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by kdoherty 6y ago
Potentially also of interest is Rod Brooks' response "A Better Lesson" (2019): https://rodneybrooks.com/a-better-lesson/
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by kdoherty 9y ago
I recently ended up in an interesting conversation with a university faculty member where we found that many of the most endowed universities could essentially make undergraduate education free and make back the difference (and often more)
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by kdoherty 9y ago
>>You can save time by learning from the mistakes of others. >Only barely. For important life decisions/paths, people only learn from their own mistakes (and often not even from those). >Heck, Computer Science as a field it
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by kdoherty 9y ago
There is also a fantastic video where Cliff Stoll describes the Friden EC-132 calculator and shows off its acoustic delay line here: https://youtu.be/2BIx2x-Q2fE
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by kdoherty 9y ago
I remember being in high school when Google Plus came out and thinking it would be incredibly popular. I totally missed the mark, and it's funny because while I thought it would take off with other people, I never really used it mys
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by kdoherty 9y ago
I had a really hard time getting into Vim until I found out everyone I knew who was using it had mapped something else to escape. Once I did the same, it was much easier to get started.
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by kdoherty 9y ago
I'm assuming by iterate you mean "generate outputs of a GAN which preserve some order that you can iterate through." The answer is yes, but not in the way that one might think. Despite the fact that we seed the GAN with input
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by kdoherty 9y ago
I haven't seen it posted yet here, but for anyone unfamiliar with mathematics in juggling (or anyone with an hour to kill watching something entertaining), there is a lecture/performance by Allen Knutson ( https://www.yo
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by kdoherty 9y ago
All I could find on these archives were summaries of the letters, is there anywhere where we can view the actual documents that are archived (either scanned or OCR)? I admit, I had a hard time navigating that page, so I may have missed some
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by kdoherty 9y ago
Yeah, I think so! That's exactly why I mentioned the accident rate reduction cited in the Wikipedia article shared above. I'd love to see official work that explores that angle (rather than a claim from an interview, which is what
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by kdoherty 9y ago
It's great seeing that more and more data is being collected about this all the time. I'm a huge proponent of this tech. What I wonder when I see these statistics, though, is whether all miles are really equal? For example, are Te
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by kdoherty 9y ago
The phenomenon that is being described where melting ice causes the release of CO2 into the atmosphere seems to have been known to climate scientists, though I don't know whether it has been included in climate change models. There is
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In Defense of Probability (1985) [pdf](ijcai.org)
47 points by kdoherty 9y ago|21 comments
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by kdoherty 9y ago
I had no intention of criticizing any efforts. One should do whatever makes them happy, and as a frequent user of these libraries, it is to my own advantage for them to improve. For the same reasons, I have nothing against people who "
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by kdoherty 9y ago
Lately, whenever I see a new deep learning library, I think of https://xkcd.com/927/
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by kdoherty 9y ago
I have tried the service, and my interactions with it have confirmed all perceived sketchiness: In a moment of desperation, I signed up for this a while back. I found it not to be useful and tried to remove my account with the site, which t
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by kdoherty 10y ago
This is a pretty neat perspective. Maybe insanity is repeating the same quote over and over again, expecting different results ;)
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by kdoherty 10y ago
I'm a huge fan of elementary OS ( https://elementary.io/ ). It's based on Ubuntu, so you have all of the normal resources that come with one of the most popular distros, but I think elementary is much sleeker. I wan
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by kdoherty 11y ago
There's something to be said for both sides of this. I think you're right about the way NN's have been blown out of proportion. I find as I work across fields they're the most abused and misunderstood ML technique, since
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by kdoherty 11y ago
There are a few things to consider here. The first quote is distinct from the rest in that it refers specifically to the impact of science on society, which is rarely of concern to the pure scientist, who seeks only to discover more about t
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by kdoherty 11y ago
Working on Web apps needing a terminal window, Web page, Web console, and editor up simultaneously makes 2 monitors almost a necessity for decent productivity. If I'm not using both monitors, I shut one off - easy.
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by kdoherty 11y ago
Science involves the application of the scientific method. Take academic research, for example. Engineering may involve the scientific method, but it isn't required to validate that scientific knowledge was used. Scientific knowledge c
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by kdoherty 11y ago
Give it more than a week. I didn't realize the significance and implications of lots of really cool ideas in statistical learning for months after I started. It probably won't click right away, but check out scikit-learn for Pytho
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by kdoherty 12y ago
I liked the poster on the left
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by kdoherty 12y ago
Unsigned int >= 0 in a decrementing for-loop is a classic trap