eigenman

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by eigenman 9y ago
Mathematians (such as myself) don’t look down on intuition. It is the only way to construct a map through a complex proof. However what you may have picked up on is we disstain people who insist they have a brilliant idea for which someone
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by eigenman 9y ago
Ethanol makes perfect electoral sense: Democrats get to pass "green" legislation which their base likes while Republicans get to give subsides to farmers, one of their main constituents.
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by eigenman 9y ago
Although tuition free education is a good answer, it won't work for everyone. There is a distribution of intelligence and skill; not everyone will be able to perform the remaining highly technical jobs. What should our society do wit
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by eigenman 10y ago
I don't think you can fix money in politics without unduly limiting free speech, and even if you do, those who call foul on political spending hold the power. I think the only practical way to fix this problem is to remove the two part
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by eigenman 10y ago
This doesn't at all surprise me. I used to work at Anderson in the Leukemia department, brought on to analyze their "big data." They wanted to know which cells were indicative of relapse but were only able to provide data o
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by eigenman 10y ago
I think that criticism of Numerical Recipes is still fair. Most of the topics in this book are the subject of decades of research hundreds of papers. Expecting all this to be condensed down to a few pages with the 'good enough'
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by eigenman 10y ago
The t-SNE algorithm isn't a clustering algorithm, but a nonlinear embedding. Clustering algorithms assigns a label (or no label) to each point in the data set. Instead, the t-SNE finds low dimensional coordinates for each point such
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by eigenman 11y ago
Not only that, but the demo video they show on their webpage is recorded on OSX.
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by eigenman 11y ago
The problem is the Berne convention explicitly forbids requiring registration for a work to enjoy the benefits of copyright. The USA ratified this convention in 1989. However, I agree with you. There needs to be some mechanism pushing ba