I really wish we had better definitions for "smart", "cognition", and "intelligence." With our current definitions, all comparisons are purely subjective. Maybe crows are the "smartest" today. Tomorrow it'll be dolphins, parrots, elephants, pigs, or cephalopods. Who knows?
I found this video really interesting. I knew that the current US system, first past the post, has a lot of problems from watching CPG Grey's [1] videos on it. I didn't know that the alternative systems, like ranked voting, had all these other weird problems.
Can someone explain how the frequency domain stuff works? I've never really understood that, and the article just waves it away with saying it's like converting from binary to hex.
Off-topic, but what process are people using to make these animated demos? The command-line and browser demo on this page is so clean and crisp. Is it just a screen cap with a ton of post-processing, or is there more to it?
This is a nice write up. I like that it explains things from a fairly low-level. However, I think their code is a bit too high-level for a first time learning exercise.
If you want to learn more, I would suggest using a very low-level library to start with. Something like Genann[1] or LWNN[2] or maybe even FANN[3]. I think that when you work at a high level right off, it's really hard to gain the understanding you get from working at first principles first.
Can you give me an example of this? I'm a Johnson fan, and I've never perceived him as being proud of ignorance at all.
In fact, I thought his response to the Aleppo gaffe was spot on. I think the media was really unfair with that, as they give Clinton and Trump passes on much more egregious errors.