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> Libraries like this pop up in all kinds of languages to only slowly die off due to lack of community. I do not agree on the, very specific, subject of deep-learning. Libraries pop up and then die because they lack competitive performan
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Interesting, to me the biggest project in contemporary[1] mathematics is the work done on theorem provers. The goal being not to be able to prove new things automatically, but to check all existing proofs automatically and make it possible
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I am not familiar with that particular one but I have used other supercomputers and those people are not waiting for better hardware, they are trying to squeeze the best performance they can out of what they have. The end result mostly de
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Note that mediums being possessed by dead people and writing books in their name was common during spiritualism's heyday and is still a thing in Brazil where spiritualism and mediums are still going strong. https://johnryl
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If you want a significantly different one, Pijul[0] is based on the theory of patches and has some really interesting properties (but, to be honest, it would probably take Github accepting Pijul repositories for me to use it which is a sham
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I use ReadEra[1] to read books on my phone. At first it was a quick fix for those times I do not have my ebook reader with me but nowadays it has become my default: having an ebook reader on your phone means that any dead time in the day is
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That is thinking that all workdays are days working. I tend to believe that, given less workdays, you can benefit from increased focus during work and in the longer run.
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I once spoke with a psychic who does dream interpretation and he was adamant that people who recall their dream and people who don't can be put in two different personality clusters (including the fact that people who recall their drea
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This is the one: > Put down the number of your living brothers; multiply by two; add three; multiply the result by five. Now add the number of your living sisters. Multiply the total by ten. Add the number of your dead brothers and siste
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I really do not like that because the ban feels fuzzy. If you are a researcher exploring those algorithms and using Colab because you have very limited GPU access of you own, you might now be worried that your very own topic of research w
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Fun fact, about a hundred years ago, some pseudo-mediums would use a similar kind of math trick to "guess" the number of deceased brother and sisters of someone coming to see them in order to do a Seance. Morality aside, discove
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> I still want to be creative. If you managed to find a boring well-paying and low effort job then congratulation! You have just freed yourself from money while having enough focus left at the end of the day to pursue a creative interest
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While I am a believer in writing performance sensitive code in performant programming languages, I would argue that it matters. A lot of numerical software is Python glue code written around compiled kernels (written in C++, Rust, Fortran,
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Americanising is building a language an accent bubble around the US. I am a non native speaker with an accent and I am often surprised to see that some US citizens have a very hard time with my accent while non native speakers have no probl
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by nestorD 5y ago
I love the eink technology and have been happy with a reader bought about ten years ago. However, nowadays, I find myself mostly using the ReadEra app[0] on my phone (no affiliation). It being an app on my phone means that I always have my
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by nestorD 5y ago
> I'm curious, why do this for entertainment rather than therapy? That's a good question. I love the entertainment aspect of mentalism, I do it because it is entertaining and intriguing. As I believe that therapy has no place i
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by nestorD 5y ago
My book is written in French and covers the technique most dear to the Bob mentioned in the article (not giving more specific details here), if you read French don't hesitate to email me and I will send you a link. My computer scientis
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I would recommend "The Trilby Connection" by Antony Jacquin (coupled with his book "reality is plastic") to start in hypnosis as entertainement. It is fairly well explained and focuses on close-up meaning that you can st
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Pretty much yes. Usually people contact me because they want to do a particular demonstration on stage and i find a way to do it given their skillet, constraints and theme. But it can also be building a full show around a theme or helping s
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Depending on the situation I could lie about it succeeding, go forward as if it didn't matter, use a back up technique, take the miss and admit i am not perfect or do it on the full audience all at once to make sure it mostly works (yo
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I am a consulting mentalist (i have book published for that public and designed a stage show amongst other things) and... This article is very empty. It mostly quotes small points from thinkers in that domain to a public who does not care a
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Once you do that you have something that starts looking like a Gaussian process but is a lot cheaper. I believe it could have a lot of value (for people who have too much data for Gaussian process but otherwise could do with their good prop
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Here is a great write-up on the subject of the transition to the heliocentric model: https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-great-ptolemaic-sma... One key element is that heliocentric models where just not as go
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But, we now how to convert most of those process to electric. The engineering challenges have been solved. It is just not cost effective at the moment because you would have to update manufacturing process for all the things you want to cha
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I found this website to be great when looking for new books: https://findabooktoread.com/
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Yes. (salted) Butter is magic. I am French and a few friends have remarked that I use a lot of butter in my cooking before tasting and telling me it is the best ... they had.
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JAX is actually lower level than deep learning (despite including some specialized constructs) which makes it an almost drop-in replacement for numpy that has the ability to jit your python code. I am currently doing some tests introducing
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Are they? and how do you define young people? The two statistics I found in the introduction of the article are: > percentage of high-school students who’d had intercourse dropped from 54 to 40 percent > U.S. teen pregnancy rate has p
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Those are themes for thought experiments more than things the author defends (as one would expect with a foreword from Martin Gardner who was a strong skeptic): > This, finally, is the essence of synchronicity: the world we live in is fi
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> especially as I presumed NumPy to do far better If you are running your benchmark on a single Numpy operation then I would expect Numpy to have equal or better speed (you are not paying for JIT compilation). However, when you are doing

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