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by saeranv 4y ago
I guess I'm lacking some background to understand this. So, I recognize fold, from the above operations ('reduce' in python), what makes it a "functional transformation"? I'm googling function/functional t
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by saeranv 4y ago
> There are good points to discuss on this topic, but my opinion is that this "debunking" is full of junk with twisted facts or "opinion" being confused with facts. You should carefully reread your own post, its actua
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by saeranv 4y ago
What's a functional transformation?
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He’s the Bad Boy of Chess. But Did He Cheat?(nytimes.com)
1 points by saeranv 4y ago|0 comments
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by saeranv 4y ago
I don't think this criticism is fair. For example, the article in the section quoted below clarifies that string theory hasn't been proven experimentally, and is being investigated mathematically, here: > But string theory is d
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by saeranv 4y ago
I'm a Tamil speaker (but raised in Canada so, not as fluent as a native speaker), and agree, there's a lot of information loss when going from Tamil to English simply because there's multiple letters that either have no Engli
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by saeranv 4y ago
> “The bullet is coming down so slowly, and at about a 48-degree angle, it was just penetrating into the ground without kicking up dust.” I have no shooting experience, but the arc they have to put into the shot to travel 4.4 miles (~7 k
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by saeranv 4y ago
I'll speak about Toronto, since it's the city I know the best. You could easily resolve the housing scarcity by densifying the suburbs, but it's artifically constrained because: (a) It's legitimately hard to retroactivel
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Health problems from sitting all day, even with excercise(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by saeranv 4y ago|0 comments
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by saeranv 4y ago
Cool, fascinating to get such detailed insights from actual practise. > ... and the floor treatment rejects both vapor and spills. That's a good point I didn't consider. Drying out the inner surface works well for interior vapo
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by saeranv 4y ago
> Wall-to-wall sheet vinyl floor treatments in all of the rooms where water is a thing. Doesn't this risk any water that does end up getting in, to accumulate and cause more damage over time since there's no route for it to dry
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by saeranv 4y ago
Interior ceilings are often built as modular panels for this reason, and sometimes even floors. But walls, especially exterior walls, are engineered to serve multiple functions, such as acting as a moisture, thermal, and acoustic barrier, i
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by saeranv 4y ago
I used to work at an research/architecture (buildings, not software) firm that was a leader in carbon emission estimation. To estimate the carbon emissions from building operational energy, what we did was find the rate of carbon emiss
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by saeranv 4y ago
Ah, fair enough, I misunderstood. Interesting point.
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UN humans rights chief: Treatment of Uyghurs may be crime against humanity(theguardian.com)
8 points by saeranv 4y ago|0 comments
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by saeranv 4y ago
Not sure what you're talking about... I'm the person who submitted this, and I have no idea what archive.today is. I found this referenced in Politico's Global Insider columns[1] and thought the use of tech to aid public opin
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PRC Efforts to Manipulate Global Public Opinion on Xinjiang(state.gov)
23 points by saeranv 4y ago|5 comments
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Evolutionary Design Specification(littlegreenviper.com)
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by saeranv 4y ago
Honestly, Andreesen's understanding of the underlying cause for new housing is really poor, I'm not surprised that he is also a hypocrite, or his ignorance has lead him, perhaps unintentionally, to a hypocritical act. This probabl
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by saeranv 4y ago
That makes sense. Since you seem to have expertise in this domain, may I ask what is the current state-of-the-art for generative models for modeling learning/behaviour, in the neuroscience community? If any...
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by saeranv 4y ago
Thank you, that's a very clever explaination. Even though I can't grok the mathematics off the top of my head (I would have to look up the conjugate gaussian-gaussian formula and work this out) I think converting this to a posteri
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by saeranv 4y ago
> This latter property is particularly useful for enhancing the precision of information processing. For example, information represented by an individual neuron may be noisy (say, with a precision of 1 in 100). By taking the average of
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by saeranv 4y ago
> Another salient property of the brain ... is that the connection strengths between neurons can be modified in response to activity and experience—a process that is widely believed by neuroscientists to be the basis for learning and mem
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by saeranv 4y ago
That's an interesting idea. Do we know what is different about the brains of geniuses that could be replicated by changing how the brain grows or consumes fuel in a normal pereson? I know descriptions of "high-IQ" and "n
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by saeranv 4y ago
Other people have answered, but I think this is slightly more intuitive way to put it: Newton's law of cooling states that the rate of temperature reduction (heat loss) of a body is proportional to the temperature delta between it and
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by saeranv 4y ago
Agreed, I think your points get at the right point. I would go further and say - we consider meaningful "intelligence" as having to do with "consciousness", and its absense causes the disconnect between Wolfram's de
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by saeranv 4y ago
The worst part about reading a Wolfram article on HN is having to read for the millionth time all the people complaining about Wolfram's ego, or his rambling. I understand, and agree (to a layerperson's extent) the criticism of hi
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by saeranv 4y ago
This definition clears up it up nicely for me: "In signal processing, sampling is the reduction of a continuous-time signal to a discrete-time signal... A sample is a value of the signal at a point in time and/or space; this defin
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by saeranv 4y ago
I'm a little confused about why the curves are "sampled" to update the joint transformations: ``` So if we are rendering 60 frames per second, we are basically doing the following 60 times a second: Sample all the curves you
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by saeranv 4y ago
I wouldn't reccomend Strang's "Introduction to Linear Algebra" textbook to a beginner. Strang has a very odd, dense way of writing, often with references to material that has yet to be introduced. I think this is a conse

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