No, it's not wasted; that's my point. Why don't you think Disney's investors demand a $7bn annual saving by cutting the "waste" on advertising? The spend on fundraising does go towards the mission, because it increases…
The criticism that too much goes to fundraisers is meaningless without an explanation of how much would be optimal. If spending an additional $1m on fundraising meant an additional $1.1m in donations, then that's $100k…
I had a major epiphany deriving this myself as a teenager, because it was the first time I used algebra to calculate something "real". The equation was trivial, but the principle of mathematical modelling struck me like…
Meat is a $2 trillion industry globally but you're primarily worried about the corrupting influence of activists' donations?
Good for you, but NAC has a host of effects so you couldn't say it was due to glutamate for sure. For example, NAC mainly increases glutathione, the primary antioxidant your body uses, so it may reduce the level of…
I'm not sure that those really are the extremes. I think quite a lot of people believe that justice may or may not ever happen depending on how we choose to act as a civilization. Even further than that, many people…
No, 63.3% of all participants got a favourable outcome, so 13% cheated (suggesting 26% would cheat if necessary, as half got a favourable outcome without cheating). The participants all had varying degrees of belief in…
The Bristol Four acquittal was not an act of jury nullification. Under the Criminal Damage Act 1971, no offense is committed if there is a "lawful excuse" for the damage. The defence argued that there was a lawful…
I see why you would say that: these neural networks probably have thousands or millions of weights while the equations of motion can probably be written on an index card. But I would argue that this parsimony is…
I would say it's essentially equivalent, especially if you choose a neural network architecture with a very low-dimensional layer in the middle with only a handful of variables. Then the first half of the network…
It is just a model though! Everything in science is just a model. We better hope it's just a model, because it's incompatible with quantum field theory, which is another very accurate model. The only consistent model…
I don't see any fundamental difference. A deep neural network is a universal function approximator. It uses different language from what we're used to (weights and activations instead of analytic functions and calculus)…
But he's saying it is bad to do it that way instead of doing traditional physics because you get no understanding, which is true, but in this study they're not using it as a "physics engine" to pilot aircraft or…
Who cares if there's no gravity? Gravity wasn't sent down to us from heaven on a stone tablet, it's just a concept that lets us make predictions. At school I was taught it was a force and at university I was taught it…
It's really easy to test whether or not it works - see how well the model predicts on out-of-training sample data. That wouldn't work with astrology. There's no such thing as "physical properties of the system" other…
It's true that there are many mathematically equivalent ways to describe physical systems. But the important point is that some are more useful than others. For example, Lagrangian mechanics and Hamiltonian mechanics…
I'm not sure why you don't think it's Physics. It's about formulating laws that describe the behaviour of physical systems - that's the essence of what Physics is. I have a PhD in high energy theory and this really…
I don't see why that's relevant, a video camera is just another instrument that records data, not essentially different from the detectors at the LHC, albeit completely un-optimized - which is necessary for this…
You seem quite mistaken about what "caveat emptor" means ("buyer beware"). The person you're replying to means we should be cautious about using risky unregulated light boxes, which you would seem to agree with.
I think this misses an important factor in that the sensation from walking on lego is unpredictable because the corners stick in random parts of your feet, which means you can't brace yourself or get used to the…
That's not exactly right; in British English and other dialects that don't say "legos", we don't have a plural of "lego" because we treat it grammatically as a "mass noun" just like "furniture", "spaghetti" and…
No, it's not wasted; that's my point. Why don't you think Disney's investors demand a $7bn annual saving by cutting the "waste" on advertising? The spend on fundraising does go towards the mission, because it increases…
The criticism that too much goes to fundraisers is meaningless without an explanation of how much would be optimal. If spending an additional $1m on fundraising meant an additional $1.1m in donations, then that's $100k…
I had a major epiphany deriving this myself as a teenager, because it was the first time I used algebra to calculate something "real". The equation was trivial, but the principle of mathematical modelling struck me like…
Meat is a $2 trillion industry globally but you're primarily worried about the corrupting influence of activists' donations?
Good for you, but NAC has a host of effects so you couldn't say it was due to glutamate for sure. For example, NAC mainly increases glutathione, the primary antioxidant your body uses, so it may reduce the level of…
I'm not sure that those really are the extremes. I think quite a lot of people believe that justice may or may not ever happen depending on how we choose to act as a civilization. Even further than that, many people…
No, 63.3% of all participants got a favourable outcome, so 13% cheated (suggesting 26% would cheat if necessary, as half got a favourable outcome without cheating). The participants all had varying degrees of belief in…
The Bristol Four acquittal was not an act of jury nullification. Under the Criminal Damage Act 1971, no offense is committed if there is a "lawful excuse" for the damage. The defence argued that there was a lawful…
I see why you would say that: these neural networks probably have thousands or millions of weights while the equations of motion can probably be written on an index card. But I would argue that this parsimony is…
I would say it's essentially equivalent, especially if you choose a neural network architecture with a very low-dimensional layer in the middle with only a handful of variables. Then the first half of the network…
It is just a model though! Everything in science is just a model. We better hope it's just a model, because it's incompatible with quantum field theory, which is another very accurate model. The only consistent model…
I don't see any fundamental difference. A deep neural network is a universal function approximator. It uses different language from what we're used to (weights and activations instead of analytic functions and calculus)…
But he's saying it is bad to do it that way instead of doing traditional physics because you get no understanding, which is true, but in this study they're not using it as a "physics engine" to pilot aircraft or…
Who cares if there's no gravity? Gravity wasn't sent down to us from heaven on a stone tablet, it's just a concept that lets us make predictions. At school I was taught it was a force and at university I was taught it…
It's really easy to test whether or not it works - see how well the model predicts on out-of-training sample data. That wouldn't work with astrology. There's no such thing as "physical properties of the system" other…
It's true that there are many mathematically equivalent ways to describe physical systems. But the important point is that some are more useful than others. For example, Lagrangian mechanics and Hamiltonian mechanics…
I'm not sure why you don't think it's Physics. It's about formulating laws that describe the behaviour of physical systems - that's the essence of what Physics is. I have a PhD in high energy theory and this really…
I don't see why that's relevant, a video camera is just another instrument that records data, not essentially different from the detectors at the LHC, albeit completely un-optimized - which is necessary for this…
You seem quite mistaken about what "caveat emptor" means ("buyer beware"). The person you're replying to means we should be cautious about using risky unregulated light boxes, which you would seem to agree with.
I think this misses an important factor in that the sensation from walking on lego is unpredictable because the corners stick in random parts of your feet, which means you can't brace yourself or get used to the…
That's not exactly right; in British English and other dialects that don't say "legos", we don't have a plural of "lego" because we treat it grammatically as a "mass noun" just like "furniture", "spaghetti" and…