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by saeranv 4y ago
Looking at the wikipedia derivation of the Kelly criterion, taking the logarithm of the expected rate of return E[r] = (1 + fb)^p (1 - fa)^(1-p) is just to make finding the derivative easier (because logs are monotonic). Nothing else.
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by saeranv 4y ago
What other antipatterns are there? I can understand the criticism of having configuration code with business logic, and think there should be better commenting/docstrings. But other then that, thought it was fine. The use of type hints
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by saeranv 4y ago
The argument actually understates the work Shaq put into becoming an elite player. Shaq's physical gifts obviously give him a huge advantage, but there are plenty of 7-footers in the NBA that don't do as well as him. Shaq learned
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by saeranv 4y ago
I'm always frustrated to see the pervasivness of this type of political interpretation, which constructs a false equivalence between two parties and therefore places the blame on both. I think this kind of view is the default interpret
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by saeranv 4y ago
Yes, you're correct. Jane Jacobs[1] in "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" wrote about how dense, walkable environments with storefronts, residents on porches contribute to the concept of friendly strangers that mak
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by saeranv 5y ago
Awesome, thanks for the calculations! It's cool that even with the massive transmission loss, the server itself is so low-energy it can happily survive with just 36 Wh a day.
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by saeranv 5y ago
One of the more compelling framings for democratic socialism to me, is the idea of taking profits from companies and using it to radically raise wages of people with "undesirable" jobs: janitors, garbage-men, warehouse workers. Th
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by saeranv 5y ago
Very cool project. I'm really intrigued by this idea of having websites reflecting geographic location, and even local weather conditions (with some lag). What's the peak and average power (energy/second) you get from your so
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by saeranv 5y ago
Yes, although I suppose even in languages where this isn't mitigated (i.e. Clojure example below), you can offset that inefficiency with the parallelism enabled by functional programming.
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by saeranv 5y ago
I've never understood how someone had the nerve to trademark "Bollinger bands", when all they are is just a measure of 2 standard deviations from a rolling mean of share price. It's like renaming 1+1=2 after yourself and
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by saeranv 5y ago
Personally, I feel like the biggest problems with Python for math is the lack of a native vector datatype and our subsequent reliance on Numpy which really disrupts the elegance/terseness of working with vectors/matrices. First, t
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by saeranv 5y ago
Can someone break this down for me? val speed = 5.4 m/s // Type = Float[m/s] I understand that the speed variable is automatically assigned a type of Float[m/s] based on the m/s there, but I'm confused abo
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by saeranv 5y ago
Waste heat can be recovered by a heat pump in various ways, then recirculated either within a building (this is just typical HVAC heat recovery) or between buildings (district heating system) as supply system heating.
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by saeranv 5y ago
Are transformers competitive with (for example) CNNs on vision-related tasks when there's less data available? I'm not that familiar with "injecting inductive bias" via positional encodings, but it sounds really interest
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by saeranv 5y ago
Halfway through your article and I 100% agree with all your complaints. I compulsively carry my T1-84 calculator everywhere since it feels like such an annoyance to have to resort to using any generic desktop calculator. ETA: I am very impr
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by saeranv 5y ago
Personally, I feel like we're on the other end of this trend, and rather then people constantly claiming DL equals AI, there's now always someone who can't wait to explain why DL doesn't equal AI and bemoan the AI hype i
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by saeranv 5y ago
What kind of tools do people use to work with probabalistic DL? Pyro, Edward, Tensorflow Probability, ...other?
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All Tomorrows: A Billion Year Chronicle(sivatherium.narod.ru)
1 points by saeranv 5y ago|1 comments
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by saeranv 5y ago
I'm not an expert, but I think "autonomic arousal" can be interepreted, crudely, as stress and anxiety: "A disorder characterized by persistent or recurrent signs and symptoms mediated by the autonomic nervous system, ex
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Real-time machine learning: challenges and solutions(huyenchip.com)
1 points by saeranv 5y ago|0 comments
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by saeranv 5y ago
Still interesting to watch, thank you.
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by saeranv 5y ago
This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
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by saeranv 5y ago
Are there any articles/posts/resources that delve into technical overview of how DF achieves it's simulation complexity? For example, something like: how does the game constrain it's randomness or sampling process for ne
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by saeranv 5y ago
It's not 8B divided by the total world population, it's 8B divided by fraction of world population that is hungry. I don't know what that fraction is, but it doesn't work out to $1 per person.
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by saeranv 5y ago
There's plenty of objective, and subjective reasons why people would prefer higher-density living. Higher density means easy access to higher-quality resourcs like jobs, diversity, jobs, public transportation, restaurants/other am
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by saeranv 5y ago
I agree. I am also concerned about the way surbanism, and sprawl is conflated with being "eco-friendly", when it's the exact opposite: much more per-capita waste associated with suburban living then ultra-dense urban space.
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by saeranv 5y ago
I don't understand the fish story in the context of the "meaning you assign to what happened". Can someone explain?
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by saeranv 5y ago
Not the author of the comment, but I can give an example of how it's used in physics. The first law of thermodynamics states (in a simplified form) that the energy into a system is equal to the energy out. So it's a symmetrical pr
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by saeranv 5y ago
Someone needs to explain to these children that they'll never ship if they don't put limits on their exploration.
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by saeranv 5y ago
You're right, screws and nails make sense. Glue, I think, would shear as soon someone sat on it.

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