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PavlikPaja
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PavlikPaja
8y ago
How well do neural networks train with no normalization at all, compared with softmax?
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First, the chair wasn't replaced with a couch - you can see there is yet another rectangle just a few pixels to the left, that likely says "chair". Second, even many people are surprisingly bad at decoding incongruous scenes,
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PavlikPaja
8y ago
What are you talking about?
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There have been tons of research and nobody seems to fully understand it. Collectivist, most messages are intended for the whole group, with ocassionally talking to a specific person, but it's expected the message will be understood by
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I guess this has something to do with why communication is so different in collectivist cultures. Maybe it's the different nature of communication itself that allowed collectivism by allowing to manage larger groups of people without g
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Not necessarily. I think it works like this: 1. Standard metabolism: You need certain amouns of calories, and a certain amount of it must come from carbs. If you need 1200kCal in carbs, you will feel hungry until you get that 1200kCal in ca
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8y ago
I didn't read it in English, but I read it's bad. Basically if it's translated from Chinese, you can almost bet it's bad.
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1. Most of the simplifications are regular. 2. You only need to know several thousands. 3. Chinese uses no cojugation (I guess you meant something else). All languages has homophones 4. That's good. That's why you only need severa
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This is actually what makes learning Chinese much easier. Very often you can guess the correct word even when you don't know it. (Such as pingguojiu for cider, a real life example)
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And Chinese vocabulary is rather small and extremely systematic, so those 1000 or so characters form a solid base for understanding. Far from looking up every other character or so. Only a few % of encountered characters are not among the f
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>5. Start removing thoughts from your brain. As you start thinking about something, just stop. Another thought comes in. Kill it. Just kill thoughts. You can think only about your breathing. Nothing else. You won't really appreciate
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8y ago
It's the same site.
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8y ago
It seems to be fixed now.
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8y ago
People paid to pretend being busy doing something useful get good at their job, too.
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I guess people get quite good at their job, even if their full time job is pretending they are busy doing something useful. Meaning, it may be hard for businesses to spot who is doing the bullshit job because everybody with a bullshit job d
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8y ago
Please note the article only shows correctly in Chrome.
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But these words are targeted at people who are not actually smart, but work hard to cover it up. In the west though, people who are actually smart get the hate. In fact, if you are in the top 0.5% or so, you could consider yourself lucky wh
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8y ago
That sounds very wrong.
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9y ago
While that's certainly another possibility, the most common cause of depression is purely chemical, as a symptom of magnesium deficiency. (which is common, and hard to diagnose, since it doesn't show on blood tests until you'
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9y ago
Some preserved forms of vedic sanskrit have three tones - high, low and falling, which makes it tonal.