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by tfgg 10y ago
> constituent comments for the bills In my experience, sites that do this sort of thing usually fail. They're ghost towns, and no-one cares what an unrepresentative sample of internet people think about bills. I'm not based in
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by tfgg 10y ago
Blockchain and IoT are so 'B' ark.
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by tfgg 10y ago
AFAIK the health stuff at DeepMind is just one part, the research division is the main bit. Not like IBM Watson consultancy-pretending-to-be-AI-research. > I'm just not sure what else separates them from any other "AI" (re
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by tfgg 10y ago
The Casimir effect, contrary to popular understanding, doesn't require reference to vacuum zero point energy, it's a relativistic quantum effect: http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD
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by tfgg 10y ago
No. Quantum field theories and their vacuum state has nothing to do with pilot wave theory (PWT). PWT is oddly popular amongst internet people, but is just a mathematical transformation of the Schrodinger equation, with some associated inte
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by tfgg 10y ago
Dark matter is pretty well defined within a particular model, not magic. You can take lambda-CDM, a very simple model, run a simulation, and compare it to observations. I can't really comment on why MOND is magic. That seems a bit unfa
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by tfgg 10y ago
Things that make me just close tabs straight away: 1) Autoplaying videos, especially ads. 2) Pop-ups / overlays. 3) Loading lots of extra elements causing text to jump around. Especially true if I'm just browsing around and click
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by tfgg 10y ago
At https://democracyclub.org.uk/ , for the UK, we ran live election results for our open data feeds on our YourNextMP project. That was basically just someone sitting in front of the TV putting in results as they came in :)
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by tfgg 10y ago
If 18F means a single healthcare.gov disaster is averted, doesn't it basically pay for itself?
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by tfgg 10y ago
It sounds like Tegmark is pointing out a pretty obvious and deliberately designed property of LSTMs... the entire point of them is to avoid exponentially decaying / exploding gradients and allow propagation of information over longer t
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by tfgg 10y ago
> - Discuss each bill in the discussion section > - Join the discussion boards to discuss the latest events and news > - Vote on bills (similar to Countable) Based on my experience of other similar sites in other countries, these f
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by tfgg 10y ago
> ... unchecked lawmakers who at any time can run wild and criminalize UK citizens ... Assuming you're referring to the EU Parliament, the EU has little say in UK criminal law -- as opposed to various cooperation agreements and bits
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by tfgg 10y ago
> consciousness and insight Being unmeasurable and undefined, and therefore irrelevant to measures of intelligence, "consciousness" is typically not considered part of AGI [1]. Not sure what you mean by "insight". [1]
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by tfgg 10y ago
A doctor I spoke to about CBT said he thought CBT was effective for the relatively intelligent, introspective people they might have had in early trials. Rolling it out further beyond that group had lower success rates. The additional the a
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by tfgg 10y ago
As someone who was in condensed matter physics, I think this is one of the most important articles for understanding the modern mindset in physics, and even fields like machine learning. Seeing how something can be based on the rules of som
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by tfgg 10y ago
It certainly always elicits a lot of "Hurdur this is my company", feels a bit too perfectly written for that reaction to not be satire.
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by tfgg 10y ago
Weird coincidence, but I remember someone at Cambridge (Christian Steinruecken, http://www.siski.de/~chris/ ) did his undergraduate dissertation on a Quantum ML. Sadly all the links I can find to it are dead now :(
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by tfgg 10y ago
Have you considered using a TrueSkill-alike with extensions for scores/teams, such as PoissonOD? http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/193839/sbsl_ecml2012.pdf A few years ago I had a similar idea for trying to
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by tfgg 10y ago
How does this square with MACHO (non-)observations? [1] > A MACHO may be detected when it passes in front of or nearly in front of a star and the MACHO's gravity bends the light, causing the star to appear brighter in an example of
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by tfgg 10y ago
It's the number represented by that file's full binary value (all the bytes concatenated together).
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by tfgg 11y ago
Right, and as far as we know, quantum mechanics evolves the wave function in a time-reversible fashion.
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by tfgg 11y ago
Also one of the intelligences encountered in Diaspora by Greg Egan. Actually, they just meet a localised handling agent that explains that they work for a star-spanning sentience - which is something the characters had been considering as a
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by tfgg 11y ago
Lovecraft does data science? (the variance on the graphs intuitively felt a bit low, but then again it is facebook)
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by tfgg 11y ago
I feel comparisons to the Apollo and Manhatten projects, often brought up in this context, are misleading because they ignore the massive pure research bases they were building on. Of course they did do more pure research, but a lot of the
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by tfgg 11y ago
Sorry, I think this works: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesSciences/Sta...
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by tfgg 11y ago
Good points. I'm coming from a computational physics research background and applied for a few data science positions at startups, a large social network and a private ML research group, so not that many overall, beware of the small sa
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by tfgg 11y ago
If you have time, I'd also read something like David Mackay's information theory textbook [1] for more of a Bayesian perspective. Interviewers did seem to appreciate having multiple perspectives and interpretations of basic result
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by tfgg 11y ago
Based on recent (successful) job interviewing, I'd recommend people looking for a job in data science/ML to do a statistical learning course such as the Hastie and Tibshirani Stanford one [1] as a higher priority over ML/deep
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by tfgg 11y ago
You don't know his baseline personality/attitude. It might be he's good at the relaxing and being creative aspect, and so needs to personally remind himself to work hard. Other people might naturally work very hard, but need
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by tfgg 11y ago
Huh? Orthodontics are free in the UK up til 19, and it's very normal to have braces. Maybe amongst an older generation who'd have to go out their way to pay for straightening.

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