LolWolf

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by LolWolf 6y ago
Agreed on mistake. (Rosetta 2 version runs fine, afaict.) I haven't stress tested the ARM version, but it is the one I'm currently using and I haven't had any issues so far.
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by LolWolf 6y ago
This is not a terrible piece on Ramanujan (though I highly recommend the book on which the movie The Man Who Knew Infinity is based on), but every time I read about him, I feel an incredible sense of awe. Ramanujan is possibly the most clas
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by LolWolf 6y ago
I was going to test this soon (I’m finishing some set up stuff). I’m curious because CS:GO is utterly unplayable (<24fps) on my 2015 13” MBP, so I always had to resort to my desktop computer. Will update this when I do try it out !
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by LolWolf 6y ago
For sure! Another thing to note is that, at the moment, the usual ML/AI approaches fall very short of the classical optimization methods, so there is still plenty of work to be done. For example, classical optimization methods can appr
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Thanks! This is a good question; AI and DL has been used for a little bit in physical design (in a scalable way starting roughly the past few years or so). The paper has some references at the top of page 26), but [0] and [1] have decent ov
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Hey all! Author here; I'd be happy to answer any questions about this or the general idea of physical design! ( i.e. , the idea of automatically designing physical devices by optimization.)
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Heuristics and performance bounds for automated design(arxiv.org)
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Oh, no, absolutely; it is just quite surprising to me that these were relatively modern events. (It’s also a fun case study where negotiations failed spectacularly, with interesting/unexpectedly underlying causes.)
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by LolWolf 6y ago
This is a phenomenal article! Thanks for the link! (I had never heard of the “Cod wars” until now but they are fascinating...)
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Here's a simple way of looking at it (and we'll build up to the matrix notation). The nth and (n+1)st fibonacci numbers can be written as a system of two equations in the nth and (n-1)st numbers: F(n) = F(n) F(n+1) = F(n) +
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Sorry, I'm afraid I don't understand your position at all. My point is that, like EMH, none of these are pretending to be the "be all end all solution to all models" and it's obviously silly to pretend otherwise? So
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Yeah, even with unbounded computational power, Nash equilibria are communication-hard; i.e. , you need exponentially many bits for an n-player game to converge to an equilibrium, even when all players have unbounded computational power. Se
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Yeah, for sure. I mean, it's often the case (as I've found in my own research) that even relatively unsophisticated heuristics will often nail the global optimum for a good number of problems. Here's one particular example: I
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by LolWolf 6y ago
I'm also curious. This is a particularly... interesting (for lack of a better word) submission to appear so repeatedly. Maybe it's just the right word-combination to appear in hn? Computer science + finance, with a touch of academ
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by LolWolf 6y ago
> The granularity of the "correctness" is the major difference here and you're asking the author to be ok with an extremely rough success criteria when they are proposing a mathematically perfect success criteria. All I&#x
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by LolWolf 6y ago
It doesn’t really make sense in this case though, does it? One example is that Knapsack can be approximately solved in polynomial time for all tolerances eps (I.e., it has a Fully-polynomial time approximation scheme, or FPTAS). The EMH is
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by LolWolf 6y ago
This paper just gets me every time I see it. It really doesn’t claim or do much that isn’t already quite obvious (it also has the other problem of going on completely unrelated tangents.) First, it does this funny thing where it “proves” th
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by LolWolf 6y ago
I would say it's probably worth converting your problem to its linear-algebraic representation and then using the solvers on that. They're quite fast there, and it's probably fairly easy to make a representation map and its i
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Yup, they still do! If it wasn’t for my girlfriend (who is a Portland native) wouldn’t have been with me, I might have ended up with some bruises...
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by LolWolf 6y ago
My guess is an Apple Watch? (My girlfriend has one and iirc it has a cyan ring, but not 100% sure.)
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by LolWolf 6y ago
> I will say that it was one of the best changes I ever made to my life. Wohoo! That's awesome, congrats! :) It is rather surprising just how much air needs to be exchanged, which is crazy and definitely not intuitive. (And I could
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Shocked me to my core; flabbergasted me to no end. I never could have imagined! :)
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Was this in the US? I went to a very large public middle school and high school in Texas, so our experiences may differ, but it was certainly standard there. (This, of course, varies even district to district, but perhaps my experience isn&
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Water and CO2? (And, of course, some other byproducts, but by and large.) I mean, I think this is a well-known answer, no? Sorry I don't mean to sound facetious, I haven't opened the article, so I may be surprised, but I thought t
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by LolWolf 6y ago
Yeah, I should have said "subwavelength" structures, since I really didn't specify what "small" meant, but thought it was getting too technical.
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by LolWolf 6y ago
> In my experience if I talk confidently and get the first word in it's pretty easy to cast aside suspicion. Do you usually play with friends? This is definitely not a stable strategy in the repeated Among Us game with the same play
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by LolWolf 6y ago
On Mac the other default for navigating backwards is Cmd-[, if that helps any! (It's also a default in many applications for navigating backwards in whatever sense the app may intend.) I don't use Windows other than for gaming, so
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by LolWolf 6y ago
> [...] which has small structures that cause the phases of light to constructively or destructively interfere This is slightly unclear. I meant more specifically: [...] which has small structures that change the phase of the light, whic
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by LolWolf 6y ago
It’s not. The mechanism by which it acts is quite different. The lens is a metasurface lens, which has small structures that cause the phases of light to constructively or destructively interfere. The result is caused by the fact that, by c
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by LolWolf 6y ago
> Languages [...] are democracies I think the French would like to have a word! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Académie_Française (On the other hand, rules aren't binding, so it's more like a "will of

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