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by mrcactu5 8y ago
One of the authors is at Google, so it wouldn't surprise me. Thermodynamics is clearly a metaphor, but information entropy they are studying be bounded by the literal heat generated by their computations.
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by mrcactu5 8y ago
Google's Data Centre literally generates heat. So anything we can do in this direction, is helpful. https://deepmind.com/blog/deepmind-ai-reduces-google-data-ce...
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by mrcactu5 8y ago
i think this is cool. i could learn new languages all day. however I've seen people argue on HN that writing language is a waste of time. why should we embark on such an exercise?
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by mrcactu5 8y ago
do people still use BlackBerry in Washington? Seems a little out of date to me...
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
how do we decide or quantify that certain random numbers are good or bad? if I flip a coin? maybe that's inadequate, but can we measure how much it is failing to be random?
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
Duolingo has to be supplemented with reading and / or YouTube materials in the language of choice. Any language course the examples are necessarily contrived and never to your exact needs. But we have the internet and can look for (a
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
Claude Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" is available online, and in bookstores. http://affect-reason-utility.com/1301/4/shannon1948.pdf Khan Academy has done a information theory
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
I"m surprised at how few trains there are in Africa.
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
I think you underestimate the type of "spin" (for lack of better term) that goes on in the street? At least here in the Bronx, some of these people find ingenious arguments to get out of situations. Who is going to be better tha
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
this is quite an achievement that it plays accurately. Does this have implementations for Strategy? No two games are alike, yet we are able to learn from our experience. Human's players be somehow comparing local positions from variou
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
> It is written in Haskell and works by dynamically generating each frame of the GIF and slowly feeding them over the HTTP connection. This seems rather difficult. These are dynamically generated. There are 24 60 60=86400 possible slide
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
as with any data source, is this reliable?
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
Could this be used for images other than people's brains? I looked at this neuroscience course, and overwhelmingly it was a course on Fourier transforms and Radon transforms http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~sereno/276&#
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
I have a master's in Math. none of it is new, but I'm so glad someone wrote this. expanding out all the key points.
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
he does a pretty good job of connecting unsolvability by radicals to the unsolvability of the permutation group S5. I suspect what happens these quintics define Riemann surfaces and perhaps the premutation of the roots an be mapped unto the
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
have you considered square-octagon tilings? https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/68271 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated_square_tiling
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
can we pick another mascot?
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
i am sick of all the CRISPR; hype this is the cure being worse than the disease.
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
after a few years of bullshitting with linux, maybe it's time to get serious
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
Alternatively "Mathematics of Topological Quantum Computing" Eric C. Rowell, Zhenghan Wang https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06206
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
any good resources on 6502?
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
I took Sanskrit as an undergrad at Princeton as an alternative to Latin. It was hard to absorb all the declensions, to be honest, and still connect to the text. The assumption is that you were eventually going to read Bhagava Gita or some
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
this book seems to complement the earlier HackerNews book about the "Calculus Made Easy" -- that is certainly the book I first learn from... it really tries just to get the basic ideas across without being too careful. I look at i
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
how did they refine crispr? Around this time last year we had HIV overcomes CRISPR gene-editing attack https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11453737
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
this is amazing ... how is this even possible?
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
am I walking into something here? I am concerned about regional bias. which dialect of English is being spoken?
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
these "how to read articles" make me feel so illiterate -- having completed my formal education 4 years ago. of course, the truth is we do not read closely, and there are always new signals to look into
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
I nearly failed out of intro Computer Science class since I didn't allow for 90% debugging time. Also I wish I could save some of my errors since they are coming from my own fingers -- they are the most instructive.
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
course like these make me wonder ... how much one can dress up basic probability. i think the answer is A LOT
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by mrcactu5 9y ago
these figures are so exquisite and the typography lazily guides me through

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