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by ssivark 6y ago
An eigenvector would correspond to the "stationary distribution" of the Markov transition matrix represented by the graph. (think "page rank")
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by ssivark 6y ago
Was just coming in to point to this. While the geometric intuition in the post being discussed is quite visual, thinking of matrix elements as directed arrows generalizes easily to high-dimensional vector spaces, and also makes it very easy
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by ssivark 6y ago
Fair enough. It would be interesting/instructive to construct (relatively simple) examples where we can see that they’re broken :-)
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by ssivark 6y ago
IIUC, the claim is that the very idea of a (real valued) “objective function” to be “optimized” is broken?
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by ssivark 6y ago
The best form of communication is ultimately based on the amount of shared context (Eg: acronyms), so it’s silly to create rules per the communication medium — slack, email, HN comments, etc. Even within a medium, a slack DM to a friend has
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by ssivark 6y ago
Agreed, but only if & when the abstractions are not "leaky" . Robust encapsulation is simply not possible when abstractions are leaky or ill-fitting for the domain -- including an incomplete model of the domain. The latter po
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by ssivark 6y ago
Since there are sibling comments wondering what this means, here’s a perspective: A database (simplest case is an array or a dict) isn’t fundamentally different from a function in its interface. To both of them you submit a query/argum
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by ssivark 6y ago
I think the author/post neglects the most important reason for valuing generalists and learning from them. (Hyper)specialists have a hard time understanding context outside their narrow domains, and filtering the relevance of their own
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by ssivark 6y ago
I agree with the core thesis, and have had multiple discussions/debates about the importance of decentralization for promoting robustness through diversity (avoiding monocultures). A common complaint against federated structures (whene
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by ssivark 6y ago
> I had the opportunity to talk to him after his talk in Boston, he was pretty pessimistic and struggled to define his conception of humanity without a negative referent I thought the video you shared had a great 10-15 minute segment st
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by ssivark 6y ago
> I'm afraid I don't understand. In what way does contextualizing and centering human agency and humanity change how these questions are asked and considered in ways unavailable to us today? Because today, Google’s search algor
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by ssivark 6y ago
> It is at best fundamentally nihilist and at worst reduces human value to its ability to do work and produce value I see Jaron Lanier’s position as exactly the opposite, in an interesting accounting of second order effects. “We shape ou
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by ssivark 6y ago
> Now that we've rejected the AI philosophy and refuse to use the AI way of thinking and remember and center the human, what have we gained? Very simple. If we contextual ever the contribution of the people, then why if it that Goog
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by ssivark 6y ago
> Jaron doesn't provide a meaningful way to engage with his critique and it seems the logical conclusion of his view is that we abandon technology all together. While it may appear that way, I wonder whether he might be speaking p
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by ssivark 6y ago
Git’s UI/porcelain definitely isn’t winning any awards. That said, why infantilize users so much that it’s considered abhorrent to understand the tool one depends on? The plumbing is so elegant/simple, after all! The utter passive
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by ssivark 6y ago
I’m dumbstruck by a more fundamental question — Is it even meaningful for a company to be valued at ~$30B if it cannot guarantee survival & stability? In what sense of reality is this a “unicorn”? EDIT: Yes, I understand the math of (en
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by ssivark 6y ago
> Why can't people just settle on some tech, let it mature, and enjoy reaching higher and higher in capability? Why do we have to always tear things down and start from scratch? At what level of language improvement does it warrant
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by ssivark 6y ago
Is this in essence the same as the relation between a differential equation and it’s adjoint equation, and how one could use the asking method to perform back propagation? (Eg: ref. Neural ODEs)
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by ssivark 6y ago
Points 2 & 3 in particular remind me of an Alan Kay quote — One can’t solve a problem with the same level of thinking that created it. Any mention of solutions such as automated content moderation (Eg: detecting “fake” news) or optimizi
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by ssivark 6y ago
The diff will be low norm (for some suitable norm), but it needn’t be sparse in pixel space. It could be sparse in some other spaces (Eg: wavelet basis), but that’s right where the challenge lies — finding a basis where the data (and/o
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by ssivark 6y ago
You’re thinking along the right lines, but the challenge is that a raw diff will have the same number of pixels as the raw image, so no compression in bandwidth. So, how do we represent the diff/residue also with fewer numbers? At that
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by ssivark 6y ago
While the explanation was a little wordy, it really helped me visualize what was happening — particular the image with cross-links, and the two different kinds of table of contents. Now I see that the essence of the concept relates to the s
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by ssivark 6y ago
It would also be interesting to hear about the tooling available/recommended for maintaining monorepos.(ideally FOSS tooling, but good proprietary ones as well)
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by ssivark 6y ago
This is a good point. Software engineering is one of the most open fields in that it cares relatively little about formal credentials, tests or historical background (what else you’ve worked on). Anyone who has picked up “coding” (etc.) can
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by ssivark 6y ago
What you say is important, but far from sufficient. Recipes which serves as exercises at one level serve as building blocks for the next level. I would argue that the reason it is important to understand the solutions of a few typical forms
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by ssivark 6y ago
Thank you; awful title.
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by ssivark 6y ago
Nicely put. What’s particularly aggravating is the push to unbundle features from a flexible power-tool like a spreadsheet, into siloed apps which can only do one thing, and charge recurring fees. When a user’s needs morph or expand, they h
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by ssivark 6y ago
Social nets are also “sacrifices from their children”. Ultimately a morsel of food must be produced around the same time it is consumed, so however we might do the book-keeping and resource apportioning (govt welfare through taxes, chariti
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by ssivark 6y ago
I’ll duplicate a comment I made on another thread today. This has less to do with India, and more about what happens when there’s no prior culture of open source , to balance against the willingness to “hustle”. The fact that a lot of thes
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by ssivark 6y ago
We hear a lot about keeping products (esp interfaces) “simple”, and rejecting “feature explosion”... but all that seems to fly in the face of the success & ubiquity of the spreadsheet. I don’t understand why this glaring mismatch is not

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