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by jphoward 6y ago
What I think would be a nice approach would be someone creating a new Dataframe class that merely inherits from a Pandas dataframe but just implementing .filter(), .summarise(), .select() etc. as methods, using the dplyr syntax. If they ret
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by jphoward 6y ago
I find JAX really exciting. The idea of numpy with autograd is exactly what Pythonistas want. The elephant in the room, though, is “why not Pytorch?” Everyone knows JAX is what Google realised Tensorflow should have been when they realised
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by jphoward 6y ago
Isn't Help to Buy only for first time buyers, so it biases against Buy to Lets?
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by jphoward 6y ago
I think links like this are really helpful. Too offer I suffer from the (common on HN) mindset of, "I know nothing about this field, but I'm intelligent enough to know this is stupid". Posts like this are not only interesting
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by jphoward 6y ago
Exactly, the prototypical example has implemented it is one without democratic elections and so has no risk of being voted out of office.
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by jphoward 6y ago
I am all for writers taking a balanced perspective, especially when it comes to something as subjective and controversial as programming languages. However, I do find it a bit frustrating when someone writes a 10 page article and concludes
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by jphoward 6y ago
I can absolutely see Netflix making a smash hit docudrama about this trial. I'm not being facetious; miscarriages of justice really do capture the public's imagination, if they're able to hear the story told in an interesting
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by jphoward 6y ago
So I've actually tried to implement Eulerian video magnification myself, albeit using Python, because I believe when I first looked into this, ~5 year ago, the code was MatLab only. I was really excited about it, because, as a cardiolo
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by jphoward 6y ago
The use of gradient accumulation here is interesting, and I'd argue maybe not optimal. He uses a batch size of 8 (because his GPU only has enough RAM to allow 8 CT scans to be tracked through the network at once). He acknowledges that
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by jphoward 6y ago
I absolutely love this! But during busy times many lines have trains separated by <= 2 stations (often < 3 minutes between trains on Victoria line), so one would expect most of the lights to be on. How does it decide which trains to d
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by jphoward 6y ago
One thing that surprises me (and may be the source for some of his frustrations) is how much for a power user he uses the mouse. This isn't a criticism, just an observation. He, fairly, criticises how long it takes for the filename to
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by jphoward 6y ago
Link appears broken, but hopefully this is it: https://github.com/ThomasHabets/goircd
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by jphoward 7y ago
Is it fair to say JAX is what Google made when they looked at Pytorch/Autograd and thought, "oh damn, that's what we should have done?". If so, is this the beginning of the end of Tensorflow? I know Tensorflow is still t
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by jphoward 7y ago
This is not at all meant to be a criticism, but more a question: is taking a 20% performance hit, as the author writes, really worth it for a theoretical improvement in the lifespan of some integrated circuits? Are ICs actually how modern l
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by jphoward 7y ago
Diseases are rivalled only by war in bringing out the best in human creativity and ingenuity.
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How Pret is getting used to America – Five insights of business success in USA(pret.co.uk)
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Carcinisation(en.wikipedia.org)
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Medical abstracts written by a neural network(twitter.com)
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Notice of Retraction due to a programming error(jamanetwork.com)
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Operation London Bridge(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jphoward 7y ago
I'm surprised and pleased about how similar the toys are to those from when I was little. Lots of train sets and cars. I suspected to see a series of iPads and games consoles. I flicked through 20 or so and barely a battery-powered toy
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by jphoward 7y ago
Ignoring the fact that the title of this post is misleading and also not used by the linked article, I was interested to read that MaxNorm was _so_ effective. In my experience it is rarely used in the state-of-the-art ConvNets, though maybe
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by jphoward 7y ago
That sounds incredible to me as using pandas without falling into the traps of chained indexing seems so much harder than 90% of Python.
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Do neural networks dream of electric pacemakers?(twitter.com)
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by jphoward 8y ago
For anyone who knows intermediate python and numpy and wants to learn how neural networks (CNNs, RNNs) work through simple pythonic examples, Chollet’s book is excellent. I’ve bought two copies as I can’t bear lending mine out to my student
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by jphoward 8y ago
Yep but the strikes (supported by a poll of members) fizzled out and then a second round if industrial action was decided against by the BMA (without a further vote).
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by jphoward 8y ago
And possibly the most unpopular union in the UK, too. I've parted ways with them, as have most of my friends. It's not because I disagree with their decisions, as much as they are completely impotent. I do empathise; the BMA are s
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by jphoward 8y ago
Time and time again we see epidemiological studies posting findings that are clearly best explained by correlation than causation. For example, think of the people you've met with the worst teeth. They will almost certainly, on average
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by jphoward 8y ago
What I don't understand is if you can train a final layer on the reservoir's random representation, why is this better than just training the final layer on your data directly? I assume the answer has something to do with dimensio
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by jphoward 8y ago
Actually these trials were about expanding Mitraclip's indications. The old EVEREST trial resulted in it being licensed for degenerative valve disease (damaged valves), but here they wanted a license for treating otherwise healthy valv

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