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by TTPrograms 11y ago
The blood was collected at home? As in the patients draw vials of their own blood?
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
The 1997 experiment is slightly different, as it involves electrons instead of just photons. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinger_limit : "Photon–photon scattering and other effects of nonlinear optics in va
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
"More fit" only makes sense with regards to the pressure. I.e. the bacteria may survive antibiotics, but that may come at the expense of general pathogenicity. The fact that the gene is not already widespread suggests that in the
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
Is there reason to think that bacteria with every gene for antibiotic resistance would be at all viable? It seems likely that these genes have other negative effects on fitness that make them unlikely to spread significantly in the absence
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
The lead crime hypothesis has some pretty compelling evidence, including a consistent time-lag for the effect that fits crime rates in a variety of countries and states as legislation went into effect: http://rationalwiki.org&#x2
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
My thinking is that if this line of reasoning is true it suggests that we may as well be using kernel methods or other feature generation systems with high dimensionality with better algebraic properties that be might be able to train quick
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
By that argument gradient descent should work for any classifier with a sufficiently high number of independent parameters.
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
The why is largely why does gradient descent converge to a good answer instead of getting stuck in a local minima.
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
I "read" tens of articles a day through various forms, but I wouldn't add up the words and equate it to reading books. Most of the articles I see are so padded with verbiage that they just get a quick skim - I like being expo
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
It seems like it's the sudden stop doing most of the damage.
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
Again, this is a tangential point about how upper socioeconomic classes can better prepare their children for college admissions. The obvious solution is to invest in the public education system, but that's not likely to happen anytime
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
Somebody buy this guy a ticket to Detroit or something, jeese.
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
You're making a tangential point about representation of various socioeconomic classes in admissions. This has more to do with intrinsic correlations in academic performance then biased admissions process. "A median 16 percent of
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
https://www.edvisors.com/plan-for-college/college-admissions... Including: Harvard MIT Stanford Princeton Columbia etc.
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
That's why those schools all require a copy of your parents' paystubs as part of their applications.
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
Actually need to blink closer to 10^8 Hz :)
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
I've seen lots of alternate approaches to constructing neural nets with varying operations and one of the common themes is that it doesn't really matter that much w.r.t. accuracy, so you may as well optimize for performance. This
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
Is current profit really the best metric to measure the success of an AI department? I doubt many people bought iPhones because of Siri. AI development's biggest impact on bottom line is still probably 5-15 years away.
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
Reminds me of making clad via explosion welding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u51tJdRDK0
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
Uh, the current growth rate is around 1% per year, and it's decreasing as countries enter the first world. That's a doubling every 70 years. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth We've got
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
Just wait until gamers start interacting with VR en-masse. The massive framerates required to make a transparent viewing experience (60-100 FPS) combined with the ultra-high limits on resolution perception at that FOV means that electronic
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
Uh, all mind-altering substances? Including the ones they use to treat schizophrenia? Seems pretty unlikely.
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
They may both be true - this study was limited to the 1500 largest firms from 1993 to 2012. I'd guess the majority of those CEOs weren't founders. If you wanted to do an interesting followup, repeat this authors analysis but compa
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
I'm more concerned that they're financial consequences rather than inventions...
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
Which Silicon Valley companies are pursuing the high risk R&D these days? I can only think of a few that are building high risk hardware (Theranos, some of the small photonics shops), and even many of those have proof-of-concepts alread
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
Uh, source? I can't imagine anyone was too preoccupied with dieting 4000 years ago.
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
You could use equity, which would be really interesting, because the market would revalue Twitter based on the probability of them reneging and diluting the existing shares.
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
That is so cool. I have to look into this...
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
You could argue that based on this argument one should never construct a new educational program.
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by TTPrograms 11y ago
If self-driving cars make Uber or similar even less expensive, then people could just as easily prefer to live in the city without a car because it would be easier to get one on demand. Then they can have increased "walkability",

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