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TextExpanderTheir words
TextExpander to make emails go faster, LaunchBar to get to what I need quickly and to keep my clipboard history accessible
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LaunchBarTheir words
LaunchBar to get to what I need quickly and to keep my clipboard history accessible, Growl and HardwareGrowler to get visual notifications from software
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IsolatorTheir words
Speaking of focus, I use Isolator to get distractions out of the way.
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29 November 2008
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Warnings of an imminent US recession in 2006 are partisan gloom rather than a real signal about the economy.Their words, before
For these pundits, the most dismal indicator is that we have a Republican Administration. They have been gloomy for six years now.
Their words now
I will add that I was definitely not expecting Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to have ventured so far away from the idea of investment-quality mortgages that they had enough exposure in subprime loans to wipe out their capital.
17 November 2008
3 November 2008
From one piece Sustainable Energy — without the hot air 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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planes are already almost as energy-efficient as they could possibly be. Planes unavoidably have to use energy for two reasons: they have to throw air down in order to stay up, and they need energy to overcome air resistance. No redesign of a plane is going to radically improve its efficiency.
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Britain's onshore wind resource, though large, is not as large as the country's energy consumption.Their words
Britain’s onshore wind energy resource may be “huge,” but it’s evidently not as huge as our huge consumption.
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if we covered the windiest 10% of the country with windmills (delivering 2 W/m2 ), we would be able to generate 20 kWh/d per person, which is half of the power used by driving an average fossil-fuel car 50 km per day.
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So to fix climate change, we need to sort out a new way of getting energy. The climate problem is mostly an energy problem.
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If everyone does only a little to help solve a big problem, the collective result will still be only a little.Their words
A more realistic mantra is: if everyone does a little, we’ll achieve only a little.
21 October 2008
From one piece Are foreign accents a reflection of identity? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Keeping a foreign accent is a choice about who you are, not a limit on what you can hear or say.Their words
This guy may be in France, but obviously holds strongly to his identity as an American, so he’ll say the words correctly, but keep the American twang that he knows as his voice.
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The first thing to do in a new language is to imitate its accent completely, before the words.Their words
But it seems the first thing I’d want to do when first learning a new language is to imitate the accent completely, to get that sound in my mouth, to sound as native as I can.
2 June 2008
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Luxury Lite CotTheir words
Luxury Lite Cot. This thing is fantastic too – it’s the smallest portable cot, and is super comfortable.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Sea to Summit Silk LinerTheir words
The liner is smaller than a coke can when packed up and weighs a fraction of a pound. It unfolds to be like a super thin silk sleeping bag.
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KettleStack KettlebellTheir words
KettleStack Kettlebell. For taking our crossfit workout on the road there’s nothing better (or even comparable) than the kettlestack.
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AlokSaksTheir words
These bags take up no space, keep water out, and can also be used as pillows if inflated.
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Fenix L1DTheir words
They’re bigger than the Arc Lights, but are also a ton brighter, last longer, and have cool accessories like red filters and light diffusers.
23 April 2008
11 November 2007
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Dreaming in CodeTheir words
And amazingly enough, if you insist on looking at the world through a bucket of shit, the world starts to look an awful lot like a bucket of shit: by the end of the book, Rosenberg has left the lay reader with the sense that we are careering towards some sort of software heat-death, after which meetings-about-meetings and stickies-on-whiteboards will prevent all future progress.
27 October 2007
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Hedge HuntersTheir words
My favorite so far is the just released Hedge Hunters: Hedge Fund Masters on the Rewards, the Risk, and the Reckoning, but then again I am a sucker for the “Market Wizard” style books.
8 December 2006
From one piece Nowak, "Five rules for the evolution of cooperation" (Science, via PubMed Central) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Natural selection opposes cooperation by default, so cooperation only survives where a specific mechanism is at work.Their words
But natural selection implies competition and therefore opposes cooperation unless a specific mechanism is at work.
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Cooperation means a selfish replicator giving up some of its own reproductive potential to help another.Their words
Cooperation means that selfish replicators forgo some of their reproductive potential to help one another.
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Cooperation is needed for evolution to construct new levels of organization.
