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by trashtoss 9y ago
Yes but also no. One of the most fascinating applications I've seen is here: http://versor.mat.ucsb.edu (and in subsequent work). There's already a decent tl;dr of the approach on that page, but the tl;dr of that tl;dr
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by trashtoss 9y ago
Is anyone looking into/using algebraic topology and sheaves to analyze or interpret these deep networks?
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by trashtoss 9y ago
Thanks for posting this. It's unlikely to get much discussion due to the lack of detail and the poor English (and it is hard to know the context here)...but it's interesting to see this nonetheless.
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by trashtoss 9y ago
> I should be more concise.
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by trashtoss 9y ago
Fiasco is also first contact gone wrong and is quite something...like almost an anti-star-trek episode. It may be an easier entrypoint than Solaris, at cost of arguably not being as "deep" in its reflections.
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by trashtoss 10y ago
It's a wonderful luxury to craft such a sufficiently vast work of nonsense that no one possessed of sufficient reason to craft an informed critique will ever feel it worthwhile to invest the time to do so...one can putter away indefini
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by trashtoss 10y ago
You have "interesting" and, to be polite, "idiosyncratic" ideas and framing to the point that the expected cost/benefit (for me) of having a real discussion doesn't seem favorable. Instead, I would offer you so
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by trashtoss 10y ago
Very late to see this but am curious how these approaches handle words with numerous meanings (like run, which arguably has dozens if not hundreds of idiomatic meanings in English). Distinct vectors for each meaning? One vector and the metr
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by trashtoss 10y ago
You'd think there'd be an appeal to being able to just say "Computer: syringe of young blood, body temperature." Perhaps it only works if you have to pay someone for it first.
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by trashtoss 10y ago
Nah, Trump and his crew are useful idiots when it comes to Russia; they think they are #1 teaming up with #3 to keep China stuck at #2, when the reality is they are getting tricked by the old "let's you and him fight, partner&quot
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by trashtoss 10y ago
Actually easy to find, for example here: https://members.loria.fr/RSchott/staceyredujanv08.pdf .
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by trashtoss 10y ago
Seconding the question because I want to see the encodings. Intuitively this makes sense: in the GA formalism a "single" term requires 2^n fields (where n is the spatial dimension), and "simple" operations like addition
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by trashtoss 10y ago
Done and noted moving forward. I don't envy you your job. I also don't like your odds here: the current site mechanics and moderation pace don't seem adequate to preserve the good parts of the site in the long run, but any si
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by trashtoss 10y ago
> "Because Politifact and Snopes are biased and opinion based, they are not credible to determine whether stories are 'fake'." Even here you could go more honest and humble--"I think that Politifact and Snopes ar
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by trashtoss 10y ago
First I will explain the joke in my previous comment, since it seems to have gone over your head. Read what you wrote literally, as if someone else wrote it: > I do not put myself out there as a disinterested arbiter of fact. > Facebo
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by trashtoss 10y ago
Given this: > I do not put myself out there as a disinterested arbiter of fact. ...all I can say to this: > Facebook isn't going to be appending my critical analysis to alleged fake news stores. ...is quelle surprise . Were you
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by trashtoss 10y ago
Yeah maybe, even the pope said fake news isn't real.
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by trashtoss 10y ago
> Your belief is that Politifact and Snopes push their opinionated worldview as though it is objectively true and morally righteous. Wouldn't want to be guilty of the same sin, right?
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by trashtoss 10y ago
Can you supply any concrete examples of fact checkers that have undergone such rigorous evaluation?
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by trashtoss 10y ago
> But suggesting that farmers need city dwellers for humans to continue to exist is like thinking that compiler writers need the people that use compilers. Compiler programmers could do their work just fine without everyone writing web a
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by trashtoss 10y ago
Farming could go on without fertilizer, heavy machinery, gasoline for said machinery, for sure...and yields would go down, indeed very much by "a bit". Definitely "a bit" for some definition of a "a bit". I mea
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by trashtoss 10y ago
133 billion is a recent usda figure. Do you have any source for "trillions"? For bystanders the figures I am referencing are here: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic... There'
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by trashtoss 10y ago
The point I tried--and failed!--to make is that in general the recipients of these subsidies have very simplistic and one-sided views of them (if they even see them as subsidies). I'll pick on this statement of yours: > But eventual
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by trashtoss 10y ago
It is subsidization, on too many fronts to name. If anything it has been too effective because it is quite invisible and taken for granted by the recipients, which then allows them to see their own life narratives as stories of succeeding i
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by trashtoss 10y ago
Respectfully, "those guys know how to do one thing well" is (IMHO) much more accurate phrasing than "those guys know what they're doing". Note that these are compatible statements.
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by trashtoss 10y ago
You misunderstand the point about limited "places" (or at least the point I believe is intended). For sake of argument, assume 90% of jobs out there are "bad jobs"--no prospect of real wage growth, declining stability, d
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by trashtoss 10y ago
It happens a lot. Hard problems are rarely just one hard problem, but until you solve the first hard sub-problem you won't even know what the other hard sub-problems are, let alone what proportion of difficulty each contributes. It&#x2
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by trashtoss 10y ago
This is more or less what will happen. In addition to (eventual) climate change China has been making itself increasingly unlivable due to conventional pollution (in all forms)...but the leadership there has always seen this as a temporary
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by trashtoss 10y ago
Back in the cold war days it was something of a banal truism that only an objective, external threat--e.g. alien invaders--could ever get us squabbling apes to set our differences aside and work together towards some common goal. It is very
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by trashtoss 10y ago
This is true, but being honest if not polite: in many ways, considering poor rural whites stupid is an act of charitable kindness, even if it doesn't seem as such (the connection to your point will become apparent by the end). To a c

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