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by spynxic 10y ago
I'm immensely confused as to how such a number can be put on a discovery. Then again.. I also don't understand how researchers come up with a yearly budget for making discoveries.
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by spynxic 10y ago
I find that somewhat strange. Why attribute the idea of introducing new nodes to a graph to biological concepts? It seems like a simple step in exploration, similar to how one might think to vary the weights of the nodes randomly over some
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by spynxic 10y ago
100% agreed, as I posted this not because of getting stuck in just mathematics but in computer programming, physics, biology, economics, linguistics, adulthood.. to name a few.
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by spynxic 10y ago
Regarding the last question, "Do you think maths is discovered or invented?" Couldn't math be considered both? A process of invention as far as deciding which axioms to assume and a process of discovery when finding the rep
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by spynxic 10y ago
..Now what you have to handle when you start doing mathematics as an older child or as an adult is accepting this state of being stuck. People don't get used to that. Some people find this very stressful. Even people who are very good
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by spynxic 10y ago
I'd argue that it's less beneficial to learn new categories as it is to simply recognize when categories differ between samples. For example, with bears -- I personally know of black bears and polar bears. I can be a little more d
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by spynxic 10y ago
Wow, I failed to considered the need for validation.. but even still, that adds only another layer of testing to ensure that your techniques for converting the raw data to structured data are sound enough to be reproduced. I'd guess th
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by spynxic 10y ago
It seems that you may have been able to extract specific information about things like "how much of an angle the fish made their tails flick" as opposed to storing the raw files. Such a technique would've definitely eliminate
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by spynxic 10y ago
Emergent induction via high dimensional structure composition.. maybe. I haven't read any whitepages about the underlying processes P.S. note the hand-waviness when I use the word "emergent"
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by spynxic 10y ago
Then the high dimensional representation of the language that allows such a translation to be possible is profound
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by spynxic 10y ago
This post seems to over-exaggerate a commonly known mathematical property. Suppose I have languages X, Y, and Z. My machine currently knows how to translate between X->Y and X->Z. The goal is to turn Y into Z without direct training.
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by spynxic 10y ago
There is a section named, "Compile your programs to formulas" Just curious, are the products of all programs formula? Worded differently, are the products of all functions formula?
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by spynxic 10y ago
Since satellites handle most worst-case distance scenarios with respect to fiber, it is reasonable to assume a connection spanning the world (including access to remote areas)
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by spynxic 10y ago
"Leibniz’s interest in this area can be traced back to his 1666 Dissertatio De Arte Combinatoria — an extended version of his doctoral dissertation in which he explores what was known as the 'art of combinations'." Does
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by spynxic 10y ago
Why does it cost nearly a million dollars to print new ballots and update the firmware in existing ballot machines? Specifically regarding the ballot machine update, if the installers are charging ridiculous prices when I'd bet others
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by spynxic 10y ago
That inevitably supposes that there are a group of individuals with the power to change the voting system. Does such a group exist?
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by spynxic 10y ago
Surely a left-field type of question but here goes. Given the current state of machine learning, could an AST be generated to accommodate a given language? And more importantly, can the form of an AST cause a difference in performance of th
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by spynxic 10y ago
That's genius! As it stands, if I were to vote for a 3rd party candidate then I'm essentially throwing away my vote. However, if what you suggest were in place then the risk of a meaningless vote is vastly decreased, essentially e
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by spynxic 10y ago
"If we'd had a more nuanced system that allowed voting negative in addition to positive..." We must prove that something which may be more complex than our current system is still just as fair (or more fair).
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by spynxic 10y ago
Imagining gravitational waves inevitably leads me to believe that gravity is a force that varies (in a cycle) over spacetime. But.. what exactly does it mean to propagate over a cycle in spacetime? (particularly the time aspect confuses me
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by spynxic 10y ago
"You don’t create “possible problems” of the future, you don’t pigeonhole the solution in to some tool you fancy learning and working with; that’s called over-engineering -- ..and keep it simple. That’s what being professional means.&q
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by spynxic 10y ago
"I wouldn't want to go home and do what I do at work, but I love programming things that I choose to program." This statement here is what has kept me a good distance away from developer positions. I love to come up with prog
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by spynxic 10y ago
There's the possibilities that the brain leverages a form of computing that is unlike our own. Similar to how algorithm classes differ between classical and quantum computing, there may be some esoteric form of doing 1+1 that we haven&
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by spynxic 10y ago
That's sheds light on an entire branch of functions for representing real numbers that I had no idea about. Thanks to someone for being creative!
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by spynxic 10y ago
How did you do that??? That's amazingly accurate!
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by spynxic 10y ago
Still seems like everyone is making attempts to understand genetics from a bottom-up approach. It doesn't make much sense to me to do so since there's no framework to talk about what's being produced by the DNA (i.e. protein
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by spynxic 10y ago
rms_returns is saying that our own intelligence and ability to comprehend things is a function of the complexity of our brains. So, low complexity results in under-performing intelligent ability. On the other hand, high complexity results i
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by spynxic 10y ago
Perhaps the policies in place for governing corporate influence over particular market sectors are fundamentally flawed. It would seem so since there must be an active body to oversee corporate control.
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Ask HN: To develop a browser-based node graph without using pre-built models
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by spynxic 10y ago
I don't think it's possible to make the assertion that one branch of math is more relevant than another, given that the set of students have diverse interests. From a computer science, more specifically programming, background I f

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