mlechha

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by mlechha 8y ago
Whenever this comes up, I think about the conjunction fallacy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy . The observation that human subjects seem to assign higher probability to joint events than a single eve
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by mlechha 8y ago
Atiyah says, Hirzebruch named and defined the function. Why not look for it in the work of Hirzebruch that Atiyah cites at the end?
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by mlechha 8y ago
I just went through the preprint and I do not understand your comment. What specifically ticked you off? The preprint is well written, arguments are clear and there's enough background for an expert to work things out. As Atiyah says i
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by mlechha 8y ago
They're probably the most fundamental kind of reinforcement learning algorithms. Understanding bandit algorithms is crucial to developing a good understanding of RL.
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by mlechha 8y ago
Here are some basic things, the predictability of which most people in the developed world enjoy. 1. Clean water 2. Roof over the head and the sense of safety that comes with it. 3. Basic food. A sense of community and friendship is proba
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by mlechha 8y ago
It's not about being an atheist per se, but about believing. The others I'm sure strongly believed in something, which kept them going. Landau for example had physics to occupy him and keep him sane.
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by mlechha 8y ago
>7. I saw that the only group of people able to preserve a minimum of humanity in conditions of starvation and abuse were the religious believers, the sectarians (almost all of them), and most priests. This, to me is the point of religio
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by mlechha 8y ago
Not a very good abstract. It doesn't tell me anything about Feynman's contribution to molecular biology.
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by mlechha 8y ago
Search for Wulfram Gerstner's courses and books. You'll find most elementary (and advanced) topics in there.
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by mlechha 9y ago
When making a decision as to whether something is small, large, or tiny one needs a scale. What's the scale here? For example, if the rest of the world combined has had 12 mass k-12 shootings, then American accounts for 40% of the tota
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by mlechha 9y ago
Shouldn't the comparison be made against school shootings world wide? Or at least be normalized for overall crime rate or something?
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by mlechha 9y ago
Nobody eats a tablespoon of turmeric! We usually use 1/4 teaspoon for a 4 person meal. Source: I'm Indian.
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by mlechha 9y ago
Number of samples depends on the effect size. e.g. You only need n=1 to claim a dog can talk.
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by mlechha 9y ago
All of Reinforcement Learning :)
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by mlechha 9y ago
Well it depends on what you mean by quality. On Quora the discussion is meant for the general public, and terms like diophantine equations are defined in common language before delving into their mathematical details. While mathoverflow is
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by mlechha 9y ago
I find this discussion pointless as driverless cars that can drive on Indian roads are a long way from becoming a reality.
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by mlechha 9y ago
How do you know whether something is a hyperbole? When the author claims something is not a hyperbole.
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by mlechha 9y ago
It was a simulation from the data they already had. It's near impossible to do that with a real monkey colony.
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by mlechha 9y ago
Exactly! 2000 in 8 is fucking ridiculous! For some context, there have been only 8 Chinese and 7 Indian Nobel Laureates. That's two of the most populated countries in the world!
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by mlechha 10y ago
Wow! Thanks for this. Adhell is awesome.
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by mlechha 10y ago
Those who find connecting quantum mechanics and the brain repulsive should check out Quantum Cognition https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum Cognition. For some reason the mathematics of QM is extremely good at expla
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by mlechha 10y ago
There's a new topology video out! As cool as the first one!
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by mlechha 10y ago
In applied machine learning not so much. They feel ancient! But some use them to study the physics of computation. They were used to make the connection between renormalization group (RG) and machine learning. RG is one of the main workhors
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by mlechha 10y ago
Haha I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic so I'll try to unpack the comment. Hopfield networks were one of the first models of associative memory. They themselves were based on a model of simple magnets called ising model (
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by mlechha 10y ago
They weren't. They were a generalization of the Hopfield networks. Boltzmann machines are a stochastic version of the Hopfield network. The training algorithm simply tries to minimize the KL divergence between the network activity and
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by mlechha 10y ago
It's been a great era for condensed matter physics though. And the recent revolutions in nonequilibrium thermodynamics (fluctuation theorems and generalizations of the second law) promise an exciting time ahead!
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by mlechha 10y ago
Exactly!!! To me this is the obvious consequence. Another thing is Fermat's principle, if time doesn't exist then what is light minimizing as it moves through space?
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by mlechha 10y ago
Interesting. I'm curious as to why you make that connection? What reminded you of predator prey systems?
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by mlechha 10y ago
That's another option and there are people who do that https://blog.inf.ed.ac.uk/insectrobotics/ .
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by mlechha 10y ago
To be honest, the wiring diagram is a bit of a distraction from the really big questions. It has its uses for sure, and is really essential in many situations but overall it gives this illusion that we understand something important about t

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