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by currymj 8y ago
Specifically the spaceship game "Elite: Dangerous" is absolutely incredible in VR. (They've designed the game to work with it since the original Oculus dev kit came out.) It was the main video game I played for a while, almos
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by currymj 8y ago
if you’re using Zotero check out Papership which is a pretty good iPad client. I haven’t run into a missing feature yet. Also would recommend, if you want paid hosting, pay for a Zotero account with extra storage (run an academic group at G
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by currymj 8y ago
Because lack of vaccination is a really easy problem to fix, via vaccination. Indeed we have already succeeded in doing this many times in history. So it’s stupider and more frustrating that these diseases are coming back. By contrast comba
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by currymj 8y ago
they’re reasonably common in universities nowadays for handwritten note taking. i’d expect to see at least one person other than me who has one in any reasonably sized class.
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by currymj 8y ago
check out “SAT/SMT by Example”, which is a perennial HN favorite, for good reason. it mainly uses Z3. this is only one of many options but it’s a good one.
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by currymj 8y ago
I’ve seen your posts before so I am pretty sure you’re a CS PhD student. It is important to remember that getting a PhD in CS is unusually good. There’s a lot of money, limited need for expensive equipment, good job prospects in academia, a
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by currymj 8y ago
This seems pretty excessive even for one of the very competitive benchmark focused areas in deep learning. It is not necessary and probably harmful, and lots of very good groups don’t do this kind of thing.
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by currymj 8y ago
the law bans this kind of thing now (as of October 2018): you simply can't have a noncompete unless the employee is exempt from overtime. even for an exempt employee, the MA law now requires 50% salary to be paid for the period the emp
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by currymj 8y ago
some programs are happy to just have you tack a bunch of papers together into a dissertation. they usually still require you to write the actual document, though, re-explaining the work in each paper.
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by currymj 8y ago
I'm not an expert on this and would love to hear from one, but as far as I know there's simply more work to be done on AMD's end, to provide fast implementations of all the operations TensorFlow, PyTorch, and others need. ROC
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by currymj 8y ago
it is way more complicated than this. i know i underestimated how complicated these issues can be at first. there are many different failure modes. the race-blind models aren't necessarily really race-neutral; they could implicitly hav
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by currymj 8y ago
your understanding is not wrong, for the basic version of convolution typically used in neural networks. however, in practice the most optimized neural net libraries don't actually implement the operation in that way. as mentioned at t
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by currymj 8y ago
This is actually a case that shows the limits of Bayesian thinking. The power of probability is that it can work in two directions. You can use it to make predictions, from causes to effects, from past to future. Or you can use it to reason
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by currymj 8y ago
Judea Pearl’s explanations of this in terms of causality are the only way it really makes sense, in my view. https://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r414.pdf
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by currymj 8y ago
How hard is it, currently, for an ordinary technical but non sysadmin person to host Zulip on a VPS? say, for 30 users. is the process very complex? is it a lot of work?
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by currymj 8y ago
That makes sense, thanks. I have actually run into a use for one of the side projects (Wikidata) so I may be more optimistic about the foundation’s chances of doing something else useful with a big budget.
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by currymj 8y ago
What is the appeal of getting them to cut costs down to nothing? It seems weird to me that people resent a budget of $70 million/year for the most useful website in existence. What would you rather the money be spent on?
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by currymj 8y ago
it may not make sense to wait like a year for the research to get submitted to a conference, rejected by someone doing competing work, submitted to another conference, rejected by a reviewer who didn’t have time to read it, then submitted t
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by currymj 8y ago
they acknowledged even in the original blog post that any well-funded group of NLP researchers would be able to replicate their work within a few weeks/months (including whatever corporation or state or terrorist group you worry about)
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by currymj 8y ago
Yes especially if you are willing to broaden your definition to include multi-armed or contextual bandits (of which Markov decision processes that RL algorithms solve are a generalization). Lot of internet ad companies etc. use those succes
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by currymj 8y ago
You can think of it as “PCA where all the principal component entries and loadings must be positive”. Harder optimization problem to solve though due to that constraint. The connection is especially clear when looking at the projected least
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by currymj 8y ago
If you have a good model, and can use model-based optimal control which has been understood for decades, then that is good but there's also not really a research problem? You can just do the simple, robust thing and it will work great.
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by currymj 8y ago
this is sadly not the case. maybe 10 years ago it would have been, but plenty of people are now sincere flat earthers. i suppose there are different degrees of belief and maybe on some deep level they realize it’s nonsense but they aren’t c
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by currymj 8y ago
most snakes are small and harmless. it’s not any worse than seeing a rat or a lizard. in the US the main snake everyone gets warned about is the coral snake, which has a distinctive pattern and is very poisonous.
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by currymj 8y ago
there’s an ongoing debate about whether this situation actually does pose an antitrust problem across many industries. it’s at least not totally implausible.
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by currymj 8y ago
incidentally, AMD actually advertised their latest architecture as using "neural networks" for branch prediction. (Now IIRC it was actually just a linear model, aka a neural net with one layer.) So if that technology were to catch
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by currymj 8y ago
Fair Isaac Corporation
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by currymj 8y ago
i held out a small hope, before clicking the article, that for some stupid reason it would actually be the cows using the app and not the farmers. of course i was always going to be disappointed.
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by currymj 8y ago
you can definitely have cryptographic schemes where individual votes are secret but the result is publicly verifiable. i don’t necessarily think it’s a good idea because it’s better to have a low tech system that people can understand, even
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by currymj 8y ago
as far as I can tell, this bill would only allow jail time if there was a serious breach, at a large company, and higher-ups left it out of an official report they would be required to make to the government. in other words, all they have t

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