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by divbit 10y ago
Figured out a better organizational method for using it as a blog: https://github.com/divbit/blog
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by divbit 10y ago
Also useful for github as a CMS / blog: https://github.com/divbit/grimoire-public/tree/master/blog/f...
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by divbit 10y ago
I posted this once before but has been updated quite a bit since then. Would appreciate some feedback on the direction it's heading.
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by divbit 10y ago
Super cool. In this example, it's differentiation of a one-dimensional curve, but one can use the dual numbers to compute tangent spaces of more interesting algebraic objects as well. See, e.g. remark 5.38 here: http://www.j
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by divbit 10y ago
loss function tournament winner replacing hash winner in something like bitcoin mining
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by divbit 10y ago
srry readme a bit out of date..
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by divbit 10y ago
"grok" mode does a quiz on all notes of a certain topic
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by divbit 10y ago
thats the idea behind http://github.com/divbit/grimoire as well, except more for private notes.
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by divbit 10y ago
Well yes, you could use neural net for the tournament selection, but I was thinking of a much dumber competition that involves a whole lot more distributed GPU power.
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by divbit 10y ago
"During learning, a tournament selection genetic algorithm is used to select pathways through the neural network for replication and mutation." Trying to think of another 'tournament' like process that would allow for a
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by divbit 10y ago
Several of the comments here are pretty harsh about your works- to balance that out, I thought they were pretty cool, but then again I like retro / minimalistic things, and am not really a design expert.
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by divbit 10y ago
The draw imo is the following: you try to find e.g. a tortilla at 'average big chain supermarket' without any hydrogenated oils, and it's going to take 20 minutes of reading ingredients, and even then maybe there just aren&#x
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by divbit 10y ago
15 km/h is quite fast
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by divbit 10y ago
What I am trying to point out is that it should be impossible to enjoy prolonged daily aerobic exercise under the constant respiratory distress the article is claiming for 'all such brachycephalic dogs.' Let me quote directly from
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by divbit 10y ago
Ok I will take the bait - breathing, especially over the course of lets say ~45 minute run should definitely have some relation to the part of anatomy the article was talking about (specifically, the vets are claiming that the smashed nose
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by divbit 10y ago
Before I had to give my pug up this past summer - I used to take him for good length jog daily, and he would frequently out pace me. If a pug is in shape, it will do great. If you just feed it hotdogs all day and only infrequently give it p
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by divbit 10y ago
Grant applications, at least in academia, I've heard take lots of time / etc away from actual work - Although if this became the norm maybe it would lower the hurdle - Alternatively, an nomination system could be used, or somethi
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by divbit 10y ago
Ok, first amendment has been effectively nullified. Was not aware.
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by divbit 10y ago
This is great for calligraphy with surface pen - can't find the black ink though.
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by divbit 10y ago
IANAL but freedom of religion is the first amendment, and basically what the country was founded on: Matthews 6:3-4 "But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving m
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by divbit 10y ago
(From memory, so possibly miss some details) Differential Privacy uses the concept of adding 'noise' to a dataset to make it statistically provable, that, if queries are supposed to only be A, B, C... then the adversary can only t
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by divbit 10y ago
I am by no means good at programming interviews but 1. Generate all subsets of 1-n using the proof of cardinality of the powerset 2. Filter to subsets of size k 3. If it's an array of letters, use the filtered subsets to index the arra
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by divbit 10y ago
I don't know much about gigabytes, but that seems like a lot edit: (I'm guessing the downvotes are because I phrased it like a meme, but to clarify, this was a genuine compliment in response to a 'look what this person did&#x
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by divbit 10y ago
Am I reading this right? Rethinkdb is now under apache 2? That's awesome news - such great software.
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by divbit 10y ago
> wonder why Twitter is so popular Anecdotally, I've found several useful tidbits on twitter that are less than newsworthy (maybe because they are not interesting to a large subset of people) but that never popped up other places- I
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by divbit 10y ago
"Third, objectivity. As long as the news media cling to the idea that “staying neutral” and “not taking a position” are the journalistic holy grail, they’ll leave the judgments on current events to the historians." In case you don
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by divbit 10y ago
Beautiful. This should be used to introduce vector fields in Calc 3 / Manifolds type courses.
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by divbit 10y ago
https://github.com/divbit/grimoire Example output pdf for sharing: http://docdro.id/QPKoLBh You can also style the notes by simply dropping a <style> some css element { some css thing: some nu
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by divbit 10y ago
(Server) Looks cool. What is the intended benefit over something like express?
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by divbit 10y ago
I assumed, on reading, that they were suggesting it was due to some societal factors (e.g. racism) that makes it harder for black people, but maybe I misinterpreted it.

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