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by mvcalder 3y ago
I trained the raccoons that visit my house at night. I started them out getting a peanuts from a water bottle. Then I tied the bottle to a rope. Then kept raising the bottle higher. At that point, I built an automated feeder system using a
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by mvcalder 4y ago
It will be interesting to see what insights such efforts spawn. For the most part LLMs specifically, and deep networks more generally, are still black boxes. If we don't understand (at a deep level) how they work, getting them to &quot
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by mvcalder 4y ago
You might like tslab. It allows you to have the full notebook experience with either JavaScript or Typescript. My day to day is data analysis. JS/TS runs circles around pandas and you aren’t constrained to vectorized operations. If the
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by mvcalder 4y ago
One might argue one approach is superior over the other, I'd argue they are more like duals of one another. The PolyScale approach analyzes the queries and identifies the semantic and the statistical relationships between reads and wri
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by mvcalder 4y ago
That's an unscientific conclusion. They say the effect (of high variation) is unattributable, so it's unfair to limit it to soft sciences. This could infect literally any human endeavor that generates measurements, hard sciences i
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by mvcalder 4y ago
H''''': The lottery is run by corrupt officials, who want to cover their tracks. In order to do so they want to have many associates win so no single winner is subject to scrutiny. They need to communicate to this d
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by mvcalder 4y ago
Apparently you stopped reading, but since I never claimed CoPilot is not useful, it wasn't because of that. My claim is, I think, more subtle. The tools of AI/ML are useful, and can solve many problems. But they can't solve a
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by mvcalder 4y ago
My point is, maybe, but at what cost? I like the other poster's analogy to transportation systems. While ambition should be encouraged, there's work to do, so much so when it comes to exploiting our new found software powers.
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AI Hyperopia(mvcalder-01701.medium.com)
91 points by mvcalder 4y ago|82 comments
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by mvcalder 4y ago
One of the best date movies ever. My (now) wife and I must have watched this a dozen times. If you haven't seen it, grab your significant other, some popcorn, and a comfortable spot and enjoy!
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PolyScale and ClickHouse Materialized Views(polyscale.ai)
42 points by mvcalder 4y ago|12 comments
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by mvcalder 4y ago
Here's a tip, you can remove chlorine from tap water by spinning it for a minute in the blender. Then it won't interfere with fermentation.
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by mvcalder 4y ago
I always thought of Tom Dooley as a Kingston Trio song. The article cites The Greatful Dead.
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PolyScale improves Lambda execution time(polyscale.ai)
5 points by mvcalder 4y ago|0 comments
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Simple JupyterHub-like using Tailscale(github.com)
3 points by mvcalder 4y ago|0 comments
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by mvcalder 4y ago
When I used Matlab as an undergrad in the late 80's it used to report the flop count after each command, and those were floating point operations, no time units involved. I tried to find an image of the old command line but found this
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Data-Driven Edge Functions with Netlify and PolyScale(polyscale.ai)
2 points by mvcalder 4y ago|0 comments
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by mvcalder 5y ago
I bought one lottery ticket. Then I went back and bought two more, now I have 3-times the chance to win $100 million!
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by mvcalder 5y ago
If you visit Massachusetts, and go to Battleship Cove ( https://www.battleshipcove.org/ ) in Fall River, inside the USS Massachusetts you can get up close and personal with a WWII era firing control computer. It looks both ve
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by mvcalder 5y ago
> squirrels convert forest detritus into general intelligence Could you elaborate on this? Are you referring to a specific research result or waxing poetic?
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by mvcalder 5y ago
When I first read about the NTK I was motivated to try an experiment to see if the kernel depended on where in the parameter space one evaluated it. I was surprised to see in my simple example the answer was "no". Here is a write
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by mvcalder 5y ago
Or, most people’s subjective experience provides constant overwhelming evidence of the contrary.
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by mvcalder 6y ago
I did not read the article so maybe this was answered. But if the study was to see the effect of the recommendation + small supply of masks, I don't see why the non-compliant 7% would be censored. In one ear and out the other is one po
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by mvcalder 6y ago
My neighbor works at HD. He also works at a local metal fabrication shop. I've visited him there and watched him turn a flat piece of metal into a multifaceted high precision part on a metal brake using only his hands, eyes, and the to
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by mvcalder 7y ago
I just listened to a recent episode of 99% Invisible: The Weather Machine and I'm struck by the similarities. In the podcast they discuss the evolution of the data sharing agreements to do weather prediction and the birth of the idea t
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by mvcalder 7y ago
I helped my daughter with a science fair project in which we mapped the relative position of the sun and mars as viewed from a "stationary" earth, when all three correctly followed Newton's laws. I was very surprised how it t
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by mvcalder 7y ago
Huh, From where I sit, to think it's possible seems ... religous. To each his own I guess.
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by mvcalder 7y ago
I sent them your reply and magically all is good. Thank for the "ammo" and the work.
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by mvcalder 7y ago
My corporate overlords are blocking access to your site. They say your cert is invalid.