gwern comments on Dreams of AIXI - Less Wrong

-1 Post author: jacob_cannell 30 August 2010 10:15PM

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Comment author: gwern 31 August 2010 07:16:53AM 3 points [-]

If it's so great, why do people still bother with ANNs and SVNs and SOMs and KNNs and TLAs and T&As?

Are you familiar with Big O? See also 'constant factor'.

(You may not be interested in the topic, but an understanding of Big O and constant factors is one of the taken-for-granted pieces of knowledge here.)

Comment author: Tiiba 31 August 2010 03:56:03PM -1 points [-]

You mean that horrible Batman knockoff? I hated it.

Yeah, I know what Big O is.