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by 336f5 11y ago
> You didn't really address the examples which mschuster91 provided and that's important to understanding the problem: On the contrary, I addressed it entirely. mschuster91 seems to be under the impression that the teacher eva
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by 336f5 11y ago
>> Why they do this, I have no idea. > I'm not saying there aren't any valid reasons for doing it. > I'm just saying the there's a "meta-lesson" there that has to be corrected. And I'm saying t
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by 336f5 11y ago
> The fallacy with using tests of the kids as a marker for the quality of the teachers is that you just can't do that and get reliable results. Which is not what is being proposed by people arguing for teacher evaluations drawing on
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by 336f5 11y ago
Test motivation differs from person to person, so if you don't encourage everyone to at least try every question and guess, you'll get differences in scores which don't reflect the child's difference in knowledge (which
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by 336f5 11y ago
Looks like one'd describe him as an insurance adjuster: > Kafka was rapidly promoted and his duties included processing and investigating compensation claims, writing reports, and handling appeals from businessmen who thought their
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by 336f5 11y ago
> This was a favorite zinger that my evolutionary biology teach liked to spring on unsuspecting students that tried to argue that they could demonstrate that low iq among AAs was due to genetic differences. And what happens when AAs migr
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by 336f5 11y ago
You can download your genotype SNP data as a backup. I don't know about the health reports (are they so voluminous that you cannot open up each in a tab and then save them all as a batch of HTML files?) but there's a partial repla
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by 336f5 11y ago
> The desire to believe in equality is weird sometimes. It's not that weird. If you look back in the HN archives, you can find one or two submissions from transsexual authors who argue, essentially, that after changing genders, they
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by 336f5 11y ago
> The point remains the article specifically cites a situation where the adoption process fails No, it doesn't. The article vaguely alludes to a third-hand description of the failure of a legal tactic which taken literally is nonsen
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by 336f5 11y ago
"adopting each other" is meaningless and the citation is vague. Some googling of The Advocate's website suggests this is probably a reference to Baker and McConnell, where the regular adoption did succeed: http://w
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by 336f5 11y ago
> This is completely fine if you're tooling around in a research lab or industrial lab, but even a 1% loss is probably too much for a human brain to bear and remain the same as before. You probably lose at least that many neurons ov
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by 336f5 11y ago
It also sounds like a motivating example for machine-checked proofs: if one could feed Mochizuki's proof into Coq or something and be assured that it was correct, even if only in a purely formal sense, I suspect there would be much mor
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by 336f5 11y ago
That doesn't matter if they're doing paired comparisons, as they are. 2 comparisons of a few hundred images yields far more reliable results than a few hundred comparisons of 2 images, because there are measurements both within an
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by 336f5 11y ago
That the Russians have been doing it for years and it's been so slow to catch on suggests the opposite , for the same reason that the increasing spread of autonomous cars is not a sign of the decay & fall of the West but its conti
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by 336f5 11y ago
> That's right, that terribly communist government suppressing its people and free speech, is actually responsible for lifting 500 million people out of poverty over the last 30 years. Indeed, China's success has been a great t
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by 336f5 11y ago
https://www.academia.edu/15399080/Hearing_Voices_in_differen...
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by 336f5 11y ago
This doesn't explain the history of `find`. Saying 'a specification made us do it' is not an explanation, it is passing the buck.
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by 336f5 11y ago
"Doesn't strike me as a huge sample" Based on what criteria, exactly? 606 comparisons is more than enough to rule out large differences, especially considering that the testers were heavily primed to look for even the tiniest
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by 336f5 11y ago
Then use reproducible builds. You inspect the source code, and if it does what it's supposed to, compile it reproducibly, and compare the binary with the official one which has a signature. If they match, then everything is kosher.
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by 336f5 11y ago
"I discovered that at least one person in Europe in the 1730s not only knew about Buddhism but had studied Buddhist philosophy for years. His name was Ippolito Desideri, and he had been a Jesuit missionary in Tibet. In 1728, just befor
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by 336f5 11y ago
> ALCOR does claim that the patient care trust will be enough to cover revival So you understand exactly how it's supposed to work and what I was talking about, and you were playing dumb by claiming to misinterpret my comment. Thank
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by 336f5 11y ago
> Which ALCOR etc don't attempt to cover. Maybe you should reread my comment.
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by 336f5 11y ago
> Is it likely to happen? It's hard to estimate, but nonprofits in the West have OK long-term track records and the cryonics double-organization model has worked well since it was created in the aftermath of Chatsworth (which demons
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by 336f5 11y ago
> that your estate will be able to afford the procedure -- before the company you've entrusted your brain to either makes a mistake or collapses You've misunderstood the business structure of modern cryonics. A cryonics org lik
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by 336f5 11y ago
Sure sounds like it: "Or they could heed the advice of Henry George, an American follower of Ricardo who in the 1880s made the case for a land-value tax. It has many theoretical virtues. Most taxes dampen, distort or displace economic
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by 336f5 11y ago
http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.00387 Very deep NNs, which try to bypass the training difficulties in propagating error all the way from the bottom to the top by adding some special shortcuts between nodes in distant layers.
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by 336f5 11y ago
> Do you know how they manage to solve arbitrary-length paths using a finite-depth neural network? Do they use an iterative approach? This is not overall an RNN; they only use an RNN layer in the initial layer to parse the questions &amp
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by 336f5 11y ago
The /r/machinelearning discussion ( https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/3iayyz/neu... ) makes an interesting point about the 18 tasks thing: > That was my first instinct too. Goi