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by tmerr 11y ago
Isn't Watson a question answering system? I don't think it's specialized for image recognition.
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by tmerr 11y ago
It seems like you've got it backward. Kazakhstan is not making the internet more secure. They're requiring citizens to install something (their own root security certificate) that compromises the security of https. The result is t
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by tmerr 11y ago
It sounds reasonable that fiber could reduce the rate of aborption of sugar. But I lose you when you start talking about sugar highs. I thought that was dispelled as a myth after a number of placebo controlled studies.
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by tmerr 11y ago
Any feature you remove from the API will be replaced with a python mechanize script that does the same thing but less efficiently.
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by tmerr 11y ago
Regardless of what you call the universe, we already know 1. Everything we know about it comes from sensory input, and 2. That sensory input's production can be modeled mathematically. But it's hard for me to make sense of what au
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by tmerr 11y ago
Though you may have read the title as "game written in webgl" I'm pretty sure it's meant to be read as "game using webgl". My guess is you and frik read it using the former interpretation while others used the
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by tmerr 11y ago
I think users were pissed off because of the lack of transparency. No one knew what the admins were deleting. It was up to the community to find out which subreddits were banned and why. Further the admins never logically explained their de
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by tmerr 11y ago
Listening again in context you're 100% right! Disregard my previous comment.
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by tmerr 11y ago
Russel makes a mistake at 30:00 when he says computers are "totally unable to play checkers". Excerpt from J Schaeffer et al (2007). Checkers is Solved : >In this paper we announce that checkers has been weakly solved. From th
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by tmerr 11y ago
Not to mention there's a game of whack-a-mole going on where similar subreddits have been banned including fatpeoplehate2, 3, 4, 5, 8, and 9.
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by tmerr 11y ago
I have finite attention. Attention (time and effort) is probably more important to my learning than the quality of my teacher. Without attention you fail. With infinite attention you get a perfect grade. When you take a hard course it consu
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by tmerr 11y ago
The summary says the main question addressed is whether synesthesia is a brain disorder. But that's a more loaded question than what the paper actually looks at. The paper only asks whether it's a neurological condition. Without t
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by tmerr 12y ago
If you're going to be pedantic at least do it well. Going by the dictionary definition of drug: "a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body" both caffein
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by tmerr 12y ago
>We both got horrible grades in high school despite having the intelligence to do better I'm not sure that's true, other sites report he got a 4.0. http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/A-Ca/Carmack-J
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by tmerr 12y ago
I don't see why "weather forecasting" is similar to "brain simulation" in difficulty. The comparison would be more valid if the problem were "brain forecasting", that is to build an AI that would behave ex
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by tmerr 12y ago
If you knew how the atoms were arranged in an animal simulating the animal's behavior would be as simple as simulating each individual atom. In practice that's not tractable but it shows that in theory, since the behavior of atoms
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by tmerr 12y ago
In short this article looks at aspects of programming and says if you're bad at each aspect you're probably bad at the sum of them. I'm not sure what the purpose is... you can figure out more directly whether you're a ba
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by tmerr 12y ago
>>the whole language is verbose: compare these 10 lines ( https://github.com/andreaferretti/kmeans/blob/935b8966d4fe0d... ) with this single line ( https://github.com/andreaferretti/km
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by tmerr 12y ago
On the topic of how representations relate to programming... if you have ever tried to express some tricky math in code you might have had a sense that it would be more clear if it were written out on paper with the proper notation. That&#x
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by tmerr 12y ago
Designing a mapping from a new language to machine code is easier than retroactively trying to map two languages together that were never meant to be. Especially if those languages are complex and ill-defined.
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by tmerr 12y ago
brainfuck.
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by tmerr 12y ago
I thought that was what he meant. Is there any sharp distinction between "interpreting" and "evaluating" in python that I am unaware of? I've always used the words more or less interchangeably. But now that I think
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by tmerr 12y ago
Adding a point to a size can give you a corner of a shape. You can have functions for scaling to aspect ratios, normalizing, and stretching. I don't see why any would be specific to one type or the other. In math you don't usually
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by tmerr 12y ago
I believe gw's intended notion of a data structure extends beyond Lists and Hashmaps. For example consider the following two structs. struct Point { int X; int Y; ... } struct Size { int Width; int Height; ... } In either case
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by tmerr 12y ago
Most good ideas I have surface after a break from coding, be it a walk, weekend, or night of sleep. Those ideas start depleting as soon my hands hit the keyboard, and once they're gone I enter full code monkey mode. When I'm con
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by tmerr 12y ago
The article says it's based on "the first 500K tests completed" of http://vocabulary.ugent.be/wordtest/start Then the sample is probably taken from internet dwellers who are interested in seeing how good
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by tmerr 12y ago
Not all companies have as much power as Newegg to fight back. I'm guessing it does often make financial sense to just pay it, otherwise companies would have turned the tables already. I don't think it's a lack of long term th
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by tmerr 12y ago
Based on computing power alone you may be right, but human brains are idiosyncratic to say the least. While on one hand we are simple neural net algorithms, on the other we are dirty hacks woven together throughout evolution. Even given the
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by tmerr 13y ago
When you say there's more slavery now than there ever was I can't tell whether you're exaggerating or know something that I don't. As far as America goes, it seems like a stark difference between now and 150 years ago wh
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by tmerr 13y ago
If you want something closer to what you'd expect of CS from a college check out MIT OpenCourseware, it should have everything you need for undergrad CS

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