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by tr352 6y ago
Doing so would bankrupt pretty much the entire general aviation industry. Also, training new pilots would become impossible.
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by tr352 6y ago
This is interesting :-) Is there any reasonably accessible literature on this topic, in particular the latter idea of not being able to estimate an agent’s utility function?
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by tr352 6y ago
You're speaking of functional completeness of boolean operators which I think is quite unrelated to theories of computation. For computation you need some notion of state, and while a circuit made of logic gates may possess some notion
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by tr352 6y ago
I live in Germany at the moment and I do see this in many places. On the other hand there are also still shops where showing my card gets me a puzzling look as if I'm some kind of time traveller visiting from the future armed with my m
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by tr352 6y ago
Seconded. It's definitely worth spending some extra money on a reputable brand, rather than a generic low quality product with a meaningless name stamped on the box. For screwdrivers I stick with PB Swiss.
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by tr352 6y ago
Perhaps basing our decisions on general purpose function approximators (whether forced or voluntarily) has not served us so well, ultimately. I think they play an important role in causing, or at least enabling, much of the trouble that we
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by tr352 6y ago
And so is climate change, solving world hunger, and countless of other things. That’s a non-argument.
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by tr352 6y ago
Code runs and possibly lets you run something (for example in case of an OS or interpreter). I don't see a problem there.
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by tr352 6y ago
I'm nitpicking but my point is that a DAG doesn't let you run anything. It might represent something, though, such as a bunch of tasks and a "must be executed before" relation. It's sloppy, imprecise use of language
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by tr352 6y ago
Agreed. First sentence: "A Directed Acyclic Graph will let you run pipeline steps out of order." That's simply false.
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by tr352 6y ago
There are more examples. Between the 60ies and early 90ies, Philips in the Netherlands sold their own line of proprietary computer systems such as the P800 series (PDP/11-like) and P4000 series (a Cobol programmed office computer). The
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by tr352 6y ago
Perhaps what you’re thinking of is inductive logic programming, although I’m not sure that field has advanced to the point where your particular example can be solved.
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by tr352 7y ago
Thanks for that interesting write up! This makes me want to toy around with Tau and Scryer Prolog.
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by tr352 7y ago
> You could say Bayesian statistics is a subset of Fuzzy logic. I don't think that's accurate. Concepts like conditional probability and independence have no analogue in fuzzy logic.
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by tr352 7y ago
Fuzzy logic deals with this in the exact same way as classical logic. Note that in classical logic, the truth value of "A and B" and "A or B" is also a function of the truth values of A and of B. When using fuzzy logic y
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by tr352 7y ago
Apart from the other answers, there is also one important technical difference. Fuzzy logic is truth functional but probability is not. That is, in fuzzy logic, if you know the fuzzy truth value of A and of B, you can calculate the fuzzy tr
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by tr352 7y ago
Add your first name or just your initials. That would pretty much solve that problem.
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by tr352 7y ago
Related to this: I wonder if the days of founders naming their companies after their own (family) names are ever coming back. There’s something wholesome about it and it inspires confidence. Who is more trustworthy: someone attaching their
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by tr352 7y ago
CyrixInstead ™ represent!
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by tr352 7y ago
I heard the same almost 10 years ago. Is it still true?
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by tr352 7y ago
I agree with you. The point was not that this proves we reached human level intelligence. However we should keep in mind that the goalposts have been moved numerous times already. Once a problem that was initially considered an AI problem w
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by tr352 7y ago
We already did by ‘96 when Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov. I’m sure there are other such examples even before that.
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by tr352 7y ago
> Wind is strongest at night This depends on where you are. In many places wind is actually strongest during daytime.
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by tr352 7y ago
The history of Philips' computer divisions through the years is interesting and rather obscure. After building mainframes in the 60ies (P1000) they went on to develop minis such as the P800 and P4000 in the 70ies/80ies. As far as
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by tr352 7y ago
Thanks I’ll check that out. My own understanding is that pretty much any probabilistic graphical model can be constructed as a probabilistic program, combined with pretty much any mode of inference. How such programs compare to specialized
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by tr352 7y ago
> For me, it helps organize a lot of well-known algorithms as special cases of a general framework—which is worthwhile in itself. Which well known algorithms do you have in mind here?
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by tr352 7y ago
As someone currently being stuck in a kind of scientific writer's block, this was a nice read.
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by tr352 7y ago
Surprisingly these can still be bought easily on Ebay, Aliexpress etc. Many seem to be Soviet "new old stock" models (or perhaps actual new items?). This might be explained by the fact that they've been used quite a lot in So
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by tr352 7y ago
I wonder what kind of hardware and software (CPU and OS) we’re talking about here.
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by tr352 7y ago
So a recursive tree search is not really recursive?

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