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by phonebucket 5y ago
> If we couldn't overcome it after a year of lockdowns, why is this gonna be the time it changes? Lockdowns are not about overcoming it; they're about saving lives. I think it's fair to say that the lockdowns saved quite a
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by phonebucket 5y ago
These sound like pretty talented kids. I imagine that most three year olds are still struggling with the alphabet!
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by phonebucket 5y ago
> Hello advertisers. You are being manipulated and abused just like the consumers you are targeting. Do you have much evidence for this? Advertisers don’t spend big bucks blindly. Many companies have significant data science teams that k
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by phonebucket 5y ago
It’s one game that lasts so long. This was traditionally played by players exchanging moves via letters sent by post. Naturally people use the internet more these days, but with a lot of time allowed between moves to keep the slow pace of c
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by phonebucket 5y ago
This occurred in a game of mine. I play(ed) international correspondence chess. The games can go on for years. In one of my games, my opponent sadly passed away. The game was adjuticated to a draw nine months after we had started. I did not
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by phonebucket 5y ago
I agree with this. This is my setup. However, I like tinkering with my dev environment quite a lot to make it exactly how I want it. I imagine the target market of Onivim is those users who don't want to tinker quite as much.
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by phonebucket 5y ago
Relatedly, the world champion played a game where the player with the black pieces went first to make a statement about racism [1]. [1]: https://www.chess.com/news/view/moveforequality-carlsen-giri...
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by phonebucket 5y ago
My personal experience of almost all such frameworks is that their very existence drives competition for promotions. In turn, that can lead to (unspoken) resentment of one’s peers. But once such frameworks are introduced, they are difficult
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by phonebucket 5y ago
> DeepMind just published a paper "Reward is enough" That paper does not mean that DeepMind believes that reward is enough. It is one of their many papers that is seeking to espouse a point a view. It does not mean it is their
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by phonebucket 5y ago
I agree, the tooling can be clumsy. I'd wish for a language-wide standard to help with replicable R environments. Perhaps using conda makes sense here. But when you say the language isn't great, what exactly is the problem? IMO, R
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by phonebucket 5y ago
I have to disagree with a good chunk of this article. The article completely misses the main advantage (to me) of reinforcement learning: Reinforcement learning allows you to optimise on non-differentiable outcomes. I can't differentia
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Giant pandas no longer endangered but still vulnerable, says China(bbc.co.uk)
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by phonebucket 5y ago
> What would be the added value of an average and aspiring chess player like me to play against Stockfish 14 instead of one of he previous versions? I feel I'll never challenge the maximum capacity of such an engine. I do not see c
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by phonebucket 5y ago
I actually started using Neovim builds from master to get access to built in LSP before this release. It’s faster and lighter weight than any other LSP client I’ve used (I have used vim-lsp and languageclient-neovim in the past). From my un
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by phonebucket 5y ago
Another fantastic (and free!) Information Theory resource is David MacKay’s book, which also addresses aspects of Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning: http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/itila/ It’s among my
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by phonebucket 5y ago
I have little C experience. I've always wanted to learn it properly to broaden my horizons, so I really respect the opinions of the gatekeepers: C is a small footprint language with plenty of footguns. It goes beyond matters of style a
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by phonebucket 5y ago
git config --global alias.undo 'reset --soft HEAD~1' Not that I would include this in my own shell. To the authors two example uses: 1) Undoing an amended commit. But if you're comfortable amending a commit, can't you ju
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The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité(people.cs.georgetown.edu)
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Physical Warp Drives(iopscience.iop.org)
147 points by phonebucket 5y ago|125 comments
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by phonebucket 5y ago
> I'm curious to know what/who would be needed to convince the scientific community. Scientists who know their stuff don't need a who. They can go purely on what. If many such scientists accept something, then I think the
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by phonebucket 5y ago
The timing is a little less funny if you know that I listened to the podcast shortly before finding the IEEE article. The podcast was great! I would think that many on HN would find it interesting.
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Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory (2016)(spectrum.ieee.org)
178 points by phonebucket 5y ago|34 comments
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by phonebucket 5y ago
> I’ve always pursued my interests without much regard for final value or value to the world ... I’ve spent lots of time on totally useless things. - Claude Shannon [1] He is known for a large number of playful side projects. [1] https:
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by phonebucket 5y ago
> Even here, I'm pretty sure @dang is basically reading HN and cleaning it up all day. I'm not sure about this. I believe there are automated systems and shadow bans on HN (not entirely sure how they work). There's certain
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by phonebucket 5y ago
> But once your assets cross a certain threshold, almost all your spending is relative to the Joneses. The amount of absolute wealth no longer matters — what matters is the amount of wealth relative to your peers. This seems to be the pr
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by phonebucket 5y ago
This new approach to generative modelling looks very intriguing. In a similar ilk, there's this ICLR paper from this year using stochastic differential equations for generative modelling: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011
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by phonebucket 5y ago
The vast majority of the time that I've seen slow Python code, it's because people are not leveraging the libraries in the right way, e.g. by using groupby-apply in Pandas or not vectorising while using NumPy. I can't speak
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by phonebucket 5y ago
One way to see it is that the preventative measures against Covid got the flu numbers down. Another way to see it is that people who’d die from the flu died from Covid instead. How do we tease apart the two potential explanations?
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by phonebucket 5y ago
That was a fun read. While it might be unsurprising to some, it's a testament to breadth of applications of modern machine learning frameworks. I enjoyed this sentence in particular. > This should look familiar, because it is a neur
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by phonebucket 5y ago
One thing I find curious: lots of compiler writing seems to be done in Haskell, but I can hardly find any Haskell-based resources for writing compilers. Can anyone here please recommend any such resources?

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