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People typically set the weights of a neural network using heuristic approximation algorithms, by looking at a large set of example inputs/outputs and trying to find weights that perform the needed computation as accurately as possible
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by enriquto 3y ago
Neural networks are Turing machines. You can make them perform any computation by carefully setting up their weights. It would be nice to have compilers for them that were not based on approximation, though.
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And standard floating point numbers.
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s/abandoned/crystalized/g
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> There is no really opt out if everybody implements techno-feudalistic software patterns. I have bad news for you: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
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> If you extrapolate, the earth would be much smaller in these photos. At that height, the horizon would appear nearly as a perfect straight line. With a pinhole camera, it would be projected as a straight line in the image plane. Thu
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It doesn't matter, just use any text editor.
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You can do this: pdf2ps a.pdf # convert to postscript "a.ps" vim a.ps # edit postscript by hand ps2pdf a.ps # convert back to pdf Some complex pdf (with embedded javascript, animations, etc) fail to
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by enriquto 3y ago
I'm well aware of curl's -O (long form: --remote-name), but it has an unfortunate clash with an option of the same name from wget (long form: --output-document). These options have closely related yet very different meanings. Usi
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For me the killer feature of wget is that by default it downloads a file with a name derived from the url. You do: wget url://to/file.htm and a file named "file.htm" appears in your cwd. Using curl, you wou
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worldview3 and pléiades neo have about 30cm per pixel (the images are sold by third-party vendors such as maxar, airbus)
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Sentinel 2 images are freely accessible, paid by european citizens through the copernicus program. There's also landsat 8 images, of similar resolution (10m/pixel for visible, lower in infrared bands). The revisit time depends o
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by enriquto 3y ago
> You may be right that Linux is a security disaster How so? If you run a program that you trust, like "ls", "vim", "firefox", "cat" or "rm", then you absolutely want it to be able to ac
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> proper app sandboxing in Linux desktop, in the sense that third party proprietary programs use it Proper sandboxing is not something that third-party programs should get to decide to use or not. It should be the users of these program
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> X allows every application to take screenshots of the whole screen. I have bad news for you: linux allows every application that you run to wipe out your entire home directory.
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That could be easily construed as a feature.
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Loops in Python are excruciatingly slow, for no reason. Some algorithms are naturally written using loops, and Python makes this very uncomfortable, forcing you to rewrite your algorithm in a non-natural way. I hate writing numerical code
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> you are given right to use a piece of software, but only if you provide source code to anybody connecting to your server This is a convoluted way to put it! You use the word "use", not to mean the actual users of the program
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For me the main point of bsd or small linuxes over debians/redhats is that running htop fills just one third of the screen and I can understand what each program does right away. It fills me with a sense of control and tranquility tha
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> I wouldn't squirrel my documentation away in an ipynb file. This! ipynb files are a nightmare to deal with. Fortunately, you can use jupyter without ever seeing a .ipynb file, by storing your notebooks in a different format (e.g.
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Also, often you don't need to save your Jupyter notebook in the unergonomical json format; instead save it as a script containing your code cells (and the markdown cells as comments). Thus you can run it directly from the command line
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> Stallman of course saw this coming decades ago and predicted with disturbing prescience - that "either the user would control the program, or the program would control the user." Do you have a source for this quote? Best I c
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> invoking them as a separate process from the main application does not count Why not? What is your worry? That starting a process is too slow? That data transfer is too slow? Something else? I agree that process startup may be mean
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> XDG, like systemd, likes to believe it's universal but it's not. In XDG's favour, we can say that it is just a written convention that people are free to follow or not on a per-program and per-user basis. It is not a ca
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And a good abstract, precisely, starts with the punch line. If anything, modern academic writing style is guilty of using overly whimsical and exaggerated titles and claims to grab attention.
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> Why Bram built his own language [...] I don't really understand. What language would have you chosen in 1991 instead of creating vimscript? The vimscript language is a very natural extension[0] of Bill Joy's "ex" l
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independently of vim configuration, lua is a cute general-purpose language worth learning in itself. It is much simpler than python, and the documentation is outstanding.
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> what is it that outweighs all that neovim has to offer? You should ask, and answer, the question in reverse. What does neovim offer me, as a regular vim user? I don't see anything particularly interesting for my usage, so I don&
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> How do I type ä <COMPOSE> " a where COMPOSE is typically ALTGR, but you can map it anywhere you want, like CAPSLOCK I write daily in three european languages with many accented characters, and this is enough for all of them.
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This does not appear to be a "radical" redesign, it looks quite similar to a regular piano. I would love to see different key arrangements connected to regular hammers and strings, allowing for a wider span for each hand, opening

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