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I can't help but indulge a bit and now ask whether or not we can't extract a common pattern from the two representations of mathematical cognition offered by yourself and GP. :-)
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May I suggest that the problem is one of quality much more so than of quantity, and that a solution that takes a more fine-grained approach than just shutting off your ISP altogether can give you the best of both worlds? "How Technolog
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In my experience, the trick is to accumulate lists of books, links, people, and other potential interests, etc., and dip into them whenever you aren't preoccupied (in lieu of checking what the Attention Merchents want you to [1]) to ge
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Terminology pedantry: a disk (not a circle, which is far from being even convex, being just the boundary of a disk) is indeed not a (convex) polytope, although it is a convex body.
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Much better. Looking through the intermediate and advanced sections, I see that this guide suffers from none of the omissions which I had complained about in my post (specifically, the omissions of classic works by Arnold and Spivak). (I st
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How long would it take to study the books recommended here? Answer: years. Does it ever make sense to condense a comprehensive summary of mathematics into five page document? Perhaps, perhaps not. I do know one thing: this was published i
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Learning without thought is labor lost, Confucius said. At any rate, symbolic representations of knowledge should be committed to memory (or pad and pencil) at the time of understanding (Hebb's rule), or else your "memory" wi
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Yeah, I guess Marvin Minsky wasn't aware of Technic and Mindstorms Which would be somewhat amazing, given Mindstorm's pedigree.
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"How the brain wires itself up during development, how the end result can vary in different people and what happens when it goes wrong": http://www.wiringthebrain.com/ Very good at exploding conflations and weakly
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Encyclopedic, opinionated, humorous, and even quantitative guide to 20th century pop and rock, from the point of view of a Russian Linguist [1] who thinks The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan have never been topped: http
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+1 for mentioning the work of Michael Jackson in the beginning. I have to watch this one again.
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Is it possible that the board would simply remove the CEO in time for the government to have its way with the company, in hope of averting financial Armageddon?
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Among products whose review distribution is heavily skewed toward 5-stars, the 1-star reviews are often the most useful, since this is where you might learn that reviewers are being offered compensation in return for removing their negative
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incentive-caused bias There is a literature on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-serving_bias
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Stockholm syndrome.
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Looks like the author has a new URL for the PDF, hosted by the university: https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/bookdraft2016sep... Since it is a draft, the author's new link is the right one to read,
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Perhaps the conspicuousness of wearing and being talked to by such a device is a positive thing. Shocked observers will make negative or bewildered remarks about the proposition, but some who hear about it will be receptive, all without the
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Try now. There is also information about the book on the author's page about it on his website: https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/the-book.html
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I think they are parallel and can be used together Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo#Algorithm
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I've uploaded a mirror of the PDF: https://instant.io/#678d0be07a0f2260ec6f9b134ec0a1d7c4325e99 If you can, leave the tab open for a while to keep seeding the file! (It's a torrent.)
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I would be very interested to see how Chomebooks fare here.
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I included a reliable source! Click my link to yesterday's HN story. It is an interview with John P.A. Ioannidis, "who is a professor at Stanford University and one of the most highly cited researchers in the world".
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http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-ou... He quotes Eliezer Yudkowsky: Parapsychologists are constantly protesting that they are playing by all the standard scientific rules, and yet th
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At any rate, psychologists will tell you how harmful it can be to tell a child how smart they "are", rather than letting them know they've simply "done" a good job. The distinction seems to be between being and doin
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I think this is a very good point. Population density seems to play a crucial role in the dynamics of group behavior, not just in phenomenon of the article, but in many other aspects of society as well.
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According to René Girard, the defining characteristic of Christianity is the end of sacrificial violence against scapegoats. So yes, it would make sense for a truly Christian nation to show far greater compassion than do Christian conservat
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In the movie Clerks, there is a discussion about how the rebels took the lives of any independent contractors who happened to be working on the second Death Star at the time of its destruction. However, George Lucas later addressed this iss
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That is quite interesting, thanks!
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That doesn't even make sense. If we're going to compare apples to apples, you'll either have to remove the human's brain from his body and place it in the ring with the computer, or give the computer a proper body. I do
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I didn't get that from his comment at all--silly.

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