kyzyl

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by kyzyl 13y ago
Caveat emptor. Geoff's videos are a great way to launch into the field of deep learning, but do bear in mind that they are beginning to age. A lot of the stuff about why things work, what is state-of-the-art, and where the work is head
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by kyzyl 13y ago
That's right. In fact, for a subclass of image recognition tasks, MNIST has become the standard benchmark. Pretty much all of Geoff Hinton's early work on deep learning used MNIST to track the progress of his (their) methods. In f
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Yes, I almost exclusively use pytables+HDF5 when I'm permitted. As I commented on some thread earlier this week, it strikes a great balance between simplicity, performance and flexibility.
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by kyzyl 13y ago
I suspect your sliding door will be made of multi pane glass filled with argon. that probably won't work too well. in order for total internal reflection to work well the glass needs to be pretty homogeneous, so that the wave fronts
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by kyzyl 13y ago
As a rule of thumb, if you run out of memory in python, you will also run out of memory in matlab. I've done a lot of work in both and found that while python's memory performance may not be ideal, at least when you run into troub
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by kyzyl 13y ago
QED... as in, "I've demonstrated what I wanted to say, regardless of what the original claim was." OP was talking about fearing the 'gift' because it might be a ploy to get you data-locked into Wolfram's clou
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by kyzyl 13y ago
> Even just the ability to copy and paste the symbols into google would be great, but it's just an image, and a non-math person won't know what they are called. Okay, so in the case of a wikipedia article, if you're really
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Yeah, as a Canadian startup person, my impression of the SV startup scene is largely shaped by what I see on HN, although I do personally know a few people who've participated themselves and what their report seems to correlate.
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by kyzyl 13y ago
It's a shame that such an intelligent group tends towards such arrogance, even in situations where it doesn't help. I think you have a point about the demographic around here being one of the causes of such posts/comments&#x2
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Haha, at risk of completely fitting the stereotype 4chan is setting out for us: *Silicon Valley startup culture. It is very different in other places, really!
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by kyzyl 13y ago
> go to great extents to workout things on paper Yeah, seriously. The explanation I always give to software people is to look at how much complex high level systems programming relies on debuggers, IDEs, frameworks, compiler warnings, et
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Or physics. I find it's quite often the knowledge of the underlying principles that spurs my problems solving and creativity when working with electronics, rather than the (rightly) engineered outlook you get coming out of EE. I'v
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Yeah, I get that feeling a lot too. The kicker: I'm in my 20s and have no family, although I DO mind doing unpaid overtime! What strikes me is that this notion seems to have developed in the software industry that people working on cod
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by kyzyl 13y ago
> And all they had to do to get that was to be ripped from their homes and placed into residential schools, which existed into the 60s. Just FYI, the last Canadian residential school closed in... drum roll ... 1996. Sweet deal indeed.
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Pardon me if I come off as rude, but you've made a couple of statements that strike me as rather silly. Maybe I've misunderstood you. The function of a peer reviewed publication is to formalize and verify that some result is corre
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by kyzyl 13y ago
I've generally had the same experience, although that particular toolchain only solves part of the deployment problem. The other caveat is that you will eventually run into a situation where, say, pip doesn't quite make it to the
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Sorry but that's a pretty outlandish statement. dogs may occasionally act like people, and they may require management, but they are not people. It doesn't follow that if you can't/haven't managed dogs you have no h
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Didn't think so.
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by kyzyl 13y ago
I would say that perhaps parsing logging works best when using awk, grep and the like, because that's more or less what they were designed for. But not everything is unix logs, and not everything is over 10GB. Having said that, pytho
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by kyzyl 13y ago
There's been a lot of talk about hipsters in these comments. Could somebody explain to me, in any concrete terms, what the hell a hipster is?
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Yeh. I guess usually when I'm on HN I just respond to people as if they're real, have a brain and not intentionally trying to stir shit up. In this case I didn't even notice the name. Alas, perhaps times have changed around h
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Protip: In almost no circumstances is it a good idea to make comments about someone's spouse. Much less on a professional forum, and certainly not on HN. Regardless of the intent, the potential for misunderstandings, over reactions, an
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Yeah the Asian Saga includes King Rat, Shogun, Noble House, Taipan as well as Gai-gin, The Whirlwind. They're all pretty good books but I believe Taipan, Noble House and Shogun are considered Clavell's best work, in that order (pe
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Hey, sorry I didn't see this for a week. Another victim of the short halflife of HN threads ;-) Anyhow, I suspect that code still exists somewhere, but offhand I can't see where that is; likely a backup somewhere. It was some time
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by kyzyl 13y ago
As has already been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, most of Neil Stephenson's work is just great. Cryptonomicon is my favorite, but The Baroque Cycle (three books) is very good as well. If you're into crime/mystery fictio
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by kyzyl 13y ago
Well again the code is nearly completely opaque to me (goes to show you that there is such a thing as too much abstraction) but again based off of the name "semi_implicit_integrate" it would be crazy for this to be anything but a
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by kyzyl 13y ago
So, I don't know Rust very well and their code is not really documented at all, so this is just a guess. But... It seem that the default world container assigns an integrator called "BodySmpEulerIntegrator", for which I can&#
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by kyzyl 13y ago
That's what one of my undergrad mechanics classes was. Actually that was just a project in the course, along with all of the usual theory, lectures, assignments etc. I don't think that's terribly unusual.
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by kyzyl 13y ago
To me this simply looks like the folks in charge are locking in their cyber crimes case against Snowden. If he's ever brought in--for whatever reason--and even if he magically avoids every charge of espionage, treason, leaking, spying,
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by kyzyl 13y ago
For the record, there are lots of other places where you do numerical work. Any kind of genomics work, for one, will involve tons of data processing and numerics, and it's it's not strictly an academic pursuit. At my previous job

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