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by j2kun 8y ago
Of course!
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The Amazon preview has more pages, in case you're still curious.
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Well, two chapters have singular value decomposition and neural networks as the applications. So it does have a lot of ML :) But yes, I unfortunately had to cut a probability chapter. I think someone who reads this book would have a much ea
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by j2kun 8y ago
First chapter is up now at https://pimbook.org/pdf/pim_first_pages.pdf Also note that the Amazon "Look Inside" lets you see basically any page. Some readers have told me the first chapters were too slow, and
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Yeah, I should update that to have the full first chapter.
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What part of Google's behavior thus far makes you think they'll drag their feet?
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Dragonfly catalogues and indexes searches for dissident topics, linking them to the searcher's phone number. Literally a search engine for dissidents.
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Testing alone will not preserve knowledge, just safety. Knowledge requires an explanation of what the tests are doing and how the tests detect it.
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That's my point (and the opposite of the author's point)
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Indeed, there's a reason that SQL statements still need formatting and keyword capitalization hints to make it readable.
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Isn't that what search engines used to be for?
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My complaint is that people use notebooks as production systems.
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I'm moving the weight more toward the center of the plane, but the plane "appears" heavier in the front. This is the opposite effect, no?
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The organ transplant algorithm is not really that similar to the stable marriage algorithm. It's a different mechanism based on the housing allocation problem. See https://www.nber.org/papers/w10002 I think they a
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One trick I always used but never understood why it worked: When you add a crease to the paper airplane, (say, folding a square corner in on itself at the nose or the tail), it weighs down that part of the plane. So if your plane is pointin
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I should post one soon... good suggestion
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A bit of shameless advertising: for those software engineers interested in learning mathematics, I am very close to publishing a book called "A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics." I hope it will accommodate readers,
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I felt extremely dizzy when I started scrolling. How can I trust the makers of a design tool when their website is literally nauseating?
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The demo on the front page raises an error when running "ls"
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Doesn't adtech enable smaller advertisers (say, self-published book authors) to reach a niche audience in a way that traditional advertising would make infeasibly inefficient and expensive?
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> Or why his first-generation ABC (“American-born Chinese”) children were more interested in sports or the humanities than studying fractions and common denominators. This could have just as easily been written: "Or why his first-ge
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Or better, an indication of the number of verifications via the single icon, with hover to show exactly which verifications they are
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Seriously. I was using a mouse at 3. This is a no brainer.
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The problem was that all the interesting examples had nontrivial state that couldn't be mocked.
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I've seen this a million times teaching students. They raise a shitstorm for two weeks because they can't understand their TA's accent. Then they learn and can understand them just fine. The truth is it's part laziness a
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You don't think Google could survive losing a single data center? Cloud users might lose some data, sure, and it'd likely cause issues, but I bet search wouldn't go down.
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I've done this, 100% tested documentation for a complex project, and it was a nightmare to maintain (eventually abandoned). Maybe it makes sense for simple projects, but for my project it was an utter disaster.
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This article is a bit vapid, not to mention full of ads and distracting nonsense. For a more modern and nuanced list, check out the "top 10 algorithms with the greatest influence on applied mathematics in the 20th century" http:&
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That is exactly my point. Now you have to disambiguate a poorly-chosen symbol. The theorem doesn't need the stipulation that c != 0 since you have already excluded c from the domain.
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If you define a/0 to be a value, then you can ask whether (2 + 1)/0 = 2/0 + 1/0. This is not meaningless since both sides are defined. If you define a/0 = 2, then the equation is false. Using "infinity" (w

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