tjradcliffe

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I've been unclear. The chunks were randomized within the manuscript, but the words within the chunks were left in order. I randomized the chunk-ordering so I got dropped into a different part of the story every few hundred words. This
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While proofreading my novel (shameless plug: http://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Theorem-TJ-Radcliffe-ebook/dp/... ) I wrote a bit of Python to do the following: 1) break the original text file up into about 200 chunks o
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It's worth remembering this the next time you hear some hysteria about Iran's "nuclear program" which they have been supposedly working on for the past 30 years without actually producing a bomb. Basic nuclear weapons ar
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Agreed. All the talk about language constructs and better abstractions ignores the reality that reasoning about time is one of the hardest things that humans can do. It is one of our most fragile abilities, and we routinely fail to do it co
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The diffusion of ideas is difficult to track and rarely do ideas have unique sources. So Asimov may have been influenced by Richardson as well as others, or come to similar conclusions on his own. John von Neuman believed that automated com
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One aspect of the Bayesian/Frequentist "controversy" (which amongst working scientists isn't very controversial) is the supposedly subjective nature of probability under the Bayesian system. I think this is mostly a conc
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Most of these are at least as likely to provide the illusion of understanding as they are to produce understanding. 1) Taking ideas to extremes... which extremes? And are the effects monotonic? We live in a world of many dimensions. I have
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Company/employee relations are well-modeled by marriage between a mortal human and an immortal sociopath. The Ancient Greeks had a fairly extensive literature on such relationships, which tended not to end well for the human, even when
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While I don't disagree, I'm deeply interested in knowing how often you read things from the other side of the screen...
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According to that critique it isn't his math that's wrong, but his whole understanding of machine learning. He has apparently written a book on statistics and has a degree in math somewhere along the line, but I've seen peopl
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It's interesting to note how much of what passes for discussion on the 'Net goes away when you blip past articles and comments that are nothing but fundamental attribution error. Believing you have insight into another person&#x27
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I'm more than a little skeptical of this. While it is all correct in principle--a webcam CCD target can certainly detect alphas, and electrostatic fields can sweep charged particles into a detector--the details are problematic, and the
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I wonder about that "overconfident" label, and it might be possible to tease various effects out of the data. Consider two possibilities: 1) CEOs with large incentive pay are irrationally confident in the success of risky policies
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Bezos and Musk are also founders. The basic problem with CEOs is that they pose a huge agency issue: they are supposed to be appointed as agents of the owners who are themselves represented by the Board of Directors. However, no one has eve