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Re:Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling
on Sunday August 23, 2026 @05:39PM (#49412896)
As someone who has earned over 3 million points on Khan Academy over a 3-4 year span about ten years ago, I am very appreciative of my experience. What I appreciated most is when Sal would derive formulas such as the quotient rule in Calculus from the power rule by using negative exponents. Deriving formulas rather than memorizing them opened up a new perspective for me.
This article appears to focus on the chat bot which I have not used and was not part of my experience. At the time, I had a subscription to Wolfram Alpha that was helpful if I got stuck on an intermediary step.
The high level of goal of the post which is directed at asking good questions raises a point that seems valid to me.
Re:OCaml as the Universal Translator – DkSDK Merry Christmas 2023
on Monday December 25, 2023 @04:57PM (#38766518)
Maybe atdgen would help with rewriting the interfaces
Re:Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
on Monday April 10, 2023 @06:44AM (#35510904)
I see where you included metrics as a starting point like how long an article takes to read. Maybe like a word count approach as a starting point.
Thinking about understanding the content of an article and seeing who's most likely to be referencing that content in their post is more of what I had in mind.
Re:Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
on Monday April 10, 2023 @06:07AM (#35510723)
Using page rank as suggested by OP, would provide weird incentives like frequent comments, or higher volume, could rank a person higher than if they had occasional comments further down the thread. If OP is interested in the most influential commenters, people who write frequently and have a posse, then PR would be a good way to do it. What would happen to a helpful comment from a throwaway account?
If there's more of a ranking algorithm, identifying who is most likely to have actually read the article could be neat.
Re:BERTopic: The Future of Topic Modeling
on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @12:19PM (#31342081)
What happens on a slightly different task where domain experts have tried to create a set of topics, not all domain experts talk to each other, and so we instead need a way to merge existing topics? I continue to see benchmarks where human expertise significantly outperforms AI on common sense reasoning tasks (most recently https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11446).
What about an approach using directed acyclic graphs and entities?
Re:Winning Wordle
on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @07:32AM (#30526613)
https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/issues/118
Norvig's Sudoku solver inspired me to make my own Wordle solver last month
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Re:Can Neural Networks Crack Sudoku?
on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @05:49AM (#14543760)
Peter Norvig cracked Sudoku using a clever algorithm: http://norvig.com/sudoku.html
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Re:The Most Expensive Weapon Ever Built
on Saturday March 25, 2017 @12:05PM (#13956241)
It's a good point. Terrorizing an urban population with $200 drones doesn't seem like an unrealistic scenario. How would a tool like the F-35 be used to combat this situation? I think it would be fairly useless.
Here's a link to an article about a cheap drone being shot with a Patriot missile: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39277940
Re:Steve Cohen Said to Eye Computers to Model Top Traders' Thinking
on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @09:07AM (#13875785)
This makes me think of Liars Poker. There may not be anything special about what the traders are doing. They could just be in the right place at the right time.
Re:Causality in machine learning
on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:40PM (#13547620)
Correlation is not causality. I'm so glad someone put this article together
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Re:Google misdirects ISIS recruits – security or censorship?
on Monday October 03, 2016 @07:40AM (#12626618)
Security. The alternative might be to let them make those choices then arrest them later. Or hit them with a drone strike. The filtering approach seems more compassionate.