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by cschmidt 7y ago
A month ago [1] there was a post about the proof of Ringel’s conjecture, that a complete graph can be covered by certain trees. Sadly it was a non-constructive proof. In a little googling of the Graceful Tree Conjecture, it turns out that
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by cschmidt 7y ago
Sad to hear. I played the drums, and he was my hero growing up. Modern Drummer magazine had a "drummer of the year" in different categories, and eventually they made a hall of fame, so it wouldn't just be Neil. By their rec
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Deep Learning Illustrated(deeplearningillustrated.com)
11 points by cschmidt 7y ago|0 comments
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by cschmidt 7y ago
I've become fed up with Google search results lately. They very clearly want to provide me with an "answer" that keeps me on Google, rather than sending me away to the website I'm looking for. I've switched to DDG
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by cschmidt 7y ago
I remember reading a 3-5 page novel outline that Arthur C Clarke published in one of his short story collections. It was dull, but an interesting insight into his process. I can't seem to find a reference to it now.
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by cschmidt 7y ago
I came across Dash last week - a very cool offline API documentation browser. Super useful and very well done. https://kapeli.com/dash
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by cschmidt 7y ago
I've enjoyed reading Dave's writing for most of that time. His email newsletter DaveNet used to include the email addresses of a few random subscribers to each person. It was fun to see the addresses of famous people occasionall
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by cschmidt 7y ago
It was in the St. John's college library, which is kind of fitting. They're a really unique hold out among US colleges, with a strong belief in the "Great Books" philosophy of reading original texts. https://
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by cschmidt 7y ago
There is a proposal to add some of the old missing box drawing characters to Unicode, in a section called "Graphics for Legacy Computing": http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17435r-terminals-prop.pdf They h
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by cschmidt 7y ago
Why would they be working on something like this? Is it useful for JetBrain's line of work? I mean it is cool, but it makes me curious as to why.
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by cschmidt 7y ago
There is a ticket about this that might interest you. It seems like there is work to do, but that it might get there https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor/issues/1187
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by cschmidt 7y ago
At ICML 2019 there was a good keynote by the chief scientist of the Census Bureau. The 2010 census was before a good understanding of differential privacy, so it wasn't really done correctly. The census bureau actually went back and
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by cschmidt 7y ago
In my grandfather's day, Readers Digest magazine offered lifetime subscriptions. Being clever, he took out the subscription in the name of my dad, who was a young boy. My dad is 80 now, and has received that magazine for virtually hi
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by cschmidt 7y ago
You can actually rent and stay in Kipling's house in Vermont, Naulakha, through the UK's Landmark Trust. They mostly rent historic properties in the UK, but have a few like this with a British connection. https://landm
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by cschmidt 7y ago
(note: IANAL) I don't know what country you're in, but they're in the US, and their lawyers are legally obligated to defend their trademarks against all violations, or they risk losing the trademark. So they will. Trademark u
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by cschmidt 7y ago
Also, Quark is a trademark of a software company, who's lawyers will eventually be in touch http://www.quark.com/About_Quark/Legal/
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He had an Armani suit phase for a number of years.
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I've also had the experience that hill climbing (with random restarts) can outperform GA's. In many problems you can fairly easily define a neighborhood concept for moves from the current solution. That tends to be easier than ge
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Hacker Eva Galperin Has a Plan to Eradicate Stalkerware(wired.com)
3 points by cschmidt 7y ago|1 comments
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by cschmidt 8y ago
I recommend The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, as a good way to get into stats. I've taught a class using it work a number of times, and it makes a great first exposure. The equations are there, explained in a really nice way. https:&#x
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by cschmidt 8y ago
There are a whole ton of students coming out of one year masters DS programs, who don’t know that much more.
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by cschmidt 8y ago
I paid for the original Pragmata font in 2004, and he has kept sending updates surprisingly often ever since. I suppose I upgraded to Pragmata Pro in 2011, so only 8 years of updates on that. Money well spent for 40 hours a week of use htt
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by cschmidt 8y ago
What a weird argument. It seems to me that LaTex is used so much because it is the fastest way to type math equations, once you get good at it. If you don't have math in your paper, then maybe he has a point. But whenever I have lot
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by cschmidt 8y ago
It is usually the "first language" of choice these days, when teaching programming.
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by cschmidt 8y ago
Does anyone know if there was any relation of this attack and the Facebook outage that happened yesterday as well? Seems weird that both FB and Google have trouble on the same day.
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Sure, of course you're right. Our website is in 26 languages, so they would have been accommodated. I was just meaning Canada would allow English speaking developers to use the site and debug issues.
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by cschmidt 8y ago
This is kind orthogonal to comments about the FB dating features, but my company chose to launch a major feature this week in Canada as well. I guess it is the natural choice as: 1) it is English speaking, so it is easier for our English s
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It would certainly be useful. I'm interviewing a lot of people for ML roles, and I've noticed a new group of "deep learning only" people coming out of colleges. They know their DL, but have no exposure to what I guess w
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by cschmidt 8y ago
They aren't the most interesting scenarios. I'm quite a fan of scenario planning in general. The Global Business Network [1] used to do really good work in this area. The book "The Art of the Long View" is a classic b
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by cschmidt 8y ago
Wow, I wondered why you put a TM on Random Forests. I guess it is trademark of Salford Systems, which is kind of weird. Maybe we can just call them random forests and ignore that.

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