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In a past life, I was a computational cognitive psychologist.
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Comment #30319231
Hi, I work on the instruct models. Are you able to share details about the particular task you're doing and the prompts you've tried? (email: @openai.com )
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Comment #25952669
In general, the code philosophy behind ggplot2 and related tools (the so-called "tidyverse" in R) embraces functional programming, in particular doing computation by pure compositi…
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Comment #25691365
I think the abstract does effectively say that: "these patterns are most consistent with the supply‐based hypothesis of unbacked digital money inflating cryptocurrency prices." And…
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Comment #25688336
Here's an econ paper that studies that question: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342185292_Is_Bitcoi...
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Comment #19428090
Interesting. GP seems to say that it worked wonders for them, so I'm still interested in trying it.
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Comment #19427575
I've got some nerve issues and would be interested in trying this -- how did you get a hold of the cream?
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Comment #17052699
I think you will like this paper then: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09576
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Comment #16845473
Are they tasty?
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Comment #15727383
Thanks -- this series is excellent!
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Comment #14721965
So I do AI research on something pretty related to the guessing game -- I'll shoot you an email.
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Comment #14721447
There's a conference on grammar induction called ICGI; might wanna browse through the proceedings to see if there's anything closer.
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Comment #14714439
In computer science academia, this kind of game is called grammar induction (of which inferring regular expressions is a special case). A classic algorithm for inferring regular ex…
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Comment #14686464
I tried getting into Treme but couldn't hack it. Maybe I'll give it another try, though -- what was the appeal of it for you?
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Comment #14075704
It's not an entirely fair comparison -- the Locol burgers are a bit bigger than McDonalds (maybe something like 3 McDonalds = 2 Locol)
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Comment #14075698
I've eaten at the Oakland location. It's actually pretty tasty.
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Comment #13709866
Have you spoken to your neighbor about this?
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Comment #13556632
A non-exhaustive list: 1. Pedagogically, the lispy syntax was a big stumbling block for beginners. Probabilistic programming is hard enough as it is; prefix notation and parens onl…
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Comment #13553097
Both. (source: I've worked on both languages and versions of the book). But give webppl a shot -- it's a good language!
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Comment #13551857
Indeed. And there is now a webppl version of the probmods textbook: http://probmods.org/v2
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Comment #13342675
I did an internship at Microsoft Research and my desk was down the hall from his office. He would walk down the hall to his office, saying his hellos to everyone with a deep, since…
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Comment #13188312
If you're already using a version of Node that supports debugging, is this any different or better?
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Comment #12974817
Which is understandable. Certain image categories aren't rotation invariant. Turn the letter M upside down and you get W.
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Comment #12409830
That the entire organized affair -- the chaos of Waluigi notwithstanding -- takes a back seat to the foundation of rooted plants in the foreground suggests that the apparent social…
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Comment #12058412
Stunning pictures!