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by ssivark 6y ago
Hmm, that’s interesting. BTW, are there known/standard ways to “ensemble” these different algorithms to build more robust solutions (at the price of some extra computation)? It’s not obvious to me how one would combine different extrac
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by ssivark 6y ago
To flip that around, if you cannot make them grapple with the problem, you’re not actually teaching them. You could coerce/persuade them to follow the process and hope they get it soon enough, but you might likely be flushing all tha
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by ssivark 6y ago
Thanks, as an avid reader who saves a lot of articles from the web, this is quite interesting. (I’m a Pocket subscriber btw) How do these compare with popular services like Pocket, Instapaper, Firefox & Safari extractors, etc — or do th
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by ssivark 6y ago
> Like all problems, it isn't a technical it is political. Could you explain how/why? Is it about specializing in specific hardware/firmware?
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by ssivark 6y ago
To add to the above, the distribution of population-level COVID outcomes has fat tails (the system evolution is non-ergodic), so computing point estimates with ensemble average “expected values” is junk modeling . And computing the (correc
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by ssivark 6y ago
My guess would have been AR being the biggest driving force. Oh, and every outdoor photo on Facebook can now more easily be “placed in context” on the map. Especially given Facebook’s “sell the users” business model, an accurate map of wher
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by ssivark 6y ago
> overlooked how many of those old family owned businesses would be wiped out by one though Taleb’s point has consistently been that one must focus on the impact rather than the event (the nonlinearity of that map is often the source o
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by ssivark 6y ago
Could you elaborate on why SVD requires an inner product structure (choice of scale) while eigenvalues do not? Do you just mean that the input and output vector spaces might generically have different units, and so one would need to use som
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by ssivark 6y ago
> this requires you to discard the intuition that a linear function looks like a line when plotted To be more precise, linear functions correspond to lines/planes/etc passing through the origin since f(0)=0
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by ssivark 6y ago
> it should be okay to charge the user 30% extra for that convenience as well Maybe, but that's a pointless stance. The practical consequence is that a product is likely priced to maximize (num units sold x profit per unit), and t
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by ssivark 6y ago
I also feel that it’s useful to take a pragmatic perspective on what an init system must cover. As someone who uses linux on the laptop, everything from boot to getting to a usable desktop is part of the “init” as far as I’m concerned. An
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by ssivark 6y ago
> The models haven't been significantly updated or reconsidered since, even though the development patterns have been mandated by law to become much less dense, while street standards have also greatly increased, meaning much less
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by ssivark 6y ago
Because other areas will have their own projects (definitely, over the lifetime of the loan, even if not right now), and you can’t make one pay for the other to be long-term sustainable.
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by ssivark 6y ago
I think this is the key question, and doing this will enable numerous interface improvements for people working with software (Eg: separation of content and presents means that everybody can use their favorite view — three-space-tabs, extra
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by ssivark 6y ago
While comments are talking about growth potential, and considering revenues instead of earnings, and “network effects” as a moat, I’m reminded of Steve Jobs’ zinger on Dropbox which might equally well apply to Zoom... “it’s a feature, not
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by ssivark 6y ago
Is there a point at which the SEC could/might consider the Fed’s activities as market manipulation, or is that outside the scope of the SEC mandate?
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by ssivark 6y ago
Could somebody motivate the comparison being made? It is not apriori obvious what Grassman numbers have to do with linear solvers. Thanks.
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by ssivark 6y ago
I think digital skills are as important as the three Rs of traditional education (Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic), and deserve as much attention. TBC, IMHO "digital skills" encompass far more than learning about files/folders
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by ssivark 6y ago
> At the moment neither have gui integration and unfortunately both could use a lot of work with onboarding and beginner (I'm taking non programmers) friendliness. I think non-programmer friendliness can wait till there are enough
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by ssivark 6y ago
Trivially so, but are they even interesting? Such well-specific label territories are often artificial. Your Facebook social graph is a poor proxy for your actual IRL social network (or whose opinions you interact with the most, etc) Big bu
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by ssivark 6y ago
Yes, but we’re going to be restricted to O(L) final accuracy no matter what, for gradient descent (we could choose second order optimizations, etc, but that’s an orthogonal point — we’re happy to get within an epsilon ball of the answer).
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by ssivark 6y ago
The kinks correspond to a set of measure zero, which you will likely never hit during execution, so one can safely ignore the problem as not physically relevant. One way to think of the problem is that the cost function we’re differentiatin
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by ssivark 6y ago
That may or may not be the case, but note that there are many (most?) domains where the positive payoff is bounded, but the negative payoff is not. This method seems particularly useful for those scenarios -- if you have "adequate&quot
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by ssivark 6y ago
TIL "Little free library" thanks to your comment; sounds fantastic!
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by ssivark 6y ago
I know what you mean; I was in a similar situation growing up. One very unfortunate phenomenon among most of the kids I see today is that they are so swamped by “structured” activities that they have no time to “tinker” for the heck of it.
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by ssivark 6y ago
The Pine folks have been doing fantastic work over the last several years. Does anyone know of ways to support them other than buying products? I don’t really need these gadgets right now, and don’t have the time to tinker, but want to enco
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by ssivark 6y ago
In a similar spirit, maybe IPFS nodes, or instances of federated communication networks like Mastodon/Matrix/etc for friends and family, or maybe even something like Nextcloud. If you band together with a few people in your commun
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by ssivark 6y ago
Fascinating! Any references elaborating on this? (By FSMs, I suppose you mean Finite State Machines?)
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by ssivark 6y ago
I like the two graphs to organize the conversation. IMHO the key to success (max bang for the buck) is better composability and as little boilerplate code as possible. Haskell and Julia (for example) do this fantastically well. The essentia
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by ssivark 6y ago
I’m sure Microsoft would hate any tweaked version hosted by third-party developers to use their branding (even if the only change is tweaking a few configuration variables by default)

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