naveensundar

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by naveensundar 16y ago
Break from what? How do those numbers support the breakup argument? :) Also the numbers are for ease of doing business and are not predictors of future growth, HDI etc. Also are the numbers high for those countries because they broke up? Al
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by naveensundar 16y ago
If you set the "attempt answer" bit in Watson before the light comes on, and you have the humans attempt to press it as soon as allowable, they will never beat Watson. There were at least a couple of questions for which Watson had 90%+ co
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by naveensundar 16y ago
There is really no mathematical advantage that NNs have over other approaches namely statistical, optimization and formal symbolic approaches/algorithms which are (imho) better engineering tools as they are more amenable to analysis. At the
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by naveensundar 16y ago
It is all a matter of where we stop asking questions. Mostly, good philosophers keep on pushing and end up with something ridiculously hard like Chalmer's hard problem of consciousness. But most of us refuse to recognize that this is even a
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by naveensundar 16y ago
Congrats on shipping on a hardware product! The product seems great. A couple of questions... The site says the product is scientific. But the first paper I found after a bit of digging points to the use of Actigraphy which seems to be just
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by naveensundar 16y ago
Yes. Academic research need not be done only at universities. Even industrial labs award PhD degrees and do solid research which is one of the things a PhD trains you for.
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by naveensundar 16y ago
A PhD is all about wealth creation [1]. Also many of the technologies we take for granted were due to "lowly" PhD students toiling away. I can't even imagine how without decades of dedicated academic effort we can have semiconductor based e
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by naveensundar 16y ago
Marijuana is not a big piece of the puzzle. Research from RAND indicates otherwise Key findings include: 1) Mexican DTOs' gross revenues from illegally exporting marijuana to wholesalers in the United States is likely less than $2 billion;
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by naveensundar 16y ago
Encapsulated this is Penrose's argument in a crude fashion 1. Humans can perform Turing-uncomputable operations (mathematicians mainly) 2. All of present day physics is computable 3. So there should be some uncomputable physics yet to
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by naveensundar 16y ago
It seems that the author has confused memoization with dynamic programming. You can use memoization in DP but need not use it always (using it is just more efficient). DP is much more than memoization. DP lets you solve a certain class of
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by naveensundar 17y ago
The paper which started it all :) http://www.thocp.net/biographies/papers/turing_oncomputablen...
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by naveensundar 17y ago
I checked out http://guestworkerfraud.com/ which is still accessible. I would not have any problem if it were just against H1B or "guest workers", but reading through the first few posts it seems racist. For example "So much for "high-th
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by naveensundar 17y ago
trapper, this study might be in the flavor of what you are seeking. http://www.flownet.com/gat/papers/lisp-java.pdf (2000)
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by naveensundar 17y ago
The potential drone vulnerability lies in an unencrypted downlink between the unmanned craft and ground control. What about the uplink?
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by naveensundar 17y ago
Mathematical Logic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_logic
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by naveensundar 17y ago
There has been some research in formal and universal models of AI. See below for an example. Universal AI: http://www.hutter1.net/ai/uaibook.htm
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by naveensundar 17y ago
It will be much more than just a business tool. But it wont be today.
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by naveensundar 17y ago
The interesting thing is that Google can easily read data in Gmail. I would have been happier if it was actually encrypted using the user's password or a one way hash of the user's password.
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by naveensundar 17y ago
I love the way there are neat integers in the equation (3 and 5) :) While this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_constant makes me go ughhh.
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by naveensundar 17y ago
By the same reasoning: 1. If I "accidentally" send an email to the bank I could get the court to kick the bank off the interwebs. 2. If I send a sensitive snail mail "accidentally" to the bank, can I get the court to lock down the bank's pr
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by naveensundar 17y ago
There are many things wrong with this order, but the most obvious ones are: 1. Both the emails could be in the spam folder of an account which the user is heavily dependent on. 2. In the future, to deactivate somebody's account just send a
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by naveensundar 17y ago
Not even wrong.
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by naveensundar 17y ago
Did anybody else read this as "How You could make $120B a Year". (I should probably check my spam folder less frequently.)
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by naveensundar 17y ago
>It's just not very interesting. It would be the same to say "I give you 1 billion dollars if you write me a program that does hhfdsodifiuuiuuuttueeertz", without saying what "hhfdsodifiuuiuuuttueeertz" is. Saying "no machine can be con
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by naveensundar 17y ago
Thats what I am doing. Of course I did not use the right words, but I assume my intent was clear.
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by naveensundar 17y ago
Is there a definition of consciousness? The gist is that people are dishonest when they claim they have a conscious program or robot. The notion that a program causes consciousness is not well defended. Suppose I have a program X which is c
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by naveensundar 17y ago
For those people who claim conscious machines exist read "Offer: One Billion Dollars for a Conscious Robot; If You’re Honest, You Must Decline" http://www.eripsa.org/files/Bringsjord%20Robot.pdf :)
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by naveensundar 17y ago
>I define consciousness as having an internal model of the world that includes yourself, as well as your own though processes (at a lower degree of fidelity). This says how you compute things, not what you are computing, so it is orthog
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by naveensundar 17y ago
Some philosopher said this sometime back regarding Penrose's theory: (I can't find the original so might be a bit different) "Quantum Computation in microtubules is as explanatory as magical pixie dust in the brain" We can substitute pretty
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by naveensundar 17y ago
Consciousness is a feature of our external world/ Universe. We should formulate theories and test it experimentally. We should describe it in terms of basic components. Unfortunately, this is not how AI has been treating consciousness. AI

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