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The computational complexity of human tasksReconciling computational accounts of human activity with a legacy of reductionist thinking
Nick Merrill
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How I write reviewsPeer reviews are difficult, whether they're anonymous or not. I have a pretty specific template I try to stick to, originally inspired by Dan Cosley. 1…
Nick Merrill
Dec 16, 2020

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Machine learning in one lessonI've been reading Henry Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson. Hazlitt outlines his classical (pre-Keynesian) liberalism through a discussion of various ec…
Nick Merrill
Dec 9, 2020 1

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What's really revolutionary about machine learning? What's really different about machine learning? Compared to 20th century AI, how is machine learning revolutionary (as opposed to evolutionary)? I'm go…
Nick Merrill
Dec 2, 2020

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GANs move the human's problem from NP to PHere I claim claiming that GANs, and perhaps machine learning in general, let humans outsource problems that are in NP (e.g., folding a protein, writin…
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Dec 2, 2020

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