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by mreid 3y ago
Don't sell yourself short. I only started running when I turned 38. I ran my first marathon in 3:53 when I was 42, and my second one in 3:41 when I was 44. I'm now nearly 48 and am planning on doing another one later this year an
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by mreid 3y ago
It makes me glad to see that Aleph (and ILP more generally) are still being used. It's a really powerful and interpretable way of constructing code from examples. I made a few contributions to Aleph as part of my PhD on doing transfer
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by mreid 4y ago
It might be easiest to give a sense of what "unprovable but true" means by way of an imagined example. Goldbach's conjecture is that "every even number bigger than 2 is the sum of exactly two prime numbers", so 4 =
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by mreid 4y ago
I learnt the strategy of "satisficing" from Herbert Simons' "Sciences of the Artificial" book. It suggests not bothering to split hairs amongst alternatives once options have met some threshold for acceptance. http
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by mreid 5y ago
I'm not the parent, but I think they are referring to William Sethares' book "Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale": https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781852337971 It's a fascinating take on ho
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by mreid 6y ago
Definitely looks like synesthesia. FTFY
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by mreid 8y ago
I never thought of it as onomatopoeic before but, if I string the sound out – pooooooour – making the “o” noisy and its pitch rise slowly it does remind me of the sound of a cup being filled from a tap. Ok, I still think it’s an unusual exa
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by mreid 8y ago
Another thing to add to your learnings for the day is the difference between “metaphor” and “onomatopoeia”. The latter is only for words that are related to a particular sound they are describing, e.g., “quack”, “bang”, “sizzle”, “whoosh”.
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by mreid 8y ago
A recommendation for IoBC should come with a strong warning. It is a extremely short piece but, word for word, one of the most hard-hitting and distressing things I’ve read. It’s a testament to DFW’s talents as a writer to get so much impac
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by mreid 8y ago
I don’t know about puns being the lowest form of humour, but the bun is the lowest form of wheat.
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by mreid 9y ago
According to this article Service Workers is on by default in the latest Safari Tech Preview: https://9to5mac.com/2017/12/20/safari-preview-46-service-wor...
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by mreid 9y ago
I saw this at the end of the article, was hit by a huge wage of nostalgia, and had to comment: > Update 9.10.2015: exec.library base address is stored in > memory address $4. The library base address itself is not $4. I learnt 68k as
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by mreid 9y ago
Ditto. That was the first language I was taught at UNSW (in 1993). It was quite a change from the BASIC, assembler, and C I had taught myself in high-school.
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by mreid 10y ago
It's been a while since I looked at it, but I think Computational REST (CREST) tried to do something like that: http://www.erenkrantz.com/CREST/
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by mreid 11y ago
I haven't used Hugo but my entire site is generated with Hakyll: http://mark.reid.name/ . I've found it works well for a mixture of blogging and more static content.
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by mreid 13y ago
Jennifer Egan did a New Yorker story called "Black Box"[1] that was intentionally composed as sub-140 character chunks. It was released on Twitter tweet-by-tweet and collected in a New Yorker science fiction special last year. She
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by mreid 13y ago
So you are willing to discredit everyone's claim to the importance of their trips based on examples of people who falsely claim that their's was important? I don't think anyone here is arguing the position that LSD will have
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by mreid 13y ago
Is there evidence to support the claim that Van Gogh believed cutting his ear off was important to his life and work? If not, then this is a very different example to that of Jobs' claim and is an equally poor way of refuting a positio
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by mreid 13y ago
Sloth, apathy, and procrastination.
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by mreid 14y ago
Firstly, I agree that machine learning is effectively parameter search but the name an artefact of history and we both appear to understand what it means so I don't see how this adds to the argument. Secondly, no, John didn't say learning t
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by mreid 14y ago
I'll ask him whether he considers himself mostly a pencil pushing fraud when I see him in December. I'll also see what he thinks of the claim that VW's usefulness is "not due to any theory". I'll think you'll be surprised given he's written
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by mreid 14y ago
I see that you use VW for machine learning. You should ask the lead developer (John Langford) what he thinks of the efficacy of mathematics for machine learning given most of the algorithms it uses were derived from theoretical consideratio
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by mreid 14y ago
There is no argument that fundamental research (including, but not limited to pure mathematics) is a high-risk investment with a small chance of a large pay-off. But, like most good, high-risk investments the potential pay-offs can be massi
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by mreid 14y ago
Yes, that's more or less how it was done. The explanation is here: http://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20090805/index.html
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by mreid 14y ago
Here's a self-referential URL that doesn't use any URL forwarding/shortening service: https://twitter.com/#!/selfrefer/status/3128391843
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by mreid 14y ago
Right, because "experience in algebra, established reputation in field, and familiarity with communication of math" can be acquired by anyone with only a modicum of smarts. I think you are underestimating just how intricate and challenging
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by mreid 14y ago
I wrote a very similar blog post a few years ago when I first encountered the same fact: http://mark.reid.name/iem/warning-high-dimensions.html Thanks to the comments, I learned this is a common warning, used in at least three textbooks.
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by mreid 14y ago
I think you meant to say "pedantic nerdery".
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Protocols and Structures for Inference (PSI) draft specification(psi.cecs.anu.edu.au)
3 points by mreid 15y ago|0 comments
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by mreid 15y ago
I agree, and had no problem understanding his intended meaning but I was irked by the unnecessary misuse of technical notation to attempt to get across an idea that would have been perfectly easy to write without it (e.g., "10 times" and "1

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