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by ppod 9y ago
I don't see any advance in this debate since things that Dennett and Hofstadter wrote 20+ years ago (both independently and in their co-authored book "The Mind's I"). Is it really surprising that we have a first person s
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by ppod 9y ago
It doesn't make any sense to "approach the caller" and then scan for danger. The sounds could be understood non-compositionally and the actions worked out pragmatically. It's like saying that a monkey responds to &quot
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by ppod 9y ago
There is an excellent argument and guide to this here https://kieranhealy.org/publications/plain-person-text/
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by ppod 9y ago
Leaving aside the funny but flippant conclusion, I think this is still a bit harsh on the causal channel capacity argument of the paper discussed. The under-emphasised part is that our brains and bodies do have an artificially imposed uni
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by ppod 9y ago
I don't know much about wikipedia or WMF but the spending growth in that table is not exponential. And surely the correct way to measure the scale of the service provided is page views rather than number of pages.
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by ppod 9y ago
Machine learning researchers are well aware of the problem of out-of-sample predictions, in fact most of the work goes into making systems appropriately generalizable by making architectures robust through dropout or regularization. The res
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by ppod 9y ago
There might be some aspects of this article that over-reach, but I think that it is a useful explanation to the many people who still don't understand the difference between connectionist or high-dimensional statistical algorithms and
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by ppod 9y ago
This is meaningless without considering the granularity of the unit of measure. Most people are of average height when measured to the nearest meter. The motivation behind the measurement determines the granularity -- for a cockpit, the sea
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by ppod 9y ago
This is a brilliant product, and right in the corner of a "brilliant product/things hackernews hates" graph. Most people aren't that concerned by privacy and will love features like the ability to see different views and
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by ppod 9y ago
I love McCarthy's work but this is nonsense. Current AI work is all about the relationship between differdntiable connectionist systems and algorithmic/symbolic computation. AI researchers are well aware of the parallels between t
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by ppod 9y ago
Suttree has some funny bits and some great bleak bits too, I love this part where he's looking through is aunt's old photo album: The old musty album with its foxed and crumbling paper seemed to breathe a reek of the vault, turnin
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by ppod 9y ago
This is a complicated problem and is I think best thought of as type of overfitting rather than a complete mistake. The independent or output variable, sentiment, does have an obvious generalisation from movies to politicians, unlike, for e
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by ppod 10y ago
What do you mean by 'perception'?
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by ppod 10y ago
I don't see any advance in this debate since things that Dennett and Hofstadter wrote 20+ years ago (both independently and in their co-authored book "The Mind's I[^]"). It's surprising to see academic philosophers
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by ppod 10y ago
This is just a slippery slope fallacy. There was clear opposition to an EU superstate in many countries, there's no way the UK ever would have ended up in one. If anything, this makes a (smaller) EU superstate more likely.
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by ppod 10y ago
>Can’t call me a cynical, turf-protecting doctor now. I think the overall tone of the article is a bit harsh on the machines, especially considering the coda.
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by ppod 10y ago
If you're in R this might work: https://github.com/statnet/ndtv
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by ppod 10y ago
For network visualization in R I've found this package to be extremely easy to use http://datastorm-open.github.io/visNetwork/ It performs well with large networks (> 1000 nodes) and makes nice javascript plots
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by ppod 10y ago
What are you basing this on? I have a nexus 5 and I just tested it. I turned on airplane mode, and used google translate with speech recognition. Can't quite tell if the translation is phrase based (looks good) and the speech recogniti
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by ppod 10y ago
You have a right to free speech, and these websites have a right to publish whatever they want. You are free to type things or to say things, there's no obligation for anyone else to host them or transmit them for you.
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by ppod 10y ago
As far as I know since about 2 years ago translation and speech recognition on google phones are done with deep learning systems built into the phone -- a network connection isn't needed. However, I couldn't immediately find a sou
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by ppod 10y ago
If the object is only to improve performance, a black-box machine-learning model should outperform a hand-tuned algorithm. The generalisation (out-of-sample) performance will depend on how representative the training and evaluation sets are
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by ppod 10y ago
HN is just more niche. HN is 842 on US alexa. Reddit is 7. The criticism that reddit gets is so naive. What other site of comparable size, where the users are mostly anonymous, has better community? Compare reddit comments with comment thre
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by ppod 10y ago
>Attention economies are always very winner-take-all, and become more so as you remove barriers. If you relieve people of all tasks except showing off to each other, that will create cutthroat competition for attention where only a small
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by ppod 10y ago
Schmidhuber has a fair claim to being the father of successful connectionist AI. Others would be Hinton and LeCun. Schmidhuber is maybe a bit of a controversial figure, he's quite open about insisting on getting his credit for his earl
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by ppod 10y ago
The gear aren't in the process of being retracted in that photo, they have that backward tilt on landing too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ba_b747-400_g-civx_mainge... Gear are retracted once a positive rate
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by ppod 10y ago
reddit is not one place. Each subreddit has its own moderation policy. Stolen naked pictures and overt abuse are one thing, but it is common in other subreddits (e.g. /r/europe) for posts or comments to be blocked just because the
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by ppod 10y ago
You're completely right. I would just point out that it's very close even when the question is explicitly phrased to specify politicians and civil servants (45 - 46%). It's likely that those with more trust in politicians are
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by ppod 10y ago
Citizens are ok with it. There is huge public support for this: https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/01/18/more-surveillance-pleas... Don't rely on that one, google for yourself any poll in the last 10 ye
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by ppod 10y ago
I think the mention of suicide was wrong, but it sounds like you're saying that a University should fire any employees that express right-wing views. You actually said 'right wing garbage', but I didn't see any fact-chec

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