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What are the practical applications to something like this?
by sologoub 13y ago
What are the practical applications to something like this?
- lifeformed 13y agoInterviewing new applicants to your company.
- fiatmoney 13y agoRandom search. You evaluate a function (say, a loss function for a statistical model given certain parameters) at a random point, and then randomly displace it by a constant amount in a random direction. Random search is quite useful for hyperparameter optimization, and it can be a useful building block for something like simulated annealing or parallel tempering.
- visualphoenix 13y agoVideo game controllers. DirectInput joystick data outputs a square range (0,0)->(65535,65535) which is usually uniformly remapped to a circle to be used by the game. Then you have to add in a dead zone to eliminate the noise from the controller around the neutral position.
- jackmaney 13y agohttp://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070105 http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070105