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by srean 12d ago
PAC isn't asymptotic in general. It gives finite estimates for finite sizes of training data. If you say, and I think you are indeed saying so, that PAC is ridiculously pessimistic, I would be in violently agreement with you. That&#x27
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by srean 12d ago
> I can literally specify a huge mega-algorithm that just searches over all possible Turing machines and evaluates them Then why don't you ? and did you mean all or those that halt ? I presume you have a way of separating those.
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by srean 12d ago
True. It so happens that one gets the best generalization error bounds when one combines PAC with Bayesian ideas -- the PAC-Bayesian bounds.
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by srean 12d ago
Except for the fact that eventually we are all dead. So it is kind of important to get there faster. For complicated hypotheses, where complicated is defined appropriately, it takes many many examples to realize that it was a wrong hypothes
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by srean 12d ago
> My job involves processing a significant amount of weather data and flight telemetry _very quicky_ That sounds so interesting. Would you be at liberty to share what that job is. Oh! nevermind, got that off your HN page.
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by srean 12d ago
Ah! from my very dated and messy bibtex file comments. Wait, let me search for them on archive.org. Fixed.
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by srean 12d ago
Nature of Code is such a great book !
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by srean 12d ago
Freedom and brains.
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by srean 12d ago
An arms race on style would be interesting. Essentially a real life GAN.
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by srean 12d ago
Photographs don't do justice. Stop everything now and search for videos on YouTube. You can also search for boids to explore simple rules that replicate such dynamics.
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by srean 12d ago
I think you should get less annoyed. > It’s not that the simplest is more likely to be correct, it’s that you should prefer it, because it’s simple. I don't know what Occam meant, but if you accept the formalism of PAC learning, it
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by srean 12d ago
I am more of an applied mathematician and a complete ignoramus in compiler technology. So I cannot emphasize enough the surprise ... wait I can actually understand what this compiler is saying and this is not clang, this is not supposed to
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by srean 12d ago
If you turned on specific optimization and warning flags it emitted a lot of useful information to stdout/stderr. It was quite helpful even to a compiler technology ignoramus like me. It would identify specific loops and would provide
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by srean 12d ago
It has been a while, but I was quite surprised by how good gcc/g++ was at explaining why it had failed to vectorize a certain loop. At that time clang was being positioned as the better-than-gcc at optimization and error messages and i
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by srean 12d ago
Did not realize autocorrect had translated "wordy" into "worst". Too late to edit.
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by srean 12d ago
This is a common pattern ahead of admissions season. Now admissions are mostly done I suppose.
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by srean 12d ago
My confusion was slightly different. The parent comment was the top ranked comment yet grayed and continued to remain gray after I upvoter. About your comment, I am very because I am not sure where I myself fall. My mental imagery is certai
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by srean 12d ago
Algebra too used to be worst once. Then came symbols.
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by srean 12d ago
In A Flight of Starlings https://books.google.co.in/books/about/In_a_Flight_of_Starli... Murmurations. They are local movements in comparison, but no less fascinating.
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by srean 12d ago
Why does this appear downvoted ?
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by srean 12d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694659
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by srean 12d ago
https://divisbyzero.com/2009/05/04/the-maypole-braid-group/ Of maypole dance and the algebra of braids
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A lesson in lighting through blade runner(nofilmschool.com)
8 points by srean 12d ago|1 comments
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by srean 12d ago
Then you may like this one https://nofilmschool.com/2013/07/a-lesson-in-lighting-throug... Let me submit this as a an HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=49694634
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by srean 12d ago
One of my favourite use of lighting is the glowing embers in Sean Young's eyes in The Blade Runner.
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by srean 12d ago
Such beautiful writing. Thanks so much for sharing.
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by srean 13d ago
Both could be true.
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by srean 13d ago
They have a nice ring and cadence. One could string some of them along into a Pythonic poem to be recited from castle tops.
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by srean 13d ago
https://saemiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1A934B69-17... One of my favorite photographs. It captures their characters so well.
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by srean 14d ago
> The site is unfortunately filled with rampant upvote rings, AI agents / bots commenting, users that have certain privileges who can rapidly comment and reply without getting throttled Can you tell us about how do you know this

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