Ryan Williams vs Georgia last year might have been the single best CFB wide receiver play I’d ever seen. This was next level

It’s really bad, I’m basically committed to either using SQLite or polars for everything that I might have used pandas for.

Not really a discovery per se, we’ve sort of known about it for centuries, insofar as people were like holy shit a ball of lightning just exploded in the monastery. But up until a few years ago it was basically assumed to be paranormal, like mentioned in the same breath as bigfoot. Surprise its real

Someone at Bell labs did it already, better. CS grad student nightmare

Biological systems are clearly different from something like a star. Lots of the dynamics there are directly predictable from properties of molecules that compose them.

Ideas like emergence and top down causation address this a lot more directly. Like how would you explain the behavior of a neuron in a brain without reference to all the other neurons? The whole is more than the parts, the causality arrow doesn‘t just point one direction.

Chaos theory works decently as a counter to lock step determinism. However very simple, non-sentient systems display chaos, so it doesn’t say much about the free will question specifically.

Yeah that’s right, I’m mostly coming from a basic bio perspective where fields like immuno-oncology are well funded. I’m also just kind of jealous of and intimidated by the immunologists talking about subtypes of subtypes of T cells

Not to be dismissive but what makes you think the immune system is *under* studied? We understand immune lineages, locations, behavior, molecular composition in more detail than for any other type of cells. See Janeways Immunobiology. It’s just an insanely complex system.

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The funniest part is that the actual replacement for the low flying cowboy A10 type shit is just the worlds scariest crop duster.

Linebackers running around like premier league midfielders

Intelligence broadly defined as like certain adaptive properties of a dynamical system probably has a pretty short MDL that mostly elides the substrate eg octopi use RNA editing in their brains for learning (maybe).

MDL is not an easy framework to apply to biology as bio systems are entangled across scales and don’t really admit universal abstractions that allow one to draw a box around a specific unit of computation. Like do we include the ribosome as part of the intelligence program?

Maybe Snorkel if you’ve got other weak signals of the topic. Like other terms that indicate the topic is maybe present. It’s a bit of an undertaking to get working, positive unlabeled is probably quickest to useful results. Snorkel gives a bit more control. arxiv.org/abs/1711.10160