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by mlevental 7y ago
pretty unbelievable they don't mention this https://www.foxnews.com/story/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-...
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by mlevental 7y ago
it's a theory heavy intro to a wide variety of analytical techniques. it's a common refrain that deep learning has very little in the way of theory. and in fact gans with their optimization scheme framed as a game that plays until
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by mlevental 7y ago
yes but i'm asking about what you were really trying to say - are you trying to say one can generate these textures by specifying a filter (transfer function or whatever you want to call it) with a random phase component? and then take
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by mlevental 7y ago
do you mean ifft?
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by mlevental 7y ago
lol checkout exercise 33 solution on page 23
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by mlevental 7y ago
is this the thing that permanently turns off having to go to privacy settings?
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by mlevental 7y ago
but what value is that perspective? how do i use this to actually fit a model?
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by mlevental 7y ago
is there a js framework that has most (some) of the functionality of qgis?
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by mlevental 7y ago
Lol agreed!
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by mlevental 7y ago
i said almost - that's code for "obviously i'm not talking about pathological regularizers"
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by mlevental 7y ago
i've read this one before (before i read sutton's book). this is a much better intro https://spinningup.openai.com/en/latest/
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by mlevental 7y ago
lol is this copypasta? i'm quite familiar with all of these toy examples of inference instead of point estimation. i'm talking about fitting models rather than descriptive statistics (or decision theory).
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by mlevental 7y ago
change my mind: bayes in practice is just a way to regularize your model and the language of bayes makes it seem principled but really you could use literally any regularizer and it would work almost just as well. i believe this because ult
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by mlevental 7y ago
>Would be cool if these intelligent folks but their efforts towards improving privacy plenty of intelligent folks working on this for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_privacy
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by mlevental 7y ago
i love this kind of red herring: we're very obviously talking about intranational geography. as the person below me quips: kentucky isn't a nation of origin.
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by mlevental 7y ago
Similarly have you ever watched a teenager argue "logically" from their limited experience? It goes both ways (can fail in both ways) because discourse isn't theorem proving. There is no universal set.
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by mlevental 7y ago
https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/fede... I'm sure you're aware that like 10 other states have similar cases working their way through the court system
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by mlevental 7y ago
> my ancestors were not oppressing either latinos or Africans. I'll make my voice heard by not voting for Democrats. so I guess you're making up for lost time? or setting the precedent for your own progeny? because I'm li
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by mlevental 7y ago
geography isn't a protected class. it's not a class at all. it's a set of circumstances. your skin color and the privileges or liabilities incurred are inescapable.
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by mlevental 7y ago
I love this thing that happens where someone jumps in to make an incisive point based on something they learned just recently and even on this same forum. the article about emancipation was posted here just like 2 weeks ago. so that's
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by mlevental 7y ago
what exactly was reductionist about my analogy? which features of the conflict did i reduce? is it not the case that both sides having contrary perspectives on many of the same objects facts? did i imply somewhere that i endorse one side or
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by mlevental 7y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dbqsfl/video_show... shows cop ran into the crowd and had a clear exit path (not necessary to shoot to remain safe)
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by mlevental 7y ago
>I mean lets pretend its true. So what? there are things you don't know that you can find out by listening to people.
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by mlevental 7y ago
>He’s autistic. this is literally the "we need better mental health facilities because of gun violence" argument. the vast majority of autistic people do not behave like stallman. it's not a pass. if he's so fucking s
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by mlevental 7y ago
>Who cares who is entitled to Palestine? ~5 million people. how can you be so blithe as to completely discount the existence/experience of that many people. i challenge you to empathize with someone living there. truly imagine it an
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by mlevental 7y ago
there's a large contingent of people on hn (in tech, in the world) that fetishize "logic" and believe it always trumps "feelings". i put both in quotes because to this contingent both of those concepts have absolute
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by mlevental 7y ago
>Having an unpopular opinion isn't grounds for "proper judgement" why? i don't understand this. if he's entitled to his unpopular opinions why in the world isn't everyone else held to the same standard? i&#x
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by mlevental 7y ago
> I always wanted a Python based spreadhshet. isn't that just pandas?
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by mlevental 7y ago
i'm sure the author cares. what i'm not sure about is that the author isn't aware and that "hey your site fails on mobile" is of much use to them.
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by mlevental 7y ago
>probably "rx rust pixel" https://www.google.com/search?q=rx+rust+pixel&oq=rx+rust

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