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by steppi 3y ago
Thanks for the recommendations. All of my music equipment is in storage now, but I hope to set up a small studio later this year. Will definitely check this stuff out.
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by steppi 3y ago
I’ve recorded at home with a similar setup. Getting things to sound just right takes a lot of effort and tinkering though which I just don’t have time for due to the demands of work and family. I might have a couple hours per week to devote
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by steppi 3y ago
A Radiohead album is an incredibly sophisticated feat of audio engineering requiring a team of people beyond the band itself to make. The production costs are substantial. It takes more than just practicing enough to make something like tha
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by steppi 3y ago
D1 and D2 are a little weird. The way they’re usually defined, they can’t be defined as subgraphs of S1 and S2 respectively. See this relevant stackexchange answer [0]. By the symmetry of the n-gon you should, in this case, think of the gr
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by steppi 3y ago
Yes, checkout the Steinhaus-Johnson-Trotter algorithm [0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinhaus%E2%80%93Johnson%E2...
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by steppi 3y ago
Researchers do post PDFs on their websites, and on preprint servers like the arXiv, bioaRxiv, etc. Unfortunately, publishers act like gatekeepers towards career progress in academia. Climbing the ladder depends on getting publications in hi
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by steppi 3y ago
This is a really great book. It’s very accessible but the insights can also be appreciated by a mathematically sophisticated audience. I’m particularly fond of Chapter 11 on understanding complex analytic functions and the part in Chapter 2
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by steppi 4y ago
This is tricky, but it is at least a PEP 8 violation to compare a Boolean expression to True or False with ==, and a linter will complain. Programming in Python without a linter can be perilous in general.
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by steppi 4y ago
Not all medications for bipolar are zombifying, though it took me 10 years to find something that worked well. On Lamotrigine I’ve been largely symptom free for nearly 7 years now, with few if any noticeable cognitive side effects. The prob
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by steppi 4y ago
"When I was your age I was before the mast on a square rigged ship that ran to Africa and I have seen lions on the beaches in the evening." […] He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of grea
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by steppi 4y ago
Yes, completely agree, I omitted the part about not just modeling binary outcomes for the sake of brevity. I was even considering linking the article Capital One: Exploiting an Information-Based Strategy [0], showing that one of Capital O
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by steppi 4y ago
Yes, that's a common approach. You can take a dataset of consumer features at the point in time when loans were opened along with information about the loan outcomes and try to predict the loan outcomes. You can't just take a kitc
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by steppi 4y ago
Working in the ML/data space and have been fortunate to have largely steered clear of this problem so far. My heuristic when evaluating potential jobs is only to consider positions where the output of statistical analysis and machine l
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by steppi 4y ago
I did something like this and ended up just substituting graduate classes for my math and physics requirements while taking regular undergraduate classes for everything else. I made a lot of great friends and was not the only undergrad in t
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by steppi 4y ago
This hasn’t been my experience. I don’t think this knowledge has been lost and it’s often still applied when incentivized, such as when quality output of machine learning models serves an immediate business need, or in scientific applicatio
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by steppi 4y ago
Right, and if we are trying to get all coefficients and are thus performing the polynomial multiplications symbolically, then performing the multiplications naively will take O(n^2) time but using FFT allows it to be done in O(n log n) time
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by steppi 4y ago
I think you're talking about evaluating the interpolating polynomial at a single value, but others are talking about getting all of the coefficients of the interpolating polynomial.
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by steppi 4y ago
Example please?
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by steppi 4y ago
That’s pretty neat. I didn’t even think of finite fields when I made my other comment. Another example where mathematical curiosities prove useful in cryptography.
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by steppi 4y ago
There's an aside in the linked section of CLRS that mentions that FFT based polynomial multiplication can be used for fast evaluation of Lagrange interpolation. I'm not aware of applications though, Lagrange interpolation isn&#x27
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by steppi 4y ago
Knowing things is good, but I think the real benefit of a PhD is in developing the skill to learn new things quickly and fill in any gaps as needed. It’s important to get practice learning many things in depth but the goal isn’t to become a
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by steppi 4y ago
Along those lines, have you ever checked out the book Neurocomputing, Foundations of Research [0]? It's a compendium of old foundational papers that I think would be up your alley. Researchers will find Neurocomputing an essential g
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by steppi 4y ago
Would you consider doing a write-up somewhere after getting further into your investigation of pattern theory? I'd certainly be interested in a distillation of any insights you find and I imagine others would too.
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by steppi 4y ago
Having once studied just enough algebraic geometry to appreciate the true excellence of Mumford’s work in the field I’ve wondered before if I should study his Pattern Theory book [0] to mine it for insights that the ML community may have mi
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by steppi 4y ago
Some favorites below. Books 0-3 are accessible. The remaining books are more difficult but I'd highly recommend them to math students. 0. Jan Gullberg, Mathematics, From the Birth of Numbers . A highly accessible popular survey on dif
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From my read of the paper. This new formula also gives an exponential time algorithm. It’s not of interest as a practical method for computing determinants. It does however have interesting geometric and combinatorial properties and they us
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by steppi 4y ago
I think I would have eventually pushed through the dip, but I ended up badly injuring the elbow on my fretting hand side. This was when I was around 20. It was maybe for the best. I ended up getting into math instead which has lead me down
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by steppi 4y ago
It’s an interesting example. I experienced something similar learning to play guitar by ear from a young age and then going back to learn proper music theory as an adult. I’d learned to improvise over chords in any key just by feel, without
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by steppi 4y ago
I think this paper really cuts to the heart of the distinction Leo Breiman was exploring in his classic Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures [0]. The idea here is that real distinction is not essentially in terms of assumptions or philo
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by steppi 4y ago
Very cool. I’ve never tried fewer than 5. Will definitely keep that in mind. Yes, I know that paper.

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