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Whenever this comes up, I think about the conjunction fallacy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy . The observation that human subjects seem to assign higher probab…

Atiyah says, Hirzebruch named and defined the function. Why not look for it in the work of Hirzebruch that Atiyah cites at the end?

I just went through the preprint and I do not understand your comment. What specifically ticked you off? The preprint is well written, arguments are clear and there's enough backgr…

They're probably the most fundamental kind of reinforcement learning algorithms. Understanding bandit algorithms is crucial to developing a good understanding of RL.

Here are some basic things, the predictability of which most people in the developed world enjoy. 1. Clean water 2. Roof over the head and the sense of safety that comes with it. 3…

It's not about being an atheist per se, but about believing. The others I'm sure strongly believed in something, which kept them going. Landau for example had physics to occupy him…

>7. I saw that the only group of people able to preserve a minimum of humanity in conditions of starvation and abuse were the religious believers, the sectarians (almost all of the…

Not a very good abstract. It doesn't tell me anything about Feynman's contribution to molecular biology.

Search for Wulfram Gerstner's courses and books. You'll find most elementary (and advanced) topics in there.

When making a decision as to whether something is small, large, or tiny one needs a scale. What's the scale here? For example, if the rest of the world combined has had 12 mass k-1…

Shouldn't the comparison be made against school shootings world wide? Or at least be normalized for overall crime rate or something?

Nobody eats a tablespoon of turmeric! We usually use 1/4 teaspoon for a 4 person meal. Source: I'm Indian.

Number of samples depends on the effect size. e.g. You only need n=1 to claim a dog can talk.

All of Reinforcement Learning :)

Well it depends on what you mean by quality. On Quora the discussion is meant for the general public, and terms like diophantine equations are defined in common language before del…

I find this discussion pointless as driverless cars that can drive on Indian roads are a long way from becoming a reality.

I find this discussion pointless as driverless cars that can drive on Indian roads are a long way from becoming a reality.

How do you know whether something is a hyperbole? When the author claims something is not a hyperbole.

It was a simulation from the data they already had. It's near impossible to do that with a real monkey colony.

Exactly! 2000 in 8 is fucking ridiculous! For some context, there have been only 8 Chinese and 7 Indian Nobel Laureates. That's two of the most populated countries in the world!

Wow! Thanks for this. Adhell is awesome.

Those who find connecting quantum mechanics and the brain repulsive should check out Quantum Cognition https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum Cognition. For some reason the mathem…

There's a new topology video out! As cool as the first one!

In applied machine learning not so much. They feel ancient! But some use them to study the physics of computation. They were used to make the connection between renormalization gro…

Haha I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic so I'll try to unpack the comment. Hopfield networks were one of the first models of associative memory. They themselves were based on a…