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by srean 5mo ago
We have rescue dog (abandoned on the street) and it seems to have a notion that violence within family is bad. I was quite surprised to see that when I mock threatened my wife with a broom in his presence he jumped in to block. Not only tha
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by srean 5mo ago
Till AI starts denying medical insurance cover.
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Premature optimization is that occasional dessert we serve ourselves because it tastes so good. That said, I agree with you that the maxim is often used to justify poor planning or absence of planning. Premature pessimization is bad too. W
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I love this one https://ia801706.us.archive.org/7/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.14... Luenberger, Optimization By Vector Space Methods. Although it is about a specific application, optimization, it is a good book to get
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by srean 5mo ago
That sure is one compact document. Pun intended. The document is very readable too.
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by srean 5mo ago
Very likely no. Airline routes between touchpoints usually follow great circles, not constant bearing paths. Great circles are shortest paths and also they do not need any steering (modulo crosswinds etc). The bearing keeps changing along t
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by srean 5mo ago
True but it's really nice way to get the benefit of type checking in Python. Just like you, I had started using Cython for performance but then realized that I can discard a bulk of type errors if I used for type checking. The other be
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by srean 5mo ago
That's true for current ML offerings. However, I think an ML designed for machine learning would be nice, especially if the type system is extended to multidimensional arrays shapes. Pattern matching on array shapes would be rather nic
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by srean 5mo ago
You could try Cython and Lush. An ML dialect for ML would have been nice, but doesn't exist.
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> Arguably, every classroom (and home with children) should have a globe Or even better is to build one. It is a lot of fun. It is very instructive to understand why you need to shape the gores that you cut out of flat paper to stick the
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by srean 5mo ago
The problem that Mercator was trying to solve and the solution he came up with is super interesting to me. Very neat. It is still not known for sure how he came up with mathematical details of the stretching and spacing of the latitudes. Th
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by srean 5mo ago
All the best for your endeavour. It's a big one you are tackling.
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by srean 5mo ago
So you haven't heard from there lawyers yet ? Hope it stays that way. Does Woxi also show intermediate steps ? That to me is a killer feature of Mathematica.
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Ah! I see. Thanks for the reference.
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For spherical geometry you should not need to do anything special, no ? Compute the Voronoi tessellation as usual and then project the linear separators back to the sphere (by connecting points on it to centre and extending the ray to the
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by srean 5mo ago
The first thing I noticed was the spherical Dodadecahedron and if you turn on Delaunay triangulation button, then it's dual the Icosahedron, my favourite, the relationship is entirely platonic. It would be fun to do Turtle graphics w
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by srean 5mo ago
Curious about why you think he is using Euclidean. From the looks of it the separators seem to be segments of great circles. That is what you would get as loci of angular bisectors. Angular bisectors is what you would get when you use spher
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by srean 5mo ago
Struck by (his) Poes I suppose.
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by srean 5mo ago
I have no context. Was that sarcasm ? I have no idea if this is expected or unexpected of Raymond.
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by srean 5mo ago
Not specifically those either. This is about inner product functions in a specific kind of Hilbert spaces, a notion that is very useful in many branches of applied mathematics. Machine learning and functional analysis included. The name col
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by srean 5mo ago
'Shocking', 'striking', 'disappointing', 'will shock you' -- the article is padded with hyperbole.
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Indeed. It is probably the most significant thing that ever happens to a person. My sincere condolences. I have not dealt with such a change but have dealt with grief. Try to catch the sun rise. It is incredibly beautiful. It will probably
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by srean 5mo ago
Definitely an applied maths paper given that it has been published under CS/ML and been accepted at ICML.
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by srean 5mo ago
Probably happens to other social animals too.
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by srean 5mo ago
Much bigger than non-derivative stock market for sure. "The derivatives market is, in a word, gigantic—often estimated at over $1 quadrillion". The stock market would be puny in comparison. This is quite well known so was quite su
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by srean 5mo ago
Not just HFT, options market, futures market are all zero sum. They are massive.
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Thanks for the correction. I saw the books in the book stores several months after the movie release. I suppose they were doing a rerun to toe in with the movie's popularity.
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I think the movie came first, at least in the US.
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> my lived experience tells me the Earth is flat. That ship has sailed, beyond the horizon. Hope you catch the reference.
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But then according to the tenets of efficiency of a free market system no candidate would be spending so much on advertisement. You can't have it both ways, (i) free market is ideal and efficient. Prices are correct and fair etc etc (i

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