burning_hamster

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by burning_hamster 5y ago
Yeah, obnoxious or not, the Turing award is a bit too important for this kind of middle school drama.
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
Jachtverlängerungsautomatisierung ;-) Also 11 sylabels.
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
Not having lived in the US for a while, I can't judge the situation there. But -- to keep with your metaphor -- lowering the temperature in patient zero sure seems to have reduced the chance of further outbreaks across the pond. Before
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
> 2) Elements of Information Theory by Joy Thomas and Thomas Cover is a thorough and engaging textbook. Thomas & Cover is THE textbook on information theory -- no doubt -- but you and I have very different definitions of engaging. Fo
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
Hey dude, I just read a bunch of the comments here. The HN crowd was always going to be a tough sell. Too many lone wolves, and proud ones at that (!), who don't realise that not everyone has the same sense of self-assurance to do thin
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
You are right; I should have been more specific. RL does forget in the simplest sense, i.e. that certain weights in your model drift away if the data distribution is non-stationary. Humans seem to be a bit more targeted in their forgetting.
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
I completely agree that there is no conclusive evidence. However, it is the number one activity that influences cognitive performance in all animals that have been tested. Saying that sleep is not proven to be important for intelligence bec
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
I used to think that given enough time, more people would also learn that there are no substantial differences between supervised and unsupervised learning. However, I have come to believe that this might not happen any time soon. The suppo
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
I just read the PLOS one paper. The arguments they brought forth were strong. If this had been my paper, I would have been livid if I had been rejected. However, given the fragmented and buggy state of bioinformatics tooling and databases a
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
As a bioinformatician, I cannot wait to use this quote on someone.
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
I think the title of the paper makes more sense if you consider that ten years ago, someone could have written a paper in a similar spirit with a different take on "what is enough". Back then, it would probably have been titled: &
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
I think you raise an important point. The youtube algorithm is pretty bad if you don't use youtube very much or only use to consume very popular content. Youtube's recommendations used to be terrible for me, too, but sometime last
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
Thanks for the kind words! Hope it will still be useful at some point in the future.
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Show HN: Netgraph, a Python library for visualizing networks(github.com)
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
> The problem with software is it's simply a bad fit for German culture, which is generally slow, cautious, and interested in stability over short term profit. Tangential point but slightly disagree: Germany has a presence in lots o
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
The tabs icon seems narrower, such that it is now impossible to read more than 4 letters of the title. I don't remember how many letters where visible before but it feels a little bit harder to find the correct tab again if I switch aw
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by burning_hamster 5y ago
> The straightforward lesson to take from this is that international public health experts belong to a social and political class which thinks closing borders is bad for mostly domestic political reasons, and in the absence of external r
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by burning_hamster 6y ago
On a different note, why does your website look so refreshing (for lack of a better word)?! Beautiful design (non-design?).
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by burning_hamster 6y ago
Did you guys all skip the DNA extraction practical at university? 1) Proteinases are indeed not necessary. 2) The step that removes any DNA bound proteins and in fact denatures the vast majority of proteins is the salting out. DNA is negati
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by burning_hamster 6y ago
If you learn vim or emacs, you will discover that for literally any task that is interacting with text in some form (plain text, code, spreadsheets, presentations), there is almost always an extension in these "text editors" (whic
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by burning_hamster 6y ago
Here is a recent review with open access: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6787585/pdf/dia... It's been a while since I left virology so I can't comment on the veracity of the arti
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by burning_hamster 6y ago
I think how you process the article really depends on whether you made it through to the first postscript. > PS - Don’t forget to be nice to your less nerdy co-workers. Don’t show surprise when they could be about to have a learning oppo
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by burning_hamster 6y ago
> What are your favourite features about magit? For a similarly complex task, there is no program with a better UI. Magit manages to optimize for both, speed and discoverability: 99% of all actions are 2-3 keystrokes away, and at each st
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by burning_hamster 7y ago
You could make the method more robust by sacrificing a few bits for error correction. For example, by using a Hamming code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_code . Also, PCR robotor already exist. Not many around t
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by burning_hamster 7y ago
Now that does not mean that one could not think about automated ways of finding vaccine candidates, but instead of modelling (implicitly or explicitly) viruses and vaccines, you would need to model virus-derived particles and human immune r
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by burning_hamster 7y ago
Anti-viral vaccines are not anti-viral drugs. The main problem is not figuring out an exploit in the virus biology that could be leveraged by a pharmacological agent to disrupt the viral life cycle. The main problem is 1. finding a part or
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by burning_hamster 7y ago
It does, but in an average flu season, how many escape unscathed? Now factor in that the transmission rates may be significantly higher for this virus (R0 below 2 versus anywhere from 1.4-6.6).
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by burning_hamster 7y ago
> Say the model outputs 90% chance of nothing, 10% chance of a deadly condition that needs to be investigated ASAP. Doctors are often overworked and tired and can miss it. Knowing where the certainties and uncertainties of the model lies
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by burning_hamster 7y ago
The behemoths don't (and can't) care about markets with a value below a certain threshold.
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by burning_hamster 7y ago
Would you guys mind open sourcing your data set, including the cases where you currently fail (presumably graphs with edge crossings -- I couldn't help but notice that all examples are planar graphs)? I think I may have some ideas how

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