14 November 2006
12 October 2006
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No Silver BulletTheir words
It's probably because we read No Silver Bullet, a stunningly important essay from way back in 1986, by Frederick P. Brooks (he of Mythical Man-Month) that has proven again and again to be spot-on.
7 September 2006
26 July 2006
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The Debt to PleasureTheir words
A wonderfully dark novel, structured loosely around a series of recipes. You won't learn any new culinary tricks, but you'll be drawn into the wicked plotting of Tarquin Winot as he spins his schemes with considerable savoir faire . The first book I recommend to people I think highly of.
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Thus Was Adonis MurderedTheir words
Caudwell has written a mystery novel populated by barristers of supernatural wit and cleverness, resulting in one of the most consistently amusing books I've ever read.
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The Wasp FactoryTheir words
This was his first, and it's a masterpiece of twisted imagination. There's a surprise ending, but the convoluted path by which you get there has a terrifying internal logic.
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Love in a Dead LanguageTheir words
This one is a professor of religion at the University of Hawaii, who has written the best postmodern-pastiche novel I've come across.
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The Book of RevelationTheir words
This book is a thoughtful examination of deep issues of identity, freedom, and obsession.
1 July 2006
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MiquelriusTheir words
The best notebooks I've found are made by a company called Miquelrius. I use their smallest size, which is about 2.5 x 4 in.
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Usesrcmnd.app
Bic ballpointsTheir words
I use the cheapest plastic Bic ballpoints, partly because their gluey ink doesn't seep through pages, and partly so I don't worry about losing them.
11 June 2006
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Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.
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More emotions are better than fewer: when emotion comes first, do not be afraid to add ornament or layers of meaning.Their words
More emotions are better than less. When emotions are considered above everything else, don’t be afraid to add more ornament or layers of meaning.
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Savings in time feel like simplicity: when forced to wait, life seems unnecessarily complex.Their words
When forced to wait, life seems unnecessarily complex. Savings in time feel like simplicity. And we are thankfully loyal when it happens, which is rare.
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The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction: when in doubt, remove.Their words
The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. When in doubt, just remove. But be careful of what you remove.
18 May 2006
From one piece The Eternal Value of Privacy 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we’re doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.
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The right to privacy is fundamental; without it people cannot feel fully free and protected.Their words
Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.
15 March 2006
From one piece Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface 2 beliefs · worrydream.com
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When the software designer defines the visual representation of her program, when she describes the pictures that the user will interpret, she is doing graphic design, whether she realizes this or not.
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For a majority subset of software, called “information software,” I argue that interactivity is actually a curse for users and a crutch for designers, and users’ goals can be better satisfied through other means.
6 December 2005
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korrents.com
The chief danger of biofuels is that growing them for vehicles takes arable land away from food and causes hunger.Their words, before
If the production of biofuels is big enough to affect climate change, it will be big enough to cause global starvation.
Their words now
I am now prepared to admit that my previous column was wrong.
1 December 2005
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
You and Your ResearchTheir words
In his famous essay You and Your Research (which I recommend to anyone ambitious, no matter what they're working on), Richard Hamming
9 November 2005
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Once Upon a NumberTheir words
The above village story was adapted from John Paulos’ excellent book, Once Upon a Number and was repeated in his, other, also excellent, book, A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
A Mathematician Plays the Stock MarketTheir words
The above village story was adapted from John Paulos’ excellent book, Once Upon a Number and was repeated in his, other, also excellent, book, A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market.
5 November 2005
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Five Eminent ContrariansTheir words
Let me end, though, by quoting Michael Aronstein, who, in the excellent book, Five Eminent Contrarians, pretty much agreed with my own views on the subject, by saying:
9 October 2005
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Creative Whack PackTheir words
I recommend the purchase and extensive use of the Creative Whack Pack. For less than $11, it’s a great investment.
8 October 2005
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Lovedrcmnd.app
InfluenceTheir words
Of these four tendencies, the first one is described very well in Robert Cialdini’s great book, Influence.
30 August 2005
From one piece Ioannidis, "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" (PLoS Medicine) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The greater the financial interests and prejudices in a field, the less likely its published findings are to be true.Their words
The greater the financial and other interests and prejudices in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true.
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The greater the flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true.
