MrMoenty

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by MrMoenty 4y ago
Perhaps this is approximately true if you focus exclusively on mass shootings at schools. But shootings overall are one of the leading causes of deaths for children in the US. See for instance the CDC's visualizations on causes of deat
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by MrMoenty 5y ago
There is, e.g. § 812(1) BGB in German law: > Wer durch die Leistung eines anderen oder in sonstiger Weise auf dessen Kosten etwas ohne rechtlichen Grund erlangt, ist ihm zur Herausgabe verpflichtet. Diese Verpflichtung besteht auch dann,
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by MrMoenty 5y ago
Given that training the same network (with the same structure) will result in different weights and different hashes with high probability, I would argue that the weights actually have all the important properties of a secret key. You would
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by MrMoenty 6y ago
Ironically, that exit tax and the associated fees open up one of the only ways to obtain dual German citizenship as an American adult: Depending on your income, the German government may consider the cost of dropping the U.S. citizenship un
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by MrMoenty 7y ago
I think part of the problem of this graph is that it attributes commercial building emissions to the municipalities in which they are placed, even though these buildings might be used by residents and commuters alike. So if you move into th
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by MrMoenty 7y ago
My point is that the parent's comment is mostly right: a frequent challenge in ML is black box computational units which don't expose the necessary information to run autograd. Even if the underlying mathematical function is not d
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by MrMoenty 7y ago
In deep learning, you generally don't require differentiability on the entire domain, only on most points you're likely to encounter. So a finite number of non-differentiable points is fine: You just trust that you're never g
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by MrMoenty 7y ago
The common solution found in European cities is to have one street reserved entirely for pedestrians, and to allow delivery access from the two adjacent, parallel streets. But of course this requires a certain amount of infrastructure withi
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by MrMoenty 7y ago
The article is not about models being indistinguishable from random classifiers, the difference there should be very significant even on the tasks it discussed. Instead, the problem originates from the small differences in test set performa
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by MrMoenty 7y ago
The question is whether the reduced plastic pollution will make it worth it to slightly increase CO2 output on grocery bags. Given that the absolute cost in CO2 equivalent for a cotton bag is only 3.9kg according to the study you linked, I&
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by MrMoenty 8y ago
I believe the statisticians would call this heteroscedasticity. But meta-variety certainly easier to remember ;)
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by MrMoenty 8y ago
Just played through it and really liked it! I think this is just the right level of abstraction for a beginning CS student. Makes it easy to grasp the compositional nature of computers without having to deal with all the details that make c
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La Liga uses its app to spy on bars and customers using microphone and GPS(joe.co.uk)
1 points by MrMoenty 8y ago|1 comments
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by MrMoenty 8y ago
I keep my GnuCash file in an encfs-encrypted Dropbox Folder. As long as you don't try to edit it from two devices simultaneously, this works quite well.
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by MrMoenty 9y ago
Well, funnily enough, quantum computing CAN help with factoring, and likely not with TSP. Factoring is one of those rare problems in NP that is not known to be NP-complete, but for which we also don't know a polynomial algorithm. In 19
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by MrMoenty 9y ago
I find it surprising that people have gotten so used to Facebook's abuse of data that they cannot even imagine things being different. You uploading data to Facebook to share with your friends does not mean that you give consent to hav
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by MrMoenty 9y ago
I think the Falkland war makes a good example of two first world countries, one of them even nuclear, going to war.
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by MrMoenty 9y ago
The unsolvability of the halting problems means that it is impossible to have a general algorithm that makes non-trivial statements about the behavior of a given program. In the context of IA-64, that means that generally, the compiler will
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by MrMoenty 9y ago
This is an active research area that one of my former professors is involved in. Things are not as simple as you hope they would be. You're optimizing in a space of millions of discrete dimensions (one for each base pair), with little
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by MrMoenty 9y ago
In the real world, contract law is written to not just take contracts at face value, but to also let judges take external factors into account. This includes customs, the parties intentions, whether they are acting in good faith, etc. This
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by MrMoenty 9y ago
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by MrMoenty 9y ago
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by MrMoenty 9y ago
What you describe can be formalized through the notion of Kolmogorov complexity [1], which relates to all sorts of interesting and fundamental concepts like entropy and uncomputability. So I think you're absolutely right to call it fun
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by MrMoenty 9y ago
You are right, this reasoning depends on only allowing formal systems with finitely many symbols. Turing himself actually gave justification for this in a beautiful footnote in his 1936 paper [1]: page 249: > I shall also suppose that th