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> The web we got today are an astounding feat of not caring about performance in the most aggressive way imaginable. > Performance is not a factor in this. If you care about SEO, i…

"Anxiety may be due to chronic activation of the fight or flight system. PTSD may occur when trauma triggers the freeze response which helps animals disconnect from pain before the…

There are much more recent studies showing similar results https://www.nature.com/news/2011/110831/full/477023a.html

The reason there are any royalties to distribute at all is that Spotify has managed to create a distribution service that ppl are willing to pay for. You can get free distribution …

Why do we need the assume a deterministic system? As long as it physical and we believe physics can be described with computation, we can simulate it. Some randomness doesn't matte…

The theory is the he did not actually return to the scene, right? He just said he did to create confusion.

Form what I read the UK has already stopped all export of this drug.

Previous thread on the Chinese study https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22601196

It never became a top priority for the Swedish state. But since he fled to the Ecuadorian embassy the investigation just dragged on. This was never a high priority case other than …

Think it is more about living in a society that takes care of it's citizens.

Well, Sweden is 7th on the list and over 20% of the ppl here have foreign background (individuals either born abroad or having both parents born abroad). Canada is 9th.

Can recommend Judea Pearl's recent book on the subject. The Book of Why

We know from the violations of Bells inequality that we either need to give up locality (fast then light influence) or realism (that facts are objective and independent from the ob…

Would recommend everyone interested in the topic of Free will to listen to this episode of BBCs In our time: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z5y9z

Yes the Incas overtook previous societies. But the Inca civilization is quite recent (15th century AD) so what was before was probably not that old either.

Very interesting also is that you can directly send the error to intermediate layers through sparse random projections without the need for any layerwise backpropagation. This rela…

Yes, but also in hebbian learning you must have some weakening of weights, otherwise the weights would just grow indefinitely? One example I guess is Oja's rule. The difference to …

How is your concern with the lack of symmetric backwards connections related to the last paragraph about the brain not forgetting? The backward pass is used to both strengthen and …

The don't do deep learning. Their papers are based on graphical models. Their RCN model can be said to be inspired by Numentas earlier HTM model that dileep developed there, but is…

To me this is a strangely written paper although the results might be some what interesting. They just optimize over a different set of functions than you normally do in NN trainin…