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by obastani 9y ago
It's a bit difficult to explain the visualization without pictures, but I'll give it a shot. The transpose is really about converting the matrix to operate on a different vector space, namely, the dual space. In particular, the du
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I agree that having possible examples in mind is a great way to learn mathematics. There are whole books on useful counterexamples, e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Counterexamples-Analysis-Dover-Books-... These counterexamples
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by obastani 9y ago
I'm not supporting the GP's viewpoint, but I think their point is that we don't have enough information to attribute warming specifically in the Arctic to human causes. I don't know very much about the subject, but given
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Google has also done some foundational research on learning with privacy: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05755 https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45428.html It's hard to know for sure what they
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by obastani 9y ago
It is need based -- it goes to the students least in need! /s
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This sounds like a really interesting paper -- do you happen to have a link to the reference?
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by obastani 9y ago
Consider the following (traditional) program: x = raw_input() x *= 2 assert x >= 10 Now we can ask the question: "Assuming the assertion passed, what can we say about x?" In this simple example, we know that x >=
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by obastani 9y ago
I think they might be referring [1], which shows that adversarial examples transfer to models such as decision trees and SVMs. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.07277
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How do you know it's the same cat? A neural network needs to be explicitly told, "these are all the same cat".
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The GP is saying that rational expectations is used not because it's simple, but because it makes the weakest assumptions about human behavior. However, I'm not sure this is entirely accurate since if some agents deviate from the
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by obastani 9y ago
A "gold rush" probably didn't make gold abundant -- it was just enough to make a few people rich.
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The standard approach to detecting signal lights is to have a database of GPS positions of the signals, along with rough location in the camera where the signal is expected to occur [1]. Then, when the car nears the signal, it locates the s
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by obastani 9y ago
On the flip side, sometimes simple formatting in Latex can be a nightmare, for example, getting your table columns spaced correctly.
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Word has its own version control built in, which works pretty well. You can see all revisions, and step through and accept/reject. You can also do diff of two documents.
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I think one of the biggest challenges in moving from 1v1 to 5v5 is the substantially increased possibility of creative strategies. In a 1v1, there isn't that much room for innovation, making it a perfect target for existing AI techniqu
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by obastani 9y ago
Seems like the foundation that published that study is anti wind and might not be the most reputable source [1]. [1] http://www.ewea.org/blog/2012/12/study-on-turbine-lifespan-j...
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by obastani 9y ago
My understanding is that in a full match, AIs still have no hope against humans, since even though they can crush humans at micro, their macro is still abysmal [1]. I'm not aware of a match where any AI has beat a pro human player at S
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by obastani 9y ago
Do you have a citation? As far as I know, existing AIs do not stand much of a chance again humans [1]. My understanding is that even if AIs can beat humans is small skirmishes due to superior micro, they lose so badly at macro that it simpl
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by obastani 9y ago
Unless I am missing standing, the goal is only to produce a new interpretation of quantum mechanics. That is, the predicted physics do not change, only the formulation of the theory. Therefore, anything possible under this formulation is al
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A sibling post talked about special relativity, but you don't need special relativity to answer this question, just Galilean relativity. The answer is that you can measure velocity in any inertial reference frame you want. If you are i
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In this situation, wouldn't the person sitting in the middle be willing to trade for either the aisle or the window seat?
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I don't think your comments really answer the questions that are being asked. The question, as far as I understand it, is why humans can't operate exactly as they do now, but without the sensation of consciousness. I don't th
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The attack you suggest is ruled out by differential privacy. The precise guarantee is a bit complicated. The first thing to note is that the output of a differentially private mechanism must be random. Then, the guarantee is that Pr[output]
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I believe most consumer industries have consumer surplus, since different customers are willing to pay different prices but the companies can only charge one price. This includes the taxi companies that Uber displaced. From reading the abst
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Unlike adding RAM, adding each extra qubit is also exponentially harder, since maintaining coherence of all the qubits becomes more and more difficult. That's why scaling from the tiny quantum computers we have today (which are not use
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I don't understand your comment. Given the same rate of return, investors prefer lower risk. So what you seem to be saying is conglomerates produce lower returns. But I don't think that's what the conglomerate discount is, wh
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I don't think what you are saying contradicts the gp. All the expertise that went into developing tools to host their own website probably went into developing AWS. Just because they maintained two separate infrastructures doesn't
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Humans know when they can't see properly. The problem with adversarial examples is that the neural net thinks it's doing great. You have to manually specify every possible failure mode for the neural net before hand -- if you mi
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Are you sure you'd still feel that once you're actually there? What if many people might believe what you say, but then quickly change their minds as soon as they find out how difficult and uncomfortable it is to live on Mars?
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Just because people collaborate from all over the planet to make the pencil, doesn't mean that's the way it has to be. This kind of collaboration simply enables economics of scale to kick in (and possibly improve quality as well).

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