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by mtzet 8y ago
> Inlining functions is not a readability thing. Inlining for readability is precisely what the linked article is about.
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by mtzet 8y ago
I think both C, Python and Scheme are all perfectly fine choices for a first language. It really depends on what you want to do. Want to learn how a computer works? Learn C. Want to study abstract comp-sci concepts? Learn Scheme. Want to wi
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by mtzet 8y ago
While I agree that a proof of the Riemann hypothesis is unlikely to matter for cryptographical purposes, neither does the AKS primality test. As with many asymptotically efficient algorithms, the constants are simply too large for it to be
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by mtzet 9y ago
Not a very pretty website, but certainly a pretty subject! This really is the best way of explaining where continued fractions come from. The fact that convergents of the continued fraction provide the best rational approximation always see
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by mtzet 9y ago
I'll second the chunking feature. Magit is very good at staging and unstaging files and PARTS of a file. I don't know any good way of doing this on the command line.
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by mtzet 9y ago
> We can use complex numbers to describe a 2-dimensional number-space with a single digit. How do we describe a 3-dimensional number-space with a single digit? What about higher dimensional number-space? The complex numbers equips the ve
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by mtzet 9y ago
I've noticed the same thing with LP's. While LP's are technically inferior to red book CD's, they're often mastered better.
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by mtzet 9y ago
Honestly, I don't think having to learn some stuff before starting anything is nessecary, especially for learning a field as wide as ML/AI. It's much better to start out trying to learning something you're interested in,
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by mtzet 9y ago
The relationship is that measure theory provides the theoretical framework for making probability theory rigorous. The only formal prerequisite for learning measure theory is that you should know series and sequences. For a reference, I&#x2
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by mtzet 9y ago
As a rookie trying to get into the field myself, I think there are quite a few ways to start about it. The programming part with R, python, julia etc., seems to get the most attention here. I think the most important part here is to learn h
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by mtzet 9y ago
Even if the world is fundamentally discrete, that does not mean that continuous models are not valuable. They are. We are used to doing discrete approximations to continuous problems, but the other way around works too. For example, evaluat
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by mtzet 9y ago
Mathematician here. There is a sentiment here, that seems to be that the hard part of mathematics is in the notation, and that this could be solved by just implementing all mathematics in a programming language. I quite disagree. I believe
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by mtzet 9y ago
> Pollution created by making a car And yet, the tax is not specifically on the pollution. You could argue that this might be difficult to do in practice, but in any case such a pollution tax ought to also apply to other products like co
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by mtzet 10y ago
> Gauss quite openly admitted that the choice was borne out of convenience. That's quite interesting. Do you have a reference for that? From my understanding, the popularity of the least squares method came (at least in part) from G