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This is called "rationalization", and to be honest, it looks worse than you may realize.

The inference-based methods in AI qre more likely to he of the "probabilistic graphical models" variety (there are already marriages of Bayesian and Deep Learning techniques), and …

That's not an example of genius by any stretch of imagination, sorry.

Borges used to deliberately make up medieval sources and reference non-existent works of literature. It's in his genre, see [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,…

Sensitivity and recall are two names for the same thing, Mr Stats 101 :) Also, please explain the problem with using ROC here. The probabilistic interpretation of ROC's AUC is the …

Ever heard of the halting problem?

"Less bad" and "equally bad" are incompatible statements, you're claiming both are true

Same with Armenian: I can read and understand 5th century texts simply as an educated native speaker. It probably has to do with how much the culture relies on its written texts (b…

What kind of company do you work for?

> 1. Steve Jobs was a couple of standard deviations better at this than almost anyone This is a statistical oxymoron.

It matters very much in computational / quant finance

I don't know, wouldn't be so sure without actual supporting data. Anecdotally I know many talented people who got "broken" at high school level (due to any number of issues, from p…

Sounds like Appeal to Authority to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority FWIW I am also someone who knows what he's talking about, as I am a seasoned profession…

This is silly in my view, and bordering on pseudoscience-level writing. It's not a random historical accident that we use these quantities. Variance / stdev appear all over probabi…

Thanks for the link. I've been looking through these subreddits too, there's some neat stuff there: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lightbulb/top/?sort=top&t=year https://www.reddit.com/r…

I am curious about this community's ideas about minimal single-purpose apps or services that can be implemented in theory, but haven't been done yet.

Armenia was an empire at some point, just not at the time of Ani. The title could be referring to Armenia in general, since it's most definitely an empire the world forgot about :)…

Yup, Bagratunis were among the longest reigning dynasties in the region (in all of Europe & Middle East, AFAIK). The last name still pops up even today, in various dialectal forms.…