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by mandor 11y ago
It is usually said that the English built the first railways in France and that they built them so that trains drive left, out of habit.
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by mandor 11y ago
A nice video tour of this "deep vizualisation toolbox": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgkfIQ4IGaM&feature=youtu.be
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'Instinctive' robot recovers from injury fast(nature.com)
2 points by mandor 11y ago|0 comments
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by mandor 11y ago
From my experience (I have no data), it seems that many of them use the same source for coffee: http://www.cafesrichard.fr/services-chr-nos-produits-4.html (and this is rather cheap coffee)
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Creating publication-quality figures with Matplotlib(github.com)
38 points by mandor 12y ago|14 comments
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by mandor 12y ago
"Best" always depends on your criteria. Very often, the standard library is a "good but not best" solution from a pure performance or features point of view. However, it often wins for ease of deployment (nothing to inst
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by mandor 12y ago
There are no "review fees" (we review papers for free) and most editors (who select reviewers and select the papers) are not paid. So, basically, the cost is the cost of a website. At any rate, to 'disrupt' conventional
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by mandor 12y ago
Touch-typing is more about freeing your mind from the keyboard than been fast. I see my students (who do not touch type at all) struggling with their problem _and_ using a lot of their concentration / "cognitive power" to sea
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by mandor 12y ago
It is not really linked to boost, but meta-programming make many things many difficult for an IDE (whatever the IDE is). For instance, I could have this class: template<typename X> struct Test { void test(const X& x) { t
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by mandor 12y ago
I agree: this is not C/C++ IDE, this is a C IDE (and maybe a "C-with-classes" IDE). None of these emacs packages (e.g. CEDET) handle modern C++ well (heavy use of generic programming, boost, c++-11 features, etc.). Even inden
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by mandor 12y ago
I fully agree, especially for the text (it is hard to write with a mouse!). In addition, basic shapes like line/rectangle/circle would be welcomed (I am terrible at drawing a circle with a mouse).
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by mandor 12y ago
It's true that there is no equivalent of the Oxford comma in many languages (e.g., in French, you should not use it). The comma is a trap for non-native writers! ;)
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by mandor 12y ago
I was curious to know how modern C++ would compare. Here is a version (not 100% sure about the result because I was not 100% sure of the meaning of some of the numpy constructs when applied to matrixes). http://chronos.isir.upmc.
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by mandor 12y ago
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Obje... - Effective C++: http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Specific-Improve-Programs-De.
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by mandor 13y ago
I fully agree with the critics about the p-values, but what are the best alternatives to analyze and compare data? Most of the time, scientists have to compare the outcome of treatment 1 versus treatment 2; how should they do it "prope
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by mandor 13y ago
CS prof. here. We don't want to teach "tools" (e.g. IDE) because they are always changing. There is no point is knowing how to set up an IDE when the IDE will have a different GUI before the student graduates. We teach"u
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by mandor 13y ago
We worked on a similar experiment two years ago (deep learning + reinforcement learning algorithm + some innovations, to learn to play Atari 2600 games). We obtained similar scores in the games we tested but we did not submit any paper beca
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by mandor 13y ago
That's not the question. The question should be: what did you learn? I don't think I learned anything new in Robinson's talk. I enjoyed the talk in the same way as I can enjoy a good Holywood movie, but I didn't learn an
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by mandor 13y ago
We use Usenet? (although I'm sure that there are good GUIs now)
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by mandor 13y ago
You should definitely check "Operational Research". Although it is not as fun as machine learning and computer graphics, there is a strong industrial demand for strong mathematicians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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How does modularity evolve?(slashdot.org)
3 points by mandor 14y ago|0 comments
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by mandor 15y ago
To my opinion, the main purpose of teaching mathematics is to teach abstraction and abstract reasoning... It is not to teach how to balance a checkbook!