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Post by Jim_Wynne
Quote (GaryGaulin @ May 30 2014,19:48) Quote (didymos @ May 30 2014,17:47)You know what the NAS did with it, Gary?  It went into the crank file:
I sent it a few times, in regards to stereotyping crap that is getting them in trouble with the general public (who pays their bills).

If they took it as a crank then the damage they are doing to themselves is certainly not my fault.
Please describe specifically the "stereotyping crap that is getting [the NAS] in trouble with the general public."  Provide examples.

Post by Zachriel
Friday Meltdown

Post by Woodbine
Quote But they did not write back to tell me to stop.
Damn, there's an entire lifetime of delusion encapsulated in that one sentence.

Post by NoName
Quote (GaryGaulin @ May 30 2014,20:48)   Quote (didymos @ May 30 2014,17:47)You know what the NAS did with it, Gary?  It went into the crank file:
I sent it a few times, in regards to stereotyping crap that is getting them in trouble with the general public (who pays their bills).

...
Well of course you did.
After all, as the "theory" of 'intelligence' states, if you're not getting the desired or intended results, you should continue repeating the behavior unchanged until you do get the desired or intended results.
Oh, wait.  That's not at all what the "theory" of 'intelligence' asserts.
How is it you remain blind to all the many ways your own behavior falsifies your "theory" Gary?  Is it that you are not 'intelligent'?  That's what's entailed by your "theory"...

Post by Bob O'H
Quote (CeilingCat @ May 30 2014,14:20)Has anybody else noticed that Salvador is MIA?  No postings in at least a month.

Silently banninated?
Started running a new venture - Prostitutes for Christ?

Post by Quack
What if Joe would look up Brownian motion?

Post by GaryGaulin
Quote (Nomad @ May 14 2014,22:53)Where did I say that there is no RAM in a PC?  How can you misread what I repeatedly say that badly?
I also have to explain how the circuit works in a PC.

How biology accomplishes the same thing is another matter where what the equivalent mechanism is named is still "RAM".

Post by Nomad
Where did I say that there is no RAM in a PC?  How can you misread what I repeatedly say that badly?

Post by GaryGaulin
Now we're back to claims that suggest there is no RAM in the PC used to model the circuit by using code that dimensions a "RAM array" to store all the critter's memories in, by trying to argue with that there is no analogy to RAM in a neural brain when it should be obvious from the way the model works that there is.

No evidence has ever been presented to the contrary of what is stated in the the theory and is in the the models.

I'm getting annoyed by the nameless mudslingers who have nothing better to do than complain over nothing, because they don't like the terminology of science and electronics required to study intelligence.

Post by Nomad
Quote (GaryGaulin @ May 14 2014,06:09)Not all "Neural Networks" are even a RAM substitute. Your arguments become ridiculous.
Not a single one is, Gary.  Yet you think they can be, despite your quaint little experiment making it quite clear to you that a system like this requires more than just RAM.

How did you miss the implications of your own work that badly?

Post by NoName
Of course you do Gary.  But that's due far more to your  idee fixe, your presuppositions and fixations, than to any genuine merit in the notion.
The brain does not have RAM.
Ears do not address memory locations by address.

Post by OgreMkV
Quote (midwifetoad @ May 14 2014,14:24)This will be viral in a few days. Might as well see it here first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v....7wz93Lw
Viral now.

Of course, we've had a few dog attacks in our neighborhood too.

Post by GaryGaulin
This is a must-read:

Strongly interacting electrons in wacky oxide synchronize to work like the brain
http://phys.org/news....de.html

When I visualize this (more neural) technology in a speech recognition system I see a RAM being addressed by an ear.

Post by midwifetoad
This will be viral in a few days. Might as well see it here first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v....7wz93Lw

Post by JohnW
Quote (Kattarina98 @ May 14 2014,04:09) Quote (rossum @ May 14 2014,12:34) Quote (George @ May 14 2014,01:43)   Quote (Richardthughes @ May 13 2014,15:52)   Quote (George @ May 12 2014,08:33)     Quote (timothya @ May 12 2014,00:56)Byers at UD on the intelligence gene:
        Quote As said before intelligence can be measured. However its still just measuring a point in time of some people or person.
If conclusions are made then it must be a controlled experiment.
no bringing immigrant peoples from backward nations into our nations AND THEN SCORING IT.
The only reason this stuff is allowed is because they don’t have to admit to a british or aryan or white superiority. Otherwise these books and writers would be burned at the stake.
Its proof its a liberal establishment and not common consent on these matters.

in reality there is no such thing as intelligence. just divisions of knowing.
The bible says Wisdom, first, and then understanding and then knowledge. its all outside us and its there for everybody HOWEVER generally the people you are born into and mingle with are the origin for what the kid picks up.
Thats why there are identity differences. Including motivation to explain female behindness etc.
You would have to think long and hard to deliberately cram so much toxic rubbish into so few words. There are at least three good reasons to keep your mouth closed in an Internet discussion:
1. If you don't know what you are talking about
2. If you don't want to prove that you don't know what you are talking about
3. If you don't want the flies to crap all over your tongue
I have to admit to being a big fan of female behindness.
But will you ever get to the bottom of it?
No, just arsing around.
We need to get back to fundamentals here.
You shouldn't make female anatomy the butt of your jokes.
Cheeky!

