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by kkylin 10y ago
Perceptrons remains one of my favorite books in many ways. Obviously the single-layer networks Minsky & Papert analyze are very primitive relative to today's deep neural networks, and the actual mathematical content may not be of
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by kkylin 10y ago
The HN crowd might enjoy Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/... . For the more mathematically minded, the short little
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by kkylin 10y ago
Exactly, and not only that, but truck-driving is hard because among other things, some of the other trucks will be driven by humans.
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by kkylin 10y ago
I teach mathematics at a university, and we have an on-line homework system for entry-level, single-variable calculus. (How well this really works overall is a discussion for another time). One thing that the system lets me do is see their
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by kkylin 10y ago
I know plenty of very good mathematicians who did not participate seriously in this kind of thing. (Disclosure: I work as a mathematician at a research university.) I'm not sure why the only ones quoted here are mainly ex-winners. I
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by kkylin 10y ago
I think the point being made is that the converse need not be true: kids who are not good at these sports need not feel discouraged from pursuing mathematics.
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by kkylin 10y ago
I quite agree with everything you said, but I'm not sure what we mean today by "learn" (in the context of ML) is what Perlis would have meant.
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by kkylin 10y ago
Interesting finding, but the article at least leaves one with more questions than answers (I haven't looked up the original research). My own personal experience tends to confirm the main point put forth. Indeed, when we moved to the
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by kkylin 10y ago
I think they're fairly commmonly eaten in East Asia, e.g., Korea & coastal parts of China. Both as part of a meal and as snacks (dried squid is fairly common in Asian markets).
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by kkylin 10y ago
Something a little bit like this? http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... Not exactly a history course, but emphasis is on thinking about system-level issues, with plenty of reading (including b
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by kkylin 10y ago
That's interesting. I haven't seen this paper before. None of the others I've read before (e.g., from Couder & collaborators on bouncing droplets) feature a fluid analog of entanglement. (For anyone interested, an examp
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by kkylin 10y ago
Ah, I see. Thanks for the info!
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by kkylin 10y ago
Off-topic, but am curious: was there a "standard" text for AMa 95? I didn't go to Caltech, but heard a bit about the course from a friend who did. These days I sometimes teach our equivalent course, and am always looking fo
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by kkylin 10y ago
Absolutely, great introduction to analytic number theory for anyone curious about the subject.
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by kkylin 10y ago
:-) This was already true back when I started using Emacs in my teens. Now that I'm middle-aged myself...
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by kkylin 11y ago
Cool, thanks!
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by kkylin 11y ago
It also depends a little bit on your style of programming. For example, in C code, I personally like using gcc extensions like nested functions. As far as I know this is not supported by clang (but perhaps someone more knowledgeble can ch
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by kkylin 11y ago
Can't say (yet). I've used a number of implementations: Gambit, MIT Scheme, PLT/Racket, and played around with Chicken. But never Chez, because it wasn't free.
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by kkylin 11y ago
That is indeed a great question. Anyone know? I used to use Scheme for prototyping numerical code, etc., but have switched to Julia. Partly because Julia is more convenient in some ways, but mainly because of access to libraries, both na
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by kkylin 11y ago
Of course! Would be interesting to see BC broken down by floor...
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by kkylin 11y ago
Great, that's very helpful to know. Thanks!
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Can any practitioners / experts out there comment on the range of topics? For example, I understand the book to be introductory, and so the scope is likely somewhat limited. But how close does it get you to the ANNs currently in use,
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by kkylin 11y ago
Thanks! My first question upon seeing this post was: isn't there already an emacs mode for this?
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by kkylin 11y ago
One of his contributions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem And an application that builds on his work; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Resident_Matching_Pro...
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by kkylin 11y ago
Cilk-style concurrency would be a really nice addition to Julia.
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by kkylin 11y ago
Indeed! though the constraints that chaos imposes on predictability is a subtle question. See, e.g., ftp://mana.soest.hawaii.edu/pub/rlukas/LSASI/ENSO/Prediction/Predicability_a_Problem_2006.pdf
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by kkylin 11y ago
I think this is said every time Milnor is mentioned somewhere, but I'll repeat it anyway: the first few pages of _Morse Theory_ is some of the nicest mathematical writing I've seen anywhere. (The rest of the book is very good too
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by kkylin 11y ago
A conceptual issue that some of the commenters may have missed is that part of the detection is done by matched filtering ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matched_filter ), in which it is necessary to have a good idea of
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by kkylin 11y ago
The Messenger lectures are the basis for Feynman's book the Character of Physical Law, which I would highly recommend.
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by kkylin 11y ago
Yes, I had once asked GJS about that exactly that story, and he confirmed it (though maybe not the exact words).

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