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by zazen 8y ago
>I was serious that I can separate the person, so that's an existence proof. Those of us who are mere mortals can't reliably predict ourselves to achieve perfection on complex, subjective tasks like this. You find your own self
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by zazen 8y ago
I've tried to suggest that there are difficulties with separating the person from a personal biographical essay in a way that there aren't in separating the author from an abstract art work. I don't suppose you feel like enga
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by zazen 8y ago
I would agree if discussion of Wolfram's narcissism were being dragged into a discussion of Mathematica that didn't otherwise feature Wolfram personally; but that's not the case here. The link is to a text written by Wolfram
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by zazen 8y ago
>nobody is even asking you to do it It may not have been your conscious intent, but your previous comment was in fact in the imperative: >Don't implicitly approve Wolfram's narcissism. Just don't.
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by zazen 8y ago
Well, "my" theory is also pretty wrong if it doesn't allow for the human civilisation that built Stonehenge. A theory that is wrong will sometimes predict correct things by accident. That's unavoidable, but we a) have s
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by zazen 8y ago
We're going to need to think carefully about what is covered by "this sort of thing". If your ancient aliens theory didn't actually predict "Stonehenge", but predicted that the aliens would have left "all
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by zazen 8y ago
If I had confidence that you'd formed that theory without prior knowledge of the existence of Stonehenge, then the fact that you'd predicted Stonehenge would indeed be making your theory look pretty good!
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by zazen 8y ago
Well, yeah. Axioms are not deduced, they are the starting points for the various theories that are deduced from them. (There is not much you can deduce ex nihilo.) Did you have some further point? If you were hoping that mathematics would
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by zazen 8y ago
He doesn't necessarily have to. But when he defines "natural zero" as "the empty set", and someone asks "what's the empty set?", and you say "natural zero", you're being circular.
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by zazen 8y ago
GP understands the notation; he means to cast aspersions about the axiomatic project.
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by zazen 8y ago
That is a definition of "natural 0", not a definition of "empty set". GP was pointing out that GGP was using the concept of "empty set" to provide a definition for the natural numbers, without having first pro
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by zazen 8y ago
The first person who made a convnet had an intuition. That is to say, an informal heuristic that gave him reasonable grounds to suppose it might work. This is not "theory". You do not understand what "theory" means in a
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by zazen 8y ago
That video is an introduction to the concept of CNNs for beginners. It explains in informal terms the structure and mechanics of a CNN, and probably gets around to discussing why it might work in very broad terms. This is extremely far fro
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by zazen 8y ago
There is plenty of room to be dissatisfied with the current state of deep learning theory without making absolute claims that there is "no theory" whatsoever, which GP clearly isn't. If you wish to challenge GP's comment
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by zazen 8y ago
Yes, that Oliver Sacks. Yes, he did die. Strange of the New Yorker to publish this 3.5 years posthumously with no explanation.
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by zazen 8y ago
You talked about having "a member" and getting to every other member with scalar multiplication only. But even given a 2-member basis for R2, how are you planning on using 2 members, with scalar multiplication only? I'm afra
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by zazen 8y ago
>If you have (2,3,4) and want to navigate to (5,6,7) who is also in your space and you have scalar mult as your tool of choice then mult with 2 gets you to (4,6,8) but then you are stuck. Soon you realize no matter what you do you can’t
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by zazen 8y ago
> It's enough to know that multiplying integers by non-integer scalars can give non-integers Not quite: you also need to know that multiplying by integer scalars instead isn't an option. The question as posed asked as to use th
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by zazen 8y ago
Thanks for linking that, it's a great read. I really should read more of Gowers' posts. The phrase "memory works far better when you learn networks of facts" was a happy find - I've never been able to express that
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by zazen 8y ago
> Agree fully with Barton and OA here. Until recently I taught GCSE Maths re-take students aged 16 and over in a further education college. They were constantly tripping over really quite basic little skill issues and that prevented them
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by zazen 8y ago
But if you don't know about fields, you could use the integers instead of the reals for your scalars, and imagine you've made a perfectly good closed vector space that way.
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by zazen 8y ago
This has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect Although I think it bears saying that journalists really might be doing a better job of reporting on the politics that is their own main interest
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by zazen 8y ago
Are these road-legal in the west? If the off-road farm and construction-site applications are the only use-cases, that would seem to rather limit the impact on the market.
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by zazen 8y ago
Brunelleschi was working at the height of the Renaissance, in the early 1400s. They weren't short of book learning in renaissance Florence, but that's why it's called the renaissance. I imagine medieval cathedral building,
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by zazen 8y ago
Here are the two papers linked towards the end of the slightly rambling article: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05502 https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.00393
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by zazen 8y ago
There's better coverage of the lawsuit here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-29/3m-dupont...
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by zazen 8y ago
@evenequator is not using the statistic he quotes correctly. From the article: >A recent UBS China survey of 200 manufacturing companies with significant export business or supply to exporters revealed the trade war has had a negative i
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by zazen 8y ago
The point is, the parts of traditional medicine that work are adopted by modern medicine. Meaning, although they're still part of traditional medicine, they're no longer distinctive of traditional medicine. Traditional medicine
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by zazen 8y ago
I sympathise with @chrisseaton's frustration. When you make a comment highlighting something that looks superficially similar but is actually irrelevant, that's going to tend to derail the conversation. If your comment was unwor
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by zazen 8y ago
I'm afraid you've misunderstood olavk's point. 'The "quote" you made up' certainly refers to > "here's this cool feature for doing something you could do a different way that looks like hiero

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