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by scottlocklin 6y ago
You should try using R; the real world performance is actually better than Julia in every way that matters. Yes, Julia has a better data frame object; that's why we use data.tables(). Also Wes probably got the idea for row indeces from
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
It's an open secret in the military that psychedelic use is fairly widespread. Unlike cocaine and weed, you can't really test for it. Kind of sad to see something like this published by the Marines though; basically content free &
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
I used to drink them in Korea. Unless you speak korean I'm sure it's difficult to search for, but I can assure you they exist. They're great. Gives it a nice kick.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Or you could just give them any of the number of fairly safe nicotine products available. Korean energy drinks, gum, snus, nasal snuff, etc etc. Nicotine is fine -prevents a number of diseases -maybe even the 'rona; lighting shit on f
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
No dude; that's what they used to teach in High School. Shitty high schools. Vastly more than your average Ph.D. in classics in current year ever achieves; you can have a great laugh trolling modern classics profs in the US with latin
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Looking at you, deep learning.
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Every Model Learned by Gradient Descent Is Approximately a Kernel Machine(arxiv.org)
406 points by scottlocklin 6y ago|107 comments
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
>Educational attainment has been increasing steadily since at least 1940 Absolute hogwash. In my parents day (in the 60s) high school included mastery of at least one foreign language and one dead language. Mom and dad read Beowulf in hi
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
How about reducing the use of this chemical in tires first? Seems more doable to me than upending how civilization works.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Imagining Marconi or Alexander Graham Bell storming off in a huff because someone said shit they don't like using their technology. Technology which obviously has been used for far more horrible things collectively than the internet or
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
There's probably a relationship between worrying that much about utterly unimportant online beefs, apparently not worrying about living in your sweatpants in a park (in fact, humble-bragging about it), and, you know, living in your swe
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
>You’re an engineer. You failed, first sentence. You're also the second person asserting some secret knowledge of academic ding dongs who published a paper (as if this is some kind of achievement) without, you know, actually even at
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
I guess if you don't care about data exploration, efficiency or doing work on data much larger than memory, there's no reason to do it. As you note, most people seem to get along fine without this idea.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
You left out "there are instances where the researchers actually have no idea what they're talking about, but hope to get a lucrative job in the subject to escape teaching C++ to 19 year olds for the rest of their lives." Thi
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
You have no idea what you're talking about. The inability to short bad ideas leads to fraudulent horse shit like Theranos or Bernie Madoff. There are entire short-only hedge funds designed to make a profit while leading to more honesty
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
>they will slowly be replaced by other businesses headed by ruthless sociopathic maximizers of shareholder value. I dunno man, the culture came from McDonnell-Douglass which was actually purchased by engineer-centric-at-the-time Boeing.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
I can't imagine it, just like I can't imagine why you'd want to do it in a DSL oriented around set theory instead of, say, the DB implementation language. I assume they're thinking of deep learning? Why you'd want t
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
"This means we need a way to represent loss functions in SQL, so we first introduce some necessary mathematical background and define the terms used in our implementation. " Jesus flippin Chrikey kill it with fire. Academics; wh
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Fun book I read earlier this year, which steps you through the history of trigonometry applied to navigation: "Heavenly Mathematics; the forgotten art of spherical trigonometry." https://www.researchgate.net/public
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
>These guys walk off with a huge bag of cash, a bunch of investors that were trying to invest positively get screwed, the mall dies, and all that money and economic opportunity vanishes. The economy objectively gets poorer in that area,
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
I wanted one for a dedicated zoom gizmo, so I bought the base thing. It worked OK as long as I never needed to look at a Calendar application or slack, which, as it turned out, I did. Soldered memory stick meant no way to remedy the situati
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
While their new hardware looks to be great: I will never forgive them for their shitty unusable (unless you put linux on it) $800 minis of the past
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Some of the Italians at University of Pisa seemed to want to understand the echo state property better. Gallicchio and Filippo Maria Bianchi (I assume his student) wrote a couple of interesting papers I haven't totally absorbed yet, pr
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Thanks kindly for that; I didn't know I had this power.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Bizarro the one on-topic comment here is "Dead." I came across this in reviewing echo state networks which this appears to be a distant relative of. The code samples made it useful.
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Hyperdimensional Computing(github.com)
73 points by scottlocklin 6y ago|32 comments
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
This is a ridiculous political hatchet job.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
>even x86 hardware has improved enormously in the last decade. No, it really hasn't! My ancient x220 is still as fast as, or faster than almost all pre 2020 laptops. By contrast, hardware in the period of time ~9 years before 2011 w
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
It's incredibly creepy, like people insisting you join their religious or sexual cult. It's definitely beyond "hey the grand canyon is cool to look at" or "motorcycles are fun" and is way out there next to &quo
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
>Isn't that the core idea behind QAnon? I'm pretty sure pedophile blackmail rings would like everyone to pay attention to the ridiculous idea rather than the "actually exists in the corporeal world" idea. Hence, QAnon

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