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by montecarl 6y ago
This, for better or worse, drives me to work harder. I have anxiety around being perceived as not working hard enough. I have been full time remote at the same position for around 8 years with a large timezone difference. I have a small par
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by montecarl 6y ago
This may be a fun place to start. There is a lot of work in this area and this type of technique is great for baseball: https://docs.pymc.io/notebooks/hierarchical_partial_pooling....
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by montecarl 6y ago
This is nothing but message passing. In the high performance computing world, MPI is the standard scheme for running massively parallel calculations. While Python's pickle may not be the highest performance serialization scheme, it is
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by montecarl 6y ago
Just an anecdote, but my father lives in Tennessee, and applied for unemployment 6 weeks ago. The website reports he has been paid every week, but he still hasn't seen any money. He has spent about 12 hours on the phone with various ag
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by montecarl 6y ago
> Most people think of themselves as fundamentally good. Everybody thinks they are the hero of their own story. In fact, its almost required that individuals view themselves in this way. If you think you are evil and cannot justify your
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by montecarl 6y ago
That's what I get for picking an example from a domain I do not understand well! So perhaps I'll relax my statement. Time is one of a large number of explanatory variables. The amount of information you can extract from it will be
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by montecarl 6y ago
The problem with time is that it is (typically) not a causal variable. If you are modeling the price of a stock for example, time is certainly not what is causing to go up or down! Yes it is true, that the price at time t+1 is highly correl
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by montecarl 6y ago
I will second this. I am also using regolith as a PPA on Ubuntu. Took some work to merge my i3 config with regolith's but it was worth it. Check it out if you currently use i3wm.
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by montecarl 7y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head with exclusive titles. Nintendo console are worth owning if not only for the ability to play the Mario and Zelda franchises, but when you add in Smash Brothers, Pokemon, and all the other titles people l
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by montecarl 7y ago
Yes! These are called flash carts (short for cartridge). Here is a popular one for SNES: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0052URJKM Many people who stream older console games on twitch seem to use them as well as people who
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ER Dr. Colleen Smith from front lines of NYC hospital(reddit.com)
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by montecarl 7y ago
The author points out that Newton's method needs a good initial guess. This is especially true if you have a function that is not well approximated by a quadratic polynomial. If, for example, you want your optimization to converge to a
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by montecarl 7y ago
I don't have any Epyc hardware, but Linux 5.0 and 5.3 have worked great with my Ryzen 3 1200 and Ryzen 7 3700X, using Ubuntu 18.04.
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by montecarl 7y ago
Or python with mpi4py. MPI is the perfect multiprocessing paradigm for parallel python code, since you avoid the GIL. You can easily use MPI on a single workstation, or scale it to run on a supercomputer.
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by montecarl 7y ago
He showed how he did this. He said he took an image with the camera, and edited the tv to be perfectly white and used that as the target: "After some fruitless attempts at simple image statistics, I realized it's possible to edit
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by montecarl 7y ago
The apa article seems to have the best info. This is from a study of genetically identical mice: To find out more about the underlying cause of those behavioral changes, Nelson compared the brains of mice that had been exposed to dirty air
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by montecarl 7y ago
The referenced article there explicitly does not give a mechanism: Changes in the brain chemistry or composition are likely more plausible channels between air pollution and cognition. It is beyond the scope of this paper to test the exact
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by montecarl 7y ago
Is there any known mechanism through which air quality affects cognitive performance? The article does not suggest or refer to any research on the subject.
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by montecarl 7y ago
Each bad model that is learned is typically a valid model on some energy/velocity/ mass scale. Newtonian mechanics is a valid for sub-lightspeed velocities. Solving those problems using full general relativity is possible, but not
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by montecarl 7y ago
I really enjoy reading hip hop lyrics. I mostly use genius.com because the annotated lyrics can be very helpful. I would also suggest reading Kendrick Lamar. Here is one of my favorites, lyrically: https://genius.com/Kendric
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by montecarl 7y ago
A large Python package might have fewer than 10 dependencies, while a typical JS package easily has hundreds if not thousands of dependencies. Its much easier to manage your dependencies when you can count them on your fingers.
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by montecarl 7y ago
Too bad steam has trouble hitting even 100mbit/s on my gig fiber connection. In fact I find that many services seem to throttle at exactly 100mbit/s, e.g. Dropbox.
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by montecarl 7y ago
Yes, this is what makes it tricky. The units are very strange here. Its not a simple unit like meters or liters. Its not even one of the stranger units like Celsius (which is odd since zero C does not correspond to none of the quantity it m
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by montecarl 7y ago
> The average scientific article isn't any good, and the NLP algorithms that do tasks like this are even worse. In my day job, I'm often tasked with implementing algorithms from recently published physics papers. In order to do
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by montecarl 7y ago
Haven't read the article, but here is the cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?safe=off&source...
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by montecarl 7y ago
The only domain where I have seen this is with commercial scientific software that is designed to be run on supercomputers. This is mostly due to the difficulty of producing high performance binaries that work with the MPI implementation. O
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by montecarl 7y ago
When I read "inference" here I thought about probabilistic programming and Bayesian inference, but the article says: "Each processing element contains eight parallel lanes of 8-way multiply-accumulate (MAC) units, each with a
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by montecarl 7y ago
I've built windows exe files using pyinstaller on Linux using docker and wine. Someone else has helped automate this. Check out https://github.com/cdrx/docker-pyinstaller
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by montecarl 7y ago
I think the advice of never speaking to the police is meant to say that you can only get yourself into more trouble, not less. Emergency situations like this require you to make judgement calls. These situations seem like obvious cases to
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by montecarl 7y ago
Can anyone comment on how this compares to pymc3?

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