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The smaller the effects a field studies, the less likely its published findings are to be true.Their words
The smaller the effect sizes in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true.
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The smaller the studies a field runs, the less likely its published findings are to be true.Their words
The smaller the studies conducted in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true.
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Most claimed research findings are false, and that can be shown rather than merely suspected.Their words
It can be proven that most claimed research findings are false. Here I will examine the key factors that influence this problem
27 July 2005
1 April 2005
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How to Win Friends and Influence PeopleTheir words
If you want to learn what people want, read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People.
1 March 2005
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Byrne's EuclidTheir words
And for those interested in graphic design, Byrne's Euclid
13 December 2004
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Structure and Interpretation of Computer ProgramsTheir words
I went ahead and gave it another chance, and I was way wrong. It's awesome.
19 August 2004
From one piece The legacy of Bristol: public disclosure of individual surgeons' results (with 5 co-authors) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Non-risk-adjusted mortality data cannot support patient choice and only signal that a fuller review is required.Their words
No conclusions can be drawn until a full review has taken place. This sort of data cannot contribute to patient choice.
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The use of a single risk adjusted number to summarise a surgeon's results runs the risk of lending a level of spurious credibility to an analysis that does not take into account the impact of influences that are not patient related.
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Casemix makes it unwise to publish surgeons' unadjusted mortality figures for comparison.Their words
Because of this casemix influence it would not be sensible to publish unadjusted mortality by surgeon.
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The administration believes the performance of a surgeon cannot be separated from that of his or her institution as quality is highly dependent on institutional systems.
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Measurement of outcomes from medical or surgical interventions is part of good practice, but publication of individual doctors' results remains controversial.
2 February 2004
From one piece Recommended Reading for Developers 2 beliefs · blog.codinghorror.com
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The vast majority of software development projects will fail: they will overrun their schedules, produce substandard results, or sometimes not even finish at all. This isn't an argument; it's a statistical fact.
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Computers change but people do not, so understanding people is how you make better softwareTheir words
Why are updates to my reading list so rare? Because computers change a lot in 10 years, but people don't. To make better software, you need to understand how people work, and that is what the books I recommend tend to focus on.
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The Inmates Are Running the AsylumTheir words
This is the book that introduced the world to the concept of personas: rather than thinking of users as an abstract, difficult-to-describe, amorphous group of people, personas instruct us to talk about specific users who have names, personalities, needs, and goals.
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Programming PearlsTheir words
Programming Pearls is the next best thing to working side by side with a master programmer for a year or so. It is the collective wisdom of many journeyman coders distilled into succinct, digestible columns.
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to MasterTheir words
This book reminds me a lot of Programming Pearls, but it's actually better, because it's less focused on code. Instead of worrying about code, the authors boiled down all the practical approaches that they've found to work in the real world into this one book.
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The Visual Display of Quantitative InformationTheir words
You don't need to own all four books in the series unless you're a completist (or a masochist, I suppose), but the first two are essential.
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Regular Expressions CookbookTheir words
I may be a card carrying member of the "Keep It Simple Stupid" club, but I'm making a meteor sized exception for regular expressions. Written properly, they will save you a tremendous amount of time in string manipulation, and I've never run across a project where they didn't come in handy somewhere.
1 September 2003
From one piece PowerPoint Is Evil 4 beliefs · wired.com
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Chartjunk is a clear sign of statistical stupidity.Their words
Chartjunk is a clear sign of statistical stupidity. Poking a finger into the eye of thought, these data graphics would turn into a nasty travesty if used for a serious purpose, such as helping cancer patients assess their survival chances.
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Visual reasoning usually works more effectively when relevant information is shown side by side. Often, the more intense the detail, the greater the clarity and understanding.
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If your numbers are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers. If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant. Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.
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The standard PowerPoint presentation elevates format over content and turns everything into a sales pitch.Their words
The standard PowerPoint presentation elevates format over content, betraying an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch.
29 August 2003
From one piece CannotMeasureProductivity 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Any good developer knows that they can code the same stuff with huge variations in lines of code, furthermore code that's well designed and factored will be shorter because it eliminates the duplication.
