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Comment #15106488
Daniel Dennett has been saying this for quite a while.
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Comment #15053096
I have deleted thousands of google group messages and never found any problem. Maybe it is just for you.
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Comment #14430182
How are you going to recreate the main selling point of facebook, i.e. the Newsfeed ? If things are encrypted, how are you going to determine relevance, etc.
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Comment #14372940
Your comment reminds me of the book "The End of Average". His main point is there is no such thing as the "average [blank]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eBmyttcfU4 [2] http…
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Comment #14293867
But we would never reap the benefits in the meantime . That was my main point. And this becomes crucial if the saving of deaths from accident is substantial as compared to deaths t…
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Comment #14287303
Genetic Algorithms are used in designing of antenna arrays.
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Comment #14287294
I have heard about Superdeterminism of Gerard t'Hooft. [1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34217/why-do-peo... [2] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/critical-opalesc…
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Comment #14287231
Consider the following case. Let's say we ban development of self-driving cars since the algos can't be explained. Then we will never know the benefit we might reap from adopting t…
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Comment #14265416
Amazon will surely buy you once your product matures. I can see that happening.
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Comment #14247318
I have used Nhibernate in my project at a company. But beyond simple queries we hit a performance issue. For a complex query, it took about 10 seconds to load the data to the front…
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Comment #14238427
I cannot agree with this more. Universe has been existing without intelligent observers for billions of years. It stands to reason that universe is constantly being shaped as parti…
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Comment #14238366
Anyone who thinks that QM is making stuff up, please watch this video. Here Rubidium atoms (mind you atoms and not electrons or photos) are made to interfere with each other. https…
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Comment #14226396
I had seen a similar research project by people from Microsoft. They had mapped fonts onto a higher dimensional data. Then you can generate new fonts on the fly by specifying a new…
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Comment #14194162
> “Why is the unconscious so loathe to speak to us? Why the images, metaphors, pictures? Why the dreams, for that matter.” [from the article] This is true for majority of us. But f…
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Comment #14193974
According to "theory of meaning", In “General Semantics,” David Lewis wrote I distinguish two topics: first, the description of possible languages or grammars as abstract semantic …
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Comment #13761506
Have you seen this talk? Talks exactly about what you mentioned. http://www.recode.net/2017/2/20/14666282/ben-thompson-strate...
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Comment #13573751
I will relate to my observation in Harry Potter books. Harry Potter universe has time machine which we know scientifically are impossible while in the same HP universe, Hermoine ha…
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Comment #12937649
> votes would expire Basically, ant-algorithm. To stay relevant, you have constantly gather new votes. But it has one problem. Comments with higher votes already have momentum, hen…
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Comment #12937638
Can some kind of summary/NLP analysis help to avoid this? Some kind of color coding of the comment threads. Like which comment threads are sticking to single topic. Which are chang…
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Comment #12937630
Can you comment on how comments could benefit from NLP related advances? E.g. detecting entities and using those as entry points into discussion, detecting similar topics discussed…
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Comment #12936865
Wait for the AI revolution to happen and Singurality to come true. Then AI would devise a fusion reactor for itself and humanity.
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Comment #12892828
Baby steps. We all were babies once.
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Comment #12892690
Next stop : Pun recognizer or pun generator.
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Comment #12879407
I found this panel video to be quite good discussion of DL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=furfdqtdAvc
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Comment #12803244
Of what use is market ownership when no one is going to buy you. Facebook is already working on its own style transfer algos.