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by blt 9y ago
Correct interpretation
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by blt 9y ago
True, we need a global grid.
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by blt 9y ago
Others have already mentioned Cramer's rule, but even if this code were switched to Gaussian elimination it might not beat lapack on big problems. Lapack implementations do extra tricks to optimize cache usage on big matrices. Would be
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by blt 9y ago
Ha, I never thought of this but you're probably right. My kitchen has a single-handle faucet that is hooked up backwards - plumbers make mistakes :) I don't blame them, sometimes equipment is weird. For example, the contacts on an
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by blt 9y ago
I use Python for machine learning, but I wish I could use a friendly, modern, statically-typed language like Kotlin, Swift, etc. instead. Dynamically typed languages feel scary beyond around 1000 lines of code.
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by blt 9y ago
I agree. I think we will see an explosion of techniques that exploit prior knowledge about the set of problem instances typically encountered in real life. The prior may come from analysis by hand or be learned from data. We will need to mo
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by blt 9y ago
Interesting - older developers like Swift a lot. There is a resurgence of C++ among younger developers.
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by blt 9y ago
We live in a post-truth society now [1]. OK, maybe we're not all the way yet, but it's interesting (and scary) to speculate about what society might look like if it becomes much harder to verify if a given statement is true or fal
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by blt 9y ago
Bill Freeman, the PhD supervisor on this project, is a really creative computer vision researcher. Read through his CV, he has a great ability to pick interesting problems slightly outside the mainstream. I wish for that ability.
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by blt 9y ago
No mention of gradient based solutions for huge data sets?
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by blt 9y ago
How to deal with efficiency issues from the huge amount of data being piped? Shared memory area and send pointers over the pipe?
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by blt 9y ago
Based on the code in this tutorial, it seems like it would already be easy to use from other languages. What did you need to change?
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by blt 9y ago
Handbrake is a pretty solid and easy to use GUI wrapper of ffmpeg.
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by blt 9y ago
The beauty of a real vector display in person is barely approximated by videos and emulators. I highly encourage seeking one out.
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by blt 9y ago
Glad to see conditional expressions becoming popular. TBH it's hard for me to understand why anyone ever felt that switch/if should be statements. I guess being too immersed in assembly programming?
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by blt 9y ago
I know, it just sucks that the default platform for making apps now gives you access to ~10% of the machine's computing power.
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by blt 9y ago
The UI and behavior is amazingly close to the real thing. But I cannot help but sigh when the brush tool lags more than Paint lagged on a 233 MHz Celeron. I really think this is an awesome project, but I am old enough (30) to remember fast
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by blt 9y ago
Wow, what is the name of that restaurant? I don't plan to be in the twin cities any time soon but I'll still make a Yelp bookmark just in case!
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by blt 9y ago
People think salt is bad for you... They don't understand the role of salt in cooking. Let them try eating unsalted bread. It will be an educational experience.
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by blt 9y ago
Fried chicken is the perfect food to eat at a restaurant. Prep starts 24 hrs in advance with brining the chicken. Breading process is messy. Lots of oil required. Difficult to get the temperature and timing just right. None of these are iss
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by blt 9y ago
My solution: memorize the "function pointer typedef" syntax (second-to-last element in this list) and use typedefs whenever I use function pointers. std::function syntax in C++ sure is nice though.
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by blt 9y ago
Just make sure they check if the GPU fan spins left or right - right-handed GPU fluid will make the spurving bearings in a left-handed GPU sieze up real quick.
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by blt 9y ago
I tried to use UE4 on Linux and gave up. My guess: someone on the UE team supports Linux as a pet project, and they're productive enough on other tasks that nobody tells them to stop. It's pretty clear to me that they support Linu
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by blt 9y ago
w.r.t. the "affine regression" comment - you can reduce affine regression to linear regression by adding a constant feature whose value is 1 for every data point, or by centering the data on its mean. So it's a fairly mild mi
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by blt 9y ago
I live in LA and we desperately need more dense housing and better mass transit. You can't have one without the other, so it makes sense to build new dense housing near transit. But the article links to a counterpoint [1] making the ve
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by blt 9y ago
Articles like these reinforce that almost all software is held together by prayers and pretends rare events never happen. We are a long distance away from verifiably correct systems.
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by blt 9y ago
Sounds great, I would love to try it someday!
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by blt 9y ago
Fresh green peppercorns (พริกไทยสด) in Thai food give an amazingly complex, aromatic flavor without being overpoweringly spicy. The first time I tasted them was like a revelation. It seems that cuisines from hot climates are more aware of t
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by blt 9y ago
Google is playing the long game. They want to digitize as much information about the world as possible. Autonomous cars, location recognition from arbitrary photos, location-based marketing, etc. As computing becomes more intertwined with o
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A Global Optimization Algorithm Worth Using(blog.dlib.net)
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