sayonaraman

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Democrats are considering minting a trillion-dollar coin(marketwatch.com)
5 points by sayonaraman 5y ago|1 comments
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
May be thousands of years before Genghis Khan the hords of steppe people conquered the territory of modern Italy in the same way mongols conquered most of Europe and Asia much later. The fact Etruscans preserved their language could be eith
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Disordered Grids in the Third Dimension(nature.com)
2 points by sayonaraman 5y ago|0 comments
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
Whoever wrote the article must have done a cursory search at best, I'm surprised they didn't mention semantic hashing by Salakhutdinov & Hinton (2007) https://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~rsalakhu/papers/seman
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Bari Weiss: Defending Western Civilization and Building New Institutions [video](youtube.com)
4 points by sayonaraman 5y ago|1 comments
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
no, they banned almost everyone with a different opinion, Reddit these days is predominantly leftist echo chamber
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FBI: Record Surge in 2020 Murders(usatoday.com)
24 points by sayonaraman 5y ago|4 comments
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The Unbelievable Grimness of HermanCainAward Subreddit(slate.com)
39 points by sayonaraman 5y ago|24 comments
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
how about trying to understand it first? I keep hearing this phrase "we don't know much about the brain" from people who've never opened a neuroscience textbook. And at the same time everyone and their grandma has an ide
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A World Without Scihub(palladiummag.com)
3 points by sayonaraman 5y ago|1 comments
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
you've gotta know the details, kind of like those 19th and 20th century epidemiologists who went to the ground zero of say cholera outbreak* and investigated how it started and what was its source, and how exactly it originated and spr
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
cancelled my SciAm subscription today, it's not longer about science but woke politics in every issue
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Full video of the border patrol reported by media to show “whipping” of migrants(reddit.com)
4 points by sayonaraman 5y ago|0 comments
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
well how about establishing safety procedures, research guidelines and international regulation body governing dangerous GoF research so that such outbreak doesn't happen again.
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
I doubt Wuhan GoF researchers will be publishing their findings anytime soon, until then it's all speculation.
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
you mean figuring out what caused a global pandemic, deaths of millions of people and trillions dollars of economic damage is of no consequence?
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
good lord
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
> new approach discovery a good example is discovery of attention mechanisms/transformers replacing more cumbersome and computationally expensive RNNs and LSTMs in NLP and more recently outperforming more expensive models in compute
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
I'm wondering if there is a way to combine optimization of model weights in a neural net with a set of heuristics limiting the search space, as a sort of rules engine/decision tree integrated within ANN backprop training. Basicall
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San Francisco Has a Tesla Problem(jalopnik.com)
2 points by sayonaraman 5y ago|0 comments
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
this is awesome, thanks for the link! There seems to be mutual propagation from NLP to CV and from CV to NLP, i'm wondering if there is a visual counterpart for these "Random Encoders". The SOTA for image/text embeddings
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
you might also be interested in the recent work on "resonator networks" VSA architecture [1-4] by Olshausen lab at Berkeley (P. Kanerva who created the influential SDM model [5] is one of the lab members). It's a continuation
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
most of that funding must have paid for the animations
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Deep learning meets vector-symbolic AI(research.ibm.com)
91 points by sayonaraman 5y ago|16 comments
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Resonator networks - a model of factorization in neural circuits(redwood.berkeley.edu)
2 points by sayonaraman 5y ago|0 comments
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
>If there were a way to objectively quantify a news outlet or newsperson’s track record with accuracy, that might be a start. The problem with this sort of "fact checking" is that its keepers are biased as well. So you need a &
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
I watched most of it, the coroner report and testimony alone should have been sufficient as reasonable doubt, not to mention police training materials and witness testimony which showed Chauvin did exactly as instructed per standard procedu
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
can confirm, monthly mortgage payment + taxes is about twice the monthly rent on similar property in HCOL US cities
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Earth's Submarine Fiber Optic Cable Network(reddit.com)
1 points by sayonaraman 5y ago|0 comments
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
The “what else you could do with the money” argument is standard in finance/economics , in fact it’s the cornerstone of the famous Black-Scholes formula for pricing options which takes into account "risk-free" interest rate.

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