physicsyogi

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by physicsyogi 7y ago
Feynman's Lectures are great for understanding conceptually, but they don't teach you what you need to know to solve research problems. Some of what's in TAOCP is directly applicable to research (for example, the combinatoric
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
I agree with a lot of this. The one thing that I've found with some of these "fundamental" books is that there are gems of information that can be very helpful for specific problems. For instance, Landau and Lifshitz's s
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
My friend's VPN emailed him saying Comcast asked them for his info because he torrented something and the copyright holder contacted Comcast. The VPN provider didn't give Comcast any info.
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
I can't speak for others, but I'm far more productive in Clojure. I'm able to write less code in less time, without any loss in correctness. My productivity comparison is in relation to Java and Python, which is mainly what I
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
There's a rebuttal to this as well: Attention is not not Explanation. https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04626
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
Focus is usually directed at a single thing though, it's a narrowing of attention. Attention mechanisms can pay attention to more than one thing at a time.
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
Yes. I don’t know if that’s all that they do. They often port new Tensorflow models to PyTorch as well. They provide straightforward APIs, nice documentation, and clear tutorials. I use their stuff pretty regularly.
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
I'd probably be happy with "update", which is similar to Clojure's API for its persistent vector and map. https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/update
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
Persistent data structures are thread-safe and are useful for concurrency. That's partly why they are a core part of functional programming languages like Clojure and Haskell. Persistent data structures are also useful for version cont
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
There are a few numerical computing benchmarks for which Rust is sometimes faster than C: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
This isn't cool, but it doesn't bother me too much because iOS app store search has been useless from day one. It should almost never be used unless you already know what you're looking for. There are better places to find mu
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
Language in Thought and Action, by S.I. Hayakawa. I read it in grad school and it opened my mind to how much of human language is subjective and made me think about the problems that arise because of that.
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
I recently finished reading The Overstory. I thought it was pretty interesting. It got me interested in video game programming (as did reading Ready Player One).
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
I may be wrong, but my guess is that Jeff Dean’s presentation is what lead to Google’s efforts with Swift for Tensorflow.
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
There are two parts to this: (1) labeling something as a date or time and (2) normalizing it to a time stamp. The first part is the tagging. The second part is temporal normalization. There are several libraries for temporal normalization:
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
The title of the article suggests that Siri is not privacy-minded, but that is definitely not true. Having more choice in virtual assistants would be great though. And, if it's good, hopefully it will not go the way of Viv.
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
This is a nice intro to RNNs. The article title says RNNs are the workhorse of language modeling, but the transformer architecture used in models like BERT and GPT-2 handily beat RNNs.
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
One of my friends has a Model S and attaches a wrist weight to the wheel when he's on long interstate trips.
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
It can be difficult to predict whether a given research topic will be useful or not in the future. It's easy when something is developed with an application in mind. It can be far more difficult for "pure math". There are ple
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
> If Google owns Search, Gmail, Android, Analytics, Chat, Google Fi, Google Fiber, Chrome, GPay, etc... then they are able leverage one monopoly to establish monopolies elsewhere. You're right that Google leverages its portfolio of
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
Murphy is a nice book, but I’ve always felt like it was more of a survey text and not one made for diving deep into a given subject. For instance, if you want to go from theory to writing code, Murphy isn’t necessarily the best book for tha
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Reinforcement Learning with Attention That Works: A Self-Supervised Approach(arxiv.org)
8 points by physicsyogi 7y ago|0 comments
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by physicsyogi 7y ago
> Scientists believe that time is continuous, not discrete—roughly speaking, they believe that it does not progress in "chunks," but rather "flows," smoothly and continuously. The jury may still be out on that. A few
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by physicsyogi 8y ago
During WWII, Germany was also trying to build the bomb. All things considered, it's probably better that the Manhattan Project beat them to it.
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by physicsyogi 8y ago
Word2vec doesn't really address multiple meanings (polysemy). There has been some progress on this though. Sebastian Ruder has been tracking the state-of-the-art in this here: [1]. [1] https://nlpprogress.com/english&#x
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by physicsyogi 8y ago
(PhD, 2005 in condensed matter) I left academia after my postdoc and went to work at one of the think tanks in the DC area for a few years. When I got tired of being a government contractor and left to work in natural language processing an
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by physicsyogi 8y ago
> Yeah, one way to reduce costs would be to remove all the extraneous coursework that's of zero value to society. Some of that "extraneous coursework", I'm thinking of things like theather, drama, and dance, brings bi
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When kids realize their whole life is already online(msn.com)
2 points by physicsyogi 8y ago|0 comments
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by physicsyogi 8y ago
It looks like the US has reversed its position and the 737 Max is being grounded. [1] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/business/canada-737-max.h...
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by physicsyogi 8y ago
Someone could also replace the carbon with silicon.

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