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by colincooke 5y ago
Honestly this change might actually be the one that makes me finally buy some crypto. The energy burden and overall wastefullness of these coins has vastly outweighed any potential benefit they may provide. A big coin making such a good (at
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by colincooke 6y ago
I'll start off by saying that this type of research is very interesting, and in this case well done. However, the issue to me in "all optical neural nets" has always been the non-linearity. The non-lineartiy (or activation fu
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by colincooke 6y ago
Yes, I have done so (I have since resubscribed). I believe it required an email, or at least some weird looking portal. Not as easy as it could be, but certaintly not a call to customer service.
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by colincooke 6y ago
Paywall free link: https://outline.com/55VGgA
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Flexibility is the new great workplace divide(economist.com)
2 points by colincooke 6y ago|1 comments
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0/300 AI based Covid-19 detection papers have clinical relevance(twitter.com)
2 points by colincooke 6y ago|0 comments
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by colincooke 6y ago
Considering that the UC system is pretty dominate in California, and California on it's own is >10% of the US population it isn't surprising. Especially when you acknowledge that the universities within the UC system are some o
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by colincooke 6y ago
The Economist (which I'm very familiar with) to me should be a model of how newspapers should operate. Make their biases up-front and clear (The Economist is written for and by believers in liberalism) but then report the facts well an
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by colincooke 6y ago
At least in my field (applied machine learning/optics) and my partner's field (cognitive neuroscience) pre-prints are a massive deal. Not only do they allow you to get your work out earlier, google scholar will typically link your
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The Heilmeier Catechism: Evaluating a Research Program(darpa.mil)
3 points by colincooke 6y ago|0 comments
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by colincooke 6y ago
This resonates with me. Recently my Samsung "smart" TV decided that after I turned off an input device, the appropriate behaviour was to immediately display some garbage "entertainment" channel called cheddar. I think it
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by colincooke 6y ago
I love transferwise, depend on it often. I don't get the rebrand, their old name was descriptive, easy to google, and from all perspectives really good. The rebrand won't change me using it, but I really can't see the positiv
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by colincooke 6y ago
It's very intersting, but once you understand how these attacks are performed, not too surprising (at least the attacks that I'm familiar with, there may be others that are different). Basically (and I'm drastically oversimpl
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by colincooke 6y ago
It's interesting that they only tackle a single model architecture (a pretty common one). It makes me think that is is likely an attack technique which uses knowledge of the model weights to mess up image recognition (if you know the w
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by colincooke 6y ago
The smattering of new techniques seem to have made the difference between success on toy problems vs. being able to match or exceed human performance on many difficult tasks. So while naysayers are correct that "the math hasn't ch
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by colincooke 6y ago
That is absolutely correct, but is sadly the case in a lot of fields. It doesn't mean that the practical results we see (AlphaFold, Imagenet Performance, NLP performance, Robotic control with RL) isn't amazing progress. Luckily du
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by colincooke 6y ago
There are many many practical example of modern ML (especially DL). Would be interesting to hear why you think those examples are not indicative of a field which is useful/not a hoax.
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by colincooke 6y ago
I agree, there was a nice article in the economist about this concept (bitcoin as a store of value) [0]. More specialized than gold, investors have realized that bitcoin acts as a great hedge on uncertainty. When the market is uncertain to
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Ford to use Google Android as the brains behind its vehicles(axios.com)
2 points by colincooke 6y ago|0 comments
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The Game Stop Situation Is Not a Conspiracy: An Intro to Market Makers(reddit.com)
2 points by colincooke 6y ago|0 comments
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by colincooke 6y ago
Ok this may be kind of stupid, but my primary reason for not switching over to jupyter lab (from notebooks) was the right-click menu wouldn't let me copy images (plotting outputs typically) from the in-line output. However I found out
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by colincooke 6y ago
Yeah there is nothing comperable. For those with infared needs we're mostly stuck
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by colincooke 6y ago
As someone who has used FLIR cameras, and other industrial imaging systems I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand the continued concentration of specialist camera tech is bad for the market (FLIR a few years ago acquired point grey [
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by colincooke 6y ago
This is a bad take, vaccinations are rapdily increasing in the USA and around the world: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-19-vaccinatio...
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by colincooke 6y ago
Most people do actually judge by citations rather than raw pubs. It's an open secret that you can shove out papers (acceptance to any venue, regardless of the quality of the work is probabilistic) with enough effort. Getting cites is h
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by colincooke 6y ago
I think peer-review is an answer, perhaps not a great one, to how can we trust specialist science. In a world where the renaissance man role is no longer feasible, to move science forward we must narrow our focus on particular sub-fields an
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by colincooke 6y ago
Good point, could have been a great article if it took a more careful tone and just demonstrated how cool it is that the tech now exists to do this yourself (with sufficient means + skills), without adding the other negative elements/s
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by colincooke 6y ago
The article checks two bad boxes for me. 1. It disparages the work of individuals/organizations unjustly, who have done society a great service throughout this trying time. An attitude which has the potential to feed anti-vax sentiment
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by colincooke 6y ago
It's still on sci-hub for now: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jceh.2018.08.00...
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by colincooke 6y ago
For an in depth review of what this work was actually about (and how it differed from AlphaFold 1, hint it was probably transformers), see this great video from Yannic Kilcher [0] [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9PL__g

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