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>It's up to you to not overdo the designs and the animations That's why I like LaTeX Beamer (at least as long as I don't need anything else in my presentation other than bullet point text and some math): in LaTeX, writing
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Title and the linked story don't match?
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> What software development skills will be most useful in a post-apocalyptic world? At the moment of writing this, North Korea alone is not able to bring about the kind of total apocalypse people are thinking when they talk about "p
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What T-A said. Moreover, Finland as a country exists because Czar Alexander I conquered some eastern provinces of Swedish Realm (as a weird fluke of Napoleonic wars), and then decided that they would be useful as a buffer zone for defense o
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Does the article disagree with any of that? >Slezkine is by no means the first person to draw the analogy between the Bolsheviks and sectarians (Lenin himself is reported to have taken an interest in the Münster Anabaptists and Cromwell’
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I'm going to propose as a conjecture that (maritime) radio weather reports are universally soothing and nostalgic, were they written by Met Office and broadcast by BBC or not. I don't know specifics of the UK culture, so maybe the
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By custom, Greek letters usually mean different things than letters of Latin alphabet. And also it's customary that certain letters in Latin alphabet are used for specific things. For example, Latin letter 'x' usually means a
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As I said when I spotted this on Twitter, I think highlighting multiple things at the same time is a bit confusing. Looking at the equations, I, for one, can't easily spot any connections between the colorized parts of the equation and
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>They smell bad, are unattractive and grouchy. >I certainly won't miss riding the BART with sketchy looking characters at 12am. I wonder if there is difference in the amount of, erm, sketchiness of your sketchy looking characters
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50 Years of Data Science(tandfonline.com)
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>Another example from the annals of machine learning history: time and time again when there is a breakthrough in architectures, it's usually followed a few years later by a simplification of the architecture. For example we started
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See also further discussion on Andrew Gelman's blog: http://andrewgelman.com/2017/11/28/five-ways-fix-statistics/
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Ways to fix statistics(nature.com)
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The Turing award is one of those awards many people in the field know about; each research field has their own nobody else has heard about. Nobels are the award that everybody knows about.
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> Apple did not break a law, so law enforcement cannot hold them accountable. I thought the unstated assumption was that the law should be changed, which is certainly within both the letter and spirit of rule of law.
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When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans(theguardian.com)
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Having read some very introductory stuff about human visual system, I'd be willing to guess that a partial reason is that the human vision works on the input level quite differently than "observe NxM colored pixels in grid".
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Article cites one hard number: >Global figures are hard to come by, but only three or four in every hundred PhD students in the United Kingdom will land a permanent staff position at a university. It’s only a little better in the United
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Is there a sane solution to following local timelines of several instances? The local timeline on my instance is quite dead, the federated timeline has so much variance it's nearly useless.
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Sure, it wouldn't do any harm to move to relevant and well-sourced examples, or construct such demonstrations specifically for the class. This HN discussion alone has gathered several instances of classifiers overfitting or fitting to
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I have heard this story multiple times. My impression is that often person who tells the story treats the fact that the mistrained model was NN-based as a minor detail (or the kind of juicy but ultimately insignificant detail that make the
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by aqsalose 9y ago
This is the PhD thesis of Durk Kingma [1]. Reading this right now; appears to be a well-written introduction to stuff variational autoencoders [2] and ADAM [3]. [1] http://dpkingma.com/ [2] http://arxiv.org/
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Variational Inference and Deep Learning: A New Synthesis [pdf](dropbox.com)
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Alice in Python projectland [Python packaging tutorial](veekaybee.github.io)
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Problem is that the useful societal networks as described by e.g. the other comment below [0] are naturally scarce resources. A fraternity (and the associated wider friends-of-friends social network) that consists of dozens or even hundreds
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"All the Linear Algebra You Need". The title is misleading. In general, I like an applications-first approach, but I have hard time liking a tutorial with the title like that and which proceeds to say things like >Neural networ
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I think the main difference is not the media, but the fact that the US government acknowledges that the incidents really happened, and that they are investigating.
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And as the story goes, after reading an obituary that argued exactly that ("reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" kind of situation), Nobel drafted a peculiar testament about how his fortune should be used after his death.
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Semi-related: is there any easy way to follow local timelines of multiple instances with a single client? My current main instance has only handful of active people, so I've been wondering if I should look at somewhere else. However, I
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Previous discussion about Mastodon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15211074

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