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by mxwsn 8y ago
A comment on design: I'd recommend removing the large buttons for "How it Works" and "Queue up" on the landing image and instead using some visual indicator to scroll down. Scrolling down vs. clicking buttons (that
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This is known as transfer learning, see [0] for an approachable example. [0] https://www.mathworks.com/help/nnet/examples/transfer-learni...
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While there is some unknowable risk, Theranos was in a completely different realm in terms of the mismatch between her technological aspirations and the feasibility of current technology. From the interview, Holmes appears to lack the knowl
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Phase separation really seems to be a hot topic in biology beyond early life development too, extending at least to the field of gene regulation. A Phase Separation Model for Transcriptional Control. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&
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by mxwsn 8y ago
"Epigenetics is heritable information that is not encoded in DNA base sequence." I agree with this. Combined with the observation that temperature-dependent sex determination occurs within a specific window of time, after which se
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by mxwsn 8y ago
The impact of epigenetics can be powerful. A neat example is sex, one of the most obvious and striking axes of biological variation. Unlike humans where the presence or absence of an entire chromosome (X or Y) determines sex, there are turt
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by mxwsn 8y ago
But this task is strictly harder and more general than QWOP .
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by mxwsn 8y ago
Unfortunately, the definition of one second as 9,192,631,770 energy transitions of the Cesium atom factorizes in a less pretty way: 2 x 3^2 x 5 x 7^2 x 47 x 44351
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by mxwsn 8y ago
The last third of the talk where he actually discusses work that could be considered to regard generative agents appears to be a deep learning version of the Bayesian model presented three years ago accompanying the initial release of the O
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This line of thinking really highlights how building models that predict phenotype from genotype assuming linear and independent genetic contributions, though useful for predicting something like height [0] [1], is not going to generalize s
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by mxwsn 8y ago
My favorite laptop that I've ever owned was an unusual 21:9 ultrabook about 5 years ago [0]. The author does acknowledge in the second to last paragraph that ultra widescreen can be helpful, and boy was it. I could fit my terminal side
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by mxwsn 9y ago
Why is e^2 so close to 7? Just to highlight how arbitrary pi and 10 are...
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by mxwsn 9y ago
Since collisions between two objects are symmetric (object one colliding with object two is the same event as object two colliding with object one) there are n(n-1)/2 possible collisions. The guy's probably short handing this as O
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Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning(argmin.net)
531 points by mxwsn 9y ago|94 comments
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by mxwsn 9y ago
A semantic note -- under canonical definitions, "proof of help" is a bad name for your idea. Proof of work/stake means they're using work, or stake, to secure the blockchain; it's the answer to the question "Wh
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Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning(argmin.net)
3 points by mxwsn 9y ago|0 comments
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by mxwsn 9y ago
What's the alternative, a designed and engineered feedback system to replace pain? Who should design this and what would an ethical proposal look like? Sounds like a nightmare
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by mxwsn 9y ago
As a computational biologist, I'm not so confident that Simons can make a huge impact in my field. At best, I would expect his institute to find a niche and impact on the scale of a typical lab, but this pales in comparison to, say, th
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by mxwsn 9y ago
I found this article helpful: https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-12-04/bitcoin... tl;dr: - Increase access to btc (futures can be more liquid than BC itself, which has large transaction costs and
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The rub is in "gold just works". It doesn't just work, there are reasons it has retained value for so long and reasons it might not forever. The intrinsic value of USD is it's the only currency you can use to pay taxes t
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by mxwsn 9y ago
The key phrase here is "academic scientific papers", which certainly strongly discourage human stories and emotions.
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> “The problem is, when you have the same exact words, it’s hard to assemble,” said Lander, just as if jigsaw puzzle pieces show the same exact blue sky. This is inaccurate, though the fault is with the author, not Lander. When you have