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by ludwigschubert 6y ago
Man, those two comments sound uncharitable. In the first paragraph Andy states: > This guide assumes basic familiarity with spaced repetition systems. The words "prompt"/"spaced repetition" are basic jargon for s
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by ludwigschubert 6y ago
Afaik they're unique—and not monotonously increasing in difficulty either. Here's Stanford's numbering system for reference: https://cs.stanford.edu/academics/courses
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by ludwigschubert 6y ago
Great to see actual testing on a representative population sample, though I’m not sure what the consequences ought to be: > These prevalence estimates represent a range between 48,000 and 81,000 people infected in Santa Clara County by e
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by ludwigschubert 6y ago
Looks like it was just published today! https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.04.14.20062463v1 Here’s the HN submission for discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22900730
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by ludwigschubert 7y ago
How would one extract an algebraic function from the network’s weights? Why would the function the network approximates necessarily be algebraic?
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by ludwigschubert 7y ago
Have you seen the YouTube channel Ctrl Shift Face? https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCKpH0CKltc73e4wh0_pgL3g/video... Here’s a pretty well done one in which Bill Hader does impressions, during which his face is repla
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by ludwigschubert 7y ago
If you're interested in Data Structures classes, I also strongly recommend Keith Schwartz's CS166. Unfortunately there are no public video recordings afaik, but slides and handouts are available, and also of exceptional quality:
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by ludwigschubert 7y ago
Can anyone see a reason why they wouldn’t just allow you to provision (and pay for) a persistent Google Cloud VM instead? (I currently do that manually and need port forwarding to a machine that runs Jupyter.) It’s hard for me to understand
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by ludwigschubert 7y ago
I think that’s a _really_ fair question! xD I’ve heard “mixed reality” being used to refer to the continuum between reality - augmented reality - virtual reality. In the above question I’d read it as asking about the state of problems parti
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by ludwigschubert 7y ago
The UC budget 2019–20 suggests: 68% staff + faculty salaries and benefits 15% financial aid 17% equipment From page 7, https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/rbudget/2019-20... If someone knows a more d
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by ludwigschubert 7y ago
In Germany they certainly self-identify with that name. Unsure why the website is down these days, but here's an archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304102539/http://www.antifa...
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by ludwigschubert 7y ago
...and many would say that’s because us humans are bad at imagining optimizing agents without anthropomorphizing them. This is a reasonable, even typical suspicion that many people share! The best explanation I know of why it’s unfortunatel
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by ludwigschubert 8y ago
Hi! I help maintain Distill's infrastructure. We'd love to find a robust solution for archival, too, but we haven't been able to think of a satisfying automatic way of providing static fallbacks to interactive diagrams. (That
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by ludwigschubert 8y ago
I’m aware this has become a cliche on HN, but I’d be happy to pay that—if it helped align incentives better. Maybe if a company as big and ad supported as Google would make that step, it could become more accepted to pay for software again?
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by ludwigschubert 8y ago
The usual argument goes: consistent user experience means adhering to your users’ expectations, which are shaped by their platforms.
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by ludwigschubert 8y ago
...we all said, and then ML became popular. :D (Lowercase ‘θ’ is quite common to indicate a vector of parameters. I’ll admit, though, that few people are ~courageous~ adventurous enough to use the actual symbol in their variable names rathe
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by ludwigschubert 8y ago
3rd party vouch for shameless plug: I was a RA in a minor role at this team and these are some of the friendliest and most approachable people I've had the pleasure to work with in academia. (Hi Elliot! \o/)
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by ludwigschubert 8y ago
Overlaps on widths >1500px. (My recommendation would be to not make this a background image, but simply an image in the markup after the headline.)
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by ludwigschubert 8y ago
Grid is not meant to replace Flexbox. I like to think of Grid as CSS’s 2D layout system, while Flexbox is its 1D layout system. I do agree that it seems pointless to adopt a Flexbox based framework to do what is more clearly expressed in Gr
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by ludwigschubert 9y ago
We need to go from it being special to open source code for a paper to making it almost seamless to interact with a presented idea, to try it in new contexts, to build upon it, and, yes, to falsify it. When we introduce examples into an art
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by ludwigschubert 9y ago
You're right: we are taking the mean of the activations of a given channel `z` over all its `x,y` coordinates. (We could sum, but we use mean so that step sizes are comparable between channel and neuron objectives.) Thanks for the fee
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by ludwigschubert 9y ago
Thanks for the heads-up! We are not sure there is a standard for this, but we now include the DOI in our bibtex citation.
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by ludwigschubert 10y ago
In "Examining the Internals of the Model" it could be interesting to show an overview activation map that sums over the absolute activation of all the examples—to highlight which cells activate on all examples—and one that is colo
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by ludwigschubert 10y ago
This is incredible important research. There are fields in which adoption of ML techniques is dependent on it being explainable and inspectable to stakeholders, e.g. in certain health care, policy or finance applications. There is work bein
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by ludwigschubert 10y ago
Oh this is a fun rabbit hole to go down: Gauss indeed wrote "methodisches tatonniren"[1], the latter of which is not a common German word, nor does it suggest grouping. I believe it to be an expression used at the time which was b
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by ludwigschubert 10y ago
...and on the wrong side. ;-)
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by ludwigschubert 10y ago
That's a good point. I guess I am trying to say that a map that accurately represents the area of seas is potentially not what everyday map users want from a world map. But I see that they optimized for that instead of my vague sense o
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by ludwigschubert 10y ago
I get what you're saying, and you are right, of course. I'm trying to think of this not from a prescriptive position, though, but thinking of "why do people like Mercator". And I believe that people like the perceived ef
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by ludwigschubert 10y ago
While interesting, I'm not sure the actual map as pictured is a "good design": One of the strengths and success criteria of the Mercator projection is that it allows us to largely ignore the vastness of the Pacific Ocean on o
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by ludwigschubert 10y ago
Computer science curricula usually contain an introductory algorithms and data structures class, but these don't usually put focus on topics like cache locality or branch prediction. Do you agree? And if so, would that—at least partial

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