partykid92

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by partykid92 9y ago
I feel like there's a small minority of people who enjoy elevating kurzweil into a quasi-religious genius figure because of his speculations on the singularity, but he's really just an above average software engineer who happened
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by partykid92 10y ago
cmon now. This is a good attempt at pandering to the hackernews audience by being skeptical and cynical, but Quantum Supremacy is a big deal. From the same article: If I have any policy advice, it’s this: recognize that a clear demonstratio
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by partykid92 10y ago
the documentation here is quite sparse, so correct me if i'm wrong. This seems like a dressed up theorem proving system like PROLOG dressed up as something new.
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by partykid92 10y ago
you don't need to understand statitstics. calculus (calculus is a high school subject and is hardly deep), and what is "algorithmics"? If you mean the study of any and all algorithms, then sure,
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by partykid92 10y ago
one big dimension here, the "implementation error" can be easily be debugged. Gradients can be checked numerically. The model can be checked to work by looking at the optimality conditions (not just the loss function go down). Thi
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by partykid92 10y ago
Thats like saying bubblesort lies at the intersection of combinatorics, topology and complexity theory. True, but pretentious
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by partykid92 10y ago
a rather awful essay not worth reading. This sounds like a rather large sum of money you're paying for few minutes of internet attention on your half baked ideas about the current american political system. You may disagree with Peter
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by partykid92 10y ago
quasi newton methods are not square in the dimension of the problem (think limited memory L-BFGS), and can be run in linear time. In my experience, however, they're 2-3 times slower than regular methods like ADAM.
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by partykid92 10y ago
The word cloud is a disastrous mockery of data visualization, and is a terrible cliche. It needs an extinction level event.
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by partykid92 10y ago
The most infuriating argument against GMO's (2) might the "unknown unknowns" argument, because it sounds so reasonable. Hey, the just say the Jury's still out, so its best to be cautious yes? But the truth be said, by no