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by alok-g 3y ago
Something you may like: I had demonstrated several classical computer vision algorithms in Excel: https://github.com/amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-... This was done using just built-in Excel formulas. No sc
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The second one is WOW. Thanks for sharing.
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Tobler's hiking function [ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobler%27s_hiking_function ] linked in the 'See also' section is also very interesting. E.g., says that maximum speed is around 2 degrees sloping
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I agree. The very reason why those tools exist though is because there's a sizeable enough demand. What's under question is that 'unintention', all the more so when features are being removed, without leaving some setti
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Yes, I read that. Solution for the time being ... And hopefully though updates to the tools with regards to the security issues by itself keeps it all good.
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For taskbar. Many other utilities are there. Most are normal apps. Some tweak registry. Taskbar replacement uses deeper tweaks, hence the claim that they are creating security issues.
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This is a deal breaker for me too. I updated to Windows 11 only once I found ExplorerPatcher. Were it not for sizeable investments in Windows-specific apps, I would have moved away. I am currently using: * ExplorerPatcher (replace taskbar)
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by alok-g 3y ago
Self-learning via books. I've bought a bunch. Am currently going through Susskind's Theoretical Minimum Classical Mechanics [1], also looking through No Nonsense Classical Mechanics [2]. AI chatbots sometimes come to rescue when
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by alok-g 3y ago
More physics and mathematics. I am currently on Lagrangian mechanics and calculus of variations. Am also learning Jupyter and SymPy for visualizarions of the same. During my high school, only Newtonian mechanics was taught, whereas in eng
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Does he recommend starting to cite pain and suffering in the CVs?
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FreeFileSync https://freefilesync.org/ I have been a happy user for years and have made a donation too.
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by alok-g 3y ago
The following are not exactly what you have asked for. https://gephi.org/ This implements lots of graph visualization algorithms. https://strlen.com/treesheets/ Excel for tree data.
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A potentially naive question. Isn't this modeled like a Kalman Filter? Edit: Sounds like it is. https://openreview.net/pdf?id=AL1fq05o7H
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I do not have all the facts of the situation at hand. However, I have no reason to believe that my friend would not have done all that. I do know for a fact that he is actively trying to teach the students those pre-requisite concepts him
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>> Your physicist friend ... should have evaluated whether it was a real problem ... I do not have the facts around this, however knowing him, I would guess that it was a real problem. >> ... and the company ignored his solution
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>> In scenario A, the problem is already solved, and the institution exists to prevent that solution from being implemented. In my understanding, that's one way. Another may be to keep making slow progress to solving so that thos
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by alok-g 3y ago
I align. We note that N is only an indicator. To actually answer, one needs to seek and analyze a detail after detail of facts. >> And I’ve learned this the hard way. I would like to hear more to learn from your experience. For the
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Consider how the reasoning proceeds if we do not take solving a problem as a Boolean. Also let's measure not just by whether the problem exists or not (or to what degree) but also by how much overheads or missed opportunity the societ
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by alok-g 3y ago
A story from a physicist friend working in a mid-size high-tech company: There was a director-level organization of about 50 people trying to solve a technical research-level problem. The physicist found an innovative solution that was too
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by alok-g 3y ago
Understanding, for the brain, is ultimately memorization too. Memorization need not be understanding. More below: Going by a reasonable approximation/assumption that the the information in the brain is stored as synaptic weights, bot
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I perhaps wrote it suboptimally; sorry about that. I meant the brain having more time to process the thought and thereby also actually processing it to refine it by connecting the dots better with the existing knowledge & understanding
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by alok-g 3y ago
I too wonder the same thing. In addition to holding the concept in working memory for longer, writing being slower also leads to better refinement of the ideas as you write as the brain has more time to process the thought being written dow
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Gemini 1.5 outshines GPT-4-Turbo-128K on long code prompts, HVM author(old.reddit.com)
171 points by alok-g 3y ago|60 comments
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Do large language models understand the world?(amazon.science)
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How do you define 'true'? If two theories are working very well with no experiment available to indicate right vs. wrong for them, Occam's Razor would be all we would have to make a choice. That however does not really make
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Nvidia Audio Flamingo, Audio LM with Few-Shot Learning and Dialogue Abilities(arxiv.org)
1 points by alok-g 3y ago|0 comments
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Anyone knows if this could produce better bass?
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The surprise for me was that the the article is authored by someone at Synaptics, not by someone at IEEE Spectrum. Perhaps this is common and it's just me who did not know.
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Amazon's lawsuits against fake review brokers(aboutamazon.com)
2 points by alok-g 3y ago|1 comments
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Spreadsheets I create often have some 'global' variables, some sheet-specific ones, and many column-level formulas. It would be great to see first-class support for these. In Excel, need to copy over formulas to all cells in a c

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