allenlavoie

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by allenlavoie 8y ago
We already have a much more liquid terrorism futures market, i.e. the regular stock market. Worrying about incentives for a large attack from a prediction market is missing the ocean for a hypothetical raindrop. Incentives in smaller market
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by allenlavoie 9y ago
It's a nice xor swap, but I think you reversed your list twice. And xor swapping with x=y=2 is likely not ideal. Seems like exactly what I'd do in an interview too :p
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by allenlavoie 9y ago
It's just a small Cython-compiled utility throwing the warning, it works fine. Everything else is pure Python and so doesn't care about 3.5 vs 3.6. We will fix the warning, though (disclaimer: I work on TF and added fast_tensor_ut
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by allenlavoie 10y ago
A lot of the best practices for initializing/saving/restoring/etc. are handled automatically if you wrap your model in an Estimator[1] using a model_fn. It also enforces a "clean" model specification (in a new Graph
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by allenlavoie 10y ago
Like https://www.google.com/settings/ads ?
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by allenlavoie 11y ago
You could, but you would be wrong, as the remainder of the paragraph you started quoting argues quite convincingly. Fiddle with the free parameters of the contest and it "demonstrates" whatever you want it to.
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by allenlavoie 11y ago
The waiting time distribution is actually the geometric distribution (with expectation 1/p = 1/0.021 = 47.6, so about what they got).
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by allenlavoie 12y ago
One solution would be for Netflix to modify their clients to send useless and quickly discarded UDP packets back to balance out the traffic. Verizon then has tons of data to push back to Level3 and everyone's happy.
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by allenlavoie 13y ago
This is essentially the goal of probabilistic programming[1]: let the programmer specify and tweak the model, and have the analog of a compiler handle inference. Finding a good model is then analogous to debugging. You are mostly stuck with
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by allenlavoie 14y ago
>Yep, because now you've just got your air rushing into the vacuum through the cracks, instead of water. Fair enough. I imagine there's a trade-off between the quality of the tunnel materials and the number of pumps needed along the way
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by allenlavoie 14y ago
Is there some reason that sandwiching air between the evacuated tube and the water wouldn't work? Granted it would add to the cost. The ocean depth point is interesting. The article says "engineers would tether the tunnel at a fixed depth."