Nick Merrill
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Reconciling computational accounts of human activity with a legacy of reductionist thinking
Nick Merrill
Jan 9
Peer 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
I'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
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
Here 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…
Nick Merrill
Dec 2, 2020
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