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Software productivity cannot be measured, because there is no way to measure a development team's output.Their words
the reason we can't measure productivity is because we can't measure output
24 June 2003
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On changing their mind
The only thing worse than a world with the wrong international trade rules is a world with no trade rules at all.
1 April 2002
From one piece Systematically Biased Beliefs about Economics: Robust Evidence of Judgemental Anomalies from the Survey of Americans and Economists on the Economy 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The robustness of apparent biases about economics suggests that the judgemental anomaly is real.Their words
Apparent biases' robustness suggests that the anomaly is real.
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Differences between the public's and economists' economic views do not solely reflect economists' self-serving bias.Their words
The paper first tests and decisively rejects the hypothesis that the differences solely reflect economists' self‐serving bias.
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Differences between the general public's positive economic views and economists' resemble other judgemental anomalies: Laypeople and experts systematically disagree.
21 October 1999
From one piece Barabasi & Albert, "Emergence of scaling in random networks" (arXiv) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A model based on these two ingredients reproduces the observed stationary scale-free distributions, indicating that the development of large networks is governed by robust self-organizing phenomena that go beyond the particulars of the individual systems.
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This feature is found to be a consequence of the two generic mechanisms that networks expand continuously by the addition of new vertices, and new vertices attach preferentially to already well connected sites.
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Large real-world networks share one property: the number of connections per node follows a scale-free power law.Their words
A common property of many large networks is that the vertex connectivities follow a scale-free power-law distribution.
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Systems as diverse as genetic networks or the world wide web are best described as networks with complex topology.
From one piece Barabasi & Albert, "Emergence of scaling in random networks" (arXiv) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A model based on these two ingredients reproduces the observed stationary scale-free distributions, indicating that the development of large networks is governed by robust self-organizing phenomena that go beyond the particulars of the individual systems.
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This feature is found to be a consequence of the two generic mechanisms that networks expand continuously by the addition of new vertices, and new vertices attach preferentially to already well connected sites.
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korrents.com
Large real-world networks share one property: the number of connections per node follows a scale-free power law.Their words
A common property of many large networks is that the vertex connectivities follow a scale-free power-law distribution.
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Systems as diverse as genetic networks or the world wide web are best described as networks with complex topology.
13 March 1998
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Wesco is not an equally-good-but-smaller version of Berkshire Hathaway, better because its small size makes growth easier. Instead, each dollar of book value at Wesco continues plainly to provide much less intrinsic value than a similar dollar of book value at Berkshire Hathaway.
1 January 1998
From one piece Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition (with 3 co-authors) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A new learning paradigm, called graph transformer networks (GTN), allows such multimodule systems to be trained globally using gradient-based methods so as to minimize an overall performance measure.
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Convolutional neural networks are specifically designed to handle variability in two-dimensional shapes.Their words
Convolutional neural networks, which are specifically designed to deal with the variability of 2D shapes, are shown to outperform all other techniques.
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Given an appropriate network architecture, gradient-based learning algorithms can be used to synthesize a complex decision surface that can classify high-dimensional patterns, such as handwritten characters, with minimal preprocessing.
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Multilayer neural networks trained with backpropagation are the best example of successful gradient-based learning.Their words
Multilayer neural networks trained with the back-propagation algorithm constitute the best example of a successful gradient based learning technique.
1 November 1997
From one piece Long Short-Term Memory 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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LSTM can solve complex artificial long-time-lag tasks that prior recurrent network algorithms never solved.Their words
LSTM also solves complex, artificial long-time-lag tasks that have never been solved by previous recurrent network algorithms.
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Recurrent backpropagation learns slowly over long intervals mainly because error backflow decays.Their words
Learning to store information over extended time intervals by recurrent backpropagation takes a very long time, mostly because of insufficient, decaying error backflow.
From one piece Long Short-Term Memory 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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LSTM can solve complex artificial long-time-lag tasks that prior recurrent network algorithms never solved.Their words
LSTM also solves complex, artificial long-time-lag tasks that have never been solved by previous recurrent network algorithms.
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Recurrent backpropagation learns slowly over long intervals mainly because error backflow decays.Their words
Learning to store information over extended time intervals by recurrent backpropagation takes a very long time, mostly because of insufficient, decaying error backflow.
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