laneb

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   by laneb 8y ago

   I appreciate the author showing some of the math that drives the optimization. As a reader, I'd suggest introducing SGD ahead of the PD calculations, because it would give a clearer motivation for the PDs.
2. 2.▲
   by laneb 8y ago

   Ah yeah that makes sense.
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   by laneb 8y ago

   The typical operation applied to sets of functions is composition, so idempotency of a function f is the condition that f(f(x)) = f(x) for all x in the domain of f. I don't think that applies meaningfully to GET.
4. 4.▲
   by laneb 9y ago

   Nothing about names like StopIteration and AttributeError indicate to me that I should use them for control flow. Python just instructs me to use them that way...
5. 5.▲
   by laneb 9y ago

   The birthday paradox arises because the probability that two candidates do not match is small compared to the number of candidates. In this case, the candidates are photos and a match in fact requires a match on multiple variables (e.g. ang