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by rkp8000 4y ago
Just in case anyone hasn't tried it before, the "tight_layout" keyword in matplotlib is a game changer. Instantiating a figure via e.g. "fig, axs = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(6, 3), tight_layout=True)" automaticall
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by rkp8000 4y ago
There is a fairly unknown (in my experience) but absolutely amazing podcast about storytelling called The Narrative Breakdown ( https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-narrative-breakdown-story-... ) . They cover many differen
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by rkp8000 4y ago
I haven't touched it in years, but during grad school I created a fully operational browser-based app for integrated note-taking and reference management for academic projects, based on locally stored markdown files, and designed to mi
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by rkp8000 4y ago
This reminds me of the quote: "If I had more time I would have written you a shorter letter" (attributed to various people, e.g. Twain and Churchill). In my domain (developing research software for small-scale scientific projects)
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Mental Cryptography and Good Passwords(scilogs.spektrum.de)
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by rkp8000 4y ago
This isn't a typical academic research paper but is from a University of Chicago researcher, and I think gives a great overview of failure modes of complex systems in general (software included): https://how.complexsystems.f
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by rkp8000 4y ago
Always cool to see unexpected applications of information theory, especially outside of probabilistic contexts. A related toy example that comes to mind is the puzzle where you're given 12 metal balls and told that one of them is eithe
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by rkp8000 4y ago
A big one for me was realizing that a matrix times a vector returns a weighted sum of the matrix columns, with the vector's elements as weights. It's not particularly profound but it has definitely clarified my intuition around a
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What Is Zen? [video](youtube.com)
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by rkp8000 4y ago
An audio recording of D.T. Suzuki's "What is Zen?" In the era of large language models and the ethical and existential questions they raise, it seems useful to explore a variety of philosophical stances on language. Zen (as w
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Intransitive Dice(en.wikipedia.org)
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by rkp8000 4y ago
For anyone interested in these ideas, I'd highly recommend reading Shannon's original 1948 paper (linked in the article). While technical and precise it is actually quite digestible for someone with a bit of a quantitative backgro
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Computational Neuroscience Stack Exchange Site Proposal(area51.stackexchange.com)
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A Mystery called Wick Rotation or can we understand the “Action” Formalism?(jakobschwichtenberg.com)
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Some not very technical tips for small-scale computational research(rkp.science)
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by rkp8000 5y ago
I also think this is a quite reasonable. For some work on this beyond anecdotal evidence, see https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo... . The authors' main finding (in rats and humans) i
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by rkp8000 5y ago
There is an alpha version of inkscape that runs natively on Mac (without requiring XQuartz). Not without bugs (text seems to give it trouble for some reason, among a few other things), but it works pretty well IMO. Definitely excited to see
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by rkp8000 5y ago
Good, simple writing often goes unnoticed or looks easy, since it "gets out of the way" and doesn't confuse. It can take a whole lot of writing on one's own to appreciate just how much patience and effort that takes, tho
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McNamara Fallacy(en.wikipedia.org)
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by rkp8000 5y ago
While Memory Palace descriptions naturally focus on space and spatial reasoning as being the key ingredients to effectively storing memories, I think the binding problem of associating arbitrary items to specific locations, e.g. your front
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by rkp8000 6y ago
My simplified picture of what’s going on is something like this (if I’m understanding the paper correctly). Stimulus A starts out represented by the vector (1,1,1,1) and B by (-1,-1,-1,-1). Those are the sensory representations. Later A is
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by rkp8000 6y ago
It's a good question. It looks like they actually specifically check for this and show that it's not two separate groups of neurons. Instead a subset of the neural population changes their representation of the input as it moves f
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by rkp8000 6y ago
https://github.com/rkp8000/hypothesize In grad school I made a browser-based app to integrate note-taking and reference management as seamlessly as possible, having been disappointed with existing software. Basically,
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by rkp8000 6y ago
Not a talk per se, but a great conversation between Brian Greene and Leonard Susskind about the state of modern physics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk48z8N-sl0 .
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by rkp8000 9y ago
This looks very cool. Does the WebGL integration mean it doesn't require installation of CUDA or cuDNN on the machine it's running on? That's currently the most difficult part by far of getting GPU-enabled TensorFlow up and r