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zyroth
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About zyroth
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Comment #105749
I personally think that C++ and Java are less readable then Lisp, Python, Ruby, ... I think you get used to every Syntax. The point is, Lisp et al are much more compact, which make…
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Comment #98608
That's why he was talking about the macpro and not the macbook pro.
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Comment #93286
Anything related to the concept of infinity tends to be hardly understandable in an "emotional" or "intuitive" way. We can just apply the rules of logic and accept.
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Comment #93284
and planned economy is superior, too.
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Comment #92981
Since pi is not random, we cannot say that every finite string is in it. (If it was, the probability P[s in binary representation] would be 1 for every finite s) Actually, there is…
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Comment #92979
> There are an uncountably many number of non-normal real numbers like this, even though the infinite amount of normal real numbers is bigger. How sure are you with that one? Mind …
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Comment #92977
Yes, I can: 01001000100001... Guess what? There are uncountable ones.
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Comment #92935
Actually it is not guaranteed that every string of bits will at some point be a substring of pi. Bad joke, since wrong.
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Comment #90301
Search for 'deep belief hinton' on google.
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Comment #82844
> Shift-F11 Hide all windows in slow motion Productivity Booster, right.
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Comment #81734
Machine Learning, especially Reinforcement Learning
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Comment #79699
fincancial fraud detection bottlenecks are typically between ram and the processor. Thousands of snychronously incoming transactions have to be examined simultanously, because they…
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Comment #79575
There are a lot of different fields in ML. I don't believe that you have an algorithm that beats all algorithms out there , even if those are specialized on a specific setting.
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Comment #79342
> And a bank trying to analyze if a credit card transaction is fraud or not doesn't care about the short delays either. Oh yes, they do. That I do know.
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Comment #79304
I don't believe you.
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Comment #79300
Uhm? The latency as a public api will render it useless for most applications.
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Comment #78666
Those things are useful. :)
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Comment #75777
If you want them to learn a specific concept that we know, they can learn it, yes.
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Comment #75746
Training examples.
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Comment #75647
No, I'm saying that a neural network can learn addition. See, a bayesian cannot really understand that there are relations between two numbers (like "is bigger than" or "is the fol…
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Comment #75478
Bayesian classification works a bit like this: You have a set of inputs and a set of targets. By having seen a history of elements of the powerset of inputs and its manually tagged…
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Comment #74591
So if I send you a pic, you will search your whole database to detect who is on that photo? How can I as a person keep you from putting me into your database?
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Comment #69595
Bauhaus crap? Uh, please at least recognize the influence on design. "Severe, cold, cheap, right-angled, colorless, inhuman, inhumane, and above all efficient." Yes, exact. Its own…
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Comment #60502
Paul Graham was written in lisp that itself was written in Paul Graham.
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