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by jampekka 2y ago
Wolfram Alpha is mostly for "trivia" type problems. Or giving solutions to equations. I was figuring out some mode decomposition methods such as ESPRIT and Prony and how to potentially extend/customize them. Wolfram Alpha doe
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by jampekka 2y ago
I just spent a few days trying to figure out some linear algebra with the help of ChatGPT. It's very useful for finding conceptual information from literature (which for a not-professional-mathematician at least can be really hard to f
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by jampekka 2y ago
> Yet one thing that these minimalistic text-based interfaces are terrible for is rendering mathematical notation. You can notate mathematics using text. In fact the mathematic notation rendered to vector graphics/bitmaps is typical
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by jampekka 2y ago
Because the education that security zealots were pushing was ridiculous. https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/nist-scraps-passw...
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by jampekka 2y ago
> We are at the age of engineering human behavior and societal engineering is in the realm of STEM. We are definitely not. I'm saying that as someone researching how to use computational methods to model human behavior. We know very
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by jampekka 2y ago
Maybe with robocalls?
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by jampekka 2y ago
Given the wealth of Luigi Mangione's family, if he's the killer, this sounds unlikely to be penned by him (or at least his own story).
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by jampekka 2y ago
Nitpicking continued: As per e.g. Wikipedia definition it refers explicitly to the process (and not the speed): "In civil and military jurisprudence, summary execution is the putting to death of a person accused of a crime without the
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by jampekka 2y ago
> and she was summarily executed. Nitpick: Summary execution means execution without due process. As per Wikipedia there was a quite thorough legal process all the way to the supreme court. "On September 9, 2021, Lao was sentenced t
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by jampekka 2y ago
For the logarithmic sine sweeps (confunsigly also known as exponential sine sweeps) used here the standard method is to use an inverse filter to (de)convolve the sweep recording into an impulse response. No worries about windowing or leakag
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by jampekka 2y ago
You can check whether responses differ without a calibrated microphone. But regardless here the methodology is very weak, just playing a sine sweep with a spectrum recorder open and eyeballing the frequency magnitudes.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Same could be argued about the last 100 years of the region. West doesn't give a shit about these countries as long as they keep selling oil (in dollars). West propped and props up Islamism (and other tyrannies) to prevent nationalisat
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by jampekka 2y ago
And then liberals in UK and USA joined hands with Islamists to overthrow the Mossadeq government.
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by jampekka 2y ago
What experts expect Syria to get better? The rebels are led by a rebranding of al-Nusra Front which is widely designated as an islamist terrorist organization.
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by jampekka 2y ago
And the same in Libya.
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by jampekka 2y ago
The first paragraph of TFA: > The week before Thanksgiving, Marshall Brain sent a final email to his colleagues at North Carolina State University. "I have just been through one of the most demoralizing, depressing, humiliating, unj
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by jampekka 2y ago
And quickstart video tutorials please.
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by jampekka 2y ago
In many cases the Markov assumption is made to simplify things even though it's not realistic. But nevertheless it does describe what the model itself does even if in the real environment it doesn't act as a real Markov process (e
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by jampekka 2y ago
Transformers only care about N words/tokens of context. That was the primary reason they became the dominant language model architecture. A system being a Markov chain doesn't say anything more about the function mapping inputs to
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by jampekka 2y ago
The theory of Markov chains (or Markov processes in general) has nothing to say about what happens inside the function that maps observations to predictions of the next state, as long as the function is stateless/memoryless. It is a di
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by jampekka 2y ago
Any system with memoryless finite transition rule (the Markov property) and full observability of the state is a Markov chain. In language models the "traditional" Markov chain model is the very simple small-context table lookup,
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by jampekka 2y ago
Transformers (and other feedforward autoregressive models) are obviously Markovian. Here it's shown that these are equivalent to a Markov Chain with a transition matrix. There's in principle no reason why such can't have arbi
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by jampekka 2y ago
I don't know why this is downvoted. It's entirely feasible that weaknesses in a species (or its individuals) may be beneficial for the ecosystem and hence survival of the species in the long term. E.g. rabbit population being cull
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by jampekka 2y ago
In Finnish news currently whenever anything bad happens, the first suspicion is a conspiracy throry about Russian involvement. The press is in sort of a war propaganda mode. And if you mention this, you're an instant suspect of taking
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by jampekka 2y ago
He was pivotal in a lot of stuff, so such not being mentioned in an article discussing his metaphysical ideas is not surprising.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Some CDs were mastered to have pre-emphasis that boosted high frequencies if the player didn't properly account for it. This caused them to sound "high pitched". https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Pre
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by jampekka 2y ago
Outside relatively straightforward operations working with groups with "expressions" gets really painful. And Python gets too slow fast. And Pandas (multi-)indexing madness is a constant source of bugs and frustration. Sad that Ju
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by jampekka 2y ago
Yes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy_laws_in_the_United_St...
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by jampekka 2y ago
If I recall correctly the Symbian SDK was freely available more or less from the Psion start. Not sure about it's different "editions" though.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Efficiency includes also e.g. child and slave labor.

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