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by solresol 2y ago
Pretty much. The Greek pantheists weren't that different to Marvel or Star Wars fans. The point of the mythology was to have a common identity. If you asked the priest at the template of Demeter "Next spring, I'd like to go a
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by solresol 2y ago
Linear models that aren't estimated with OLS: - Theil-Sen - Huber - RANSAC Models that can cope with more parameters than observations: - Ridge - Lasso
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Advice to students choosing careers and courses at the dawn of the AI era(solresol.substack.com)
2 points by solresol 2y ago|0 comments
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Social mobility and GDP and some predictions on the possible effect of AI(solresol.substack.com)
1 points by solresol 2y ago|0 comments
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by solresol 2y ago
> i think plausibly being able to use youtube video as training data was the major reason for google to buy youtube in the first place When I asked Eric Schmidt the "why did we spend so much money on buying youtube?" question h
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by solresol 2y ago
What's your sales experience? If the answer is "none", then you'll discover that bootstrapping is not nice at all. --- 1. Services business, had a few clients that I knew would say yes. 2. None. But trying to pivot away
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by solresol 2y ago
I've got a list of 200+ things that I've accumulated since 2019 that the world seems to need, or that someone has said that they needed. It's a very raw list with ideas that range from the trivial and unresearched "why d
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by solresol 2y ago
It shouldn't matter, should it? Mosh keeps the state and only sends the differences. You would miss most of the animations, and there would be the overhead of sending the colouring escape codes (a few percent extra), but other than tha
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by solresol 2y ago
It's pretty rare for a child growing up in an anti-science household to be convinced to change their worldview by abstract philosophy, not least because they won't have access to those sorts of books. It's quite common for a
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by solresol 2y ago
I'm working on it, but with a loss function that penalises hypernyms/hyponyms less than other kinds of mistakes. I'm vaguely optimistic that this is going to be more efficient.
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by solresol 2y ago
I've got video recordings of my lectures. I haven't edited them properly yet, but I can share them with you privately. Email me (it's in my profile) and I'll get them to you.
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by solresol 2y ago
If you care about inference time, then you'll do two things. 1. Train a student model from your fine-tuned model. (Known as "knowledge distillation"). 2. Quantize the student model so that it uses integers. You might also pru
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Mysterious Latitude and Longitude Coordinates(blog.ifost.org.au)
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by solresol 3y ago
The expired domain abuse thing --- that's interesting because finding that signal was one of the few things I got done while I was at Google... in November 2006! And I vaguely remember being told that the fix went into the codebase aft
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by solresol 3y ago
General advice, true for most people. But for some people, the only way they reliably lose weight is through increased exercise.
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by solresol 3y ago
Likewise, I never expected that there would be a car-free village in Hong Kong. It's peaceful and quiet and laid-back: exactly what you wouldn't expect in Hong Kong.
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by solresol 3y ago
You can also get midi interfaces for cathedral organs; letting you use the organ console to control midi devices, and also letting midi devices control the pipe relays in the pipe organ. Of course, whether you would want to use the OP'
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by solresol 3y ago
Like a Boox Palma? That doesn't have the SIM ripped out, it's a phone-sized device that isn't a phone. It has wifi though, but you can't watch videos or scroll fast because of the e-ink screen.
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by solresol 3y ago
Finish your degree. You won't regret it. At the very least, it will make migration to another country a lot easier. The professor who failed you may have never seen SQL Server before teaching the course. If they are an adjunct, they ha
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by solresol 3y ago
What you describe does not match my experience at all.
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by solresol 3y ago
Occasionally I think the medical world has a communication problem. In 1989 I had some blood work done which checked for Epstein-Barr (it wasn't present) for reasons that made sense at the time. Then I got ME/CFS a few weeks later
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by solresol 3y ago
Both the services companies I started were profitable within 8 weeks. (6 and 8 respectively.) One was sold 14 years later, the other is still going. Services companies are very fast to get started, and very easy to make profitable. Building
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by solresol 3y ago
The article didn't mention UTF-9 or UTF-18 for when you want to do unicode on your PDP-6 or Univac. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4042 A reviewer for a scientific paper I wrote asked if I had consi
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by solresol 3y ago
You should have seen the platform it replaced. ServiceNow was essentially "let's rewrite HP Service Manager from scratch to remove the legacy debt." Service Manager was what you get when you develop a mainframe green screen a
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by solresol 3y ago
Mostly churches. A few universities where there was a conservatorium of music had some smaller organs. The company I worked with didn't install into anyone's home, but one of our competitors did once.
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by solresol 3y ago
When the musician presses a key on the console, there are three possible technologies for turning that key press into air going into the pipe. 1. It could be an electric signal, in which case the most common thing to fail in the organ is th
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by solresol 3y ago
Nobody knows. It started in about 900AD in monasteries (because the monks were the only people technical enough to maintain and play one) and became part of church tradition a few centuries later. And after a millenium of use, in the late 1
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by solresol 3y ago
You take out the pipes, fill with them with packaging material, and move them out of the way. Then you unscrew the racking for it, and disconnect all the airflow tubes. Put that somewhere. Keep going until there's nothing left. Then yo
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by solresol 3y ago
Every significant pipe organ is unique, and custom-built. You can modify and change it: e.g. add an extra rank, move the pipes around to make it fill the room better and so on, so even if two organs started the same, pretty soon they are di
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by solresol 3y ago
Feel free to AMA about this (organ building in general; I have nothing to do with the site specifically). Before I moved into tech I did a pipe organ building apprenticeship.

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