singhrac

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by singhrac 9y ago
I'm so glad it uses Computer Modern, and supports \align environments etc. I know the latter is just MathJax, but Computer Modern is a detail that every other Markdown/LaTeX mix has forgetten, and it shows.
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by singhrac 9y ago
As a frequent user of Edward ( big fan), I'm not sure I should be crazy about this - while it probably means that it'll get more frequent updates and love, I liked the researchy vibe that it had and its strong ties to sampling-ba
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by singhrac 9y ago
Nice list! These are pretty useful. I found the experience of using protobuf for frontend <-> Go communication to be good, since it forced me to do the work of 'writing my own protocol' but without all the encoding/deco
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by singhrac 9y ago
I think the parent was just trying to say that this is neat - it was much earlier than most other projects did, considering Python 3 was only released in December 08. Kudos! Though I think Blender made the switch with version 2.5, in 2009.
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by singhrac 9y ago
I would call "former Harvard money manager" an anti-pedigree given its gross incompetence this past year.
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by singhrac 9y ago
To address your point ("So what's really the harm here"), there's a lot of reasons copyright law exists, including: 1. By using his work without permission, you risk misrepresenting his message. For example, you might ac
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by singhrac 9y ago
Lots! Raj Rajaratnam, Gabriel & Marco Bitran, Florian Homm, Paul Moore IV, Michael Murphy, Jeffrey Toft, Chad Sloat, etc. I admit to knowing none of the details in any of these cases, I just googled "hedge fund managers in jail&quo
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by singhrac 9y ago
One thing to consider is: why is he the one who decides who can afford the drug or gets a free version? Seems horrible to me - we have laws to protect equal access to services like this (Medicare, Medicaid). Another argument of his I foun
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by singhrac 9y ago
I don't see why it's disingenuous? Investing is extremely risky, and I'm not convinced that he didn't just get lucky on the second bet. This isn't ok because the original investor was paid off. That's also how
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by singhrac 9y ago
Well, sort of. You said "the jobs are being done by someone else", but that's not quite true - that person having to do that job means they can't do another job, etc. I think your argument only makes sense if there'
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by singhrac 10y ago
I don't think I quite understand - what would lobbying against the creation of open textbooks do exactly? What kind of law could be passed that could prevent that? I guess they might have enough leverage with professor/universiti
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by singhrac 10y ago
What would it take to get laws like that in the US? Purely hypothetical, of course, since I don't believe it's possible.
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by singhrac 10y ago
> Making Sonnet public allows other models created within DeepMind to be easily shared with the community I'm looking forward to this - DeepMind has a frustrating track record of not open sourcing their code. While it's their p
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by singhrac 10y ago
This was my experience as well! I intended to learn Python so I could build games, and ended up forgetting about the game and just kept programming.
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by singhrac 10y ago
We've been applying convnets to text for a while, though I'm not sure what you mean by generalizable. There's a few other major techniques (other than convnets) that are important, like RNNs in general.
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by singhrac 11y ago
Unless I'm wrong, the AlphaGo paper doesn't mention transfer learning at all. Yes, the methods are new and exciting, but I mean there are hand-crafted features in the MCTS.
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by singhrac 11y ago
Not that terrifying? It's a very special purpose-built tool. We'll still always have Calvinball! https://xkcd.com/1002/
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by singhrac 11y ago
I attended the talk Yaron gave so I have a little context - OCaml is definitely, definitely worth it, and I feel like I have a decent grasp of the language after only 3 weeks of working with it, to the point that I can make useful, large pr
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by singhrac 11y ago
At least right now there aren't many other places that have as much data flowing through them, or at least as much almost unrestricted access to data (for example, Amazon has plenty of data but very little legal access). And possibly,
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by singhrac 11y ago
Is this even useful? Handwriting is a well studied problem with good solutions, and we have lots of data (MNIST, etc.) Can someone explain why we need humans to create new, unreliably labeled datasets?
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by singhrac 11y ago
More than that! However, in some areas of copyright law lawyers are willing to work on contingency fee or percentage based fees. In any case, almost always a consultation is free. Just ask, and they'll make sure the litigation is worth
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by singhrac 11y ago
Can you explain what the various reasons for not using a probability baseline (i.e., only if the model is pretty confident assign a label, otherwise say nothing) are? It's what we're being taught right now in ML classes, so I woul
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by singhrac 11y ago
Good point. The additional problem here seems to be people underbidding significantly (obviously $1 is an extreme), and there's no way for 18F to determine quality. While waiting 10 days doesn't seem like a huge problem, the overh
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by singhrac 11y ago
Second price auctions are pretty great [1]. I'm sure 18F will figure things out the next time around. The interesting 'broken' mechanic in this system is the fact that you can't bid higher than the current lowest bid, wh
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by singhrac 11y ago
This is very slick. Not to nitpick, but did anyone else find that some (important) keyboard shortcuts were missing? Ctrl/Alt-Backspace in particular didn't work for me. Though I guess vim doesn't have support for that either.
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by singhrac 11y ago
In the same vein, if it helps your reader understand your point, use the most precise word that means what you mean to say and is easily understandable. Synonyms have differences, and the additional depth is helpful in many circumstances
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by singhrac 11y ago
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