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Lisp Machines weren't that successful. I was their target user, and I ditched Symbolics to use Lucid on Suns at the first opportunity. The Lisp Machine software was appallingly baroque. Everything had every possible feature. There was no design, just implementation, and lots of it. The manuals took up a whole shelf, and it was generally faster to write something yourself than to find the predefined function that did…
This is a good example of hacker writing in 10 paragraphs the sort of thing that has often been diluted into a 250-page business book.
This is a good example of hacker writing in 10 paragraphs the sort of thing that has often been diluted into a 250-page business book.
The amazing thing is that there is a lot of repetition even at 10 paragraphs. Some of the other comments here sum it up in twitter-sized chunks. The missing piece is how to identify over-specialization, and it's missing because it can't be usefully generalized.
If you read the literature on selective breeding they have extensive methodologies for avoiding genetic problems. If you just want a quick overview, Temple Grandin's book "Animals in Translation" has a couple of really entertaining chapters on the subject.
This is a good example of hacker writing in 10 paragraphs the sort of thing that has often been diluted into a 250-page business book.
It's also a good example of someone taking 10 paragraphs to say "don't overfit"...which might be a bit terse for non-AI people, but the article still feels long-winded.
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It's also a good example of someone taking 10 paragraphs to say "don't overfit"...which might be a bit terse for non-AI people, but the article still feels long-winded.
Yeah. "Overfit" is more of a ML concept than AI concept though. Many ML people don't believe in AI at all.
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The amazing thing is that there is a lot of repetition even at 10 paragraphs. Some of the other comments here sum it up in twitter-sized chunks. The missing piece is how to identify over-specialization, and it's missing because it can't be usefully generalized.
"The missing piece is how to identify over-specialization, and it's missing because it can't be usefully generalized." If you read the literature on selective breeding they have extensive methodologies for avoiding genetic problems. If you just want a quick overview, Temple Grandin's book "Animals in Translation" has a couple of really entertaining chapters on the subject.
We've been using biological metaphors in this discussion, but I'm not sure we can extend them this far.
This is a good example of hacker writing in 10 paragraphs the sort of thing that has often been diluted into a 250-page business book.
The amazing thing is that there is a lot of repetition even at 10 paragraphs. Some of the other comments here sum it up in twitter-sized chunks. The missing piece is how to identify over-specialization, and it's missing because it can't be usefully generalized.
Funny, at Toastmasters last night our table topic was "what if you had a different mother?" and we got to pick moms from a random list. My random mom was Angelina Jolie, and I think I made a well-reasoned case that I would have fucked myself to death. My point is that parent's success probably outdoes your own success.