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Neural networks as “hidden” variable models for quantum systems(arxiv.org)
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Start a software project that uses advanced math, and learn as you go in order to build the project. Learning on the job is the best way to go since you only learn the fundamentals of what’s necessary to accomplish the goal, you immediately
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Most SSRI’s are prescribed by general practitioners and often with fairly low thresholds. I’ve seen interactions like this: Patient comes in to follow up high blood pressure. Doctor: Have you been feeling depressed lately? Patient: Well, y
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But they did release the code.. https://github.com/openai/random-network-distillation
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I came back to the states into LAX from a trip to China a few months ago and one of the CBP agents was yelling and harassing many of the visiting Chinese people who did not speak English because they were not following directions. It was on
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Is mild hypertension an illness? At some point the dividing line between normal and abnormal is blurry and arbitrary. But there are people with say severe anxiety that impairs their ability to carry out normal daily activities. That’s a men
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“this matched sample is used to estimate the causal effect of therapy experience”
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Yes but with traditional frequentist approaches most scientists don’t understand what’s going on under the hood of the statistical tools they’re using. There are dozens and dozens of named tests like “Fisher’s exact test” and “Wilcoxon sign
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This more related to the omnigenic model that’s referenced in the article: if every gene affects most traits we care about, maybe studying genes is too low-level for most things? Like of course a massive collection of atoms caused world war
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There’s surely a spectrum from authoritarianism to liberal democracy, but there’s also a case to be made for free vs not free countries: if you can get into a public Twitter spat with the President of your country, and not worry someone wil
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Here’s another article about it https://www.popsci.com/carbon-fiber-from-plants#page-3
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If people can post a pre-print to Arxiv then why is it a big deal if it also gets published in Nature Machine Intelligence? Sure a better formatted and edited version may be behind a paywall but anyone can find the original arxiv paper and
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In the spirit of Popper and Deutsch, I’d argue that philosophy makes progress in the same way all branches of knowledge do: filtering out bad ideas. The Popperian notion of scientific progress as an evolutionary process of conjectures and r
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That's not a very nuanced position to hold about something very complex.
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You can’t, in general, test something that already happened. Moreover, given the immune system is a complex system with some degree of randomness involved, it would probably be impossible to prove that any particular person’s allergies were
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It’s a completely testable and falsifiable hypothesis. The original commenter seemed to be dismissing the hypothesis based on an anecdote that he thought falsified the hypothesis and I was pointing out that it does not. Of course any hypoth
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This is still compatible with the hygiene hypothesis. It could be that your wife grew up in a “too clean” environment and hence her immune system became hypersensitive to substances that anybody in a less clean developing country would have
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Per the hygiene hypothesis, I wonder if your allergies got better because you’re exposing yourself to more (generally harmless) microorganisms and hence challenging your immune system more. Since I’m sure lactic acid doesn’t sterilize as we
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"The Beginning of Infinity" by David Deutsch
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Interesting how divergent perspectives can be on this. Your dystopian view is my utopian view. As a California native, I literally exclaim "it's a beautiful day!" every single morning when I look outside and see it's per
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But differentiable programming would exclude deep neural nets trained by evolutionary methods/genetic algorithms since those are gradient free. With the term deep learning I think the focus is correctly on the “deep” (compositional) na
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You're correct that doctors' salaries are not the biggest source of excessive health expenditure compared to other countries. But the article is right that medicine (i.e. physicians) behaves like a cartel in that it places rules t
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But if I give you a single image of a scene with an object you’ve never seen before, you’ll likely be able to instantly segment it, describe it, and relate it to things you do know.
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I think the point is if we as a society shoot our selves in the foot, that’s one thing, but it’s another if we let someone else do it. And the argument that we do it to others is irrelevant. If country X hacks our companies to steal trade s
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Does this mean I can finally train deep learning models on my laptop's Intel GPU?
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Humans (and probably anything else) don't have access to the complete set of raw data that makes up our environment. We have imperfect data streams coming from our sense organs and from that we build a model of reality, which may have
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- The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch - Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari - Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark - Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath
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As far as we can tell intelligent life is extremely rare. The not too distant universe could be well-populated with simple unicellular life (or just individual self-replicating molecules). It may be that self-replicating molecules form re
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Thanks for your clarification and polite response. I was referring to the entire period of the industrial revolution. But in any case, your argument is inductive and has all the issues as such. Since we have no reliable explanatory model of
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With all due respect, I don't understand how smart people think they can predict the future from a single period in history. When is a sample size of 1 with very dubious generalizability ever enough? Yet, for those who share your views

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