biswaroop

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by biswaroop 7y ago
Curious, why do you hate Cambridge so much? I find it a reasonably great place, but I'm just a graduate student here.
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by biswaroop 8y ago
Check out Rivian: https://products.rivian.com/
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by biswaroop 8y ago
More information from 2017 about the fight to remove cars in Oslo: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jun/13/oslo-ban-cars... It's interesting to see the political pushback from conservatives.
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by biswaroop 8y ago
I didn't read a long term bet against a face-based device. He focuses on facebook's value as an app-based stimulant, and how VR occupies a completely different (and possibly limited) niche. In fact, Stratechery claims that AR is m
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by biswaroop 8y ago
A cool implementation of a deep ANN using a similar system: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.02365.pdf (the nonlinear units and the backprop are done on a classical computer). The paper also points out that thermal cross-tal
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by biswaroop 8y ago
I highly recommend Dubliners by Joyce. It's the most beautiful collection of short stories ever written. Ulysses has its roots in Dubliners, and if Ulysses is a daydream, then Finnegans Wake is a nightmare. Leave the nightmares to the
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by biswaroop 8y ago
I'm pretty sure 3M and DuPont sell more than 2 part repair epoxy.
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by biswaroop 8y ago
I don't see how systematically accurate image classifiers and facial recognition systems built on deep learning is a 'dead end'. Products are products. If deep learning has led to actual profits in actual companies, it's
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by biswaroop 8y ago
Kim by Rudyard Kipling. Despite Kipling's jingoism in other works, Kim spoke to me in school. It opened me to a world of adventure and fearlessness that I didn't know was possible. I really haven't been the same since I read
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by biswaroop 8y ago
But you were talking about the mechanism of consciousness, not verifying whether someone is conscious or not. It may be impossible to verify if someone is conscious in the same way that I know I am, but we can associate a set of behaviors w
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by biswaroop 8y ago
Curious, why is this a bad thing? Also it seems like you can change it to a lower number if you want.
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by biswaroop 8y ago
Well it's not completely clear to me that cameras can't look a few cars ahead. If we can, cameras can too. Maybe they're not smart enough yet, but I don't see the fundamental limitation. Apart from that, I agree that che
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by biswaroop 8y ago
Seems like it happens whenever a car in front moves out of the way. It goes full stupid-cruise-control mode and just accelerates to the stored speed. Of course there's a lot of noise in terms of things in the stationary reference fram
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by biswaroop 8y ago
But the Autopilot has cameras, and therefore it has 3+1D data (2D frames, 1D inferred depth from stereo or training, 1D time from frame diffs). Even with a 30fps frame rate at 60mph, two frames from a video feed would see the truck move clo
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by biswaroop 9y ago
Um, cars kill astronomically more pedestrians than do bikes.
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by biswaroop 9y ago
Seconding the recommendations for a cheap trainer + Zwift. Also, if the weather is good, find a local club to ride with outside. Although indoor training is great, nothing releases endorphins like an outdoor ride with some friends.
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by biswaroop 9y ago
I think what he/she means is poorly designed visualizations. Just because a plot is grayscale and not interactive doesn't mean it's worse than a cluttered poorly-designed super interactive web widget. It's a poor choice
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by biswaroop 9y ago
This is interesting: the difference in 'screen time' a few decades ago versus today. Is the incredible productization of screen time a recent phenomenon? Could we improve screen time by restricting the access large social media co
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Deeplearn.js: a JS library for machine intelligence from Google PAIR(deeplearnjs.org)
3 points by biswaroop 9y ago|0 comments
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by biswaroop 9y ago
More on the "scrollytelling" they used here: https://pudding.cool/process/how-to-implement-scrollytelling... I personally found it a great way to tell the story. It didn't interfere with my reading exper
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by biswaroop 9y ago
Profession: Physics graduate student (experimental atomic physics). ~15 people in our group, 5 in our lab. Workday: [07:30] Wake up [08:00] Swim, bike, run or climb for an hour [09:00] Bike to work, shower, read papers [10:00] Turn on exper
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by biswaroop 9y ago
Wow I'm a fan of both Satyajit Ray and Herge! It would be amazing to see that sketch. Could you share a picture or scan of it?
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Soma Water Filters Are Worthless: How I Used R to Win an Argument with My Wife(webcache.googleusercontent.com)
3 points by biswaroop 9y ago|0 comments
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by biswaroop 9y ago
>It's not like there is a fixed number of jobs mined from the soil of each country. This is so true. It applies to any system with competition. People tend to treat things like jobs and startups like natural resources, and tend to a
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What scientists should focus on – and fear – under Trump(nature.com)
1 points by biswaroop 10y ago|0 comments
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by biswaroop 10y ago
A latex tip: hover over equations in Wikipedia to get the syntax.
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by biswaroop 10y ago
This article is about marriage rates, not birth rates. Also, why are millenials unable to replicate memetically? I don't see any evidence of that. If we're determined to effect change through technology and environmental activism,
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by biswaroop 10y ago
How about "Don't ruin your future"? It doesn't matter what the cause is: "man", "good man", "purple man", "flesh-eating bacteria", etc.
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Me and my drone: how automatons are changing research(nature.com)
2 points by biswaroop 10y ago|0 comments
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by biswaroop 10y ago
A lot of the tests of single-photon entanglement require coincidence measurements: being able to detect if two photons arrived at the same time. I'm not sure how fast the human brain would be for these kinds of measurements. People usu

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