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by bitforger 4y ago
Cool! I hadn't heard of Overtone before, but I love the idea of live coding music. People might also be interested in a similar project called Sonic Pi[1], which is Ruby based. [1]: https://sonic-pi.net/
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by bitforger 5y ago
Interesting how you still need to have some intuitive sense of what's going on under the hood. (You can't say "make Zelda," you have to ask for an array of symbols and manipulate them.) In that sense it feels like this i
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by bitforger 5y ago
I believe they're currently using AI21's 178B Jumbo model for Dragon. Since they're completely off of OpenAI now, the content filter is much more lax.
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by bitforger 5y ago
A personal favorite example of notation improving my ability to think is Named Tensor Notation, which has gotten some attention in the machine learning community. https://namedtensor.github.io/ Some diehard mathematicians h
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Redefining SOTA(mitchgordon.me)
9 points by bitforger 5y ago|1 comments
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Why Is VSCode TypeScript Linting So Damn Fast?(mitchgordon.me)
2 points by bitforger 5y ago|0 comments
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by bitforger 5y ago
Reminds me of The Daily episode a few days ago about what's happening in Japan. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/podcasts/the-daily/japan-...
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by bitforger 5y ago
That is a good friend, you should keep them
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by bitforger 5y ago
Can you share your copy of the Strand book? A cursory Google search makes it seem somewhat elusive...
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My Struggle with Probability Theory(mitchgordon.me)
1 points by bitforger 6y ago|0 comments
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by bitforger 6y ago
If I had a dollar for every caching bug I've encountered, I'd be a rich man.
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by bitforger 6y ago
I wrote a blog post a while back about whether methods like these will be necessary in the future: http://mitchgordon.me/machine/learning/2020/01/13/do-we-real...
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A Software Tester's Perspective on Statistical Learning Theory(mitchgordon.me)
33 points by bitforger 6y ago|3 comments
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Is This the End of College as We Know It?(wsj.com)
11 points by bitforger 6y ago|3 comments
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by bitforger 6y ago
A alternative to this has recently been published at ICML that claims to be faster. The website and tutorial video are very nice, too. https://linear-transformers.com/
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by bitforger 6y ago
A recent trend has been to use a language model to do the scoring: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09675
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by bitforger 6y ago
my hands are cold
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by bitforger 6y ago
I totally agree, but I think the state of a research field is too malleable / moves too quickly to be a Wikipedia article (where people expect things to be "true"). A few weeks ago I spun up wikisurvey.org to try and make a p
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by bitforger 6y ago
I don't think he claimed to find the theory of everything. I think he's excited because he thinks that in this framework we can just "throw compute" at the problem to enumerate the possible theories of everything, and au
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by bitforger 6y ago
ITT: Whether SVMs are still relevant in the deep learning era. Some junior researchers will say neural networks are all you need. Industry folks will talk about how they still use decision trees. Personally, I'm quite bullish on the re
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by bitforger 7y ago
I see many comments criticizing the post for only implementing simple mathematics. This is true. However, the approach of understanding math through code is still very helpful, I think. Personally, implementing things that are fuzzy mathema
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by bitforger 7y ago
Anyone in academia have takes on the potential effects on graduate students (PhDs / post-docs)? What happens if a lab loses funding?
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by bitforger 7y ago
> Parents come to mind for the latter, but most of the people I've known who have 4+ children work remotely, so this doesn't add up. It's multifaceted. It might be fine if you own a large enough home that you can have a de
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by bitforger 7y ago
>Articles are hand selected. Everything that calls my attention and passes the «trivia filter» I was a little disappointed when I read this. When I read the title, I was hoping for something based on natural language processing summariza
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by bitforger 7y ago
Similar action was taken by Johns Hopkins University a couple hours ago. https://hub.jhu.edu/assets/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/jhu_covid...
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by bitforger 7y ago
Even then, it might not really be an issue. https://youtu.be/5-Kqb80h9rk
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by bitforger 7y ago
I wrote a blog post on the difficulties of memory-efficient training, which seems relevant: http://mitchgordon.me/machine/learning/2020/01/13/do-we-real... The methods discussed there take a differe
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by bitforger 7y ago
I'm extremely surprised to not see Spacemacs mentioned in the article or the comments. Spacemacs is, IMHO, the most sane and useful default configuration of Emacs. It is friendly to people switching from vim and includes all the packag
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by bitforger 7y ago
If you have a better definition, I'd like to hear it. I don't have many friends, so my definition encompasses all of them. Maybe if I had a better definition, I'd be able to make more friends.
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by bitforger 7y ago
It's not really the money, it's the level of education and ambition. I worked remotely from Mount Pleasant, Michigan for a year and had a difficult time finding anyone to talk with about things that were interesting to me. The onl

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