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by srean 3mo ago
I have mixed feelings about this. BTW my comment is not about Axler's linear algebra book but math pedagogy in general. Spoon feeding doesn't really help with learning, internalising, building internalisation for. Effort and frust
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by srean 3mo ago
I don't know enough to know why, but they were very interested in the extremes of size, both large and small, as well as the notion of infinite. Fascination with the large seems to be a pan-cultural thing https://en.wikipe
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by srean 3mo ago
> Fibonacci did not, however, discover the sequence – it was recorded in Sanskrit at least as far back as 200 BC. Possibly even earlier. This is not developed further because the article is about Leonardo. Pingala's is perhaps the f
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I did not know of Poleni, thanks for that story. I always thought that the notable insight was by Robert Hooked. Oh wait I misread, it was Robert Hooke as you said, but Poleni used and developed it. I find the study of funicular shapes very
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by srean 3mo ago
> a good fit on one problem, made with a universal approximator, is not an explanation. It can be just a compressed description, I couldn't have said it better.
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He is solving differential equations but with an analogue computer. Doing it faster and with less doubts over fidelity and existence of a solution too. Solving partial differential equations numerically and vetting the solution so obtaine
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by srean 3mo ago
Relatedly, a common confusion is the use of probability in ergodic and non ergodic processes. The best example I have come across is that of a million people playing Russian Roulette with a six chamber revolver, in repeat mode. At any insta
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by srean 3mo ago
What happens to systems such as Spanner under these circumstances? Is it a headache or a non-issue
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I am waiting for folks to confirm that pulling them off machines designated for the landfills was a thing.
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I have forever been confused by 'left' and 'right'. It takes me a few seconds of deliberate thinking to get it right. So in one of my first piece of software that I wrote for real money I had two functions. One called cr
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Now to rip RAM off PCs being sent to the landfills.
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by srean 3mo ago
Just in time. I was about to edit my own comment to mention https://hg.sr.ht/ that I learned of from a comment by frabcus on this post. Thanks for links.
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:) Was very happy to find that Hginit.com has been given a new life here https://hginit.github.io/
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Anyone has suggestions for hosting open source hobby projects managed with Mercurial. Loved Bitbucket's Mercurial offering. Looking for a replacement.
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I miss Bitbucket's Mercurial offering.
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In my interview, several decades ago, a binary search over the bitwise representation of integers is the solution that I came up with. To the interviewers credit, who was caught by surprise by a solution he had not anticipated, he played al
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by srean 3mo ago
I agree and I vehemently share your concern about profusion of tweakable parameters in the model. There is some misconception in the wild about epicycles models that need not be shared by you specifically. There weren't that many epicy
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I would argue that Kepler's success influenced the choice of the inductive bias. In that case the claim that Kepler took years what this can do in seconds is not an unbiased position to take. I do see a great value in conjecturing poss
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This is not surprising at all and depends on the inductive bias hardcoded in the search. There are infinite number of curves that agree on those 8 points and deviate from Kepler 's law everywhere else. On such 'trajectories'
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Yes. I was loving how it was shaping up.
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I loved how the Fortress language was coming slong till Oracle killed it. It was an interesting mix if Fortran and functional programming ideas with thoughtful ideas on parallelization. Fortress (programming language) - Wikipedia "Fort
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Your 1. By itself would mitigate the risk I think.
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Dunno about that, but sure is a heck of an engineering feat and an audiovisual spectacle.
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Couldn't there be genes that help with repairing the radiation induced damage ? From what I have read, flora and fauna around Chernobyl seems to have acquired degrees of radiation tolerance. BTW I am a complete ignoramus in these matte
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Memories of a kid on a road trip...Interceptors taking off low, at full afterburners, in the dark of the night, screaming across the highway, for their practice sorties... I am more anti-(manufactured)-war than most, but these sights were t
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I have a question for folks who have background in interventions like these. Isn't there a risk that the artificially introduced reproductory pressures would select for screwworms that produce males that are resistant to radiation. My
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Check if it's the hinges that are yielding.
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Related: drilling square holes, not as much fun as a wombat though.
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Cognoboffin is exactly right. SVD decomposed matrix into a sequence of rotation, scaling and unrotation matrices. If anyone needs a review it's not cognoboffin. You led with the claim you have never seen a rotation matrix in ML. I am h
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... and I have been both situations for longer and have seen tons and tons of them (*)... So? Not so hypotheticals -- Heck the inputs that you want labelled could be rotation matrices. The desired output could be a rotation matrix. Generati

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