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by msamwald 7y ago
Indeed this is important to realize: Training such a generic model from scratch does not only reiterate learning, but the entire evolutionary process that led to the emergence of neural circuits actually capable of such learning. That persp
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by msamwald 7y ago
On the other hand the word "attention" in deep learning is often used non-intuitively, e.g. "one token attends to another token" in self attention is hardly analogous to human cognitive processes.
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by msamwald 7y ago
This is certainly a nice paper, but it is also a bit puzzling that this was noteworthy enough to be published in Nature.
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by msamwald 7y ago
But why would Libra increase rather than decrease interest in Bitcoin? Is there any actual rationale?
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by msamwald 7y ago
What is actually shocking is that these data are made so easily accessible when you are logged into Google anywhere. There should be additional hurdles to view the entirety of a person's history with Google beyond merely being logged i
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by msamwald 8y ago
It is noteworthy that such statistics are not solely reflecting preferences, they may also reflect effects of the dating app itself! Among the many hidden psychological bugs in Tinder, an especially toxic one is that new users are presented
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by msamwald 8y ago
The hypothesis is completely implausible, and it is quite irritating that it keeps popping up in discussions in the 'hacker' sphere. There is simply no way that bicameralism would be the dominant phenotype only a few thousand year
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by msamwald 8y ago
It is your view that is incoherent. A brain and and a PC are physical systems that work based on causal physical mechanisms. Both can run algorithms, e.g., my brain and a computer can both instantiate the same algorithm, albeit in very diff
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by msamwald 8y ago
Your argument is solely based on the rather odd semantics you ascribe to the term "computer". In common contemporary parlance, hardly anyone would call an abacus or a waterfall a 'computer' just because you can use such
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by msamwald 8y ago
Biologically whales are clearly mammals and not fish. Whether bony or cartilaginous fish are closer to mammals does not put that fact into question.
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by msamwald 8y ago
The article they cite claims that people who were less exposed to sun had higher disease risk [1]. As far as I saw, the cited article does not include sunscreen use in the analysis. So it might very well be that sun exposure while wearing s
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by msamwald 8y ago
I always found that in introduced unpragmatic, counterintuitive roadblocks for actual knowledge integration. The most annoying thing is how it carves up reality into representations of different granularity, which are then made disjoint.
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by msamwald 8y ago
I don't see how this is a competitive advantage when any company or institution can outsource these kinds of annotation jobs to low-wage countries.
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by msamwald 8y ago
The placebo group experienced adverse effects that were classified as side effects. It does not mean necessarily mean that the effects were caused by being given the placebo ("placebo effect").
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by msamwald 8y ago
It's important to understand that if a clinical trial shows some improvement in the control group that received placebo, this does not need to be due to some placebo 'effect' at all. The status of patients usually changes all
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by msamwald 8y ago
Yes, but FHIR was the result of many years that had previously been wasted with HL7 v3, which was so convoluted that at some point some people in the community gave up on it and came up with FHIR to get things done. The clock did not start
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by msamwald 8y ago
I wonder if current attempts at EHR interoperability are a case of "the perfect is the enemy of the good". Obviously the ideal solution would be one where well-structured interoperable datasets are produced and shared. This would
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by msamwald 8y ago
It seems overall okay if you accept the premises that A) A centralized health record system can do substantial good by improving effectiveness and transparency of healthcare processes, and enabling medical progress through data re-use. B) D
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by msamwald 8y ago
No, hats usually have a completely different aesthetic and function than hair, they don't complement the shape of the face in the same way at all. Hats are also mostly worn outside, but seem improper to wear while simply sitting at a d
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by msamwald 8y ago
So why would not everyone be bald at ever age? Why would women not be balding? Evolutionary just-so story incoming...
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by msamwald 8y ago
The one scientific text on the matter I found via a quick Google search suggests that a shaved head increases perception of dominance and confidence, but decreases attractiveness: http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/DPlab/pap
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by msamwald 9y ago
Well my group and others are toying with applying RNNs to permuted SMILES strings; if it ends up being better, we will find out some time this year.
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by msamwald 9y ago
Well, as far as I know the state-of-the-art results on current drug toxicity prediction benchmarks (e.g., Tox21) are held by deep neural networks; it seems like recent AI advances HAVE proven useful in that regard.
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by msamwald 9y ago
I think there is a lot to be gained by creating better systems for searching and synthesizing diverse pieces of biomedical knowledge. But indeed this is mostly a field of research, rather than something that could be directly marketed. Did
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by msamwald 9y ago
I actually think that not wanting to become sick and die are quite universal human desires. It really is the latent driver behind lots of human activity, and certainly behind most religious belief systems.
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by msamwald 9y ago
Which is not a bad thing. Religion developed to cope with the unavoidable misery of human existence through a coordinated belief in an imaginary afterlife free of that misery. Enlightenment, science and technology showed us that most of thi
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by msamwald 9y ago
According to the website they use the BiDAF model, which as a single model does not produce state-of-the-art results on the SQuAD benchmark. It is ranked 27th here: https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/
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by msamwald 9y ago
A recent paper exploring various variatons of neural machine translation architectures found that LSTMs consistently outperformed GRUs in that task. https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03906
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by msamwald 10y ago
"[...] the keys to happiness lie in mastering the mind, and not in changing external factors in our lives." I have been interested in mindfulness for years, but I found it very unhelpful to follow strong statements like this one.
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by msamwald 10y ago
No, all of the medications seem to be lumped together.

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