danielmorozoff

If I am not mistaken this book was based off of his lectures at Caltech in the 80s , right around the time he was thinking about quantum computing.

Fantastic book, discussed everything from the basics physics of logic gates/computational theory to quantum computers. With problems to match.

In some ways it's an introductory text, but written in a open and accessible way.

This forms the basis of what's wrong with scientific funding imo. Saying that it's ok to be disappointed because they did not 'discover' is like equating science to a sport and winning a medal- that analogy is fundamentally wrong.

Performing scientific experiments is not about winning first place, it's about creating abstractions/ models in order to achieve deeper insight. As such failing to find that your model is wrong is not like loosing a race. Ex: a bunch of fantastic physics was discovered and described with Newtonian mechanics , though inherently that model is flawed, it took a while to realize it.

Title modded bc of char limit: "Is time spent playing video games associated with mental health, cognitive and social skills in young children?"

Here is the paper for those who do not have academic access: http://sci-hub.cc/10.1007/s00127-016-1179-6

arxiv link at the bottom: http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.08583

and the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-fWN0FmcIU

For those interested in the actual paper as opposed to the news writeup.

Nature: http://www.nature.com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/nm/journal/v2...

Scihub: http://sci-hub.cc/10.1038/nm.4133

Are these production systems? I'm a bit blown away that this can work with R.

http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Performance.html

More info on the attack vectors mentioned: http://thehackernews.com/2016/08/http2-protocol-security.htm...

As I described in my question- board games ai aka go this has been done for years. I'm interested in fps games

I haven't seen it, maybe just me. Which companies do you know of?

Totally agree, the game in its entirety is incredibly well made.

I would be interested in knowing how does constraining state complexity in AI get handled when designing games that must meet certain framerate and performance reqs- especially in FPS games? Are there instances where decisions are forced because of the need for an agent to undertake an action? And what heuristics are used? This is definitely part of chess/ board game playing AIs with time restrictions.

Has any work been done in trying to model AI as a deep learning problem, getting testers to play against one another and running feature extractors on their behaviors (a la deep mind) and training NN models on this data?

Here you go: https://github.com/JWarmenhoven/ISLR-python

R is a popular language for doing any form of stats/ learning theory work for research/ academia. Productionwise not as popular.

I think this was meant to be ironic.

This is a fantastic paper. Truly shows a deeper intuition can be gained if a rigorous mathematical description is made. Upon reading it, it seems so obvious how treating wires as point charges would give flaws, and the surprise that the radius is more important than the interwire distance, after seeing the results make sense. Remarkable work.

It's interesting to see where google sees this will go, given BMI tech is in its infancy. Has anyone else heard more about this?

Worth noting as in underscoring or paying attention to.

Not worth nothing...

With all respect I do not agree with your example for the lhc . For two reasons primarily: The first has already been mentioned about various groups and experiments / detectors. The second, I think is more important. In order to claim discoveries at any of those experiments certain statistical constraints must be met. The 5 sigma rule is by its very nature garnered by repetition and is a necessary because of the nature of quantum mechanics and particle physics. Here is a write up on cern and 5 sigma http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2012/07/does-5-sigma-d...

As to your first question I am not sure what you define as 'novel state', I am assuming you do not mean in the form of and LSD trip. But if you could clarify I could attempt to address your question.

An interesting example would be the treatment of migraines, and or focal epilepsy using TMS. Migraine treatment with TMS, is believed to set the brain in a controlled firing rhythm, whereas migraines are believed to be caused by uncoordinated neural firing similar to epilepsy but in a milder form.

Recently the FDA has approved such a treatment: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/uc...

Tms especially has been looked into heavily by researchers as well as the military over the last 20 years. The results have been remarkable both as treatment but also as a concentration/ skill and learning booster with effects being maintained long after treatment. I believe NPR did a segment on this recently as well.

It's ironic to think that given everything we think we know about how the brain functions , such a gross and simple procedure as wiring a battery to your head or inducing a magnetic field would have such strong and even beneficial effects.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=transcranial+magnetic+s...

link to the paper.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02533

Their method more maximizing the cross entropy yields very peculiar results if you look at the images as the hyper-parameter iterations go up. It seems as if what we are seeing is some convolution with some peculiar form of noise. I wonder what the structure across these adversarial images looks like and whether it could provide some insight into certain patterns in cov net learning?

And yet this came out as well: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/dark-matter-still-mia...

Truly fascinating why we can't seem to detect dark matter on earth.

Thanks for posting his paper

Thank you bringing all these up- whenever something is said to be a one size fits all solution in machine learning, for anything as a matter of fact, I would tend to be wary.

Great writeup from Stanford CS231 course: http://cs231n.github.io/convolutional-networks/

Published in PRL. preprint: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.4119v2.pdf

Totally agree with your comment. Literally my first thought when I read the slack reference

Absolutely not a joke... http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/money....

If you are interested/live in NYC there is a library with a ton of research materials on currencies/ history from all over the world at the American Numismatic Society's library: http://numismatics.org/Library/Library

To add to that there's a large interest from currency collectors.

Some interesting issues were money in Jewish ghettos / concentration camps during wwii