" has something to do with the verb "to check" (as in, "to check the health of"; to veri
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by mjburgess 5y ago
I can't tell if you're joking -- but in the UK you "check in" to a hotel. A cheque is, specifically, a type of financial/banking note. cf. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/check_in
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by mjburgess 5y ago
> transistors smaller than atoms which is impossible It's not clear that it's impossible. A H+ atom is just a proton -- it's not inconceivable that there can be subatomic switches.
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by mjburgess 5y ago
All growth curves which flatten have exponential phases.
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by mjburgess 5y ago
There are many limitations of finite discrete sequential processes; and no evidence whatsoever that reality is best-described by these.
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by mjburgess 5y ago
Are any salaries correlated with company performance? Salaries are determined by the market price for that labour; meaning if you want to hire Alice to be your CEO you are bidding against others who also want Alice. The price is what Alice
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by mjburgess 5y ago
The company is owned by its shareholders who vote on issues such as CEO pay and the board compensation. The business being "profitable and successful" is the objective of its owners because they want a return on their investment.
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by mjburgess 5y ago
The firm decides whether to hire at a price the CEO asks; not what to pay. There is maybe a percentage of leeway, but not a lot. A salary is just what it costs to retain your employment -- that's it. When you can find higher pay el
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by mjburgess 5y ago
Yes, but CEOs arent in charge of how much they make. Labour is priced by the market. Prices aren't "decided" by anyone -- this is just something newspapers rant about to create outrage.
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by mjburgess 5y ago
I guess this is then effectively a breakup. You separate Youtube the UGC platform from Youtube the recommendation system. Presumably, then, the "recommendation company" does not need to take editorial responsibility because they a
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by mjburgess 5y ago
It's user-generated content. As the article explains, since all sites use some identifying information (eg., location) -- all a person needs to do is *claim* some emotional harm for "203 summary dismissal" not to apply. Ie.,

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