We tend to look down on rule-based learning systems because we don’t expect them to perform very well in general situations. Just because all the people I’ve met in the past with brown hair were mean, doesn’t mean all future one will be mean. A rule based system would naively conclude this, whereas a statistical [...]
Swap between different Django versions
The development environment i’m using right now requires that we use a slightly older version of django than the current svn checkout I had installed on my machine. I went searching around for what people do when they have multiple versions of django they need to run, and came across a simple script written by [...]
Disposable Science
I have to admit I’ve been extremely disappointed with the academic papers I’ve been reading while doing research for my thesis. These are computer science papers that are, for the most part, showing new machine learning, forensics, or natural language processing techniques. I’m amazed and appalled at the amount of research that has been done [...]
brainstorm today about the global network aspect of the Choza
(crossposted to the choza del mundo website)
as i mentioned a couple of days ago, through our roommate search at the mansion, we met a guy named Ulrich who has had a property in bocas del torro for the past 7 years.
he is very interested in what we’re doing with the choza and how we could [...]
questions
what makes you feel alive?
what is your definition of selling out?
how do you want to change the world?
