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by stenecdote 1y ago
Was this written by an LLM? I'm not highly confident, but there are some telltale signs. For example, the negative preceding multiple positive contrasting examples pattern is quite common in LLM-written text, and it appears multiple ti
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by stenecdote 6y ago
I don't think this is true having read some of the later chapters and not knowing measure theory. And if you don't trust me, Gelman doesn't know measure theory either ( https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/20
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Current Thoughts on Stoicism(an1lam.github.io)
1 points by stenecdote 7y ago|0 comments
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by stenecdote 8y ago
Knuth has said that the story as told above is apocryphal. I quote from here ( http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856 ): > Donald: The story you heard is typical of legends that are based on only a sm
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by stenecdote 9y ago
I like Andrew Ng's short article ( https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140320175655-176238488-lear... ) about this topic. Recommends taking short videos of elements of your speech and then watching them, tweaking, and
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by stenecdote 9y ago
Yeah, this was me posting first, which ironically garnered much less interest than someone else's post (number 2 I believe).
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by stenecdote 9y ago
I learned yesterday that Ken Thompson used to host readings of Unix source code at Berkeley where they would go through the code line-by-line ( https://www.salon.com/2000/05/16/chapter_2_part_one/ ): >A
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by stenecdote 9y ago
Upvoted for careful scholarship and a useful addendum (I'm OP)! I sometimes wonder whether a lot of Knuth's greatness comes from doing more of the stuff everyone knows they should do but don't. If you read this interview ( ht
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by stenecdote 9y ago
To push back on this point a little bit, I think we agree that a map is one of the most useful things you can have but disagree on what the right type of map is. While I'm not anti-abstraction, I think people often impose poorly chosen
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by stenecdote 9y ago
Hi kazinator, thanks for your comment (I'm the post's author). When I originally wrote the post, I actually had a whole section about "reading for questions", which discussed how the best way to read without modifying a
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by stenecdote 9y ago
I wish one of these pull requesters would comment on this post! I'd love to hear how they're going about reading your code and whether they're actually using Redis or just reading it for enjoyment.
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by stenecdote 9y ago
As the author of the post, just wanted to reply and say I'm totally open to the notion that the solutions I proposed will not solve the problem. I'm much more sure about the problem than I am about the solution. A google maps zoom
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Nobody's just reading your code(akkartik.name)
7 points by stenecdote 9y ago|3 comments
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by stenecdote 9y ago
What about Beyond Good and Evil made such a big impact on you? I read it and enjoyed it a lot as well but struggle to put it into words how it has impacted me.
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by stenecdote 9y ago
It only now occurs to me that the line of thinking I follow here is sub-consciously inspired by section 3 of this Marvin Minsky talk ( https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/TuringLecture/Turin... ). If you&#
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by stenecdote 9y ago
> By the way, human already learn from experience by bootstraping their own understanding, teachers and experts exist to fast track the beginning phase so a kid doesn't have to play ten thousand games just to reach beginner skill le
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by stenecdote 9y ago
I agree that AlphaZero's per-game learning efficiency is much shorter than a human's (as mentioned in my other reply). The part that interested me more was the fact that it bootstrapped its learning from the basic rules of each ga
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by stenecdote 9y ago
Thanks for being the first to reply. I was worried I'd just get upvotes and no replies! I think you have two separate points, one with which I agree and one with which I disagree. First, I agree (and other commentators about AlphaZero
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Ask HN: Can we adapt AlphaZero's self-play technique for better human learning?
57 points by stenecdote 9y ago|33 comments
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by stenecdote 9y ago
> These are mostly solved problems (minus omniscience or scale) with just handfuls of books that represent most parts of the solution. Could you list some of those books? Would love to add them to my reading queue.
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Processing Millions of Listing Images Asynchronously(medium.com)
12 points by stenecdote 9y ago|0 comments
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by stenecdote 10y ago
I've actually been actually working at this for the past few weeks. First, the caveat that I haven't implemented a good tracking system beyond casually jotting down Xs next to my task list to count the # of strict Pomodoros I allo
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by stenecdote 10y ago
Off-topic: @hacker_9 just saw one of your recent comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13267106 ) and you seem to be thinking along similar lines to me and akkartik ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user
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by stenecdote 10y ago
About the same for me as well. The only thing I'd add is that if the book has exercises and some of them are algorithmic in nature, I often require days of background thinking time.
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Compass raises $75M at $1B+ valuation for real estate listings(techcrunch.com)
7 points by stenecdote 10y ago|0 comments