cosmic_ape

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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
That's useful, thanks. But to be a bit pedantic, this can only show that at a particular place where the measurement is taken, the earth has some curvature, that its a bit like a hill there. This does not show that the earth is glob
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
Regarding 2: >> Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a proportion of men ... It is so easy to be immature. If I have a book to serve as my understanding, a pastor to serve as my conscience, a physician to determine my d
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
At its heart, yes. But that is also one of the basic tenets of probability theory in general, since the very beginnings. Called the law of large numbers. Monte Carlo usually refers to situations where "trying something a bunch of times
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
You are probably right that in principle one could eventually come up with a full catalog of features of a reservation. There would be about, say, 100 of those. I seriously doubt that they will proceed to define and collect them, since tho
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
They have listed the problems with such systems in the first paragraph. They claim to overcome these by restricting to very specific domains. But specific domains are usually still wide. A table for two, but in the garden or inside? Inside
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
>>Anything graphical or interactive but ipython is already well integrated with matplotlib in the --pylab mode, and is pretty interactive. Thats how I use it. re:saving state - its technically a nightmare, I agree. I though it might b
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
IPython's interactive shell is way more convenient than using the default python command line when trying things out. But I just don't get why one would need the whole Jupiter thing on top of that, except for maybe making presenta
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
No problem :) re transparent walls I'd say they might have been suitable in late 17th century or so... But seriously. To begin, the whole construct of comparing theoretical discovery to "seeing new things" is very old. Ta
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
Just saw your comment, what you're saying is interesting to know, thanks. I thought it was clear that I was expressing my own opinion. Let me tell you just this: I do not think that Rita Dove, Pulitzer notwithstanding, have ever, li
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
I don't think the lines you refer to would be considered a good poem. It's a poor imitation. Cann't right now think of anything I know by a proper poet in English, but consider for example Leonard Cohen's The Maestro say
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
ok, we can define it like that. but its useful to distinguish between these different ways supply and demand can act then, under your definition. One is concerned with just the number of available jobs, and concerns the "efficient mark
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
>>Except power itself is determined by supply and demand. not necessarily. consider what would have happened if the workers were unionized, for example. You might still have had the same number of jobs, but a different distribution
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
The term research became extremely diluted now. It attempts to put very different things under one roof, and so is not very useful. Near the end of that blog post you find: >>Reading the book, I felt that most of my research is not
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
The study to which the blog links is about a survey, and it finds that among those who chose to respond to the survey, about 40% have moderate-to-severe depression, and 40% have moderate-to-severe anxiety, according to a certain clinical
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
Besides the data, its interesting how the actual targeting was performed. Does facebook provide an option to show a particular given ad to a particular given user? Or is it possible to select a group of people with a given set of likes? How
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
It would help if the datasets were categorized by data type. Timeseries, multilabel, etc...
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
Can someone list the advantages of using this instead of a regular bank+credit card? 1) Monitoring spending in real time or on a weekly basis is useful, and this seems to make it easier. But just a tool for downloading, viewing and analyzin
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
I understand what you mean. But the personality properties like agreeableness, extroversion, openness, should reveal themselves through behavior over time. Otherwise, what's the point in them? And, say, hi-tech work seems to provide en
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
Have a feeling that if one used something deeper than just lasso regression, much better results could have been obtained. This is very similar to a recommender system, or a text classification problem, and there much better than lasso can
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
Could you point to some reasons why you'd think that there is anything deep and profound about deep learning? As far as the evidence I know goes, its very shallow as a scientific concept. All there is, is the idea of using convolution
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
Funny that in the abstract it aims specifically at electrical engineers, since electrical engineers do machine learning for about six decades now, under different names. Since the invention of the Wiener filter, the Kalman filter, etc...
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
There is also an overview of tools for "complex systems", by the same author: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0307015
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
Second that. Some of these notebooks are excellent literature reviews, highlighting really neat connections between results.
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
Yes, but I'm not interested in works where researchers are trying to validate a hypothesis like "stereotype threat discourages girls from pursuing math-intensive STEM coursework and careers". I'm asking about what these
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
People talk about research involving indicators such as "ability" and social factors. But have anyone asked the boys and girls before college, or before starting a graduate degree why and how they make their choices? It seems t
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
I agree that there are many natural groups that should be given much more attention when teaching group theory. But the virtue of abstractness to me is in the notion of isomorphism , which is surely critical to how we understand groups. Th
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
There is an assumption that most work environments are not like factories anymore. I wonder how true is that, even in "modern" fields such as corporate software development or maybe accounting. It seems these are still overwhelmi
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
Can you give examples where the paper is wrong? In large things, not nitpicking. I'm just genuinely curious.
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
there is a link to a white paper on the github. they show there is a x10 or more decrease in train time on a couple of datasets.
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by cosmic_ape 9y ago
>>Actually, I still have no idea why there is a Markov chain. What is the structure of the chain? Where does it come from and why can't we just sample the parameter without using a chain? If the parameter can be sampled from the

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