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by glial 8y ago
I'll be curious to read reviews of this from people who have laid hands on it. I bought a ReMarkable and absolutely love it. I am in graduate school, so I take a lot of notes and read a lot of papers, and the ReMarkable fits this nee
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by glial 9y ago
I'm not ignoring it. The rationalizations just sounds similar, that's all. If anything it speaks to the strength of people's addiction to Facebook.
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by glial 9y ago
Seriously. It's like listening to smokers rationalize why they can't stop.
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by glial 9y ago
This book is helpful - I went through it and did all the interactive examples. Having said that, I much prefer "Doing Bayesian Data Analysis" by Kruschke. It is extremely clear. It introduces concepts with intuition first, then m
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by glial 9y ago
I read Shannon's original papers and have been trying to grok information theory off and on with only limited success for several years. The book "Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction" by Stone really helped the princ
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by glial 9y ago
I really appreciate his sharing his notes that translate fairly complex math into something like an intuition. It fits in a helpful (but sparsely populated!) niche between academic papers and tensorflow-for-software-engineers tutorials.
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by glial 9y ago
Given the speed of modern computers, I'm fascinated by the fact that so many processes complete in human-scale time (seconds-minutes), rather than milliseconds or years+, depending on problem complexity. If times for compute tasks have
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by glial 9y ago
Who would have guessed that the first large-scale achievement re: the Turing Test would have happened on Facebook. We are watching bots be confused with humans and vice versa on an enormous scale.
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by glial 9y ago
With the rise of Tensorflow and sklearn, the strong Python showing makes sense. However, I wish Python had a solid IDE for interactive work like RStudio. Jupyter notebooks are fine but being able to easily inspect variables is super conven
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by glial 9y ago
Good luck buying eggs from your neighbor with Bitcoin.
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by glial 9y ago
Messing up the global food supply chain would be no joke.
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by glial 9y ago
He is one of a very few PhD students whose work I'd heard of and followed before they graduated. He had a great & informative blog, too.
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by glial 9y ago
Higher population density in urban areas severely reduces the need for cars. It's possible to live in cities developed pre-car (London, Berlin, Boston, New York) without owning a car. Americans have put ourselves in a pickle by build
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by glial 9y ago
> The environment is an unpriced externality so it has to be controlled by the government. Yes, and a commons, and must be protected for that reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
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by glial 9y ago
It seems clear, to me at least, that the regulations were intended to motivate auto companies to create technology to improve fuel economy and then deploy that technology widely in production. That there has been subsequent technical advan
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by glial 9y ago
Watson is effectively just a brand for machine learning consulting.
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by glial 10y ago
That's my question too. I've come to heavily rely on Airflow. As an Apache project now it's becoming mature. From what I can tell browsing the site, Bonobo looks like it's designed to do data processing within the framew
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by glial 10y ago
reMarkable[0] was mentioned here a few days ago. Do you think they are vaporware? [0] https://getremarkable.com/
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by glial 10y ago
I agree 100%. Eliminating gerrymandering is only going to lessen the two-party polarization problem, not solve it. From what I understand the party proportional system is what's used by Germany, Japan, and many other nations with moder
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by glial 10y ago
> those shills on Reddit tend to be pretty obvious The ones you notice are obvious, by definition. It's the once that aren't obvious that concern me.
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by glial 10y ago
Keras makes using deep learning for simple-ish use cases sooooo easy.
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by glial 10y ago
We do know a lot, but I would argue that much of what we know is not a result of the techniques used in this article. The things you mention are results of lesion experiments or observations, which are decades (or more) old. Most of what
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by glial 10y ago
A microprocessor is admittedly a poor metaphor for a brain. However, I think the article still makes a strong point, which is that neuroscientists use many experimental and signal-processing techniques whose utility hasn't even been de
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by glial 10y ago
> disabling neurons sounds a little crude and may not help much in gaining a finer understanding Yes it's crude, but artificially creating 'lesions' and investigating brain disfunction is a time-honored tradition in neuros
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by glial 10y ago
> he's just following through on campaign promises. How can you fault him on that? It's easy - his campaign promises were short-sighted and pandering to idiots.
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by glial 10y ago
+1 for Airflow. I use it every day to handle tasks with many components and dependencies. I love that everything is code & version-controlled. I do wish it had a REST API though.
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by glial 10y ago
It's expected, but as someone doing research it's super discouraging. I can certainly see the appeal of moving away of basic research with a very long term time horizon (fine for science, but frustrating for individuals) and towa
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by glial 10y ago
Statistics has nothing to do with it. People should be presumed innocent until proven guilty. I am honestly shocked that this appears to be a controversial assertion.
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by glial 10y ago
This is cool, and I wish someone would make a 10" or 13" version that didn't cost an arm and a leg.
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by glial 10y ago
Give this book a shot. It teaches through examples that are very simple and concrete, builds ideas up slowly, and only afterwords encodes them into theorems and equations.

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