In the comments of https://mybrainsthoughts.com/?p=327, a discussion sprang up on goals and optimization that seems worth diving into further. That post covers some ideas on criminal justice and optimal sentencing approaches, and the idea that came up in the comments was using AI to optimize our laws, so as to take the human emotion out …
One important concept in data science is that of signal. Signal represents the ability of data to inform accurate predictions in the target domain; a dataset that can tell you more has more signal. For example, say you’re trying to predict the weather in New York for the next day (repeatedly). For the sake of …
Playing Conway’s Game of Life is an easy way to spend an afternoon. The game is based on the concept of cellular automatons; essentially, it consists of a grid of cells where each cell can be either on or off (also referred to as alive or dead), and at each time step each cell updates …