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by blackbear_ 7y ago
I wrote my own lisp interpreter in python and it was a very instructive experience, especially since you can get a simple working prototype in one day of hacking around. Then I got stuck at recursively evaluating macros.
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by blackbear_ 7y ago
More accurate title: "study adds another piece to our (still) very lacking understanding of how bacteria beat the immune system".
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by blackbear_ 7y ago
Works fine with no cookies and no js. They could try harder.. ;)
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by blackbear_ 7y ago
If you want to read more on the topic, I enjoyed the book "The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization", by Vince Beiser (no affiliation)
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by blackbear_ 7y ago
NB: this post uses D for the input x and H for the output y. This confused me quite a bit since usually in ML we use D for the data (pairs of x and y) and H for the model (in most cases the parameters, the betas in this example).
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by blackbear_ 7y ago
Yes, you are correct. In other words, the relationship between temperature and quality is not linear, so directly using the temperature in a linear model gives wrong results. (To be pedantic, the probability will approach 1 as the temperatu
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by blackbear_ 8y ago
Heh, I thought it was about the modern Kafka. For the disappointed: http://notes.stephenholiday.com/Kafka.pdf
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by blackbear_ 8y ago
Just an introduction to standard hyperparameter optimization algorithms, nothing specific to deep learning. In fact, the methods mentioned are _not_ practical for deep learning since fitting the model can take days or weeks, unless you have
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by blackbear_ 8y ago
> voting with dollars may effect the change that voting with ballots may not aka bribery
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by blackbear_ 8y ago
org-mode + org-babel reinvented?
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by blackbear_ 8y ago
I'd say the problem isn't so much about readability but about ease of doing certain things. Case in point: non trivial tables, with multirows/multicols, newlines inside cells, and so on
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by blackbear_ 8y ago
to an outsider, web development looks like hacks upon hacks upon hacks upon hacks upon ......
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by blackbear_ 9y ago
Immediately thought it was referring to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15282967
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by blackbear_ 9y ago
Not needing millions of examples and being resilient to adversarial examples
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by blackbear_ 9y ago
I see an obvious flaw with this. If success is restricted to success at school, children of strict mothers are indeed more "successful" because they spend way more time on homework than the average student. I wonder whether this &
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by blackbear_ 9y ago
In the meantime..... https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07328
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by blackbear_ 9y ago
> All culture is a lie. You clearly haven't met people from cultures other than yours, have you?
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by blackbear_ 9y ago
predicting the evolution of running cases, and the arrival of new cases, for capacity planning in a call center
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by blackbear_ 10y ago
That's a good point. I think that quote also shows that some people tend to see sexism (or racism, etc.) even when there is none