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Hubris
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Presumably $1740 per annum in rural China is enough to meet basic needs.
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If you’re trying to quantify your uncertainty about who will win the election, a poll would only be part of it. You want to be able to combine disparate sources of information. Maybe there is preference falsification and you want to incorpo
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It seems a Bayesian interpretation of probability is more general. The frequency of events over an infinite number of trials is one way of interpreting probability for things that are able to be repeated. But this wouldn’t make sense to app
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But isn’t the good scaling due to using variational inference rather than full MCMC? Turing has VI too.
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Julia as a whole still lags behind Python or Matlab (unsurprising given the age difference) but there are some packages in Julia that just steal the show compared to Python et al, such as the SciML packages and the probabilistic programming
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A 5% false positive rate can be pretty high depending on the situation, like whether or not a drug is effective.
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For those interested in a history of psychiatry, see “Mind Fixers” by Ann Harrington (Harvard historian).
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I've visited China nearly every year for the past 6 years and never had any sort of issues. I thought all the security personnel I encountered at the airport, immigration, subway stations etc in China were very professional and respect
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Sure but that was in a country where the ruling class was a small minority; perhaps the internal pressure was much more significant. In China the ruling class is a supermassive majority compared to the relatively tiny number of Uyghur’s.
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Does predictive policing demonstrably reduce crime?
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The free energy principle is so generic and broad so as to be fairly useless. Sometimes the details matter and endless abstraction doesn’t help. The free energy principle is the string theory of neuroscience.
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It seems the preference to work from home is pretty strong amongst software engineers. As a physician who was thrust into trying telemedicine, I couldn’t stand it. I would never voluntarily opt to do telemedicine. Besides delivering much wo
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I think it would be much better if someone asked a group of experts for each language to come up with their best implementation for the tasks. If I just spent a few hours implementing a benchmark in a handful of languages I wasn't prof
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Who cares about today? There are a lot of other days in the future.
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I’m sure Travis Kalanick is so happy he dumped his shares before all this.
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There are a number of different type theory models for classical logic. The first to my knowledge was a model that uses the call-with-current-continuation (call/cc) control flow operator. While this does model classical logic, some say
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Because conventional mathematics, whether based on set theory or some categorical alternative, has (usually classical) logic as a background theory. In type theory, that's all you need. It is a theory of computation that has a "bu
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My hope is type theory will be the future adopted foundational system as it allows easier computer-checked proofs and a marriage of mathematics and computation. Category theory can then be formalized within type theory.
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So if you are reclassified as an employee of Lyft then can you still decide how many hours you work? What if you want to work 40 hrs a week for 2 weeks, then travel the world for 2 months and come back and work 10 hrs a week for Uber. How
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Hypothesis: Books that already have high exposure and demand will likely be negatively impacted by making a free version available. Books that would have good sales if more people knew about them will likely benefit from the increased expos
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I actually did read the article.
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Why does everyone assume the actions of the little guy are always morally superior than the actions of the big corporation? I haven't delved into the details of this specific case but this reaction is typical regardless of the facts it
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Honestly, not much has changed. The primary use cases continue to be things like robotics, playing games, finance etc. I’m interested in RL academically from a computational neuroscience standpoint (using RL to model cognition) but also as
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Anyone interested in delving into reinforcement learning should check out our book https://www.manning.com/books/deep-reinforcement-learning-in... - we cover actor critic (used in this paper) to multi-agent to relati
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Did you read Nick Lane's "The Vital Question: Why Is Life The Way It Is?" It's all about this and it's great. Also take a look at https://www.quantamagazine.org/first-support-for-a-physics-t...
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Whatever happened to Luna Lang? https://luna-lang.org/
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It's a pun even without knowing any dutch, because, you know, flowers..bloom.
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Resident physician here. I have > $200,000 student debt. Doesn't feel good at all.
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Is there any example of a LVT anywhere in the US or even outside the US?

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