YossarianFrPrez

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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
Speaking as someone who left tech to get a Ph.D. in a non CS field... Broadly speaking, I agree with the author's point, that one needs to learn the rules of the game before trying to futz with them, which means one will ultimately be
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
Just a reminder that measles has the highest R0 value of commonly listed contagious diseases (12-18), compared to Covid-19's R0 (2.9-9.5 depending on the strain.) [1] See the table in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
I was just thinking about the upper bound on how many papers one could publish in a year earlier this morning. Speaking as someone who spent years in Tech and is now in the middle of a Ph.D. program... Within the current paradigm, where a p
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
Ah, thus we have another solution to the case of Dirk Gently's mystery sofa [1]. [1] https://dirkgently.fandom.com/wiki/Sofa_on_the_staircase
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
While it's possible that the over supply of solar power in California is a case of poor incentives, my money is on it being a result of different parts of the CA solar + electricity ecosystem have progressed at different speeds. Assumi
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
However well intentioned, I can't figure out what this blog post is attempting to do. On one hand, the author seems not up to date with how standards have changed at flagship journals post replication crisis. There are new editorial te
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
I used to think that once I started browsing the internet, it was time for a break. One technique I've implemented, which I haven't seen mentioned is "walking pomodoro technique": for every 25 minutes of work, I get up a
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
It's interesting to read about Mondragon in more detail. I just came across the term in Kim Stanley Robinson's solar-system sci-fi epic "2312." The book (highly recommended) heavily references Mondragon; that's the
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
Fascinating stuff! Big Caveat: I don't know a lot about the VJ industry. But if you have thousands of people downloading your work, that seems like a decent first step. Viewed abstractly, your setup seems to essentially be open-source
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
You know, that's a great question. I love his work, but then again, I don't have the best read on 'stereotypically normal entertainment preferences.'
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
Ah, for sure. Everyone has a different way of looking at the world and a different way of communicating.
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
Sorry to disappoint, but no LLMs were used (or harmed?) in the making of my comment above. I had some thoughts about the authors proposal, and looking back on it I found myself in "peer review" mode. In my field and current line o
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
The author here presents a theory that among non-neurotypical people, most individuals ("concluders") are motivated to use communication to arrive at points, express concern, etc. In addition, the author proposes that other people
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
They say a photo is worth a thousand words, and here, this demo is as convincing as a lot of the spilt ink regarding the replication crisis and social psychology. As someone who pursuing a PhD in the social sciences... This could be a usef
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
True, and I agree this is nowhere near enough. But wouldn't a "defense in depth" approach be wise? There are no all or nothing solutions, especially when it comes to policy in a large city. Any bit of relief will no doubt lik
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
Do we think this is likely? Surely if we also have an incentive that compares schools to each other in terms of their test scores at the same time -- which we currently do now -- then schools could be both incentivized to a) maximize the sc
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
Surely growth measures require repeated testing (so one can see how the differences between student at Time A vs. Time B), not necessarily adaptive tests? Maybe I'm missing something; could you help me understand?
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
This idea sounds familiar. Isn't this basically "Value-added Modeling", which looks at how much teacher contribute to individual differences in increases in student test scores? [1] Has this not been applied at the school lev
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
I used to be a data scientist, I'm now a grad student researching personality development. There are easier ways to make a lot more money, but I feel like I'm doing the deepest possible work, given my interests and skillset.
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
This certainly looks great. I hate to be stickler, but on the very first page ("Syntax"), right after explaining comments, the text says "In previous exercise, you saw the greeting function..." Unless I'm missing so
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
This was done quite quickly after the KAN paper. Nice work. It's especially exciting to think that there are novel and useful NN architectures. It's interesting to think about how much faster KANs might develop into mature systems
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
There is plenty of junk, I'll grant you that. But there is also variation in study quality, which ipso facto implies that some studies might just even be good. I take what you are talking about to be the relative immaturity of social s
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
Fair point. It's controlled for statistically; while there are no perfect measures, it's a decently novel lens into daily experience. Even Apple Health does a version of it now.
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
Betteridge's law not withstanding, for the first time in human history, things like loneliness have become the subject of scientific inquiry. This has happened over the last ~50ish years, if that. As Feynman says, figuring out which of
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
I love reading books, and I write: I've had essays published in various internet corners, and I'm working on a humble little book of my own. Few who write do so for the money, and like most things, the Pareto Principle applies. Th
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
Good question. We typically don't think of young kids as having neuroticism so much as an aspect of temperament we call "negative emotionality." Some children seem to have more of it than others. Taken at a slice in time, rou
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by YossarianFrPrez 2y ago
I like this blog post, and like other commenters I agree. It's also interesting that it doesn't so much distinguish between external and internal 'achievement' so much. For a very different take on the topic... I too w
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
This video (with a slightly different title on YouTube) helped me realize that the attention mechanism isn't exactly a specific function so much as it is a meta-function. If I understand it correctly, Attention + learned weights effect
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
Er, is it possible that you are using `scipy.spatial.distance.cosine` to compute the similarity? If so, note that this computes the cosine distance, and the cosine similarity is defined as 1-cosine distance. I tried out your example using
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by YossarianFrPrez 3y ago
Couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, sub- or semi-conscious rationalization is a powerful force.

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