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Why Deep Learning works even though it shouldn't(moultano.wordpress.com)
5 points by cjauvin 6y ago|0 comments
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by cjauvin 6y ago
I own a dishwasher but I never use it.. I happen to share Bill Gates' opinion about the virtues of manual dishwashing: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/30/why-bill-gates-loves-doing-t...
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by cjauvin 6y ago
Anyone would have a recommendation for a good choice of wireless earbuds (with a mic) for a Pixel phone?
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by cjauvin 6y ago
I would recommend a white noise machine for that, I haven't been able to live without mine for many years now: https://www.amazon.com/Marpac-Classic-White-Noise-Machine/dp...
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by cjauvin 6y ago
I too maintain an old and complex ExtJS 4.1 app and I never dared upgrading the framework. I carry a big zip around and it will be that until the end of its life or when I finally decide to rewrite it using React. For such an old framework
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by cjauvin 6y ago
A couple of years ago I was also a great fan of this paradigm where you try to convince yourself that you understand a math concept by coding/simulating it (a procedural, rather than conceptual understanding, if you will). Here for ins
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From a very high level perspective, I think what is somewhat surprising here is the fact that given that the Game of Life rules are quite simple, it should follow that a powerful generalization mechanism (which is what deep neural networks
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One related thing that I began to do a while ago is to always have a `<project>.org` file going along any of my projects, which is a free-form Org-Mode journal of all the things and ideas related to that project, including of course e
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by cjauvin 6y ago
I'm genuinely a bit surprised by that, that was always my high-level understanding of what the essence of neural networks was (at least feedforward vanilla ones), would you care to elaborate?
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Ah I'm glad to finally understand why Emacs 27 starts so slowly: I installed it as a snap (while my Emacs 26 was from a PPA), and I spent a great deal of time trying to find what was the culprit in my init.el config, to no avail.
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> So embeddings are bits of binary code that are associated with the words and word-snippets that the computer ‘reads’. These embeddings never change. I'm not entirely sure but I think this definition of embedding is wrong: first t
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I am in Canada and it seems to be available.
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I don't know much about macros and it revived my interest for this topic, thanks. I wonder if it could be used to embed SQL statements directly in Python code? (not sure it would be a good idea, but it would make for an interesting exp
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Wow thank you! So I just learned the proper name of this "puzzle", which my father also showed me a long time ago (and for which I used to fill pages and pages of trials even though I knew that it had no solution), and which I tri
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by cjauvin 6y ago
I was fascinated by a "puzzle version" of this problem as a child, and a couple of years ago I wrote some little Processing applets to explore the idea of "gamifying" it: https://cjauvin.blogspot.com/2012
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by cjauvin 6y ago
I'm also using this excellent tool, along with a nice Emacs integration for it ( https://github.com/NicolasPetton/pass ) and I really like it for the control and flexibility it gives, especially in the context of a
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by cjauvin 6y ago
The React tutorial is one of the best of the kind. You can go from zero to a reasonable understanding very efficiently.
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by cjauvin 7y ago
Typical Emacs user experience: sees a list of packages some other user likes, picks one with a name he finds intriguing (in my case eyebrowse), checks it, finds it cool, adopts it (possibly for a long time).
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by cjauvin 7y ago
I find that "Clever Hans" is a great metaphor to describe the gulf that exists between current state of the art NLP and human intelligence.
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by cjauvin 7y ago
I had a K6-233 which was always on the verge of overheating (or maybe I was obsessing a bit too much about monitoring it). I envied my friend's K6-200, which was more stable it seemed.
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Kaggle Challenge for Francois Chollet's Arc Dataset(kaggle.com)
4 points by cjauvin 7y ago|1 comments
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I have switched to treemacs a while ago (for a file/project explorer), and it's really powerful and mature, with interesting features like "workspaces", which allow you to have multiple directory views (which can be anyw
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Exactly my thought when I read this also, and I think it generalizes to a lot of cases where the value of trying to predict something is dubious at best, when there's nothing obvious you can do with the prediction itself.
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by cjauvin 7y ago
Following the recent "AI Debate" between Yoshua Bengio and Gary Marcus [0], there was a lot of discussion about the exact definition (or redefinition even, as some argued) of some labels like "deep learning" and "sy
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by cjauvin 7y ago
I too would like to join the bandwagon of people happily switching from Chrome to Firefox (mainly for ethical reasons at this point). However, I am on Linux (Ubuntu 19.04 on a desktop machine) and last time I tried (around FF 70 I believe,
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I have written a small analysis of that same problem using simple Python code, a couple of years ago: https://cjauvin.blogspot.com/2012/12/find-true-love-on-datin...
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This idea (that human intelligence is not general in a technical sense) is discussed and explained in Lex Fridman's dicussion with Yann LeCun: https://lexfridman.com/yann-lecun/
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by cjauvin 7y ago
I'm currently going (slowly) through this fantastic book, which I greatly enjoy and recommend: https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/
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I can totally relate about that particular one, I remember that it destroyed a good part of a weekend for me, and I wrote that about it on Twitter, back in January of this year: "I have thought about the particular challenges of this y
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by cjauvin 7y ago
To me, this debate is akin to wondering whether the essence of computing resides in the lower-level, Turing-like operations of a microprocessor or rather in the higher-level constructs and abstractions that we're able to build way &quo

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