mlmonkey

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by mlmonkey 10mo ago
I once got a hummingbird feeder, and on the day 2, the raccoons in the neighborhood discovered it. Let's just say it was a big party with the feeder knocked down and emptied.
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by mlmonkey 10mo ago
So IIUC RL is applicable only when the outcome is not immediately available. Let's say I do have a problem in that setting; say the chess problem, where I have a chess board with the positions of chess pieces and some features like tur
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by mlmonkey 10mo ago
I've been reading such posts for years. Every few months, "Voyager 1 is the most distant man-made object ever!" or "Voyager 1 about to leave the Solar System!" Well duh!
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by mlmonkey 10mo ago
As a "tradional" ML guy who missed out on learning about RL in school, I'm confused about how to use RL in "traditional" problems. Take, for example, a typical binary classifier with a BCE loss. Suppose I wanted to
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
If you had access to the twitter feed (and I did at one point, as our company got the firehose from Twitter), it showed the Lat/Long of where it was posted from IIRC. I still remember looking at that tweet when the helos went in for OB
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
Unfortunately, it requires 3 clicks ("account" -> "join date" -> "about account") to get the required information. It should be visible on the post itself: where it was posted from, and where the author&#
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
You think it's presence of a fare that prevents homeless people from getting on a bus?? Even the light rail has ways to get on without paying, and the homeless know them.
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
San Francisco's Muni (light rail + bus) system has a budget of about $1.2B and its ticket revenues are about $200M. That means, 5/6th of the budget is subsidized by the taxpayers of SF. There is no reason why Muni can't be fr
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
Meta misled the public?!?!? You don't say! At this point nothing surprises me from Meta.
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
Of course, countries with plastic currency notes (like Australia) don't have to worry about this because their notes incorporate hard-to-counterfeit features like transparent windows.
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
I once had a Waymo cancel on me too! I was pretty bummed: dang, let down by a robotaxi too?!?!? To be fair, it has happened only once.
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
I'm just responding to this by OP: > Were politicians 20 years ago as overreative they'd have demanded Photoshop leave a trace on anything it edited.
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
There are only 2 hard problems in computer science: cache coherency, naming things and off by 1 errors...
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
You do know that every color copier comes with the ability to identify US currency and would refuse to copy it? And that every color printer leaves a pattern of faint yellow dots on every printout that uniquely identifies the printer?
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
"security vulnerability" ....
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
The Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh (which China claims as "South Tibet") is not shown as a part of India in the Indian map, as a hat tip to their political masters the PRC. And the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir is also show
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
How does one use weather data in an energy market, if you don't mind my asking?
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
A $40K car is no longer a "luxury product at premium prices". That's basically Honda Accord prices.
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
When I bought my Tesla, I had State Farm coverage for my existing (8 yo) car. State Farm quoted me a rate of $240/mo for switching insurance to the Tesla ( up from $130/mo ). This is in California, Bay Area. On a whim, I fired up
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
I'm curious: has there been any work done on generating embedding vectors instead of discrete tokens via diffusion? What would that look like? Please point me to some references. Thanks!
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
The other crime in that photo is the lack of cell service, despite billions of dollars that the USG has given ATT/Verizon/T-Mo over the years. But these phone companies just give unfettered access to their networks to the various
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
Each and every character inserted in a Bill must have an owner: who inserted that character. Google Docs can do this. Why can't the Congress??
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
> The decision follows US's decision to withdraw from some joint AWACS treaty in July 2024 So... can't really blame Trump.
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
In the mid-late naughts, there used to be a content farm called "Associated Content". They would get daily lists of top searched terms from various search engines (Yahoo, Dogpile, Altavista, etc. etc.) and for each search term, pa
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
I am surprised he lasted this long.
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
I thought this satire at first. Steve would have fired everyone involved in this stupidity.
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
I knew Switzerland was expensive, but not _THAT_ expensive!! :-D https://www.google.com/search?q=CHF+1%2C449.00+in+USD
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
470 pages?!?!?!? FML! :-D
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
> If you had read like even the basic part of that article you would know that && is not a pointer to a pointer. OK, let me ask this: what is "&&" ? Is it a boolean AND ? Where in that article is it explained wh
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by mlmonkey 11mo ago
> Why would Apple do such a thing? Because Steve is not around to rip these MBA-types a new asshole for even mentioning such crap. Tim is not a visionary leader. He is a great manager who can manage logistics like nobody else and deliver

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