Post by fnxtr
What I want to know is who was St. Eve, and why did she need a Tory?

Post by Lou FCD
Quote (dhogaza @ May 12 2014,00:42)Some new bird and mammal photos taken over the last week ...
You are getting some awesome stuff!

Post by Bob O'H
Quote (sparc @ May 09 2014,03:36)Even without extremities gpuccio will still call it a draw:
  Quote 17 JLAfan2001 May 8, 2014 at 7:27 am
gpuccio

19% functional is long cry from 80%.
  Quote 18 gpuccio May 8, 2014 at 7:38 am
JLAfan2001:

OK, but the ENCODE data still show activity for 80% of DNA. Nothing has changed. We will see how much of that is confirmed as functional in independent ways. Science must be patient.

edited to correct links and spacing
There's a nice review of the case for "junk DNA" in PLOS Genetics, which I'm sure won't be mis-interpreted by 'news' at all.

Post by GaryGaulin
Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ May 08 2014,22:18)Gary:

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I think that it is rude to demand a citation from someone who is only explaining how Watson works.


Gary:

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Of course there is no mention by star of "temporal correlation" being "the way Watson works" you are the lunkhead who mentioned it.


"star0":

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Here's how you can derive "causation" from Big Data: suppose you have two "factors", call them X and Y. You know, based on data, that X is correlated with Y. But you don't know whether X causes Y, Y causes X, or whether there is no causal relation between them. One example of how they can be correlated, but for which there is no causal relation is if there is a THIRD factor Z that causes both of them. You can render these possibilities as graphical models as:

X --> Y,

X <-- Y, and

X <-- Z --> Y

How can you decide which one it is? Well, you can disentangle the first two, in some cases, through temporal knowledge. e.g. Usually, X --> Y implies that X precedes Y; but the converse is not true. So, you can do some temporal reasoning to eliminate possibilities. And there are other ways to separate them; for example, you can mine text, and look to see how people speak about the relationship between X and Y. Individuals are maybe not to be trusted, but high-quality sources are -- and individuals, in aggregate, are, in some cases (and, you can even do deeper modeling and figure out when they are and when they aren't).

Now what about the third possibility? Well, you need some candidate Zs to work with. And how can you find those? Again, this is where data-mining comes in: you go to the web, and look for co-occurrence of (X,Y) with other factors Z. Once you've located a set of possible Z's, then you need to determine whether the third possibility holds. You can, for instance, ELIMINATE the third case, again, using temporal reasoning. And you can do even more elaborate things.


Gary, what "star0" discusses above *is* temporal correlation. The 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics went to Clive Granger, in part for his development of temporal correlation as the basis for his causality test. What "star0" did not assert was that IBM's "Watson" uses temporal correlation for detecting causality. In fact, "star0" makes no claim at all about any method that "Watson" might be using in the entirety of that post.

To sum up: "star0" does discuss temporal correlation, but does not discuss "Watson" in that post (thus "star0" was not "explaining how Watson works", at least not in the post Gary quoted and I was referring to).

Gary is 0 for 2.

"Lunkhead", when used by Gary, means "perceptive".
Explaining how Watson works was in a number of their threads. That information came from just one of them. This one does maybe go into more than what Watson has but I would not be surprised by it already having that as well.

Star0 used the phrase "temporal reasoning" when talking about "causation" and I'm not sure whether they would agree that "temporal correlation" is a direct substitute. It might be, but in this case the question is why David Ferrucci said “People are so enamored with the data-driven approach that they believe correlation is sufficient."

This evening I'll have some time to go over your leads.

And "lunkhead" was to go with earlier reply about it sometimes getting like Three Stooges in this thread. It's a bit of humor without personal insult like I was responding to that you hurled at me.

Post by REC
As silly as UD is, the denizens there are made to look like geniuses by some of the YECs out there.

Take this guy Nathaniel T. Jeanson, who claims to have a PhD from Harvard.

Here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCVE5BwBrUk
Quote We can't say that we are closer to, say, chimps than we are to yeast, because chimps and humans are equally distant from yeast.

Holy hell. You're doing it wrong. I promise you that despite all of us being equally distant to my great aunt, that I can prove I am more closely related to my sister than my first cousin. It is beautiful that in his presentation he has the data to do phylogeny right, then discards it, and from the resulting mess, claims to have "disproved evolution."

Here: http://www.icr.org/article...., he applies a molecular clock to mitochondria, multiplying millions of years or 6000 years by the mutation rate. The number of differences works better for the YEC model. He conveniently forgets mitochondria have small (20,000 base) genomes, and that he has predicted 2-3 million coding changes. Oops. (Not to mention mtDNA is probably not neutral, he picked the most rapidly evolving segment "D-loop" to get his molecular clock, and he never states what genomes he's comparing).

I take it back. This guy can't be that dumb. He's just lying.