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by robertk 11y ago
To play devil's advocate, it could also indicate Randi is using a god of the gaps type play and psychics have given up knowing he won't part with the money.
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by robertk 11y ago
Phenotype space is probably not continuous given genome structure. So it appears like you can vary features almost arbitrarily, as you see in the Oblivion video game, but in fact you see a lot of genetic collisions due to a much smaller sea
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by robertk 11y ago
I've heard enough of these stories to have no doubt this is a real experience, but what could a scientific explanation of this possibly look like? I take coherence of worldview very seriously and will rewrite my entire ontology if nece
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by robertk 11y ago
avoid $ success at all costs
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by robertk 12y ago
I recently wrote an R package that computes the differences between arbitrary R objects as closures precisely for the reason the authors gave in their abstract: it is much more computationally feasible to remember changes in program outputs
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by robertk 12y ago
It's for tiebreakers.
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by robertk 12y ago
AI is both singular and plural. The important difference is whether there are zero or non-zero, irrespective of their relative competitions. Human intelligence took millions of years to evolve. Sorry, but AI(s?) will develop faster.
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by robertk 12y ago
As shortly as I can muster: we live in a world with finite resources. Any consumer of these resources for its own purposes, whatever they may be, is in direct competition with us (all human civilization). Any entity better equipped to gathe
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by robertk 12y ago
We don't have to. We only need to agree there is one , and that it's dangerous to co-inhabit it in almost all scenarios.
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by robertk 12y ago
"What we don't have to worry about is the AI algorithm running them, because that's speculative. There isn't an AI algorithm that's good enough to do that for the time being." By the time a risk does hit, it wi
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by robertk 12y ago
Opal is a really neat gem for translating Ruby to JavaScript. For those who know some math, I used it to convert some Ruby code I had written to perform finite field arithmetic ( https://github.com/robertzk/FiniteFields
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by robertk 12y ago
AvantCredit (Chicago) is hiring senior data scientists, data engineers, and data dev ops. We offer competitive salaries and a flexible work environment. http://avantcredit.com/jobs We have gone from 0 to 150 employees in a
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by robertk 12y ago
AvantCredit (Chicago) is hiring senior data scientists, data engineers, and data dev ops. We offer competitive salaries and a flexible work environment. http://avantcredit.com/jobs We have gone from 0 to 150 employees in a
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by robertk 12y ago
This passage is fascinating. Each sentence, beginning half wisdom marred by its finish of sarcastic cajolery. I'm very confused, in a good way.
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by robertk 12y ago
AvantCredit (Chicago) is hiring senior data scientists, data engineers, and data dev ops. We offer competitive salaries and a flexible work environment. http://avantcredit.com/jobs We have gone from 0 to 150 employees in a
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by robertk 12y ago
How understanding log odds can save your life.
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by robertk 13y ago
Disagree. I've had an R server running in production for real-time analytics under heavy load in the last six months, and I have had exactly zero problems. Literally no down time. Additionally, weak scraping support is a myth: http:&#
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by robertk 13y ago
What are you talking about? R has some of the most robust debugging tools I have encountered. You should look into the functions: browser, traceback, recover, trace, dump.frames, debug, debugonce, `environment<-`. What other language all
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by robertk 13y ago
My application for membership just got rejected for not making enough money. Rich get richer, I guess. If I was in a different mood I would write a blog post in outrage.
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by robertk 13y ago
I don't understand. When sweep frees an object, it invalidates the "next" object of the previous object in the linked list, breaking the traversal next time a gc() is called. Doesn't the linked list have to be patched? (
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by robertk 13y ago
I used Opal, a Ruby to JS compiler, to convert my Ruby library for arithmetic over finite fields to a Javascript multiplication table generator. https://github.com/RobertZK/FiniteFields
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Show HN: Multiplication table generator for finite fields in Ruby to JS(therobert.org)
1 points by robertk 13y ago|1 comments
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by robertk 13y ago
Exercise for the reader: Use my Ruby library for finite fields and this to implement arithmetic on elliptic curves over finite fields. https://github.com/RobertZK/FiniteFields
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by robertk 13y ago
Is the data set publicly available? I'd love to do some machine learning on it.
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by robertk 13y ago
Of course, your computer simulation completely disregards the possibility of some very large (but rare) numbers (possibly of density zero) not being expressible as such a sum. You merely verified it for low finite integers. I am very unconv
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by robertk 13y ago
You probably haven't found the right brand for you. I wear mine 14 hours a day and barely ever notice them. Experiment, you can usually ask for free samples.
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by robertk 13y ago
Uhh what if no physical configuration of the LEDs is sufficient for blinding? This does not seem like an issue if the hardware is incapable by design. Besides, such a product could arguably be more useful than a car, and certainly more safe
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by robertk 13y ago
To be honest, I never understood his argument at all. If consciousness is a sort of information sheaf attached to spacetime that "measures" (in some yet-to-be-determined mathematically precise way) certains canonical kinds of information fl
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by robertk 14y ago
Homeschool your kid and give this to them as homework. No food until they've written their own!
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Boring Advice Repository(lesswrong.com)
1 points by robertk 14y ago|0 comments

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