methodOverdrive

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by methodOverdrive 11y ago
Cool. I plan to look at the source code later. One issue I noticed: when playing with the mouse, if I click on a tile, then click on some other tile, the FIRST tile clicked is the one that moves - which seems like a bug and is certainly a c
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by methodOverdrive 11y ago
I didn't read the study, but the WSJ article also didn't even mention the amount of fat or carbohydrates in the diets. I wouldn't be surprised if a "low-carb, but not actually ketogenic" diet was bad for you - if yo
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by methodOverdrive 11y ago
D'oh, missed the NaNs and wrote out a list without referring to the book... then checked the length of the list to make sure it had 8 things. Silly me!
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by methodOverdrive 11y ago
Bonus points if values near 0 are treated as 0 (encourages sparsity!)
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by methodOverdrive 11y ago
That's true - and I did enjoy it. I'm biased - still in university, so I'm used to dry papers. The lack of stodginess wouldn't have bothered me if I had been able to obtain key details on the format for free. I was a lit
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by methodOverdrive 11y ago
He's a bit showy about the format. Wish he would just put out a technical paper. Anyway, I guess his motivation might be "you can represent any real number (with finite bits, and therefore finite precision)". In the book, he
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by methodOverdrive 11y ago
I would argue that unums are a "superior replacement" for doubles in many cases, though: in the case that you support unums that are "wide" enough, you can represent doubles exactly, plus you have additional values, plus
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by methodOverdrive 11y ago
New hardware would be needed. I think libraries like LAPACK basically are fast because they do a good job taking advantage of the hardware implementation of floating point math, and are written with sufficient understanding of the format to
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by methodOverdrive 11y ago
Not many. I did go ahead and purchase his book. It's... kind of a weird read, honestly. Useful - it clarified some things about the proposed Unum format - but also written very casually, like "pop science" prose, which seems
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by methodOverdrive 11y ago
I came here to say something similar - my exact choice of subreddits varies (ever so slightly) from this list, but there are a lot of small, focused communities that are full of knowledgeable, kind people posting useful information that I w
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by methodOverdrive 11y ago
You can explicitly add it as an extension from the Chrome Store. (I actually did this, because I like the manager/link sharing functionality... even though it means putting up with the awful bookmark-adding dialogue).
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by methodOverdrive 11y ago
I didn't read the paper (so I might be full of shit) but I think the idea is that the semantic sliders represent vectors in a vector space that is learned by a machine learning model, based on a sample set of examples. So the idea woul
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by methodOverdrive 12y ago
I read the paper - it's interesting and definitely improves on prior efforts. But I wouldn't call it a "breakthrough" - a few percent better accuracy on some datasets (with no real discussion of other measures of perform
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by methodOverdrive 12y ago
This concept is interesting, but the relative lack of mathematical argument or detail made the paper unconvincing. There was also at least one obvious, major typo ("Gausian"), which is the sort of thing that increases my skepticis