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by sriku 6y ago
The difficulty of assessing the value of the work being done is indeed great. One way to look at this difficulty is as a significantly higher order phenomenon. What I mean is that if science is the discovery of regularities in nature, techn
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I'm wondering whether the first steps ought to be to make current driving much safer through automation - like detecting drunk driving, falling asleep, and such and limiting speed, refusing to start, alerting police and/or nearby
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Blackbook Basics: The 2+7 Fact(blackbook.thestartupcentre.com)
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It's either a tool or a weapon depending on who wields it. I recall Nokia folks pooh-poohing the iPhone because in the metrics they valued, their Symbian phones were beating it.
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> I feel I can separate the sense of my being from my thoughts some times. This is key. Too much importance to thinking and thoughts otherwise all around. See even during "meditation" we tend to talk about "watching though
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Concentration (on anything) as an escape hatch away from the otherwise general noise on the mind (which games and music can give) needs to be distinguished from concentration resulting from a general and deep availability of one's bein
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About the only useful genralization has been differentiable programming - I.e. AD embedded in a programming language to help mix learning some functions from data. But this is not a consequence of clubbing the aforesaid two.
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Having thought along these lines before, I realized that i didn't get any new useful insights by throwing neutral networks and conventional programming into the same bucket. Life went on as usual in both the worlds and I stopped thinki
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Are figs considered vegan?
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... or have adverse physiological reactions to it. I recall when once I ate what my friends told me was raw fish (as part of a Chinese New year party). I didn't get an odd taste at all .. but a couple of hours later threw up. I'm
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Unfortunately no .. and my searches haven't been productive. I was referred to this talk by my professor who attended the conference and I got to see only the slide deck as well. .. but the slide deck is very good and easy to follow.
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Not a paper, but a fantastic talk by Samy Bengio "Towards better understanding generalisation in deep learning" at ASRU2019. Some pretty mind blowing insights - ex: if you replace one layer's weights in a trained classificati
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by sriku 6y ago
Can anyone with experience with Fable - - compare their experience with ReasonML since they both have the same OcaML pedigree - offer any perspectives on efficiencies of various constructs? For example, do things like seq add additional com
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As indicated in the other reply, think of the minus as changing the sign of i instead of x.
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You don't need to treat "[cos(x)]^2 + [sin(x)]^2 = 1" separately either. e^(iθ) times e^(-iθ) = e^(iθ-iθ) = e^0 = 1 = (cosθ+isinθ)(cosθ-isinθ) = cos²θ + sin²θ
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This isn't theoretical any more. My state (tamil nadu/india) has banned plastic bags and cups .. generally what we might think of as single use. You have to take your own bags or (in some shops) buy reusable+degradable cloth bags.
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by sriku 6y ago
If you order all possible draws and assign an index to each counting up from 1, we can ask "which pattern is not suspicious" by index. The first such one we identify in that list (with the smallest index) will end up being suspici
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"AI" (quoting since we aren't there yet) will have to deal with what Melanie Mitchell calls "the long tail problem" before we'll accept it as AI - https://youtu.be/NMUqvhuDZtQ . While she gives
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"link" headers giving asset references with `rel="preload"` work pretty fine for this purpose, although it can kick start only after the first response comes in. Browsers seem to do the right thing on encountering this a
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By "blast radius" I meant the impact of the notation beyond the originating case into other areas. I wasn't referring to the number of people it would impact. The notation in the OP doesn't play well with "nearby&qu
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While a notation for this case makes for an interesting discussion (which the post is), the "blast radius" of this situation is so small that (to me) it wouldn't be worth adopting any of the proposals (not saying anyone there
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Relevant book by Douglas Hofstadter - "Surfaces and essences: Analogies as the fuel and fire of thinking" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7711871-surfaces-and-ess...
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by sriku 6y ago
> Forward an email to a special address. Ex: ryan29@todo.example.com (the TODO address for ryan29@example.com). This should be possible with ryan29+todo@example.com though .. in conjunction with filtering. I use this for bookmarking and
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A wave for the Python reference! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_analogy doesn't put it that way. Argument from analogy is a special type of inductive argument, whereby perceived similarities are
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I fail to see why reasoning by analogy is a problem. After all, the utility of a formal system lies in the way it's elements and rules map to some world context. .. in which case when we "reason" with the formal system we&#x2
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We can certainly dispense with analogies that only serve as memory aids.
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It is well possible to capture complex structures in a set of tables. For example, the fossil SCM uses sqlite to store file contents, commit history, deltas and metadata, issue tickets, user access info, custom ticket formats if any, and wi
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For a good lot of cases, sqlite can serve as a perfectly good file format. I actually find it hard to think of a case where it would be hard for sqlite .. perhaps nested markup requirements are the only thing that can necessitate additional
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<shrug> We know (pretty surely) that no company's autonomous vehicle of any claimed level is going to survive for 30 mins on Indian urban roads and traffic conditions. Afaik, none of these companies are even trying to get a vehic
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John Ousterhout, in the RAMCloud project, bet that 2.5μs latency for a read across the network would be possible. NVMe-s seem to be inching towards that too - like < 20μs at this point. Would be interesting to see how these numbers play

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