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by dplarson 1y ago
Microsoft has a blog with more details [0] but the Axios article does a good job of summarizing the main points. The full report is also available to read [1]. [0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend
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Welcome to the "Infinite Workday"(axios.com)
5 points by dplarson 1y ago|1 comments
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by dplarson 2y ago
I found this presentation helpful for an intro to H3's design/motivation: "Engineering Sub-City Geos for a Hyper-Local Marketplace with Uber": https://youtu.be/wDuKeUkNLkQ?si=-9JmxZQJ2LZo6Kh4
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by dplarson 2y ago
> Geothermal energy source found in Presidio County, Texas Contrary to the clickbait title, the article included the key point in the first bullet point.
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by dplarson 3y ago
For folks that don't recognize the author (Ian Stapleton Cordasco), he's one of the core maintainers for python-requests (sigmavirus24 on github).
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by dplarson 5y ago
If it uses a hash of an image, does that mean an edited image (eg cropped or resized) wouldn't be detected? Or is there a way to extend a single hash to multiple image variants? I imagine the answer is no, but I would also like to be o
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by dplarson 5y ago
Quite an interesting review, with lots of useful learnings for practitioners (in my opinion). I also liked the use of the term "graphical literacy" in the abstract, which is something I've seen cause challenges first hand (th
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Hazy skies, poor air quality: Is port congestion worsening L.A. pollution?(latimes.com)
2 points by dplarson 5y ago|0 comments
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by dplarson 5y ago
In case it's helpful, here's the first paragraph from the post: "The original KiCad domain name (kicad-pcb.org) was recently sold to an unnamed third party that is not affiliated with the KiCad Project or members of the KiCad
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by dplarson 5y ago
I wish the subtitle could have been included in the HN posting: "Scientists scramble to harvest ice cores as glaciers melt" The next paragraph provides more context: "Ice provides historical records about climate and shows th
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The Myth of the Expert Reviewer(parameterfree.com)
1 points by dplarson 5y ago|0 comments
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by dplarson 5y ago
Tweet with other links: https://twitter.com/mmbronstein/status/1404380398856060932 Paper (PDF): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.13478.pdf Blog post: https://towardsdatascience.com/
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ICLR 2021 Keynote: “Geometric Deep Learning: The Erlangen Programme of ML”(youtube.com)
1 points by dplarson 5y ago|1 comments
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by dplarson 6y ago
This Twitter thread [1] points to research on the subject of reducing police violence, which I found fairly informative. [1] https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1180655701271732224?s=19
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Instance-Aware Image Colorization(ericsujw.github.io)
4 points by dplarson 6y ago|1 comments
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by dplarson 7y ago
Since the article didn't link to the paper: - "The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks" - https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635
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by dplarson 8y ago
Additional context from Ali Rahimi and Ben Recht: http://www.argmin.net/2017/12/11/alchemy-addendum/
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by dplarson 8y ago
For numerical optimization, a couple good textbooks are: - "Practical Optimization" by P. E. Gill, W. Murray and M. H. Wright: a little old (1982), but provides a solid foundation - "Convex Optimization" by S. Boyd and L
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by dplarson 9y ago
This is great to hear! Also, the video linked in the article [1] provided a nice overview of the work that will be supported by the grant. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fowHwlpGb34
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by dplarson 9y ago
The topics covered are fairly broad and overall it seems like a nice collection of notebooks for teaching. Also, I agree with the choice to use Anaconda to install the dependencies. In my experience teaching similar type workshops (to engin
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by dplarson 9y ago
Thanks for the info and context!
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by dplarson 9y ago
I'm having trouble finding the source of the figure shown, but I did find a page with similar information ("Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index"): https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
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by dplarson 10y ago
This paper appears to be from 1998 [0]. No judgment on its quality; I'm just trying to provide a reference for other readers of the post. [0]: A.C.C. Coolen, in ‘Concepts for Neural Networks - A Survey’ (Springer 1998; eds. L.J. Landau
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by dplarson 10y ago
I found the Github page to be a better source in this case: https://imatge-upc.github.io/detection-2016-nipsws/
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by dplarson 10y ago
They have a datasheet [0] for an "Environmental Monitoring Sensor" which lists a line-of-sight range of 50 miles and 1–3 miles in urban settings. For comparison, Digi's XBee PRO ZigBee wireless modules have a line-of-sight ra
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by dplarson 10y ago
Neat, they use a Teensy microcontroller with an accelerometer breakout board from Adafruit for the hardware.
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Persistent RNNs(svail.github.io)
2 points by dplarson 11y ago|0 comments
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by dplarson 11y ago
A very interesting and informative post, as to be expected from someone like bunnie.
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ICLR 2016: accepted papers(iclr.cc)
2 points by dplarson 11y ago|0 comments
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by dplarson 11y ago
It's cool that they provided bindings for Torch, but also interesting. Torch is obviously very widespread/popular as a deep learning framework, but I got the impression that Baidu's Silicon Valley AI Lab (SVAIL) ran mostly a

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