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by plafl 9y ago
From what little I have read on the topic adversarial attacks are succesfull on neural networks because in order to train them succesfully we design them to operate on a linear regime as much as possible. This linearity compounded with the
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by plafl 9y ago
I was curious about latency and did the following calculations: considering Earth radius (6370km), the minimum distance to your antipodes would be 20000km. Light speed is 300e3 km/s, this means that the minimum time to reach them would
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by plafl 9y ago
Same here. After 20 years of using Linux I'm again a Linux newbie. I have given up, I just install Ubuntu. It's true that Linux works better than before but I feel it's just because there is so much more muscle behind not bec
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by plafl 9y ago
It might be that workers on a dictatorship will never have better conditions. The only way to reach an equilibrium is for the rest to lower their wages. Having no regulation is an illusion because dictatorships are heavily regulated and it
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by plafl 9y ago
Yes, I was commenting on what I understood about the book review, not on the book itself, which I have not read.
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by plafl 9y ago
I think the meaning here is that French identity has been formed slowly over time while interacting with the outside. I would be surprised if a group of academics, specially if French, denied the existence of French culture. I suppose some
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by plafl 9y ago
I hate some players make the rules
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by plafl 9y ago
Yes, but I'm sure they are no Einsteins, which is of course the minimum we expect.
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by plafl 10y ago
You can have it with Emacs, depending on the language you are using. I have used C/gdb out of the box quite happily and now I use python (elpy) and it works although with some annoying glitches from time to time. Other languages don&#x
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by plafl 10y ago
It is nevertheless a wasted resource that could be used better. Indirectly it will cause all tickets fares to fall down which will benefit the people that actually flies. I'm not against overbooking but forcefully expelling a passenger
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by plafl 10y ago
By that reasoning we should eliminate public mass transport and someone will fill the gap. However, I think it would be an error too.
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by plafl 10y ago
Thank you very much for the article, I'm really enjoying it. I have a few comments: - When hovering over some notes I see the citations perfectly, but when there is math involved like for example the one about spectral decay the math i
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by plafl 10y ago
I think that insect variations are due to very short lifespans with high reproductive rates and a more simple design. I just made the following calculations: fruit flies for example live 50 days, this accounts for more than 500 generations
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by plafl 10y ago
I was drawn to python because of the culture (simple, documentation) and I stay because of the libraries (machine learning, scientific). The language just needs to be better than Matlab or R (not Scheme, Clojure, Scala or pick your favorite
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by plafl 10y ago
So basically the most accurate approach that is near something practical is using arbitrary precision. What I was wondering is if there is any implementation capable of detecting for example that the three bisectors of a triangle meet exact
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by plafl 10y ago
What I remember from college, more than 10 years have passed, from using MicroStation and SolidEdge is that even professional design packages will accumulate some errors. Actually you could build the same piece in several different ways and
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by plafl 10y ago
That's exactly what I was going to post, but you beat me. I found surprising that they claim competitive performance over neural networks just using a CPU. The advantage I think neural networks have over all other methods is how effici
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by plafl 10y ago
My opinion is quite similar to yours. I have never worked in videogames but my, uninformed, opinion has always been that open source videogames lag so much behind other types of open source programs because they require a lot of non-program
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by plafl 10y ago
I have used the NUTS sampler, via PyMC. If your function is smooth you are OK, even if it's complex, because both PyMC and I think Stan too will auto differentiate your function. PyMC in particular uses theano under the hood.
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by plafl 10y ago
Most tech people I know have an above average knowledge and respect for the humanities. Maybe you cannot excel in both but you can enjoy both. There is always a subset of the population, intersecting also technical people, that increase the
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by plafl 10y ago
Exactly. I don't like having to pay, obviously. But not being able to say the price is removing information from the market, not to avoid helping competitors, just to make it more inefficient and abuse a position of power.
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by plafl 10y ago
I find the video game console world so strange. Having to pay just to develop feels wrong but that the price is under NDA feels ridiculous. IMO it shouldn't be legal.
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by plafl 10y ago
Maybe the CEO made the decision subconsciously and later rationalized the decision
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by plafl 10y ago
You have reminded me of this book (not actually read it): https://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?ID=12078
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by plafl 10y ago
I agree with you, but actually two of the companies listed target computer vision and the other three seem to be working on deep learning related hardware which looks like a very valid business although not consumer facing. I suppose most o
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by plafl 10y ago
Airlines don't charge you to cover any extra cost. They charge you just because they can. They will try at all costs to know how much are you willing to pay and offer you that price minus one cent. If they think you are on a business t
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by plafl 10y ago
I can speak for Spain, although I sometimes get calls from other European countries. Relative to the pathetic Spanish work market data science/machine learning is doing great. I think right now there is too much hype, which is going to
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by plafl 10y ago
I usually ask about what the candidate has worked on. Or maybe the topic of their PhD thesis. I prefer that people explain to me what they know instead of having a list of questions about what I know.
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by plafl 10y ago
Probably, but we really don't know
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by plafl 10y ago
Related fact: the glide ratio does not depend on the aircraft weight, only on the aerodynamic efficiency (the ratio between your lift and your drag), so it is useless to throw weight to reach further like maybe you have seen sometimes on mo

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