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by jefft255 7y ago
In my experience it’s usually the universities administrative staff that’s gone during the summer, sometimes making it complicated to get stuff done.
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by jefft255 7y ago
I’m going to have to come in a lot during the holidays to run experiments. Can confirm. It’s good that this is gaining some attention.
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I'm definitely leaving her be! Do you think she's going to come and read hacker news comment and be offended? We don't even know who she is. I'm just correcting facts here.
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by jefft255 7y ago
Hummm from reading the article it doesn’t seem like she just “cut a cable in her house” but rather vandalized a major optic fiber cable while trying to steal copper not on her property .
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See my above comment for an example of a prior that doesn't just "feel" right.
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by jefft255 7y ago
In robotics, particularly in bayesian filtering (KFs and so on), I find the idea of a "prior" solid and I don't see any frequentist alternatives. Your prior is easy to understand: whatever your posterior for your state was at
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by jefft255 7y ago
Modern antivirus software, to me, feels like a virus. Norton and McAffee are especially guilty of this. They install browsers toolbar, do search engine hijacking, constant nagging. They became the software they were supposed to protect us a
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Ten commandments of authorship for scientific papers(luc.devroye.org)
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They're not even competing with each other. How would you compare an ES to a deep neural network? According to what benchmark? What do you mean by verifiable? Modern success stories with machine learning often deal with problems (NLP,
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by jefft255 7y ago
Yeah I’m sure stuff like this can work without code rewrite but my guess is that it’s far from plug and play. I couldn’t use that to run my model on an AMD card tommorrow without some effort.
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by jefft255 7y ago
My tf or pytorch code usually uses custom CUDA extensions, so sadly it will never be plug and play on AMD gpus for me. I hate that scientific computing and ML settled on a (admittedly superior) proprietary API.
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Twice...
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That works but to learn to avoid these "bad" things, in the setting you describe, the agent has to first make those mistakes and learn from them. There are mistakes we don't want the agent to make, ever. That's what safe
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by jefft255 7y ago
Drone laser scanning is a thing! It’s just more expensive, heavy and power consuming (so in a sense power consumption increase from two aspects).
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by jefft255 7y ago
I agree. My first machine learning class, my prof only allowed scikit learn for boilerplate stuff like train test splits and we had to code a bunch of different models from scratch. It was really educational. I’m still slightly traumatized
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by jefft255 7y ago
Thanks for the info I’ll make sure my friends are aware of this!
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by jefft255 7y ago
Why would you get to decide which French is the good French? Formal register Quebec French is totally fine. Of course, on the street you can hear pretty deformed French, but guess what: in France too. That's just how language regis
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by jefft255 7y ago
Sure they do, but usually it is only a few weeks of adaptation. The differences are well documented, look them up! It's still the same language.
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by jefft255 7y ago
Indeed let's hope it was basically a mistake; right now I have a few French (from France) friends doing phds at the same university, and I'm pretty sure that they will have English chapters in their thesis (research paper insertio
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by jefft255 7y ago
I find this extremely embarrassing. I'm all for the protection of French in Quebec; but stupid decisions like this makes us look bad internationally and make no sense at all. I went to Laval University too, and guess what: my whole the
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by jefft255 7y ago
By complete nonsense I mean that I agree with you that it's stupid ;).
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by jefft255 7y ago
I'm in Montreal, we're doing fine. Sure Toronto is objectively doing better economically, but sometimes raw economic output should not be the only preoccupation of government (hey, I can make rent in a nice four room apartment as
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by jefft255 7y ago
As pointed out your statement about unemployement is incorrect. Brain drain is a huge problem for all of Canada; do you have any statistics showing how it is affecting Quebec more?
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by jefft255 7y ago
Of course I think the whole graduate student being rejected residency for an English thesis chapter is complete nonsense. In the end only about 37% of Quebec voted for the CAQ and I’m not one of them!! I also have no control about what’s as
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by jefft255 7y ago
Quebec is a French speaking (in majority) Canadian province. It has bill 101 which makes French mandatory for a lot of stuff and, notably, makes it hard to get educated in english (until university where it’s pretty much as you wish). Those
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by jefft255 7y ago
Very funny. Care to be more constructive a bit?
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There's very often less parking spots than apartment units. Also they add a lot to your rent (100$+ per month in Montréal). Parking on the street is usually cheaper even though I personally find it inconvenient enough to pay for a pers
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by jefft255 7y ago
When I say Python is good for numerical computing and AI, what I really mean is that the libraries are there. I share the same reservation as you about the language itself. I wasn't so clear in my comment above
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It's probably not very smooth and stable if you need stuff like RViz, RQt, etc.
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by jefft255 7y ago
While ROS2 promises windows compatibility I’m not so sure how it will turn out. Most guides, drivers and general support will focus on Linux. We’ll see how wrong I am when ROS2 finally takes off!

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