parodysbird

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by parodysbird 2y ago
He's just queried records with dead=FALSE. It's not active recipients of social security payments. All its showing is that some portion of people die without the death being officially logged on their record in the social security
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by parodysbird 2y ago
Academic papers are supposed to be about the author... They're meant to be an author's work put forth to an intended community of "colleagues", not students or general public. No one should think that a general learner
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by parodysbird 2y ago
> Invertebrates were adjusting their beliefs to observations (science) long before the first philosopher. To underscore the bad science you are led to in terms of assumed truth, let alone hypothesis: there is very little evidence or just
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by parodysbird 2y ago
> Bayesian epistemology is probably the best description of how we know things based on science. This is wrong, and it's a bit ironic you are so adamant on a point that is bad philosophy and leads to bad science as a way of insistin
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by parodysbird 2y ago
Bayesian epistemology is not used in almost any domain in science, it does not model why science works, and it does not rely on science: it relies on metaphysics.
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by parodysbird 2y ago
Because the use of Bayesian models does not require Bayesian epistemology, which, unfortunately, a lot of people conflate. Here is a decent paper by a statistician about this issue: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.3868
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by parodysbird 2y ago
He's talking about Bayesian philosophy of science, not science, which ultimately does not rely on Bayesian epistemology.
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by parodysbird 2y ago
I don't think you know what you're responding to, but in any case, regarding Deutsch, he "laid the foundations of the quantum theory of computation, and subsequently made or participated in many of the most important advances
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by parodysbird 2y ago
RL on any production system is very tricky, and so it seems difficult to work in any open domain, not just LLMs. My suspicion is that RL training is a coalgebra to almost every other form of ML and statistical training, and we don't ha
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by parodysbird 2y ago
Are we sure the CompuBox punch stats weren't part of the input for the model after each round?
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by parodysbird 2y ago
What evidence is there that someone intentionally used the context that the installations would be seen as bombs? And on what planet should the first reaction by police to seeing a bunch of obvious LED street art installations as being a ma
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by parodysbird 2y ago
Warfare is not a chaotic system. We don't think outcomes are highly sensitive to marginal tweaks in initial conditions of the model. Hostile actor aren't modelled as chaotic systems but as agents in some game theory model. None of
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by parodysbird 2y ago
Correlation also assumes model of the data generating process, but you are correct in thinking that talking about causal links imposes even stronger assumption on the model and data structure for making inference. And then further you have
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by parodysbird 2y ago
The author is the science writer for El Pais and many of his articles come out in both English and Spanish (no translator credited? Maybe that's normal, or maybe he writes them in both languages at once). So I would expect him to write
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by parodysbird 2y ago
I had an awning and a pool enclosure in South Florida. So did most houses in the neighborhood. Then the 2004 hurricane season happened, and there was neither of each around anywhere ever again.
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by parodysbird 2y ago
> They are quickly followed by internet trolls who derail every discussion by insisting that these are masterpieces certified by big-name committees, claiming that we, the lowly masses, must accept the decisions of the great authority as
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by parodysbird 2y ago
I enjoy Oscar bait films and Michelin star restaurants. Oscar bait film season (winter) is the main season I look forward to going to to the movies, not summer (blockbuster season). But it's not some attack on mainstream culture just b
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by parodysbird 2y ago
Well yeah, so are neural nets. I just meant that these are engineering accomplishments, not scientific per se. Of course experimental science will often take advantage of cutting edge technology, including from computer science.
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by parodysbird 2y ago
Some other recent cases of the prize being given to an engineering contribution: - 2018 was for chirped pulse amplification, which is most commonly used in medicine (LASIK surgery for example) - 2014 was for basically for LED lights - 2010
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by parodysbird 2y ago
No you couldn't. Windows doesn't have any bearing on outcomes, whereas machine learning methods directly impact the data and probability inference.
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by parodysbird 2y ago
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037015731... "Jet substructure at the Large Hadron Collider: A review of recent advances in theory and machine learning"
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by parodysbird 2y ago
> but they have made no contribution to understanding physical laws or phenomena. Neural networks are used in tons of data pipelines for physics experiments, most notably with particle accelerators. The Nobel Prize is also occasionally a
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by parodysbird 2y ago
Polymarket isn't legal in the US
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by parodysbird 2y ago
> But at the same time, science landed humans on the moon. That was engineering. Closely linked to science, but not the same process of inquiry.