savant_penguin

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by savant_penguin 5y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but why do you need mcmc to analyze sensitivity? Isn't sensitivity something related to the derivative of the output with respect to the parameter?
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
To me a good trick to avoid perfectionism is to call something a v1 and just finally finish it
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
They summarize it in the abstract "At the heart of this network structure is a novel convolutional layer that preserves gauge equivariance while forming arbitrarily shaped Wilson loops in successive bilinear layers." Much simpler
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
Many years in they added the audio Bluetooth option The switch has longer support than many phones
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
Do you know things like that ahead of time? Or do you just realize "oh dam it won't fit" right before delivery
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
So tesla owners belong to some specific age group and that makes it safer?
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
Can't get much cuter than that https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ec06f22938d8b9946977dc3ee7580...
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
"A friend of mine recently turned down a job promotion that included a raise of $100,000 a year. He has some financial flexibility to turn down the offer, since he’s already a mid-level executive at a Fortune 1000 company and makes abo
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
Good night sweet little prince
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
If the batteries are a significant percentage of the ev's overall value, what happens to the entire goddam car when you have to replace the batteries? Some people blow them up
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
If Joe's such a bad entertainer why do you think he has such a gigantic audience?
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
omg he could make it a business to buy these microscopes, fix and resell for 100k each
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
"reach out to key decision makers in the company you're applying for." I'd be really concerned the decision maker would not consider this proactive but rather creepy
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
I'd guess this has something to do with the constant use of force. Don't want to take the vaccine? We'll find a way to make you Disagree with me politically on Twitter? We'll look for your employer and coerce him into f
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
Sometimes I wonder if the way to bypass the insane regulations around medical devices is to just publish them online for anyone to build themselves. Sure I won't have the minutes detail of million dollar medical equipment, but maybe I
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
If this was apple fanboys would say: "You know how much energy you save by not breaking?? Think of the planet!" "If you need to break you're not using the car as intended!" (Rip overheating macs)
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
So, what would a quine look like
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
For many compute intensive tasks Julia beats the competition hands down. I got to use for loops again and it feels wonderful (in python you either write it as some numpy operation out meddle with numba to run with some speed) But many of th
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
Those are things I care about and do not want to give away for a union to decide for me or to have power over me. And some things just piss me off. In NY you are forced to pay unions dues just to be a teacher. It does not matter of you do w
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
There are things I do not want to be democratically controlled. My ability to negotiate salaries with my boss is one of them. The scope of my job (some unions get to decide what you are allowed to do). Who should get fired (teachers unions
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
Having played around with Julia recently there are two main reasons I would not recommend using it for ML: 1-Plotting takes too long. Forget fast iterations. You'll be left waiting for non trivial amounts of time to your first plot. Th
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
If your job and very possibility freedom depended on a "zero" in a row inside some spreadsheet you'd make goddam sure there's going to be a zero in there
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
Wow now this is a convincing result https://media.springernature.com/full/springer-static/image/...
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
Then the hobo is fucked However, inflation does not derive from poor people making more money. It comes from insane government spending. Of course, if you try to achieve better life conditions through government spending you can end up with
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
This is nonsense If everyone makes $10 more a day there is no ""mobility"" in the percentage sense, but everyone is better off. If you ask a hobo that makes $0 a day, he certainly perceives an upgrade
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
Matplotlib is an example of a library with at least two "correct" ways of plotting
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
"Stephen Grossberg explains why his ART model is better" Please don't explain me why your model is better. _show me_ your model is better with results. I see a lot of: "this model is explainable and has no forgetting mod
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
How do you implement that without absolutely draconian measures? A dmv like government official gets to your home for your scheduled computer search. > Is this the python binary? You better be ready for a hefty fine. >> I'm so
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
They should also audit every datacenter to make sure that only pre approved loads are being run. The only allowed programming languages should be the energy efficient ones A government official shall follow you to the shower to make sure yo
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by savant_penguin 5y ago
This is infuriating The same people who complain about homelessness and pretend to care about the poor are the ones to call the building of new housing """gentrification""" Endless committees to decide if someo

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