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chplushsieh | 8 years ago | on: Why Does the Neocortex Have Columns? A Theory of Learning Structure of the World [pdf]

Jeff Hawkins gets shit on a lot in ML because his theories haven’t produced models with results as good as the mainstream approach, but I’m glad they keep working at it and keep coming up with interesting ideas.

I just ran across a paper [1] from Numenta on Time Series Anomaly Detection using HTM last night which provide a benchmark[2] with some existing approachs. (But it seems to me there is no NN based approach in them. )

[1] Unsupervised real-time anomaly detection for streaming data http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231217...

[2] https://github.com/numenta/NAB

chplushsieh | 8 years ago | on: A Stroke of Genius: Striving for Greatness in All You Do (1993)

Finally: "Those who have done really great things generally report, privately, that it is better than wine, the opposite sex, and song put together." This is strongly contradicted by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's evidence. Nearly everyone he talked to (many Nobel Laureates among them) said their greatest achievement was raising a family or something in personal life.

Strictly speaking, these two claims don't contradict each other. Talking to a book writer/researcher in an interview doesn't count as talking privately.

chplushsieh | 9 years ago | on: Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?

Alternative explanation: Star scientists are just highly productive scientists. After they die, their not-as-productive collaborators can't keep up with the amount of publication as high as before. Naturally collaborators publication percentage falls while Non-collaborators' rise.

chplushsieh | 9 years ago | on: Silicon Valley Needs Startup Drano

Startups take several years to exit.

So isn't it perfectly normal that it also takes several years for the total value of IPOs and acquisitions, i.e. money that flows out of startups, per year to catch up with the rising trend of total startup investment, i.e. money that flows into startups, per year?

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