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zyroth

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About zyroth

I'm an undergrad computer scientist, interested in machine learning, randomized algorithms, the web and datastructures.

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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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