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by ljosifov 2y ago
The linear regression - and with a single predictor at that - is the workhorse. As if - the cross-product x'*y is too little, divided by dot-product x'*x is just right (regression), and dividing it again by another dot-product y&#
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Solid State Batteries Are Here: Yoshino Power Station by UndecidedMF YT [video](youtube.com)
11 points by ljosifov 2y ago|1 comments
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by ljosifov 2y ago
You'd have to sacrifice the returns if you want bigger size. For every trade you do, there will be expected return (+ve) and then some costs to pay (-ve). Commissions and similar costs are only linear so not terrible. With increasing s
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by ljosifov 3y ago
Almost all speech recognizers until this latest crop (of end-to-end DL NN ASR) operated on cepstral coefficients (and their delta-s and delta-delta-s) as their feature vector.
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by ljosifov 3y ago
Write boring code. Dumb code - that's too much, no need for. Boring is just right. Steve Maguire's "Writing Solid Code" is the rare book that is both practical and abstract in the right amounts. With time passing, it loo
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by ljosifov 3y ago
This one thing https://digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html would have helped a lot. Imo given 1) GCC and LLVM have had extensions like that for a long time now, 2) most arrive at that/similar destinati
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Hinton: LLMs in Medicine. They Understand and Have Empathy (E Topol Interview) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ljosifov 3y ago|0 comments
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by ljosifov 3y ago
"Why" is more of a philosophy question, pre-scientific or a-scientific if you like. Science question would be "How". Maybe not this particular Q, but having in mind that on every A-answer, one can again ask Q-question &q
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by ljosifov 3y ago
Quite right on "Only a tiny imbalance is enough for a person to get overweight". Quick mental experiment: say I overeat 1 apple per day, that's ~ 90 kcal, that's ~= 10 grams of fat x 365 days == that's 3.65 kg per y
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The Medium Is the Menace(city-journal.org)
5 points by ljosifov 3y ago|1 comments
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Why Our Kind Can't Cooperate(lesswrong.com)
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Don't be afraid of variably modified types(gustedt.wordpress.com)
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Will New Tech End the Need for Human Pregnancy?(thewalrus.ca)
1 points by ljosifov 3y ago|0 comments
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The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation(economicsfromthetopdown.com)
627 points by ljosifov 3y ago|207 comments
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An Adventure in the Nth Dimension(americanscientist.org)
2 points by ljosifov 3y ago|0 comments
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How Gödel's proof works (2020)(quantamagazine.org)
142 points by ljosifov 3y ago|72 comments
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The complete guide to iOS and macOS development in Neovim(wojciechkulik.pl)
26 points by ljosifov 3y ago|7 comments
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Key questions and answers about the historic approval of a CRISPR-based medicine(statnews.com)
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Dominic Cummings – Covid, Brexit, & Fixing Western Governance by Dwarkesh Patel [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ljosifov 3y ago|0 comments
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by ljosifov 3y ago
There is a spin on the same idea when working with data (maths/stats/comp/ML) and having to skirt around the curse of dimensionality. Suppose I have a 5-dimensional observation and I'm wondering if it's really only
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by ljosifov 3y ago
In the context of that interview - cash is paper notes (and coins) issued by national Central Bank (named "Tier 1 money, public money"). Then there is electronic balances held by the Commercial banks (named "Tier 2 money, pri
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by ljosifov 3y ago
Many people around the world are already living in a cashless society. With the dominion of Visa and Mastercard showing no sign of shrinking, it's vital to scrutinise exactly what this shift means. Brett Scott is an author and former b
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The Future of Money Is Terrifying – Aaron Bastani Meets Brett Scott – Downstream [video](youtube.com)
3 points by ljosifov 3y ago|4 comments
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by ljosifov 3y ago
Another data point to the curious case of the unreasonable effectiveness of a 2D rows-columns rectangle of data. Looks like a 2D rows-columns structure is simple enough yet sufficient to cover 1) a matrix, 2) an Excel spreadsheet, 3) an SQL
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Exclusive-Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel(finance.yahoo.com)
4 points by ljosifov 3y ago|0 comments
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Bioelectricity as the Software of Life by Michael Levin [video](youtube.com)
4 points by ljosifov 3y ago|0 comments
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by ljosifov 3y ago
Yep - agreed that there will be a price to be paid. Do you have any inkling of how costly in h/w would it be? Maybe compared to the similar in floats? For floats it's been decided that paying the price was worth it, it seems.
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by ljosifov 3y ago
Thanks - interesting. I wish > Integer data types use a 2’s complement encoding, but the maximum negative representation (−2) may be left unused to maintain symmetry between the maximum positive and negative representations and avoid int
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by ljosifov 3y ago
Maybe fair to say that the most we can say is that one form of unfreadom was replaced by another form of unfreadom. Along the lines of - is "freedom to starve" a freedom, how much freedom, and is a +ve or a -ve freedom? I think th
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by ljosifov 3y ago
I find 'socialism' to be such a lazy prescription that it put me off the author. Anyone interested in "how can groups of people organize their group relations" can take the empirical evidence of the last 100 years, the h

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