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by spacehacker 10y ago
I also found the advice for technical writing at the end of this MIT lecture by Professor Patrick Winston to be very valuable: https://youtu.be/bQI0OmJPby4?t=2703
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A brief guide to mathematical writing [pdf](pamitc.org)
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It is probably ethically no worse than any killing simulation (e.g. first-person shooters). Creatures in such games arguably do not have a rich and lasting experience of processing information as humans and many animals do, so it only has a
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Security and the Internet of Things – Schneier on Security(schneier.com)
2 points by spacehacker 10y ago|0 comments
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by spacehacker 10y ago
https://kevin.deldycke.com/2016/12/falsehoods-programmers-be...
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Security and the Internet of Things(schneier.com)
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by spacehacker 10y ago
It would be enough for a friend having bragged about how they hallucinated about certain things. Words can convey very complex imagery like that and these experiences are encoded everywhere (in scripture, folk wisdom, idioms, songs, jokes,
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Humans are however very bad at retrospectively telling which memes they were exposed to in the past and which not. That is basically the reason why highly specialized people in academia are often bad teachers if they didn't practice te
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by spacehacker 10y ago
With the same skepticism you could also ask yourself to which extent the hallucinations were actually due to subconscious recall of all kinds of memes surrounding hallucinogens like "out-of-body experience", "consciousness&qu
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by spacehacker 10y ago
There are brief sections about this in the Deep Learning book by Bengio, Courville and Goodfellow (2016): > 18.2 Because the negative phase involves drawing samples from the model’s distri- bution, we can think of it as finding points th
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by spacehacker 10y ago
Tab switching has improved a lot. I also love the new zoom level indicator in the URL bar. Very innovative. Nice.
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by spacehacker 10y ago
Doesn't the caveat at the end of your citation from Wikipedia prevent endless recursion? Both players assume that the other player will not change their decision.
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by spacehacker 10y ago
I've been surprised to not find anything for ctrl-F "Bayes". It turns out that traditional deductive logic is simply a special case of applying Bayes rule in order to find out the state of some binary variables given the othe
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by spacehacker 10y ago
But the null-hypothesis remains that it is junk. The hypothesis is that it is not junk, borrowing evidence from neural networks in which (1) things that look like noise are actually distributed representations and (2) in which noise improve
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In this talk touches upon an interesting hypothesis that the purpose of junk DNA might be evolvability : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcD_L6_iBLU The idea is basically that junk DNA contains a memory in shape of a distr
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by spacehacker 10y ago
It is also available online for free: http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html
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by spacehacker 10y ago
I think most of it is about the brand; about buying a name which is already imprinted in millions of minds. The technology alone is probably only worth 1-5% (?) of the price.
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by spacehacker 10y ago
Food and water are already largely covered as a basic need in modern countries. Electricity and pubic transport have nothing directly humiliating or existential about them, but people are also negotiating to introduce a basic right for thes
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It comes down to values. Our values have been shaped by stories that on average yield a high reward for a lot of people and they are based on aesthetics, empathy, social stability, food, peace, absence of pain and chaos and so on. But it al
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by spacehacker 10y ago
Is it possible to arrange the tabs in the side bar in a hierarchical list view? It seems it is possible to make stacks of tabs, but the individual tabs in the hover menu are not very accessible IMHO ("out of sight, out of mind").
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Neural Combinatorial Optimization with Reinforcement Learning(arxiv.org)
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Another one: 'Learning to reinforcement learn' https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05763
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That is a terrible idea because only reasonable people will follow it.
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The formulation of the fitness function seems to be an interesting problem. The best idea I can think of right now is to randomly apply forces within ±90° of the direction that moves the center of mass roughly in the correct direction in a
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by spacehacker 10y ago
That makes sense. I also enjoyed the previous three talks a lot, but he should really write it all down.
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I am wondering what kind of solutions an evolutionary algorithm would come up with.
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by spacehacker 10y ago
I like to search Algolia for PDFs from time to time: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=pdf&sort=byPopularity&prefix=f...
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We don't directly perceive of the phenomenon of EM radiation, but rather only perceive a superficial, low-resolution projection of what is actually going on. There are many things that are too small, too large, too fast or too slow etc
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> E.g. color is a property of reality, not of the brain. Reality simply provides a field that vibrates at different wavelengths and it is intelligence and evolution that come up with computationally convenient category boundaries along t
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by spacehacker 10y ago
> Results of Science Radicals If you are referring to the question from the IRC chat, I think it was not about silencing but rather about genuine interest in further reading material since he didn't yet publish on anything from hi

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