MarkMMullin

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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
Except for some of us who come from the time you had to get permission to get an ID on the Arpanet. In that case, the WHO is not saying mathematically nice things about us. :-(
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
Ehh, nature, she always drags some series into the mix - the mortality rate is a function of distribution across age and other health factors - it doesn't seem to drive the immune system bonkers, so WHO is calling out higher risks to o
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
Given my first terminal was an ASR-33, this is of interest to me - yes I have insurance, and yes I have friends who got staggering bills because the anesthesiologist wasn't in-network (not to bash on anesthesiologists, I have counted s
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
Common LISP could certainly generate assembler for Arduino and other MCUs, but there's no way you're fitting that fat old beast (whom I do still love) on one . :-)
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
If this was reddit, I'd award gold for that comment. Only thing I can add is that one should only value paid experience, i.e. the person working a day job doing a banking app and a personal job of adding high quality code to a complex
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
The 'problem' with modern science is that a large finite amount of stuff has been discovered, and new discoveries are most often built on that stuff. I splash around in the backwaters of machine learning, however I have to pick m
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
Don't get me wrong, I like your cites - but at the end of the day, math is math. Either it works or it doesn't. If it works, apply it where you can! I've got a sneaking suspicion a PCA based analyzer for lidar generated po
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
Depends where you live - 20 years of salt nets you a frame that will break if you sneeze
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
Heh - had to go look up storage protect, aka 'red light errors' . Kept getting in trouble in the beginning of my career when I didn't realize snooping about lit up lights on the front panel . :-)
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
This has pretty broad applicability across a wide range of algorithms. The common failure mode when the machine fails to recognize the otherwise normal real face and body indicates that the whole face/skeleton relationship has fallen
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
Not as a single tool, but if I'm using numerical libraries I need to be accurate, and not have another unpleasant experience with numerical methods. That said, I can usually get by with the prebuilt libs
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
Much of the last 2 decades of my career has been as much principal work as I can get, and everything I know says you smacked this ball out of the park. First, if the title is real, then the term Principal carries serious weight, and hews as
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
Got 9/10 but it was a challenge - between the way real Trump mangles English and fake Trump strains to flagrantly fail the Turing test (h/t @JanelleCShane) it was a struggle - nice job, train it more, and hook it up to it's
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
I just hate n-grams is the short answer - tear apart the input with link, use arc and modifier info as input to the statistical processes - so far, too early to say it works better, but sure as hell its more interesting . :-) . Sadly I h
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
Gotcha - yah, I can containerize, it's not like I'm screwing with drivers or whatnot on the AMI - I'll keep an eye on you, not ready for GPU yet, as I can't even rationally define the vectors I'm extracting from th
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
OK, did a quick scan on free and paid tiers and wondering about ability to bring in specialized python libraries- in my case, https://github.com/opencog/link-grammar which almost always requires hand building and migra
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
Their head probably would have exploded when they saw what the C# compiler did with tail recursive functions . :-D
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
Ran this on the Ithaca Intersystems Z-8000 based rig in the early/mid '80s - it was remarkably command compatible with V7 for the basics, even built a MicroAngelo based 3D graphics system on it.....the biggest problem the box had
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
All the experience I had was theorem proving for crypto apps - that said, I think there is only the appearance of reversibility at the symbolic level, underneath its the same old mess - I vaguely recall that at full tilt, the room with all
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
Grrrr. This could have been interesting if Umberto Ecco was arguing semiosis, instead of this poor exercise in semantics. As a concrete example, consider "The AI therapy app is not a mind. It cannot emote. It cannot feel the warmth
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
ZOMG - a brain neuron from decades ago woke up - worked on some weird stuff in reversible computing in the '80s (think of assignment always preserving functional state at assignment) - my boss used to talk about his gates, usually ref
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
I dunno - having done my own share of labelling, a company to make that horror go away is certainly of value - that said, converting people to cogs in AI systems is worrisome
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
As an NLP developer, I did like the aside on hyphen purgatory - I think that can serve as the basis for a strategy on the news ingestor in development. The vocabulary is currently riddled with hyphenated words :-(
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
Oh Oracle - first your sales people came every year and jacked up the licenses, and we fled. Then you came up with plans to monetize Java, and we fled. And then this. Just die already, OK - your old business model is dead and your attempts
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
Exactly why I became a programmer - biology is a lot of messy, unpredictable processes we have way too little data on. My favorite MD's are the ones who smile at the phrase 'There's a reason we call it "practicing"
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
As an advertisement for a design company, this is top flight - these are people I could consider using. Every time I fiddle with the page I laugh.
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by MarkMMullin 7y ago
Having seems the guts of a lot of different insurance technology stacks, it's possible to see how the nature of the commercial business biases the behavior of the systems. In the simplest cases, health care providers have systems that
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
Hmmm - having worked in such a space given what she disclosed am of a very mixed mind - not blameless to be sure, but the subject matter and implications should weigh for something
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Reality Winner gets sentenced(cnn.com)
1 points by MarkMMullin 8y ago|1 comments
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by MarkMMullin 8y ago
I wish kbemacs had not managed to so successfully disappear - it was my fave - I'd resurrect it if I could

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