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by currymj 3y ago
rarely sufficiently covers the cost of living, though yes in some cases (e.g. if you get the top end of the stipend range from a rich university that also happens to be in a low-cost-of-living area). terrible idea for someone who just wants
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by currymj 3y ago
what is the tuition if you are over 25? I think it is still about 800 CHF. This is extremely cheap. Compare to MIT which is about $40,000 a semester, with the average student after financial aid paying $20,000, and is in Cambridge, a city w
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by currymj 3y ago
ETH Zurich and EPFL (in Lausanne) are elite technical schools, which also have extremely low tuition (roughly $1000 total per semester) and open admissions. There is no entrance exam required for students who have a Swiss high school degree
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by currymj 3y ago
some combination of using aviation biofuel (which in principle can be produced in a nearly carbon-neutral way) and buying non-fake carbon offsets (i.e., actually taking physical carbon out of the air) would probably be good enough. this wou
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by currymj 3y ago
i don't think the car analogy is good because cars are expensive to build and maintain, usually are used more than once, and it's very bad if they crash. these properties are true of some software but not the kind of software i&#x
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by currymj 3y ago
if you're developing code for a large codebase with stable requirements in a company with good engineering practices, and your work output is the working code itself, it's hard to see that it would be very useful. if you have to g
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by currymj 3y ago
as I understand it, they are allowed to get pretty creative with the odds on "reel" type video slot machines. the odds of a given outcome have to match the published odds in the payout table, but the animated reels don't have
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by currymj 3y ago
starting with FORTRAN the last 70 years have involved continual improvements to make programming faster, easier, higher-level, easier to learn, and more accessible; and each one of these has just made programming an even more useful and imp
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by currymj 3y ago
Shannon was, I believe, the first person to define an n-gram probabilistic language model of English text and then sample from it!
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by currymj 3y ago
has the historical evidence been reconsidered? i remember reading quotes from historical people who were all pretty clear that this is how they slept, and often implied they considered it not to be unusual.
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by currymj 3y ago
there is interesting historical research, which pops up from time to time, showing that people in many cultures before the advent of electric lighting commonly slept in two phases -- about 4 hours, a couple hours awake, and about 4 hours. i
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by currymj 3y ago
"Quantum Computation and Quantum Information" by Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang -- "Mike and Ike"
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by currymj 3y ago
the trend laid out in this article seems like a good thing. Zen people talk about meditation being "useless" which is kind of true I think. It's not literally a complete waste of time. But if you have any specific problem (in
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by currymj 3y ago
yes, but this is a relatively recent (20th century) development that was originally introduced in order to enable the translation of foreign-language literature.
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by currymj 3y ago
The title is "Reduction of a game with complete memory to a matrix game" by I. V. Romanovsky, Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 1962. Unfortunately I don't have access to the article.
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by currymj 3y ago
i don't know. it's mysterious that nobody even came up with the algorithms for decades, which often do still work well on toy examples. MCTS is the kind of thing people definitely could have thought of at any point since 1950; and
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by currymj 3y ago
attention-grabbing headline combining a hype topic and a controversial topic... published in PNAS... and it's about priming... doesn't inspire confidence.
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by currymj 3y ago
trying to elaborate on the OP a little by avoiding math terminology: part 1 here is essentially the idea of logic circuits. you can write these down in terms of large vectors of 0s and 1s, and operations transforming them as large matrices
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by currymj 3y ago
there was a popular medical textbook, reprinted well into 1920s, that still recommended bloodletting. (and not in some sensible "did you know actually leeches are still useful for healing wounds?" way. just old school bloodletting
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by currymj 3y ago
i mean in AI specifically, you need your stuff to be usable by a small lab of prof/grad students, otherwise it will never get adoption. usually at least some of the compute resources are "prosumer" workstations using commerci
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by currymj 3y ago
it probably does work fine if your job is to only to prove theorems. the theorems will wait for you overnight.
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by currymj 3y ago
quite possibly all the restaurants are closed because your 16 hour day ends at midnight?
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by currymj 3y ago
cheaper alternatives to DFT (using ML especially) for this purpose is an active research area
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by currymj 3y ago
I know someone who did what you describe, but in her case it was legitimate. She could walk, though slowly, but had great difficulty with ramps and stairs, and would be in pain for a couple days after standing for a long time, so genuinely
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by currymj 3y ago
the theme is "Cheesecake Factory". very weird postmodern mix of different ornamental elements from world civilizations throughout history.
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by currymj 3y ago
it's just that mostly, nobody takes a Greyhound bus if they have another option, you'd rent a car or fly. there are intercity bus routes in New York/New England that have a mix of all kinds of people. but I think this is sust
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by currymj 3y ago
yes -- these authoritarians are causing problems in our society. we simply need to root them out and expel them all, then we the people could live in peace in a society free from authoritarianism...
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by currymj 3y ago
"eventually" might be a while. these fairly obvious (once pointed out) photoshops were just sitting in the open in the top scientific journals in the world for 20 years...
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by currymj 3y ago
it's understood to be a gray area. you're not supposed to be throwing spitballs, true, but batters aren't necessarily unhappy if pitchers have more control and are less likely to hit them in the head. the players also aren&#x
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by currymj 3y ago
You can imagine the following perspective: - Most people don't need to learn calculus at all, and it's fine if the few weird students who do start when they get to college (maybe the advanced students can learn single-variable cal

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