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by aab0 10y ago
> Nobody needs to use multiple frameworks unless you're a researcher or something who wants to be able to take use the code from other people's papers or something. I never said I wasn't. I'm interested in more than o
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by aab0 10y ago
This is great news! One of the most intimidating things about getting started with deep learning if you want to understand and extend cutting-edge work is the Tower of Babel situation: aside from mastering some quite difficult and opaque co
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by aab0 10y ago
Even more practical advice: 'use Libgen'.
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It's hard to know what the government is really thinking. Consider Silk Road 2: whatever happened to the guy running it, Blake Benthall? He vanished into government custody in late 2014 and nothing since.
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(Which is not to take away from Cray's accomplishments. It's not every engineer, or every industry, where it's possible to decide to increase the performance of a device by an order of magnitude and do so something like 7 t
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by aab0 10y ago
One lesson I take away is how fragile a single-product company is. Each new Cray computer had to be either a total or good success, or the company would die. Like a shark, it had to keep swimming forward, and at Cray-3/4, it lost momen
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by aab0 10y ago
In that one photo he looks, literally, like Lord Voldemort. That can't have helped his PR at all since I'm fairly sure newspapers were able to print photos by this point.
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by aab0 10y ago
It's been submitted before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3478971
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by aab0 10y ago
Doesn't wash. If replication attempts are subject to publication bias, we are still better off because the subsequent meta-analyses overcome sampling error better and are able to show publication bias using funnel plots or other techni
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by aab0 10y ago
> My favorite is someone who shall go nameless who argued in support of an erectile disfunction treatment in front of his board by dropping his trousers and injecting his penis in front of them. I have only heard of this second hand but
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by aab0 10y ago
Is it aphantasia or is it the general severe cognitive changes across many domains that usually accompanies MS?
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The conclusion is a little confusing. If his mother Dorianne is also a member of 'Aphantasiacs Anonymous', why does he quote a chat log where she claims to see stuff all the time?
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by aab0 10y ago
So is this a case of 16-bit keys being easy to bruteforce and even easier to use a symbolic solver on, or is there something more subtle going on?
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Relevant: http://lesswrong.com/lw/3w3/how_to_beat_procrastination/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/jyg/outline_summary_the_procrastinat... http://www.amazon.com/The-Procrast
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by aab0 10y ago
I dunno about Lexis Nexis. I've had occasion to use LN to look up information about some people, both Academic and full commercial versions, and while it was useful and worthwhile spending those hours digging through all its hits, I wa
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One idea here is to adopt a recent generative approach: a CNN which starts with two noise image inputs, and then repeatedly tweaks it plus a new noise image over multiple inputs until it does one last tweak to a final version. The noise ser
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by aab0 10y ago
Exactly. We owe the present universality of 'peer review' to the post-WWII expansion of government-funded military-industry-university science (see also Vannevar Bush): > The idea that any legitimate scientific journal ought to
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by aab0 10y ago
If you look at the historical graphs, it's hard to escape the conclusion that the past year has in fact been the stablest period in Bitcoin history: https://btcvol.info/
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Very _Dune_.
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The Blood Fairy and final speech are the funniest things I've read today. Possibly also for a few days before that too.
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by aab0 10y ago
The hope is that autonomous cars will be much cheaper once you take out the human element; when a taxi costs $30 for a routine trip, and Uber/Lyft still have to pay their drivers >minimum-wage, you cannot cater to the elder niche of
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by aab0 10y ago
It puts complaints about VR headsets in a different light when you think about how much those consoles you loved as a kid cost after adjusting for 20+ years of inflation. When you compare how expensive a NES was in real terms at launch with
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by aab0 11y ago
If nothing else, you would think after the first time he would have replaced the carpet with some sort of flat lining which would make finding objects much easier.
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by aab0 11y ago
I dunno. Some of them clearly are because you can see they have moles in the same place and stuff like that, but a bunch leave me dubious. For example, that woman with the dyed white hair: the hair looks much frizzier/curlier in one th
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by aab0 11y ago
WSJ has been going after Theranos for a long time now and I believe they broke the first stories. If you're an internal leaker, ex-employee, or hostile official, who are you going to leak to or give tips about where to dig up bodies? T
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by aab0 11y ago
Yes, noise & regularization seem to be key here. I've gotten a 2-layer with 7/8 neurons down to 0.06 and dropping but only with noise & l1: http://playground.tensorflow.org/#activation=relu&regulariza..
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by aab0 11y ago
Using sin(x) or the other input features like x^2 goes back to making it too easy, though. So far the best I can do is 7 layers of 7 which gets a loss of 0.02. 3x7 is almost cracking the Swiss Roll but can't quite finish it off and g
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by aab0 11y ago
This is a lot of fun. The default dataset is too easy, though, try out the Swiss Roll one!
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You should fix that, then. 'Executed' is very different from 'accidentally electrocuted'.
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Beware surrogates. An apropos bit of news from a few days ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/04/health/dashing-hopes-study... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016

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