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by rdedev 4y ago
Isnt plant communication an active field of research ? I remember reading about how plants in a field can communicate changes in environment (like a bug infestation) with one another.
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by rdedev 4y ago
It's the same for many indian languages too. "Acchamma" stands for paternal grandmother in my mother tounge. "Acchan" stands for dad and "Amma" is mom so the combination of those two is dad's mother.
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by rdedev 4y ago
Well to be fair to the guy in the video, he is a practicing cardiologist in the UK. https://www.youtube.com/c/MedlifeCrisis/videos Afaik he does mostly videos and dont do blogs. Anyways one argument presented in t
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by rdedev 4y ago
This video is relevant here https://youtu.be/9qqEU1Q-gYE
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by rdedev 4y ago
PBS space time is another good channel. Their series on general theory of relativity is really nice. They try to explain it as close as possible to the real thing but still make it accessible without resorting to innacurate analogies
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by rdedev 4y ago
I had that same issue but got over it once I started diving into rust. What really helped me are the compiler error messages. Without that i would have given up learning it
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by rdedev 4y ago
I never understood why these thresholds are hard thresholds in the first place. It should make sense for the reduction in benifits to reduce gradually but it's pretty rare to see a policy like that
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by rdedev 4y ago
I don't think creative types will be satisfied with reaching a local maximum. They always try to find ways to stretch what's possible by looking for completely different ways to use said tools. Just the different genres of music p
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by rdedev 4y ago
Sure it need not have the instinct built in but we could try to make it understand a viewpoint right. I believe an agi should be able to understand different view points. At least the rationale of not unnecessarily killing things. I know hu
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by rdedev 4y ago
I'm afraid of companies pushing large scale models as the end all for anything text related. Large language models are revolutionary but the last thing I want to see is everything being run through an API. I'm more interested in t
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by rdedev 4y ago
Yup. My bad. Looks like autocorrect screwed me
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by rdedev 4y ago
My go-to these days is Polars. You get good performance since it uses arrow in the back. Coupled that with built-in lazy evaluation and it's API design it's pretty good for me. There are some caveats you need to be aware though. I
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by rdedev 4y ago
Reading comments like this is a bummer. I am currently doing my masters with a focus on NLP. At this point I'll be pretty happy to get a job even if it just boils down to only deploying ML models. Even for such a role of companies expe
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by rdedev 4y ago
In India at least there is a lot of votes to manually count. Electronic just makes things smoother. As for people questioning the need I didn't hear anyone raising the during the last election I followed. Besides I'm pretty sure e
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by rdedev 4y ago
Does having a paper trail generated exactly after voting help? This is the system that's followed in India. I tried to think of ways it could fail but it seemed pretty fool proof as far as I can think. I'm pretty sure I might have
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by rdedev 5y ago
So what the Indian education system lacks is making students learn how to approach a novel problem or subject on their own. From an early age it's all about getttthe right answer through the prescribed route. There is very little room
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by rdedev 5y ago
My idea is to use make a table row into a textual description and feed it into a transformer and get a get effectively a sentence embedding. This is effectively a query embedding. Then make a couple of value embeddings for the target you ar
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by rdedev 5y ago
Ive been looking at a way to use transformer based models on tabular data. The hope is that these models have a much better contextual understanding of words. So embeddings from these models should be of better quality than just word2vec on
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by rdedev 5y ago
In my (admitedly idealistic view) research is something that a society should fund without the expectation of it always returning a ROI. I dont know what the minimum level of monetary support should be and am aware that it could lead to bad
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by rdedev 5y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/14/health-insur... An article about insured people going medically bankrupt. When things go according to plan and insurance covers everything it all good but
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by rdedev 5y ago
Its not just because of poor documentation. I had used one of the RPA tools, Automation Anywhere, to basically open the browser, go to a url and enter a form and scrap some results (this was part of my office training where I was forced to
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by rdedev 5y ago
Purely anecdotal but i used to live in a mosquito heavy country. What I've noticed is male mosquitoes tend to hand around densly packed tall plants. Especially under the leaves. Not sure if tall grass also have the same effect
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by rdedev 5y ago
For me it's the diversity of plants that count. A porch with just plain grass is too boring after sometime.
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by rdedev 5y ago
On the other hand scaling lets me still enjoy fights even when I'm leveled up. A lot of times when the game takes you to one of the starting regions, one shotting the enemies there just felt boring. It would be much better if the enemi
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by rdedev 5y ago
Hadn't come across parameter sharing in transformers. That's something I'll definitely look into. Why is it not wide spread though ? Most famous and powerful models have a huge number of parameters
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by rdedev 5y ago
Anything that can reduce the number of parameters required for a transformer is good news. Wonder if this approach can be easily plugged into the recent retrieval transformer.
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by rdedev 5y ago
There was a new story of a matrimonial ad that was asking for a groom for a gay man. It had a preferred caste for suitors. So yeah, it runs pretty deep in some corners of India https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/
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by rdedev 5y ago
I tried using numba to speed up an AI i wrote for a board game. Any function that involved numpy arrays and for loops got optimized beautifully. There were other functions that took in python enums. They were not faster than normal function
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by rdedev 5y ago
I've had this thought that natural ability to fight of cancer cells was a precision/recall problem for the cells. Good to see that the body has ways to approach this problem. Really cool to see us use antibodies to really improve
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by rdedev 5y ago
No. It was an actual meditation session

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