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by nerdponx 2y ago
Even if the ML engineers know about the wireless protocol (and I doubt that many do), the scientists/researchers who develop these models probably don't. They are completely different domain. The lead author on this paper is bas
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Think about how many highly specialized jobs are needed to run modern-day society. Think about how much of the required knowledge and skill to do those jobs would be lost, not to mention available person-hours. We could be set back a centur
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by nerdponx 2y ago
For what it's worth, the idea of a "tensor" in ML is pretty far removed from any physical concept. I don't know its mathematical origins (would be interesting I'm sure), but in ML they're only involved because
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by nerdponx 2y ago
This is a foul mischaracterization of several different viewpoints. Being opposed to a century-long copyright period for Mickey Mouse does not invalidate support for the concept of IP in general, and for the legal system continuing to respe
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by nerdponx 2y ago
That's a really nice analogy, I wonder if there is some research on this kind of thing in the machine learning literature already.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
As goofy as I personally think this is, it's pretty cool that we're converging on something like C3P0 or Plankton's Computer with nothing more than the entire corpus of the world's information, a bunch of people labeling
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by nerdponx 2y ago
And surely this new API will not be abused. Right?
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The name "inverse hyperbolic sine transformation" or "IHS transformation" is common in econometrics. https://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/12856 https://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwh
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It's not hard to see that it's sigmoidal, sure. But both the logistic function and the logarithm itself have a lot of nice mathematical properties that are useful for qualitatively interpretation. I'm not aware of equivalent
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by nerdponx 2y ago
If you replaced the '"' with 'cm', the analysis and visualizations would be identical.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
"Linear" here doesn't mean "a linear transformation is applied at each time step", it means "a constant rate of change over all time". Multiplicative growth by a constant factor is an increasing rate of
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It's also harder to interpret. What the heck does `log(x + sqrt(x^2 + 1))` mean? It's a great transformation for data viz or machine learning / statistical modeling, but its not really obvious what an IHS-transformed variable
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I can't imagine that they're highly desired for any reason other than the earnings potential. Not only in those jobs specifically, but also in the future opportunities that they unlock.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Snowflake and Pandas already have the ability to decode/encode "logical" type information stored in a Parquet file header, which is how you can do things like round-trip categorical-dtype data and data frame indexes between P
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Discussion of nullability is definitely an important omission here. Part of the issue is that Pandas itself supports multiple flavors of "nullability", e.g. the old NaN hack for Numpy float dtypes and None for object dtype. It is
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by nerdponx 2y ago
And ironically these exact problems are why people stopped using t-SNE in favor of UMAP originally.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
How do they sequester CO2?
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It's a shared responsibility.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Yes, do not do this.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Interestingly, Python is one of those programs. You need to use the special "utf-8-sig" encoding for that, which is not prominently advertised anywhere in the documentation (but it is stated deep inside the "Unicode HOWTO&quo
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by nerdponx 3y ago
There are plenty of things that people can and do in private industry that are significantly more harmful than making some incremental improvement in a weapons platform.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Default text file encoding being platform-dependent always drove me nuts. This is a welcome change. I also appreciate that they did not attempt to tackle filesystem encoding here, which is a separate issue that drives me nuts, but separatel
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Is there ever a world (other than sci-fi) in which drones become a useful countermeasure against other drones?
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by nerdponx 3y ago
The AI Girlfriend posts are on a lot of threads today, not just this one. But you never know.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
> change is scary This is all that matters at the end of the day. Most people are not self-aware enough, and/or willing enough to experience their own emotions, to handle ugly truths. It's more emotionally comfortable to find r
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Out of curiosity: how much of desertification in Africa and elsewhere is due to bad land management and how much is just due to changing weather as the climate changes?
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by nerdponx 3y ago
I learned right from FIS without any "warmup" from Strang-level material and it was rough to say the least. I came away with a good final grade and a very poor understanding of most of what I was doing, I was just grinding through
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Great example of how simply allowing a market to exist can result in inequality, compared to if the market were illegal.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
I think I see the crux of the disagreement. > The idea that there's something special about architecture is, really, a hardware illusion. Any empirical function approximation algorithm, designed to find the same conditional probabil
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by nerdponx 3y ago
> start with seaborn, then modify the underlying matplotlib figure Maybe this is the heart of my complaint: last I remember trying Seaborn, I found it hard to get access to the underlying Axes objects, and I also found it hard/impos

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