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by nicholast 8y ago
There's a kind of paradox of shannon entropy found in communications with double-entendre I think, in that they appear to increase both redundancy and entropy. I touched on that in this essay proposing what i call subtractive adversari
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by nicholast 8y ago
There are some games where it's simply not possible to compete without 'jet fuel' if you will. The key is understanding if this applies.
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by nicholast 8y ago
Hi I am not very good at marketing. But this software is very useful - try it out!
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Announcing automated data wrangling(twitter.com)
1 points by nicholast 8y ago|1 comments
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by nicholast 8y ago
Greetings to Hacker News. Sharing a recently completed collection of essays. This probably isn't the forum for such a thing but since Y-Combinator played a part in some of the startup material thought I'd share. Best regards to th
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Essays and Explorations(medium.com)
1 points by nicholast 8y ago|1 comments
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A family of open source data processing functions(medium.com)
1 points by nicholast 8y ago|0 comments
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Open Source Automated Data-Wrangling: All your code are belong to us(medium.com)
4 points by nicholast 8y ago|0 comments
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by nicholast 8y ago
As the economics continue along Swanson's law (the photovoltaic solar panel equivalent to Moore's law of ever decreasing costs) I expect the biggest obstacle to large scale transition to a distributed grid of majority local genera
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Survey of generative network algorithms(medium.com)
2 points by nicholast 8y ago|0 comments
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Quantum machine learning presentation(medium.com)
1 points by nicholast 8y ago|0 comments
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by nicholast 9y ago
Hello Hacker folks. Have previously shared a few essays in this forum, since topic of the day is book recommendations coincidentally recently published a collection of books that had inspired many of these essays - available on medium if yo
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by nicholast 9y ago
Hi there. I previously posted an essay on machine learning in this forum, this essay is an expansion of some of the discussions from that earlier post, with a closing science fiction section as a fun creative experiment.
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On the equivalence of modalities in machine learning(medium.com)
2 points by nicholast 9y ago|1 comments
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by nicholast 9y ago
Come to think of it I also addressed more about the differences between the two in this medium post discussion of the Kelly Criterion. https://medium.com/@_NicT_/an-optimal-trade-a374064fda91
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by nicholast 9y ago
The paper claims "there exists some function that converts mean absolute deviation to standard deviation" which is surprising and goes against my intuition barring cases where you make assumptions about the underlying distribution
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by nicholast 9y ago
Here's a ppt deck covering a relevant overview of the subject. https://medium.com/@_NicT_/quantum-machine-learning-c5ab31f6...
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The Psychology of Bitcoin Misjudgment(medium.com)
2 points by nicholast 9y ago|0 comments
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by nicholast 9y ago
Here is a medium post targeted at layperson that covers a lot of same material. "Quibbling Over Qubits" https://medium.com/@_NicT_/quibbling-over-qubits-f2ca1b87f47...
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by nicholast 10y ago
:) just wrote a post about John, more music too: https://medium.com/@_NicT_/from-the-diaries-of-john-henry-43...
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Teaching machine learning to a toddler(medium.com)
1 points by nicholast 10y ago|0 comments
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by nicholast 10y ago
Yes perhaps that part was meant as a joke.
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by nicholast 10y ago
Yeah it's basically a modern Don Quixote set loose in New Orleans. Very much character driven, lots of fun.
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by nicholast 10y ago
Here are a few I enjoyed in 2016 by genre: Business - Making Things Work by Yaneer Bar-Yam Investing - Charlie Munger The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin Essays - Michel de Montaigne Complete Essays ($.99 on Kindle!) Physics - At Home in
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by nicholast 10y ago
Hi there, have been reading a little about complexity theory here and there for a while now and thought it would be fun to put together some thoughts in a blog post. Sharing here in case anyone finds of interest.
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Complexity in art, music, and cellular automata(medium.com)
2 points by nicholast 10y ago|1 comments
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by nicholast 10y ago
PS just added a few more more graphics / some humorous elements to first half of post, it was a little dry, I think it reads better now.
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by nicholast 10y ago
Agree this post was a little longer than what I usually write, obviously I was't going to achieve a comprehensive overview but I wanted to touch on as many of key points as I could without going overboard. I tried to make up for length
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by nicholast 10y ago
Hi so this is my first submission to Hacker News. I don't know if there are rules against posting your own work in this forum, if so I apologize. Have been reading a bit here and there on quantum computers for a while and thought it wo
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Teaching quantum computing to a (really smart) toddler(medium.com)
4 points by nicholast 10y ago|4 comments

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