meiji163

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Error Correcting Codes: Part 1(meiji163.github.io)
2 points by meiji163 3y ago|0 comments
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by meiji163 3y ago
A better description is "simple", not "easy". "If you do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because you do not realize how complicated life is." -von Neumann
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by meiji163 4y ago
Some favorite math books Intro to Smooth Manifolds, Lee -- sweeping intro to geometry with minimal prereqs, great at balancing the nitty gritty details with conveying intuition A Course In Arithmetic, Serre -- classically terse and elegant
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by meiji163 4y ago
Milnor is a wonderful writer, in his books as well as his papers.
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by meiji163 5y ago
> I'm not sure how useful category theory actually is in the example cases. It's hard to say that category theory is "applied" to this or that problem. you'll hear many mathematicians call it "abstract nonse
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by meiji163 5y ago
The best book I've found for a non-math audience is Fong & Spivak, 7 Sketches in Compositionality.
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Fun with GitHub CLI Extensions(meiji163.github.io)
2 points by meiji163 5y ago|0 comments
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by meiji163 5y ago
In Theorem 1.1, f is a function of random variables, which might be where you're confused. > doesn't that mean y is a predictable function of x Sort of: as function of real numbers, sha256 is just some deterministic function. B
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by meiji163 5y ago
Not only is the diagnostic framework a joke, it's the basis of immense amounts of iatrogenic harm [0] [0] "Anatomy of An Epidemic", Robert Whittaker
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by meiji163 5y ago
+1 I recently read a The Idiot as well, another incredible work of his.
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by meiji163 5y ago
I'd be interested to see if these models are robust against algorithms like TextFooler [0]. I'm skeptical this trend of 10x'ing the parameters will solve the "clever hans" problem. [0]: https://github.com
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by meiji163 5y ago
This article is a great example of what I'd call "mindless problematization" From what I've seen, this is you're trained to do in modern humanities departments. Take any seemingly obvious claim and "problemati
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by meiji163 5y ago
I'm a fan of deepmind and all, but this story has been way overblown based on what I saw in the actual code. There's nothing particularly new about mathematicians using computers to investigate and make conjectures, even if you ad
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by meiji163 5y ago
What is the bottom line on masks and COVID-19? I am really out of the loop, since the toxicity of the debate was exhausting. The last I heard was that transmission is mostly via aerosolized viral particles, so most masks are essentially use
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by meiji163 5y ago
Language models have the same defect - they are quite brittle and susceptible to black-box adversarial attacks ( eg arxiv.org/abs/1907.11932 )
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Embedding Data in Hyperbolic Space(meiji163.github.io)
2 points by meiji163 5y ago|0 comments
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by meiji163 5y ago
I wonder if LZ would still be standard, if not for the inertia of gzip/zip? There are surely better and comparably fast algorithms (paq, ppm, etc.)
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by meiji163 5y ago
Tim Hecker!!
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by meiji163 5y ago
"I'm something of a scientist myself" -- Data Scientist
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by meiji163 5y ago
They'll put anything on hep-th nowadays
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by meiji163 5y ago
You can get a very good intuition with 3B1B's video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjMuIxRvygQ )
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by meiji163 5y ago
The strongest open source engine right now is KataGo ( https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo )
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by meiji163 5y ago
Throwing money at a corrupt bureaucracy didn't solve a complex problem? Shocker. Proposition HHH allocated $1.2 billion towards the problem and essentially nothing was accomplished.
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by meiji163 5y ago
Using a pretrained model is a little bit cheating, you would have to include the size of the weights in the ratio
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by meiji163 5y ago
I was just working on a similar project and didn't think you could do decode without sending weights, amazing!
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by meiji163 5y ago
It's just the fact that 1, 10, 100, 1000, ... = 1, 3, 2, -1, -3, -2, ... (repeating) mod 7
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by meiji163 5y ago
Here's a way I do it in my head: For every block of six digits "fedcba" calculate (a-d)+3(b-e)+2(c-f). The number is divisible by 7 if the sum is divisible by 7. Fun thing is you know any number with digits "abcabc"
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by meiji163 5y ago
What's amusing is that multiplying integers with periodic digits is much faster using this method
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Hopfield Networks Is All You Need(ml-jku.github.io)
184 points by meiji163 5y ago|40 comments
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by meiji163 5y ago
> What is the explanation for the flexibility in the weights? How much flexibility is there? most of the terms are on the order of 1/N so on these would be negligible

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