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Also sounds a bit like Thompson's Lamp. EDIT: Whoops, that's pretty much the same thing as Zeno's paradox.

I don't want to ban anything; I was just explaining how the potential effects of Popper's intolerance paradox cannot easily be solved with legislation.

Because it's hard to unanimously and unequivocally identify those who are intolerant as such. Owing to the beguiling nature of language and rhetoric, the intolerant can thrive and …

As another user TheOtherHobbes noted, humans share this characteristic with insects to some extent: > Wild solo humans are only a little smarter than wolves individually, but being…

In this case, the guy has been spearheading a very high performance, innovative methodology for real-time object detection. Companies interested in that task should be falling over…

Can't recommend the Mandelbrot book highly enough - he was a student of Paul Levy, and he wrote extensively about why Gaussian is not a good choice to model financial time series.

It's a good article in a lot of ways, and provides some warnings that many neural net evangelists should take to heart, but I agree it has some problems. It's a bit unclear whether…

I think Bart's blood revitalised Mr Burns once.

Have you seen hypernom.com for visualizing 4 dimensions?

"Classical" CV and deep-learning CV needn't be opposing one another. There are several cases in which the classical approach is emulated by deep networks - implementing the same ca…

I think these images are called "Lissajous Figures".

This site has an excellent series of in-depth interviews with Mandelbrot; profiling his early life, his capacity to think mathematically "in pictures", and goal to link seemingly d…

Naive question maybe: why do news articles not cite sources and have a references section at the end, like academic articles?

> You would think so. But my dad is a varsity Professor with a PhD, my mom has a Masters in English. They believe literally every cock and bull story they see on Facebook. I would …

Mandelbrot cites his ability to "think in pictures" as fundamental to his process and insights. He offers some interesting reflections and anecdotes on this subject in this intervi…

Me too. My reading of the Blue and Brown books led me to believe Wittgenstein's conception of meaning is inextricably tied up with the notion of "learning" and exposure to language…

I'm not sure that quite addresses the problem here. After all there is no clear definition of 'what dogs look like' (in the sense of a collection of logical rules), but deep learni…

I believe this problem is common to many types of machine learning classifiers (not even just neural nets). See the discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8721650

I'm not convinced that a person who's never seen animals before could tell the difference between all future dogs and cats from a single training example. Humans draw upon a lifeti…