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by markisus 2y ago
I found this part questionable. > Fixed patch sizes may split individual characters > Position embeddings lose fine-grained spatial relationships, losing the ability to have human-in-the-loop evaluations, confidence scores, and boun
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by markisus 2y ago
Some interesting points from this paper: - All simulated agents use the same neural net with the same weights, albeit with randomized rewards and conditioning vector to allow them to behave as different types of vehicles with different ty
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by markisus 2y ago
If I were hosting a web page, I would want it to be able to reach as many people as possible. So in choosing between CDNs, I would choose the one that provides greater browser compatibility, all other things equal. So in principle, the ince
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by markisus 2y ago
In Gaussian Splatting, a first order approximation takes ellipsoids in camera space to ellipses in image space. This works ok for pigeonhole cameras where straight lines remain straight and more generally conic sections are taken to other c
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by markisus 2y ago
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. It’s a bit hard for me to understand the legal intricacies but the point of the article [1] looks like this sentence. > For developers, this means you need to be cautious about who you interact w
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by markisus 2y ago
> If the U.S. continues to stymie open source, China will come to dominate this part of the supply chain and many businesses will end up using models that reflect China’s values much more than America’s. I'm not sure the U.S. as a w
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by markisus 2y ago
I think there is still a geometric viewpoint you can bring to the multiplicative structure of C. For example there is the extremely natural homeomorphism between unit C and SO(2). And C minus origin to (R+, SO(2)). It’s completely intuitive
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by markisus 2y ago
I’m having a hard time with this one as a human. Spring has sprung, grass has risen. I wonder where the birdies are? The bird is on the wing! Isn’t that absurd? I always heard the wing was on the bird! Not sure what it means that the bird i
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by markisus 2y ago
This project generates synthetic computer vision training data. The arxiv paper has more detail including some cool pictures of random creatures it can generate. The images are nice but all of them are nature settings so I assume one would
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by markisus 2y ago
I remember in the beginning twitter was supportive of third party developers using it for all sorts of different things using its free API. I guess they decided they didn’t just want to be the protocol and closed off access.
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by markisus 2y ago
Last time I used ROS, it forced you to use its build system. Catkin or something? It was a layer on top of Cmake.
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by markisus 2y ago
I had to think about this. It’s actually your own skin providing the frictional force that holds your pants up!
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by markisus 2y ago
I don’t understand this. Wouldn’t the optimal solution be a constant color over the whole image?
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by markisus 2y ago
Yes you are right. According to Wikipedia it was proven in 1893. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_field I’m dubious of this project.
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by markisus 2y ago
I’m also unsure where finite fields are coming into play. Finite fields have orders that are prime powers, and the author is talking about a “finite field” of order 7x9x11. But if we aren’t dealing with fields, why is the author mentioning
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by markisus 2y ago
I was sort of puzzled by the meaning of "axiom for boolean algebra" as well, and I looked into this more. The way I learned boolean algebra was by associating certain operations (AND, NOT, OR, etc) to truth tables. In this framewo
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by markisus 2y ago
> The only hope I have is to try something completely novel I don’t think this is true. Neural networks were not completely novel when they started to work. Someone just used a novel piece — the gpu. Whatever the next thing is, it will p
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by markisus 2y ago
Maybe if you take Alice and Bob to be two separate alien species it could make more sense. Alice’s species has no measurement devices capable of detecting Bob’s version of entropy, and therefore Alice is not able to extract any useful work
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by markisus 2y ago
Maybe the experimental apparatus is not objective. The quantities we choose to measure are dictated by our psychological and physiological limitations. The volume of a container is not objectively defined. An organism which lives at a faste
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by markisus 2y ago
1080p at 30 fps is nuts. I had assumed that this kind of thing would eventually be accomplished with Gaussian splats but it looks like this new approach is a twist on the older multi plane image technique.
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by markisus 2y ago
This sounds about right, having spent my share of time prepping robot systems for big PR and investor demos.
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by markisus 2y ago
I’m pretty sure most modern mathematics research takes place on pencil and paper or chalkboard. It’s too tedious to typeset everything in the research phase. It’s also way harder to draw little diagrams or new invented notations on the comp
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by markisus 2y ago
I assumed that the algorithm only uses the RGB sensor and the depth is ignored. I bought two d455 within the past year and they are quite nice.
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by markisus 2y ago
A proof is basically a directed graph where nodes are propositions, and edges are deductive rules. One only needs to check that the starting nodes are axioms and that each edge is one of a finite set of deduction rules in the system. So the
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by markisus 2y ago
Not a lot of substance to back up the author’s ideas. The author tries to explain why many East Asian countries stand out on different metrics like standardized testing and birth rates. He rejects “Confucius of the gaps” which is a cultural
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by markisus 2y ago
The authors hypothesize at the bottom of page 3 that linear layers can combine to form nonlinear functions. This is wrong, but maybe I’m misunderstanding what they are trying to say.
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by markisus 2y ago
In the hypothetical above, you won’t have any way to know which libraries are actually being used unless you read through the source code. Many libraries will transitively include protobuf, but most functions will not call protobuf.
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by markisus 2y ago
Thanks for bringing up the intricacies involved. I shouldn’t have used the word “just” as it implies that the solution is easy.
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by markisus 2y ago
Unfortunately you cannot extend this approach much beyond this simple example if you are writing a physics simulation. There is no known closed form solution, for example, for the famous three body problem, so a some sort of numerical integ
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by markisus 2y ago
We know neural networks cannot solve the halting problem. But isn’t the question whether they can learn the transition table for game of life? Since each cell depends only on neighbors, this is as easy as memorizing how each 3x3 tile transi

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