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by ivan_ah 7y ago
This is more of a "Reply" to the rebuttal; the actual rebuttal is here https://www.pnas.org/content/108/42/E833 And this is the original paper https://www.pnas.org/content/108&#
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What are the advantages of using ansible-based werf setup steps vs. the usual Dockerfile for image + entrypoint script for runtime config?
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This is very interesting for many reasons. First we have the privacy stance, which is a tremendous step for big G. Whoever managed to push this through in the "machine" of internal office politics deserves applause. The very fact
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If the book contains lots of equations, ePub is not the best. The best thing I've found is https://github.com/softcover/softcover which can generate pretty decent ePub/mobi with math as images, but still not
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So true! I think the problem is particularly bad in high-school and first-year undergraduate textbooks, which are "padded" with useless extras, non-sense boxes, and lots of blah blah to the point of being literally 5x thicker than
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RE this quote: > Books don’t work for the same reason that lectures don’t work: neither medium has any explicit theory of how people actually learn things, and as a result, both mediums accidentally (and mostly invisibly) evolved around
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This is a very well thought-out analysis of the textbook and lecture modalities for learning. I don't understand the virulent negative responses from many of the comments here—perhaps it's just a reaction about the clickbaity titl
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Very nice lecture that connects calculus to the laws of nature. I've always thought applied math has a leg up on abstract math because of the connections to real-world ideas. I encourage anyone who liked the talk to try out some of the
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The final paper submissions deadline was April 5 2019, so we can check the results now: https://zerospeech.com/2019/results.html ^ click on the green (+) to see details for each submission including audio samples recon
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ZeroSpeech Challenge 2019: TTS without T(zerospeech.com)
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This is a great paper. Very long, but worth every bit of it. BTW, here is a recent blog post about the paper: http://duboue.net/blog27.html One of the key insights I took away was the importance of using out-of-sample predi
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Agree that NHST using simple null hypothesis of the form H0: μ = 0 doesn't provide much value. H0 is never true, and the conclusion of "rejecting H0" based on a p-value is therefore not super profound. Also "rej
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Nice! The illustrations + color coding for the vectors are very useful. Here is a video tutorial that goes through some of the same topics (build up matrix product from the general principle of a linear function with vector inputs): https:
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If you're interested in a basic math intro (starting from linear algebra concepts), check out Section 8.2 in this excerpt from the book "No Bullshit guide to Linear Algebra": https://minireference.com/static&#
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And this is the 2019 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rXD5-xhemo&list=PLoROMvodv4... Quote from course page: "This year, CS224n will be taught for the first time using PyTorch rather than TensorFlow (as i
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Thx. This seems to be part of a playlist of 2019 lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rXD5-xhemo&list=PLoROMvodv4...
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What would be the fish shell equivalent alias/function?
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There is also another tool called `pynb` (by the same author) that can be used to achieve human-readable format. The logic is a bit different there, since it generates a .py script file with markdown cells appearing as Python comments. exam
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by ivan_ah 8y ago
Related talk: https://nips.cc/Conferences/2016/Schedule?showEvent=6204
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Direct link to report: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/29051... === Summary of Key Findings === o We conducted a literature review into the long-established relationship between maths
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This is very nice. I wonder if all the examples from SICP will run in Hy? The tutorial is very well written and show all the language features: http://docs.hylang.org/en/stable/tutorial.html Funny quote from the q
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I'm so happy I have a name for this concept now! I independently started using the same approach while editing my books. It looks weird, I know, but being able to move entire entire sentences using only line-oriented commands makes it
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Interesting. Very nice to see live-updating of results like Excel. Python fails on this transform function: def f(a): v = a if a >= 4 else 2 return v Message in red: "Error: (Brython compile error)" Update: I
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Here is a related blog post from last week that defines the "Principal engineer" / "Staff engineer" role: https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-e... Discussion he
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Intuitively, the purpose of the positive coefficients constraint is to allow for the interpretation as a mixture (admixture?) of components. This constraint gives the nice properties of W. In principle there is no reason why you wouldn&#x27
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Your idea of hypermedia with an offline browsing assumption is very good! Imagine an "offline archive" format that contains a document D + a pre-downloaded copy of all referred documents R1, R2, ..., Rn, along with necessary asset
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I remember during my undergrad days, my university (McGill) used to have its classified ads accessible via gopher. It was pretty popular and fairly easy to use. Surprisingly, there were quite a few non-technical people on there, e.g., posti
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Wow! This is the best explainer of quantum computing I have ever read. Scott does a great job at capturing the essential challenges and potential applications, without embellishing or being overly pessimistic. Good stuff.
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+1. This is a good Chrome extension for video speed control of all web video content: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro... Highly recommended!
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Halfway through the talk he switches to discussing quantum information theory. Here is an excellent book on this subject "From Classical to Quantum Shannon Theory" https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1445

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