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by lokimedes 8y ago
Well deserved. We live in times of epic space dramas, but Cixin has some of Clarke’s imagination in his books. I also enjoy the cultural twist of reading into Chinese “normality” through his books. It could be interesting to see a book with
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by lokimedes 8y ago
How about going back to WAP, it was such a good idea at the time.
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by lokimedes 8y ago
That may have changed a bit now. I'm no longer part of the physics community, but it seems that the physicists at least are relying more and more on mainstream tools. The outward flow of knowledge comes more from ex-physicsts like myse
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by lokimedes 8y ago
Not to belittle your examples, but in a historical context the LHC held a specific position. Remember that the ATLAS/CMS/ALICE/LHCb experiments started recording data at 10 GB/s back in 2008. Now, ten years later it is o
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by lokimedes 8y ago
We (Member of the ATLAS Experiment, 2008-2016) used Neural networks for trigger decisions (to record or ignore a collision) and Boosted Decision Trees were the big thing among many ATLAS physicists back around 2008-9, so that was also used
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by lokimedes 8y ago
I tend to agree (as an ex particle physicist who spent 8 years hunting for hypothetical supersymmetrical particles at the LHC), but to be honest what works is the scientific method and that requires both blind evidence and theory driven fa
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by lokimedes 8y ago
Are they factoring in the rent seeking aspects of the stockmarket? This is only a relevant comparison if the implied effort is similar for both ROIs
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by lokimedes 9y ago
I got a vague association to Penrose’s graphical tensor notation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_graphical_notation There are a lot of examples in modern physics where people have come up with graphical notati
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by lokimedes 9y ago
There are so many software libraries named after normal concepts from physics and engineering. While I see it as dreamfull flattery, it is really damned annoying when you travel in all of these worlds, especially here on HN where people pos
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by lokimedes 9y ago
Most dCNN classifiers I’ve seen used simply rely on softmax to provide a “probability” among the classes. But it really is a score that has been normalized across the classes. Having 0.7 of one class does not mean the same level of discrimi
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by lokimedes 9y ago
What frightens me more is how rarely I see talk about decision theory and hypothesis testing in the (deep) machine learning community, it is as if people consider the classification output as sufficient evidence of recognition, just quote t
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by lokimedes 9y ago
Have a look at the EULA for Google Drive, they take the rights to use the data for promotions and improvements of the product.
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by lokimedes 9y ago
The last company I’d have storing my personal data is Google. In fact, any of the arguments he presents are moot to me due to the alternative being an Ad agency’s product...
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by lokimedes 9y ago
An excellent example of how ridiculous applying financial thought to everything can be. As a dane, having Greenland as part of the kingdom is as natural as being able to see with two eyes. It may not serve a essential function in my everyda
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by lokimedes 9y ago
People are buying tulips not currency at the moment, it’s who blinks first...
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by lokimedes 9y ago
The guy should lose his authorization for this. It is part of a bad culture among medical doctors, where they both torture themselves and apparently others as well. The profession as a whole should really wake up or they will face a simila
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by lokimedes 9y ago
It will go down in evolutionary biology that electing a dysfunctional leader is a sign of surplus and superiority for any group. Assuming it survives the resulting Armageddon...
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by lokimedes 9y ago
I sure hope that the study corrects for self-citations. It’s a pretty simple procedure with Web of Science. That said, who you cite can be a fairly political decision, it’s like who to follow on Twitter, at least in fields with multiple peo
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by lokimedes 9y ago
Right, sorry about the offhand naming, yes, the same region at least.
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by lokimedes 9y ago
Nicely done article, but please please stop using analogous terms like quantum, rocket, atoms, jet, etc... These terms actually means something in the real world. Working in the limbo between web dev and science exacerbates how silly this i
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by lokimedes 9y ago
The Swedish vikings are known to have travelled, traded and served as guards for the Ottomans. Most people equate Vikings with the Danish/Norwegian raids and voyages in western europe and the atlantic. It’s an interesting discovery, bu
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by lokimedes 9y ago
I like the idea of the talk, but the quality of the video makes it a bit useless. Does anybody know a similar scoped presentstion?
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by lokimedes 9y ago
Good thing he did. As for the Higgs discovery, the nature of the experimental facilities and the generations of physicists who designed them would have made it very difficult to point to singular recipients. Since the prize is never given t
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by lokimedes 9y ago
I hope that part of being accepted into a PhD programme involves the ability to realize that there’s not much room at the top. Personally I loved my PhD experience even when I knew that the race to tenure was not for me. In many ways the re
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by lokimedes 9y ago
Like Uber?
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by lokimedes 9y ago
Could the same technique be applied to elect a president?
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by lokimedes 9y ago
Letting loose 200 summer students will result in some sort of event. When we were getting ready for the 2008 startup of the LHC someone sent a crowbar guess how many Gordon Freeman themed youTube videos came out of that.
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by lokimedes 10y ago
> Tangential thought, CERN has crazy amount of data. Do you think Machine Learning has any role in nuclear/particle physics? Absolutely, its an integrated part of anything from physics analysis to detector alignment and accelerator