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by steinsgate 11y ago
I think the main issue here is the problem of bias in the scientific community. Anonymity is just one proposed solution. There could be others. We should remember that there are three major forms of incentive in the scientific community : 1
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Yes, influence is a closely related concept. However, I think of influence more as an effect of "human value" rather than being the value itself. An example : Mark Zuckerberg did not have significant influence before he started Fa
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Given two technically and aesthetically identical products A and B, if A manages to get significantly more funding, better management and outreach, it will probably sell more. We would say that the market thinks that A is more valuable. But
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What an amazing article! A few specific parts caught my attention: "Human beings are good at turning whatever they’re dealing with at the moment into the Most Important Thing of All time. When dealing with a relatively minor client pro
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by steinsgate 11y ago
While training datasets are really important in the development of weak AI, there is a fundamental problem with it. The problem is: humans do not learn using training dataset, but rather via interaction between a teacher and student, in a l
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by steinsgate 11y ago
I am aware of DeepMind. It is surely a step in the right direction. However, while model independent reinforcement learning is one part of the puzzle, the other (and equally important) part is transfer of knowledge between agents (most huma
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by steinsgate 11y ago
I don't think machines will ever achieve human like intelligence in the current paradigm. A very basic property of the human intelligence is that there's just one program (learning algorithm, if you please) that is capable of lear
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by steinsgate 11y ago
I have also struggled with the same problem in the past: I couldn't stop obsessing about my work. I worked like a maniac. I expected the team to do the same, and drove them to the edge. We burned out after a while. At that point, I rea
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by steinsgate 11y ago
The first thing programmers (or any group of people) need in order to improve their lives is a reason to improve their lives. The blog says "go analog" or "improve your health" or "learn a new programming language&q
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I did some Prolog programming too for fun, and boy! it requires a complete paradigm shift in thinking! For those unfamiliar with Prolog, Prolog is very different from procedural programing languages. In procedural languages like C and Pytho
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This single hacker says his motives were political, and that he is not happy about Turkey's ongoing involvement with the ISIS. Did he expect the visitors to websites in the .tr domain to infer this crucial piece of information on their
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Most of these books were already available for free (but not legal) download at Library Genesis http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
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by steinsgate 11y ago
I love that the Python community is coming up with so many robust frameworks. I have used Scrapy, and it provides most boilerplate functionality out of the box. Gone are the days I would use wget for my scraping tasks. This being said, it&#