murbard2

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by murbard2 11y ago
Are you that nice person?
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by murbard2 11y ago
It just displays "twitch". Can has low-tech jpg?
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by murbard2 11y ago
So where are the results? There is a video but it shows only a smiley face. Can we see some still pictures?
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by murbard2 11y ago
Seconded, the closing price thing is the single most common error.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Yes, but "it's icky" didn't form arbitrarily, ex nihilo. If you go one level deeper and ask why it's considered icky, you may find justifications, some good, some bad, some outmoded, some relevant.
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by murbard2 11y ago
I think OP is well aware that the speaker isn't specifically addressing moms and only moms. But even knowing that, it can make you feel less included, which is in itself unpleasant, even if on a more rational level you know that you ar
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by murbard2 11y ago
What the poll shows is that it's only considered neutral when plural, and in the vocative case.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Ask students to submit their preferences as a piece of code returning a score. The problem is now outsourced to third parties who will build tools to generate scoring functions intuitively, for example based on constraints, or based on matc
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by murbard2 11y ago
Regarding the second part of the statement... Take Kim Jong Un. He holds considerable power, yet he is probably not particularly physically strong. Of course, he could use a firearm, but even then, he would be fairly easy to stop. However,
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by murbard2 11y ago
Way to overlook the glaring, obvious, collective action problem. All political power, even that of a dictator with an army of henchmen is held as the result of a game theoretical equilibrium.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Sure, but the fact that you get state of the art result without a convolutional prior ought to at least support the argument that the prior is not necessary
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by murbard2 11y ago
The primary yearly energy consumption is about 155,000 TWh and the volume of the ocean is around 1.33e9 km^3, so back of the envelop, the heat dissipated by energy consumption yearly is enough to raise the temperature of the ocean by 0.0001
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by murbard2 11y ago
It helps but it's not necessary. Schmidhuber obtained state of the art performance on MNIST with a very vanilla deep net (no convolutional layer, no pooling, nothing fancy, just fully connected sigmoid units)
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by murbard2 11y ago
It would also decrease prices and thus raise living standards. Customers would then turn their attention to better goods and services, increasing the demand for labor. You're committing the lump of labor fallacy. Think about it this wa
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by murbard2 11y ago
The effect measured was about -5%. On the other hand, for many, immigration is a matter of life and death.
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by murbard2 11y ago
It's a very tough question to answer because it's very hard to predict. I have some model of the general effects of allowing greater immigration, but the predictive value of the model breaks down the more radical the change. - I s
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by murbard2 11y ago
Very interesting take, thanks! That is probably what's going on. I wonder what other examples there are of such policies.
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by murbard2 11y ago
The children of people on welfare are still more likely to end up on welfare. So why is not OK to let an immigrant in on the ground that he is likely to end up on welfare?
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by murbard2 11y ago
By that logic , you cannot have a welfare state without mandatory sterilization of the poor. Most will recoil in horror at this, and yet, the harm done by closed border is far greater (people are literally dying while eating dirt because t
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by murbard2 11y ago
Doctors and Lawyers are already protected by the licensing requirements, why would they fear immigrants?
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by murbard2 11y ago
I personally consider that opening borders is a moral imperative, but I understand why it is controversial. I understand that the arguments against "letting everyone in" have some merit, though I ultimately disagree with them. Wha
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by murbard2 11y ago
Now for the kicker: recurrent network can implement arbitrary algorithms, including a type of GOFAI. It's quite possible that such an algorithm isn't learnable without supervision; that it was discovered by sheer luck at the dawn
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by murbard2 11y ago
It did not see enough examples to learn a general addition algorithm. "Two plus two equals four" is a common sentence, "Ten minus two equals eight" isn't. In fact, it's likely that no one learns addition by l
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by murbard2 11y ago
See also the rubber band heat engine, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBXL93984cQ
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by murbard2 11y ago
The main disappointment would be that it would make us more likely to disappear as a civilization, since life is then less likely to act as the great filter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
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by murbard2 11y ago
I am genuinely puzzled as to what can create such a confusion. So to be very very clear: If you were watching a 1000 pixels wide, 1 meter wide TV from one meter away, the level of details you perceive would be the same as if you were watchi
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by murbard2 11y ago
We're talking about rendering a more distant bigger screen, so the solid angle and the number of pixel used is constant. The point obviously isn't to give the appearance of a tv-sized image placed 100 meters away, it's to r
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by murbard2 11y ago
See also David Madore's hyperbolic maze: http://www.madore.org/~david/math/hyperbolic-maze.html
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by murbard2 11y ago
No you said: "But the "further" away you project the virtual movie screen, the higher the resolution of the VR headset" That is wrong, plain and simple. How far the movie screen appears in the VR headset has no impact wh
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by murbard2 11y ago
1) No, the resolution is a function of the solid angle taken by the screen. Yes, there needs to be an uptick in PPIs but 8000x10000 is basically a hard cap on what's necessary (corresponding to a field of view of 135x180 with a visual

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