EmbarrassedFuel

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by EmbarrassedFuel 10mo ago
"London obviously continues to be heavily subsidised by the rest of the UK" This is a farcical comment. Were you being sarcastic? The tax revenue from London massively subsidises the rest of the UK. The investment happens in Londo
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by EmbarrassedFuel 6y ago
Sounds interesting, would you be able to share anything about the signal processing tricks?
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by EmbarrassedFuel 7y ago
Don’t take everything at face value: a fall in Sterling necessarily means that an exporters products are cheaper overseas, so should boost sales. Unless their costs were already higher than their revenues, in which case they were doomed any
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by EmbarrassedFuel 7y ago
Let me guess, Cambridge to KingsX to work at Google?
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by EmbarrassedFuel 8y ago
Because CAM doesn’t even attempt to be correct. I know it’s hard to believe and to generalise beyond your own experience but you are one data point. You might have gotten better without any of the things that you mentioned. Most likely it w
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by EmbarrassedFuel 8y ago
There have - convolutional nets have far fewer weights to learn than an equivalent fully connected net of the same depth. And you literally described it as a brute force approach in your comment.
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by EmbarrassedFuel 8y ago
Do you have anything better than an appeal to tradition to justify your viewpoint, perhaps a book or study that comprehensively justifies TCM without falling into the basic traps of failed statistical reasoning?
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by EmbarrassedFuel 8y ago
Which ones? Google has a vast array of products from enterprise grade cloud services all the way to small consumer applications.
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by EmbarrassedFuel 8y ago
Are you really claiming that TCM and other such pseudosciences have been a net positive for the world? Unproven treatments that may make problems worse, while also encouraging patients to stay away from tested treatments, should play no par
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by EmbarrassedFuel 8y ago
The slowest is three times slower than the fastest! That’s not almost identical at all, and could easily be the difference between a useable interface and an unbearable one...
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by EmbarrassedFuel 8y ago
A small bone of contention: it’s not about Moore’s law per se, which has been ‘dead’ since about 2013, coincidentally when the deep learning revival started. It’s matrix multiplication ASIC development that is driving the progress. GPUs alr
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by EmbarrassedFuel 8y ago
Your ability to recognise faces, you surely realise, was passed down to you genetically? It’s encoded as hardware priors in the structure of your brain. So it’s not too hard to extend that to knowledge of a smell, similarly hardcoded somewh
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by EmbarrassedFuel 8y ago
Don’t forget the stochastic control problem that needs to be solved to stop the whole grid blowing up!
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by EmbarrassedFuel 8y ago
Me too! Although it has been sitting in my list of potential projects for months so kudos to them for actually doing it...
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by EmbarrassedFuel 8y ago
Blatant manipulation of the findings of the study in order to further the aims of what looks like some kind of crypto-rag. From the abstract of the paper: “indicating that (with the exception of aluminium) cryptomining consumed more energy
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by EmbarrassedFuel 8y ago
Ah yes point taken: I was implying that the author had used this (nowadays) non-standard construction in order to add some sensationalism.
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by EmbarrassedFuel 8y ago
As a Brit, no one has made the million/milliard distinction for my entire life. 1000 million is a billion as far as anyone is concerned, a million million is a trillion. It’s just comically bad writing.
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by EmbarrassedFuel 8y ago
The bin removal was actually prompted by a period when the IRA would put bombs into bins in train stations etc., see eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrington_bomb_attacks So not a completely idiotic policy.
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by EmbarrassedFuel 8y ago
In the uk I often see posts for graduate programmer positions with essentially this arrangement: words to the effect of “candidates need not have experience coding but should show a willingness to learn and deep interest in tech” etc.
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by EmbarrassedFuel 8y ago
This is how tanks steer! And also (to some extent) why using them on roads ruins the roads. If you tried in a traditionally wheeled car then all of the drive shafts would snap though!
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by EmbarrassedFuel 8y ago
In addition to the sls this idea is deployed to some extent in IC cars as well: electronic limited slip differentials can send continuously varying torque to each wheel, see the Porsche 918 spyder (combo electric and IC) or the Nissan GT-R
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Ask HN: Getting a job in data science as a graduate?
3 points by EmbarrassedFuel 8y ago|2 comments