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by poppingtonic 3mo ago
Street Fighting Mathematics! Loved taking this Sanjoy Mahajan's course on OCW in high school
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by poppingtonic 4mo ago
Some zig zag motions are required to maintain velocity and the combat is fun. I like it!
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Milawa on Jitawa, a Verified Theorem Prover(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
1 points by poppingtonic 6mo ago|0 comments
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by poppingtonic 7mo ago
Learning how to implement Prolog in pg's On Lisp was a fun way to spend multiple weeks programming. Doing this again this year should be a lot of fun.
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by poppingtonic 8mo ago
Lambda, The Ultimate Container
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by poppingtonic 8mo ago
This essay nerd sniped me hard into information theory. Absolutely love it.
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by poppingtonic 10mo ago
Thank you for the links - I can't stop replaying Love
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by poppingtonic 3y ago
Reading textbooks. Using a REPL-based language like Lisp (which I learned from reading advanced Lisp textbooks) for several years before I worked professionally as a programmer enabled me to dive into complex, underexplored parts of the (Py
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by poppingtonic 3y ago
Hello HN, co-founder (Brian Muhia), here to answer any questions!
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Visualising Multi-Sensor Predictions from a Rice Disease Classifier(qeios.com)
2 points by poppingtonic 3y ago|0 comments
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Why computer modeling should become a popular hobby (1996)(qrg.northwestern.edu)
92 points by poppingtonic 3y ago|31 comments
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Neurogrid – The Board (2016)(web.stanford.edu)
2 points by poppingtonic 4y ago|0 comments
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C Implementation of Gregory Chaitin's the Limits of Mathematics(github.com)
5 points by poppingtonic 4y ago|0 comments
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Neuro Evolving Robot Operatives(nn.cs.utexas.edu)
25 points by poppingtonic 5y ago|4 comments
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Building Problem Solvers(qrg.northwestern.edu)
4 points by poppingtonic 5y ago|0 comments
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Engineering Scientific Serendipity(brianmu.com)
1 points by poppingtonic 8y ago|0 comments
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by poppingtonic 8y ago
1. You get a state-of-the art training loop that includes the latest research findings such as 1-cycle. 2. Yes. You can make everything project-specific if you want to. e.g. Image segmentation datasets are just slightly modified Dataset cla
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by poppingtonic 8y ago
Try a schedule that keeps you on ~ two hours a day, focusing on at least one of the videos in the 14-video series. So: 14 weeks, paying attention to one video a week and whatever peripheral studies you choose to follow up on based on the id
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by poppingtonic 8y ago
Wow, when I hear about perverse incentives, I don't usually think about people spending their lives showing their clients a taste of a possible future until a high enough reward gets them to stop caring. Reward hacking for humans.
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JuliaCon 2018: Index Notation and the Future of Tensor Compilers [video](youtube.com)
3 points by poppingtonic 8y ago|0 comments
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by poppingtonic 8y ago
Maybe if they randomized to n<=20 n-gons. I'd love to see Dactyl tackle a dodecahedron.
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by poppingtonic 8y ago
The conclusion of this paper is, paraphrasing, "We should stop using point estimates for what should be distributions. When we do that, we get much lower bounds and have a better chance at being more precise, whether or not we are alon
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by poppingtonic 8y ago
https://github.com/fastai/fastai/tree/master/courses/
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by poppingtonic 8y ago
One year of Python, with high school and introductory college courses. Some basic linear algebra, familiarity with logarithms etc.
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by poppingtonic 8y ago
Givewell's founders know this, which is why they spun off the Open Philanthropy Project: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-r...
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by poppingtonic 9y ago
I've read most of it, and I think it's a great book for experienced developers looking to dive deep into a pretty specific range of topics. As a beginner's second book after SICP, I'd still recommend it, because it assum
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by poppingtonic 9y ago
Anaconda can probably help
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by poppingtonic 9y ago
Is this going to expand the funding that goes to the SENS program? There's a lot of basic Science that is yet to be done, and it appears (from Aubrey de Grey's talks) that a lot of it is still rather underfunded. See this talk: h
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by poppingtonic 9y ago
https://equilibriabook.com/molochs-toolbox/
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How to Think(technologyreview.com)
1 points by poppingtonic 9y ago|0 comments

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