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by sawwit 11y ago
Very interesting: > “Dopamine encodes what are called reward-prediction errors – the ongoing difference between reward expectations and the actual rewards experienced,” Montague said. “From just dopamine signals, we can see when a perso
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Ask an unbounded question, get an uncomputable answer(scottaaronson.com)
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by sawwit 11y ago
In Prof. Tegmark’s presentation at the UN he mentioned the possibility of extremely cheap drones that approach the victim's face very quickly and pierce a bolt into the victim's brain through one of their eyes. That wouldn't
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by sawwit 11y ago
New users quickly reach a comment limit. You can create a new account on a different IP and continue.
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by sawwit 11y ago
Paper: https://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6266/1332.full Code: https://github.com/brendenlake/BPL Abstract: People learning new concepts can often generalize successfully from just a
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by sawwit 11y ago
Bonus link: A panel on automating science which I greatly enjoyed watching. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VchrEoimSO8
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by sawwit 11y ago
The snake oil?
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by sawwit 11y ago
For more practical persons I recommend skipping the historical parts of philosophy and go straight to Bayesianism. I recommend "Rationality" by E. Yudkowsky as an entry point, "Probabilistic Inference" by J. Pearl, &quot
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by sawwit 11y ago
Off topic: This seems to be an odd emphasis on the word "good". Can a native English speaker confirm?
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by sawwit 11y ago
How come they aim for GPU technology rather than for neuromorphic computing ASICs?
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by sawwit 11y ago
Here is a time lapse video of the 9 year construction, quite fascinating to watch: http://www.ipp.mpg.de/115632/zeitraffer_w7x YouTube mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-fbBRAxJNk A more technic
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by sawwit 11y ago
I wouldn't find it too surprising if the brain would abstract actions and actors, perhaps even the tense from thoughts and sensory input and map them to auditive features and motor programs for (sub)vocalization and the internal monolo
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by sawwit 11y ago
An obvious difference is that we do have scientific models of global climate change that give us at least some evidence, but we lack any such information for the case of the existence of a god.
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by sawwit 11y ago
You seem to be saying that ANNs are good at pattern recognition because BNNs are. That just defers it to the question why BNNs are good at it. OTOH, the parent comment suggested we should draw our attention to the processes that produce the
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by sawwit 11y ago
Indeed, this course was great. It's pretty much a summary of the state of the art of learning science.
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by sawwit 11y ago
I've been imagining a website lately that displays progress in a similar way for all kinds of things. Sort of like a global to-do list. Should be fun to build.
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Coverage Is Not Strongly Correlated with Test Suite Effectiveness (2014)(linozemtseva.com)
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by sawwit 11y ago
Someone made this nice comparison over on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3uc55k/58_years_on/
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by sawwit 11y ago
This site has some numbers: http://www.kunger.at/161540/1591397/overview/farm-432-insect...
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by sawwit 11y ago
I think the "where" dorsal stream (which is thought to be the missing piece in image recognition [1][2]) alone would not be able fix it. What would still be missing, I think, would be a network that learns to recognize patterns (i
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by sawwit 11y ago
It will be interesting how to draw the line here. Clearly, some of the highly addictive Internet platforms actually contain useful information like the StackExchange network, some parts of Reddit, HN… So you would have to make exceptions fo
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by sawwit 11y ago
Here is a summary of the even in written form: http://alainahrook.weebly.com/blog/slavoj-zizek-yanis-varouf...
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Europe Is Kaput. Long Live Europe (Žižek, Varoufakis and Assange) [video](youtube.com)
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Texture Synthesis with deep CNNs(bethgelab.org)
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Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Networks(github.com)
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by sawwit 11y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that a mathematical constant has multiple different shortest programs?
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by sawwit 11y ago
That’s a nice definition of mathematical constants: Numbers whose calculation specifications have a Kolmogorov complexity that is low enough so that they reappear in different contexts with high probability.
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by sawwit 11y ago
Why is HTML constantly being extended while email is more or less the same as 35 years ago.
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Ask HN: Could we add social features (e.g. likes) to the email standard?
1 points by sawwit 11y ago|6 comments
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Bitcoin's Incentive Structure [video](youtube.com)
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