tinymollusk

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by tinymollusk 9y ago
ML can handle things at scale (not just speed, number of data points) that humans can't. Imagine a classification problem with 1000 dimensions -- humans can't keep in working memory that many entries. Granted, many of these are
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Would you consider "shortest-path-first" a valid strategy for a startup?
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It's possible that Soros is blind to those other issues because they always existed for him in some shape, during his life. Internet-based addiction, internet-based anything, computer-based anything, is something he was aware of it&#x
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[that page may 404 if you have a bunch of anti-spyware on your browser. It worked when I popped open an incog window.] How should I interpret that chart, considering things like wealth versus income? There's some sort of transition b
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I think automation has clearly been a net good over the past 200 years. I agree that it does have a cost, and perhaps the compound interest (environmentally) will come due very soon. But it's hard for me to see that it's neutral
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The problem, of course, is the misuse. Either by doctors who misprescribe (chronic pain relief is a common use case for opioids, and probably an exceptionally bad one), patients who misuse or abuse, and marketing companies like Purdue who
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
There are many different schools of thought within military academic on what it takes to prepare for battle. The current implementation is one that leadership currently thinks is best, although I bet we agree that the military suffers from
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
Why is someone paying lip service (which I interpret to mean they know their actions are wrong, they don't stop doing it, they just say some of the right things) better?
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
I disagree. Although I wasn't a military spouse or in the service, I worked on base for 7 years and saw a lot of things that made me think military service is essentially the ultimate cult. They: * break you down in boot camp to build
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Very focused on getting shit done, while trying to help you build appropriate mental models to what's going on. Towards the end of the course, some more theory. Multiple times, the prof said things like "the theory says this shou
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
I agree, especially given the length. Something about the tone seemed off as well -- here's the summary: Recruiters typically receive a percentage of your salary as commission, but they also optimizing for "time it takes to make
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
This is true, but it's more than that: the fastai professors (Jeremy + Rachel) have studied how people learn. How teachers can structure courses to maximize understanding. They believe (and have research backing them up), that the way
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
In October, I quit my job to live on savings and work on AI/ML. I am not interested in developing novel AI approaches; my objective is to learn the application of machine learning to solve narrow problems. In light of that, I believe
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
Especially considering how difficult it is, even for white collar professionals, to grasp a basic confusion matrix and adjust their probabilities for false positives. For DNA testing, for example, the testing labs don't publish, and th
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Yeah, this creates some sort of "moat of knowledge" that increases status if you make something easy look difficult. Also could make someone appear to be less replaceable ("we would have to think about something that looks h
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
Related, in today's Farnam Street email, he linked to an article examining the psychology behind why humans prefer complex things to the simple[0]. It's especially interesting because most other psychological biases appear to be t
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I just checked the course forum, and Jeremy asked us not to share on high traffic sites until theyve finished the new website. I think it'll be out within a week or so, so check the fast.ai site for updates. Should be soon!
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Part 1v2 was just released, it uses pytorch. Check it out, I was in the fall fellowship and can heartily recommend it.
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I tend to agree. I think it's because the field uses statistics, which most people have decided are incomprehensible and don't even try to understand. Combined with how bad our brains are at thinking statistically, and you have
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
I suspect, like many human things, it's an underlying biological drive interpreted by our lawyer-as-narrator, the consciousness. I'm thinking of the "elephant and the rider" metaphor -- the elephant has drives for sex a
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
Time spent re-installing Windows? At least with linux, you got some command line skills (back in the day).
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Think of them as symbols that represent how the sender would like the receiver to emotionally receive the message. It's also a youth culture Shibboleth, especially with the non-intuitive factual icons. Kids these days are just so, lik
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
I like to apply a test to myself, which I fail every time. Goes as follows: Can I literally write down a statement that would have changed my perspective on this statement/issue/perspective? Most things that I'm against, I c
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by tinymollusk 9y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but how does the research account for the benefits of caloric reduction? How do we know if it's the disciplined fasting, or if simple caloric reduction is part of the equation? That information would help me decid
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This looks very interesting, thanks! I agree about the usefulness of such a framework. Subjective experiences draw optimizations (self-improvement), so by observing, we naturally are changed. This does not assume improvement; for that, we
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I have similarly softened towards people's religious and spiritual beliefs as I've aged. Personally, I only get mad when someone tries to claim their belief is objectively true, or tries to proscriptively generalize it for others.
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So, if I understand you correctly, being able to generate context-aware comparisons from similar knowledge is understanding? (I promise I'm not trying to trap you -- I think this is interesting and would like to explore more.) What do
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Hmm, I wonder if these processes are features designed to combat perceived fraud. (Or, in the case of some administrators, because they don't believe the benefits should be paid?)
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How do you think we could adapt that concept to subjective experiences? As I've gotten older (and learned to manage my mental state better), I've found great benefit from separating "scientifically true" and "usefu
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Do humans understand things, or does our inner voice merely tell us we do? Without more concrete answers to some very vague/often infuriating questions, it's a very bold and unsupported position to suggest that computers cannot u

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