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by cafebeen 3y ago
Greg Lemond wrote about fitness, "it never gets easier, you just get faster", which perhaps applies as well to programming.
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by cafebeen 4y ago
I think you're both right, but you might be thinking of different tasks and libraries. If we're talking about solving a specific type of PDE, then in that scenario he's probably right that MATLAB will work better out of the
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by cafebeen 5y ago
Here's a link to the associated paper just out in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04492-9 Marek et al. Reproducible brain-wide association studies require thousands of individuals (2022) "M
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Brain-Imaging Studies Hampered by Small Data Sets(nytimes.com)
6 points by cafebeen 5y ago|4 comments
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by cafebeen 5y ago
A good example from physics is this observation related by Feynman in 1974: "[...] It's interesting to look at the history of measurements of the charge of an electron, after Millikan. If you plot them as a function of time, you f
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The Magic Kernel(johncostella.com)
1 points by cafebeen 5y ago|1 comments
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Gates Notes: Data could hold the key to stopping Alzheimer's(gatesnotes.com)
1 points by cafebeen 6y ago|0 comments
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by cafebeen 7y ago
Alas, the possibility of comments like this are one reason that some researchers hesitate to release their code. Even if there are issues, it's tremendously valuable that they shared this, so others can reproduce and build on their wor
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Augmented-reality app brings research images to life(spectrumnews.org)
1 points by cafebeen 7y ago|0 comments
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Augmented reality for scientific posters and papers(news.usc.edu)
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Resnicks Pledge $750M to Caltech for Environmental Sustainability Research(caltech.edu)
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by cafebeen 7y ago
Yes, there is surely evidence that intelligence is heritable, but it's worth giving the research on this a close reading. Current approaches can only explain 10% of the variance in intelligence ( https://www.nature.com/
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by cafebeen 7y ago
Agreed that intelligence is a good thing, but the question is about whether there is a set of genes that are “best” for producing it. At the moment it’s unclear which genes those are, and even if we found some genes related to intelligence
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by cafebeen 7y ago
The bigger issue seems to be determining what "best" means. While there are a handful of diseases associated with specific genetic variants that could obviously be cured, the traits people would likely try to optimize (e.g. inte
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Argoverse: data and HD maps to advance self-driving technology(medium.com)
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Decolonization and Intersectionality in Tech(techcrunch.com)
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by cafebeen 8y ago
I find raincloud plots to be the best of both worlds, and they have been my preference lately: https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/4-63/v1 They can visualize common statistics like box-plots, the distributio
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Raincloud plots: a multi-platform tool for robust data visualization(wellcomeopenresearch.org)
2 points by cafebeen 8y ago|0 comments
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by cafebeen 8y ago
Perhaps a person's interests, income, or lifestyle are salient variables as well? I would guess that each person's circle of friends has some of these in common in addition to age (likely true for HN discussions as well). For a
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by cafebeen 8y ago
This is essentially a list of textbooks for undergraduate coursework in computer science. I'd guess is the important parts are the amazon affiliate links...
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by cafebeen 8y ago
In a trivial sense, it seems that a Euclidean topology would do the trick, no? I'd be curious to hear counter-examples, of course. In my mind, I suppose what's missing from the "manifold hypothesis", as stated above, i
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by cafebeen 8y ago
To play devil's advocate... given that manifolds are so general, wouldn't it be more surprising if natural data didn't form some lower dimensional manifold? That is, a manifold only requires some consistent notion of neigh
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Trump to launch artificial intelligence initiative(sciencemag.org)
8 points by cafebeen 8y ago|1 comments
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by cafebeen 8y ago
These seem like good guidelines, although I would add that drivers should also be aware of other cars that may merge from the side, so you cannot depend entirely on the mirrors. This happens quite frequently in heavy traffic when folks are
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by cafebeen 8y ago
One major application is in geospatial statistics for a variety of fields that need to perform regression of irregularly samples across space. Although it is typically called Kriging, it is mathematically equivalent to Gaussian processes f
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by cafebeen 8y ago
While there are some amusing anecdotes in the article, the characterization of Szilard as a failure is baffling.
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Human hippocampal neurogenesis drops to undetectable levels into adulthood(sciencemag.org)
1 points by cafebeen 9y ago|0 comments
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by cafebeen 9y ago
Note, the original paper is about evolutionary patterns of overall brain shape, which is far from indicating how brain organization evolved. The important parts of brain organization are encoded by patterns of structural and functional con
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by cafebeen 9y ago
I find the current MBP makes a lot more sense if you mentally substitute “deluxe” for “pro”.
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by cafebeen 9y ago
i think you mean, there will always be at least one person who is unhappy.

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