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by nestorD 5y ago
I wrote one book (technical, on a hobby subject) which brought me a few hundred dollars (not much but it is in a highly specialized domain and there was very little marketing). I worked with a small editor (who covered all costs except fo
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Some heuritsics I use: - play to your strengths, being balanced sounds nice but end up being really unproductive / un-pleasant - be nice / kind / non-jugemental to people - spend time on the things you like, as time and pract
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I came here to say that and had that they have a bot to notify people who might be on the wrong reddit. It seems to do a good job as those post are rare nowadays. A similar bot (using a naive bayesian classifier and a few examples) should b
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Universal: Custom-floating point numbers for C++(stillwater-supercomputing-inc.gitbook.io)
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The piece of art the gave me that feeling is the movie Taxy driver . A great, disturbingly accurate, representation of what happens when loneliness starts to eat away at a person's mind.
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Does anyone know a good Prolog course / introduction that focuses on exercices? I would be interested in becoming used to identify problems that can be solved with Prolog.
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That feature was actually inherited from Ocaml. Both have a REPL and type inference powerful enough to insure that you never indicate types in Ocaml and rarely in F#. The experience is close to having an elegant Python with types, definitel
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A very good article trying to answer the question "How efficient is it to assasinate nuclear scientists?": https://thebulletin.org/premium/2020-11/overview-nuclear-sci...
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Yes! Like having both pattern matching and tagged union type in a language, it is the synergy of the features that makes them significantly powerful.
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Side note to say that the previous example is actually F#, a static typed language contrary to Elixir (to be fair Elixir was heavily inspired by F# and they look similar when only looking at snippets).
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There was actually a very good 'Rust vs Fortran' subject in the Rust forum [0]. My personnal belief is that Fortran codebases will be replaced as new programmers don't want to learn the language due to its reputation. At the
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That is the point of the comment I believe: pointing out that we tend to ignore the vast majority of the inhabitants of Sparta when we think of Spartans.
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Fixed point arithmetic numbers have a very limited range which leads to them not playing well with multiplication and division (doing scientific computation with them is a game of searching which division|multiplication got you that 0|+inf
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I first though Lemonade insurance had decided to diversify their offers. So definitely a name clash.
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F# is helped by the easy interoperability with C#: you can call any C# library without problems (you might however want to write a small wraper to reduce friction with F#).
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Actually its one of those problems where it is worth not skipping. I have seen people applying neural networks to transform embeddings before doing a final dot-product where it could be proven (and indeed was confirmed in practice) that all
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That's the sad truth. Go is not leap and bound better on that front, it is C/C++ that has not catched up.
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Years ago I found good instructions on a website targeting kayakers (it was presented as a way to avoid geting cold in the water) but I am unable to find the reference now.
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I have seen tummo meditation used by non-buddhist to raise their body temperature. With a little bit of practice you should be able to experiment with it yourself (one common recommendation: don't practice it in a warm room / wear
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My feeling is that: - lots of people in the DNN for machine vision community do not have a background in classical techniques. - a lot of classical techniques and preprocessing pass make no real difference when applied to the input of a DNN
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They are particularly nice when processing a recursive datastructure such as a tree. The technique can make for some very short and readeable code.
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One thing I love about Rust is that, while the code is accidentaly quadratic, it is explicit when looking at the code and seing the call to `clone` which makes it much harder to produce those behaviour than in languages where copies can h
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Apparently the Rust compiler saw a 5% improvement (on average) when they enabled automatic aliasing information (they are now working with LLVM to get it back on). Note that it is very program dependent, a friend got a 30% improvement on a
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I have experimented with it (with an honest partner to give me exterior feedback) and: - no shampoo works for me, it has a difficult adaptation period but afterward it feels normal and my hair is healthy (nowadays I use a carefully selected
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If you are not familiar with it, OAD[0] is a fully open source RTS with an active community of developers that keep making it more and more polished at every release. [0]: https://play0ad.com/
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Internet makes it fairly easily to publish your short novels on a personal website. You are not going to make a profit or be marketed but at least your work is now out-there. Reading qntm's ones [0] got me to buy his self-published boo
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It removes the paradox without requiring additional hypotheses, just refining the math. That makes it the most convincing solution to the paradox for me.
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My favorite answer to Fermi's Paradox is a paper (which I do not have on hand) showing that it can be explained by the approximation error in doing a raw product of probabilities. If, instead of doing a product of the probability of ea
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Its actually really small, mostly because bigger networks take longer to evaluate which slows down the search making it shallower and ending in a less clever algorithm.
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But then you have to train a neural network and lose on the speed advantage of UMAP (offline yes but still much slower and finicky).

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