Andrew Prock

Machine Learning, Search, Poker and Math Education

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@jan_murray Sometimes his leg hurts.

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@mynameishamme @AGHamilton29 No one expected Trump to win.

The point is that these events defied expectations. Most people are quite bad with conceptualizing probabilistic events.

Pratt could still skate into the general election. But no one expects that, and if he does no one expects him to win.

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@mynameishamme @AGHamilton29 No one expected Pratt to win the election - including Pratt. Likewise, no one expected Raman to beat Pratt, including Raman.

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@AlexGodofsky @tonyannett If "taxation is theft" is on one side of the coin, then "driving on roads is theft" is the other.

In a civil society, there has to be some kind of organizing system installed.

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@GreeneMan6 @EyeOnStalk A PhD is not a job, it's a degree.

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@lthlnkso It's not a reliable fact checker, but it does provide a good first pass. Likewise with editing. But by it's very nature it's normalizes and sanitizes everything into it's own voice.

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@ToddTruitt76508 @greg_ashman I think the disconnect is the out of context remark by Woo used to back a silly policy. Unfortunately, the pressure to eliminate basic skills is only increasing in our new AI era.

We do these things "not because they are easy, but because they are hard".

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@tracewoodgrains The irony is that chess is bigger than ever.

Having an engine tell you whether or not you are right or wrong is much more validating than having a GM guess what the best strategy might be.

Chess engines have not replaced chess players, but they have sidelined chess books.

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@GregKamradt No one understands consciousness. Building your science around faith/belief is a sure way to catastrophe.

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@mattyglesias That's not a working system. But as others have hinted at you need the cross-tabs to identify where things are broken.

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@ToddTruitt76508 @greg_ashman Touching on the fellow who suggested Sudoku, I don't think Eddie Woo is avoiding standard content. The first video on YouTube I landed on has him discussing the nuance of what it means to simplify a polynomial fraction.

https://t.co/Es2PE83Abi

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@ToddTruitt76508 @greg_ashman Sudoku is a great way to teach fluency and understanding of a complex system. It gets down to why teach math at all?

1. It's very useful
2. You need to learn other complex systems - taxes, permitting, HR, Sudoku, etc.

And yes, learn math at the pencil and paper level first.

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@mathillustrated What on earth is "academic apartheid"?

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@ToddTruitt76508 @greg_ashman I'm missing something here. Doing a sudoku in a math class is fine. What is the objection?

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@alltomdoden @eterevsky @valigo I'm not sure you're a hire if you think that's an offer worthy solution.

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@Aristarquesamos @SwipeWright @jonatanpallesen Bold assertion. Hollow, but bold.

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@Aristarquesamos @SwipeWright @jonatanpallesen I appreciate the proof by assertion. But IQ has no concrete basis. If you understand the mathematical definition, you know that people with wildly different levels of intelligence can have the "same" IQ.

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@valigo The bottleneck is never code generation, it's coordination.

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@Jonathan_Blow The basic challenge is the nexus of two things: FOMO and an inability to plan/prioritize. The TODO list of any organization is much larger than its ability to execute. And without any capacity to accurately estimate value they fool themselves into over hiring.

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@StefanFSchubert Reviewing the literature, it appears that the major conclusion has been elided.

good predictor: SAT
better predictor: GPA
best predictor: GPA+SAT

Which makes sense.