j2kun

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by j2kun 9y ago
I second this. Rough sketch: detect a text input I'm tying in, add a little button that says "sign and send", which when clicked adds a signature to the message and submits. If the extension sees this on a forum, verify the s
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by j2kun 9y ago
In retrospect this was a genius way to get training data :)
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by j2kun 9y ago
Having to anticipate how the robot will screw up and reorganize your life based around that is a big issue. It's a big enough reason for people to decide they need to give up a dog they love, and people love dogs a lot more than they l
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by j2kun 9y ago
It's important to note that we know the limitations of SVMs because of the theory. That's usually what a theory provides. There are also a few methods, like boosting, that are purely the result of theory.
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by j2kun 9y ago
Give one specific example of a widespread modern invention that did not require any understanding to create. You personally can use a tool without understanding how it's made, but you seem to claim the tools are invented without anyone
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by j2kun 9y ago
I was under the impression it's illegal to intentionally mislead any federal employee, subpoena or not, in any communication whatsoever. Whether it's the "right" way or not, it seems like an API counts as a form of commu
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by j2kun 9y ago
I agree. As someone who has done mathematics research, and studied on the purest end of the math spectrum, it's so aggravating to hear engineers who "took BOTH differential equations classes" explain how math should be when t
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by j2kun 9y ago
Another aspect, one that I've encountered many times, is that even when someone has to implement the idea from scratch, they don't work to understand it and instead just translate pseudocode. I once had an interview where I was as
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by j2kun 10y ago
The "2 random choices" idea also shows up as a good idea in other settings, such as load balancing for hashing. I wrote a writeup[1], but if you google "power of two random choices" you'll see a lot of literature on
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by j2kun 10y ago
> These OKRs are entirely unrealistic to finish this quarter. Same score as > THIS IS ENTIRELY UNFAIR These are qualitatively different sentiments.
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by j2kun 10y ago
Despite how much I enjoyed the article, I was a bit dismayed that he gave no mention of Kolmogorov.
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by j2kun 10y ago
For reals, it's "Real numbers are the numbers you need to ensure every convergent sequence of rational numbers has a terminating point" Convergence is determined in the "Cauchy" sense by having a vanishing distance
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by j2kun 10y ago
> The complex numbers come about by simply adding one dimension Complex numbers are also best thought of (in my opinion) as an abstract completion of the reals under the operation of taking roots of polynomials. Because otherwise, what w
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by j2kun 10y ago
Doesn't this (and by extension, Curch-Turing) rely on the assumption that the universe is discrete? Provided it were not, and one were able to harness infinite precision, one could presumably make a new symbolic system based on it. Not
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by j2kun 10y ago
> Yet why do some marriages last forever (till death do us apart) while others fail miserably or crumble even after 20 years? Well, you don't exactly "date" for years before getting a job. You're acting like people ge
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The Algebraic Analog of P vs. NP(samidavies.wordpress.com)
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by j2kun 10y ago
Oh that's so kind of you! I'm interested to hear what aspect or sections you particularly liked?
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by j2kun 10y ago
A while back I wrote a similar post that focuses more on the math, and how one might discover this organically (well, maybe) https://jeremykun.com/2014/05/26/learning-to-love-complex-nu...
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by j2kun 10y ago
Well, to be paid as such :) And I rarely cover recent work.
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by j2kun 10y ago
In that case it lines up exactly
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by j2kun 10y ago
US is like 12% black, no (and 50% female)? Doesn't explain the discrepancy.
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by j2kun 10y ago
I agree with you here, and have no idea what the OP is talking about. In Math and ML, TeX is so ingrained in the culture that there are _jokes_ based on TeX puns. (Where do mathematicians go for a rational rack of ribs? The \mathbb Q)
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by j2kun 10y ago
From my experience, most ML researchers are in your camp. They are primarily interested in the ML, and good (not-just-in-your-head) visualizations are at best icing on the cake of their understanding.
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by j2kun 10y ago
I think the counterargument is that most people don't make decisions based on technical merit (as the goal of technical dissemination is), but in (a) effects on humans, which don't need a technical explanation in the sense we&#x27
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by j2kun 10y ago
I meant incentive with respect to career advancement, in the narrow sense of what metrics hiring and tenure committees use to make decisions.
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by j2kun 10y ago
I left a comment on your blog announcement to this effect, but I'd love to be a "research distiller" :)
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by j2kun 10y ago
I sure hope this catches on, but we should all be aware of the hurdles: - Little incentive for researchers to do this beyond their own good will. - Most ML researchers are bad writers, and it's unlikely that the editing team will do th
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by j2kun 10y ago
Thanks for writing that.
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by j2kun 10y ago
I wrote a small javascript compiler in Haskell and it was great fun.
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by j2kun 10y ago
> But Go does have generics, for the built-in types. Arrays, channels, maps, and slices all have generic type parameters. Doesn't this mean you could implement a generic tree type if you fix the underlying data structure to be an ar

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