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by blackbear_ 1y ago
GOS allows you to install and use apps from the Play Store and the vast majority of them works flawlessly.
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
Yes; I wrote linear transformation on purpose not to remain constrained on spatial or geometric interpretations. The (discrete) Fourier transform is also a linear transformation, which is why the initial effort of thinking abstractly in ter
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
The fundamental truth is that matrices represent linear transformations, and all of linear algebra is developed in terms of linear transformations rather than just grid of numbers. It all becomes much clearer when you let go of the tabular
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
But not all fringe beliefs lead to progress, in fact most of them don't.
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
I would have expected this to be exceedingly obvious to anybody who ever went to a shopping center, but anyways... > The Global Anti-Aging Products Market size is [worth] USD 47.4 Billion in 2023 > Women Dominate Anti-Aging Products M
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
> I don't get why invest time in PhD if your work afterwards seems totally unrelated to your expertise Depending on how the supervision chain is arranged, a PhD can a journey of discovery, of new science but first and foremost of yo
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
Not sure I am following; typical neural network training via stochastic gradient descent does not require Jacobian inversion. Less popular techniques like normalizing flows do need that but instead of SVD they directly design transformation
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
Strang's Linear algebra and learning from data is extremely practical and focused on ML https://math.mit.edu/~gs/learningfromdata/ Although if your goal is to learn ML you should probably focus on that first
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
Some time ago I wrote a Telegram bot that copies messages to a Google Sheet (can be personal & private). The rationale is to quickly capture data in a semi-structured format and tidy it up at a later point. Expense tracking in conjuncti
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
As a general introduction I quite like this one: https://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org/products/immune-a-journey-int...
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
The link is wrong, I believe they meant to link this one: https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Bus...
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
The purpose of a PhD is not to train people for "appropriate jobs". PhD students perform a large part of academic research, and while most of it is grunt work and produces incremental results, some brilliant people end up discover
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
The two ways are equivalent (it's always next token prediction) but the latter is way more efficient as it computes the loss for N tokens in a single forward pass.
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
Absolutely!
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
However if you go further back in time (50 million years or so) it seems possible that the Earth was hotter than today, modulo all uncertainties and approximations needed to get to these figures: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
Fly-by-vibe?
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
Fig1B is quite interesting. It seems like the overall cancer incidence in the non-vaccinated group increases much more slowly in the first 90ish days, but then stabilizes at a similar or very slightly lower rate in the middle of the graph a
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
You are looking at jobs where you are paid to deliver something and where coding is just a tool towards that end, but not the deliverable itself. For example, consider computational research in a domain like healthcare: the job is to find n
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
And then, in the middle of the post, a wild LLM appears... > Would you like me to also connect this to user risks (e.g., extra roaming charges, privacy breaches, spoofed SMS trust issues), so the section feels more practical and less pur
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
> They are more skeptical of propaganda than ever before. Of boomer propaganda. But don't worry, as voters evolve, so does propaganda.
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
> dropped from 147,000 initially to just over 70,000 That is well within the confidence intervals published along with the numbers and entirely unsurprising to anybody who is really paying attention. > reduction of approximately 52% f
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
> When you look often enough or at the wrong times, there is nothing to observe. Is this because atoms don't exist, or because we are looking in the wrong way due to partial (mis)understanding? The "new truth" that you tal
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
I think you are confusing what we believe to be the truth at a point in time and how the physical world is. Either atoms exist or they dont. Our idea of atom has evolved over time, but the thing that we call "atom" has always been
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
Great opening quote: > You shouldn’t have to choose between open and secure "... and that's why we chose for you." So kind!
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
Just consider that storing TOTP codes in the password manager negates the advantage of two factors authentication, namely the added security of needing a second device. This would keep your logins safe even if somebody managed to breach you
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
> Popular vote does not matter to americans The question is whether and how much these policies are supported, and the popular vote is obviously relevant in this regard. > 36% of voters said: I support every outcome of the election, n
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
Loud and clear? Trump didn't even get half of the votes (49.8%) and almost 36% of eligible voters didn't vote, meaning that not even one third of the American public voted for this.
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
Does anybody know if there is a RSS reader with embedded recommendaions based on previous likes and/or user-specified keywords?
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
> Through the mass production of cultural goods, the culture industry created a situation where individuals were passive consumers rather than active participants in cultural life. This, they argued, led to the homogenization of culture,
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by blackbear_ 1y ago
Classic logical fallacy: A=>B does not mean B=>A

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