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by cscheid 4y ago
And also, don't look to get into furniture making where the (previously affordable) good looking, high-quality, easy-to-work-with material is 97% imported from... Russia. Baltic birch plywood, I barely knew ye.
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by cscheid 4y ago
From my understanding, fingerprint analyses don't have widely-accepted specificity or sensitivity rates either. Those "73% match" figures are not derived from any sound principles.
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by cscheid 4y ago
> do you ever shake the feeling that having a book read to you is somehow qualitatively not as good as reading it from the page? I can't answer for OP, but I did spend a year commuting a bunch and got through ~60 books or so that wa
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by cscheid 4y ago
Interesting that you bring up WWII. There's a theory that says that US's big research funding agencies are deliberately set up the way that they are because the US government freaked the _fuck_ out upon realizing that a bunch of n
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by cscheid 4y ago
(former tenured prof here) This is exactly right. Just like it's better to think of McDonald's as a real estate company with a food business on the side, these days it's better to think of big state schools as mechanisms for
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by cscheid 4y ago
(I've been a happy paying customer of Fastmail for _years_ and I didn't know about masked email. Thank you!)
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by cscheid 4y ago
Lowe is being funny and calling back to his classic "Things I won't work with" series (which is also linked to in a different comment). One of the things you learn just from that series is that anything with this much fluorin
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by cscheid 4y ago
1) Then Donald Logue got famous, and I'd be the idiot yelling "that's Gunter Janek!" at every episode of Grounded for Life. 2) I can't look at that screenshot and not hear "I leave message here on service but y
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by cscheid 4y ago
I'm sorry, but Datalog has existed since 1977; RDF, since 1999.
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by cscheid 5y ago
Working now, yes. Though deno.land's current IP still nslookup's to something inside googleusercontent.com so maybe google has fixed their Side. But it was definitely offline earlier today (cf. our github CI failures and downforev
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by cscheid 5y ago
https://deno.land down too. I guess a lot of CI actions will be failing just like ours...
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by cscheid 5y ago
If you enjoyed that, you'll probably also enjoy the "Maze Generation" section of Mike Bostock's Visualizing Algorithms talk: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/#maze-generation
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by cscheid 6y ago
No, they require a full pass over the support vectors , which are potentially a much smaller set. (That’s part of why everyone was so excited about SVMs when they were invented) The support vectors are the training values with nonzero hing
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by cscheid 6y ago
I believe that gives you the result starting from Fibonacci, but not that any starting pair of numbers eventually lands at the golden ratio.
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by cscheid 6y ago
If you read this and you’re curious, there’s a proof that is fairly easy to follow if you understand eigenvectors. Write the operation that takes the two last elements of the sequence and produces the following two, notice it’s linear, the
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by cscheid 6y ago
I’m super curious, if you don’t mind my prodding. I looked into doing this for my own version of a JavaScript midi teacher a while back. Any chance you’re doing it via the neural nets sequence to sequence translation algorithms that are sup
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by cscheid 7y ago
I'm not a stats person! But I have been burned in real projects by doing the wrong thing. I just have learned --- the hard way --- to honestly appreciate it.
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by cscheid 7y ago
You make a good point I hadn't considered. In that case, not even robust least squares will save you, because the samples are not independent of one another. You'd have to start looking into explicit time-dependent methods and yik
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by cscheid 7y ago
As far as i understand it the RANSAC arguments are very much not Bayesian (they're all about "if you repeat this an infinite number of times under an infinite number of new samples, then...", which is almost caricaturely freq
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by cscheid 7y ago
Thank you for pointing out some bad phrasing on my part. When I said "small dataset", I should have said "small subset of all collected points that are initially fed to the model". The issue isn't that you have to c
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by cscheid 7y ago
I don't know how else to put it, but the technique suggested in this paper is irreparably incorrect in the setting that it recommends. Attempting to fix a linear least squares fit by removing points with high residuals does not work. P
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by cscheid 7y ago
When I was in a less-than-ideal job situation a few years ago, I found myself saying "... but I love my job" to a friend. I'll never forget the reply: "... you may love your job, but the job doesn't love you back&qu
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by cscheid 7y ago
https://cscheid.net/courses/spr19/csc665/ The assignments are not directly available, but my email is easy to find.
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by cscheid 7y ago
Hm. I just finished teaching an ML course where all of the assignments were pure Python (on purpose, so students would actually have the chance to see all of the code). One of the assignments included implementing reverse-mode autodiff and
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by cscheid 8y ago
Hey Andrew, funny seeing you here (we went to grad school together!)
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by cscheid 8y ago
The amount of class-file hackery that goes on with LaTeX submissions is remarkable. (shoutout to the rest of HN procrastinating near the CHI deadline)
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by cscheid 9y ago
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2...
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by cscheid 9y ago
Fantastic. One final question/request (for which I'd happily pay for!) : it would be awesome to have a path away from Observable's infra if desired. Say I _really_ want to host a particular notebook locally: is something like
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by cscheid 9y ago
So this paper appears to have been published on 2017-12-23 (according to https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-70972-7_... ), which was ahead of the Specter and Meltdown disclosures. Truly unfortunate
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by cscheid 9y ago
yup, in cartography these are known as trap streets

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