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> 2.5 No free lunch theorem > > Although it may be tempting to deﬁne the optimal learning algorithm that works optimally for all distributions, this is impossible. In other words, learning is only possible with assumptions. A menti
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Why are you thinking of macros?
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> I use sympy to (i) compute these big vectors, expressed in a very declarative way, (ii) compute the jacobian and (iii) export the results in C-code, immediately importable in my code case. You could maybe calculate the Jacobian in C co
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I found an online version https://icu4c-demos.unicode.org/icu-bin/collation.html but there you first have to select the language from the drop-down menu. So in general, you would first need to know the country where yo
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> My implementation ... All the results are incorrect. The station names should be sorted alphabetically but the last station showing is İzmir and it should be Zürich. It is easy to forget, that names of places can have non-ASCII charact
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> There were 374 polio cases in 2023 Wikipedia says polio is asymptomatic in 72% of cases, and feels like a mild-ish flu in 24% of cases. So in total 96% of cases are probably not detected at all.
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> trade of ideas and technologies was easier than the north/south travel required to reach other cultures It was mostly about the exchange of domesticated animals and crop plants. You can start using crop plants you got from your
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Also, despite its name and despite its location in Strasbourg, European Court of Human Rights is not an EU institution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Human_Rights...
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> it should not be possible to patent life forms If you count plant patents as patents, then almost all commercially used asexually propagated plant cultivars are patented. https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/a
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> Honeycrisp apples are a combination of naturally occurring genes, but they are propagated clonally and in fact cannot reproduce true to themselves. All apple cultivars are like that. https://theconversation.com/how-a-
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> I don't plan to add network functionality to this (even though you totally can), so no clone or push . You can also git clone from a repository in a different directory in the same computer. And push to.
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> tendency of undescriptive single letter variable There are 2 schools of thought on which one is clearer, F = G * m1 * m2 / r**2 or force = gravitational_constant * mass_of_body_1 * mass_of_body_2 / distance_bet
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Emirates to send own engineers to Boeing amid safety concerns(theaviatorme.com)
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> US managed to do more about their CO2 emissions than Europe. That's because thanks to fracking the US move a large share of their energy generation towards natural gas, which burns 'cleaner' than oil and coal The climate
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> the meaning of the term "data scientist" has changed http://i.stack.imgur.com/eLrhI.png vs http://image.slidesharecdn.com/daml-150908205332-lva1-app689...
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This novel from 1978, written by a paleontologist, is set in a time 35000 years ago, when Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons lived at the same time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_of_the_Tiger
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> How could the next draw be more likely to be red than the draw already known to be red? Under this interpretation, the second ball is more likely to be green.
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> the work that was erased from BitBucket was restored from one of the employees that didn't yet pull Actually those commits that you considered lost, were still stored on everyone's personal computer in your team. You just did
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> I think the jury is still out whether it'll actually lead to significant energy savings. In Finland you can get an electricity contract that follows the hourly spot prices. Usually the hourly prices varies in the range from 5c to
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I saw one driving up a ramp into the back of a box truck. The box truck was parked in the middle of a pedestrian street.
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> Yes, this is more or less how the non-profit journal https://elifesciences.org (funded by HHMI, Wellcome, Max Planck, and Wallenberg Foundation) works. Also, all 19 journals published by EGU (European Geophysical Union) ht
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What else could 2*A + 1 mean, than this? [1 2] [3 5] 2 [ ] + 1 = [ ] [3 4] [7 9]
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> I didn't know that most meteo stuff runs on FORTRAN. Not just most, but all. All weather models, all climate models. And I venture to guess: All ocean circulation models.
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> does it support slicing and broadcasting Slicing: yes. Broadcasting: I think only so, that you can operate on arrays by scalars, the scalar gets broadcasted.
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> code can not be commented Mathematica has a C-like syntax for comments (* this is a comment *) but it doesn't have C++ style comments // This is a C++ comment
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In washing machines, there is also LG (Korean). And in Europe, Electrolux/AEG.
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> If I want to rebase B on the new A, well, those duplicated commits will cause me some amount of pain Not really. Git will recognize commits that produce an identical diff and skip them. Your only pain will be that for each skipped comm
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> Summary by Wolters Kluwer: […] Everyone else (including commercial ML developers) can only use That is a weird (wishful?) interpretation. Doesn't article 4 give the exception to everybody for the purposes of text and data mining,
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> shifting to a squash-rebase-and-merge workflow. The benefits are clear: rebasing creates a cleaner, more understandable history & state of the world without the clutter of merge commits. Trunk branches remain linear, and branches f
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> it only traces it to one giant hairball or another, ie, bisect is made useless The blog post is advocating a "squash, rebase, and merge" flow, which leaves equally giant hairballs.

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