tezka

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by tezka 2y ago
Any body can share a success story of using category theory gainfully to any CS/SWE problem that couldn't have been solved without? No Monads isn't one, you would invent it naturally when the situation calls for it. I spent a
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by tezka 3y ago
> but as a Brit coming from somewhere with a by then thriving real ale scene, Served at room temperature. Yikes.
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by tezka 3y ago
Blade Runner is not a Kubrick film.
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by tezka 3y ago
It's one of his most accessible movie, and usually resonates with tech people for obvious reasons. His best movies imo are Mirror, Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Stalker and then Solaris, Nostalgia and Sacrifice. Now Solaris bo
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by tezka 7y ago
how is it related to any of these? do you have links to articles?
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by tezka 7y ago
Insights from famed algebraic geometer and Fields medalist David Mumford, who has also worked (and co-authored a book) on Pattern Theory (statistical computer vision). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mumford
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Can an artificial intelligence machine be conscious? (David Mumford blog, 2019)(dam.brown.edu)
2 points by tezka 7y ago|1 comments
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by tezka 7y ago
What is NLL for 32x32 Imagenet? Thats a common benchmark and it’s strange that it’s missing from this paper. Also, will you release cifar10 samples? Curious what they look like at 2.80
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by tezka 7y ago
What’s so hard about putting this at the beginning of the function? import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
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by tezka 7y ago
But also learn one or two languages that fit your domain of work, really really well. I have seen too many programmers that justify their lack of skills in their main language they are supposed to know by bragging about their knowledge of s
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by tezka 8y ago
your statement sounds like this is a point of view taken by the majority of people who live in Europe. Simple facts about the number and density of cities through out the history of the continent point to the exact opposite.
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by tezka 8y ago
Thats not particularly a European perspective. Sounds like its just yours.
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The Beautiful Mathematical Explorations of Maryam Mirzakhani(quantamagazine.org)
3 points by tezka 9y ago|0 comments
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by tezka 9y ago
> I don't know, to me the statement begs the question "So why wasn't it a great fit?" That's not "begging the question" [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
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by tezka 9y ago
I love math but I find this whole article and the associated jokes pretty contentless and somewhat boring.
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by tezka 9y ago
The article says $1.5 a day IIANM
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by tezka 9y ago
sure, sanctions may very well be one of the factors causing such high inflation levels (although I am hesitant to say that they completely explain away the massive increase in the money supply. FWIW, according to IMF, in 2008 Iran's M1
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by tezka 9y ago
Even though I am sympathetic to the idea of Universal income, the fact the Iran's economy experienced inflation as high as 45% the rapid rise of which correlates closely with the start of this program[1], should make this a worrisome r
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by tezka 9y ago
The account is named ka-engineering, no need to mine posting history. There are some world class engineers working in KA (e.g Craig Silverstein), I would take their blog posts over most medium junk stuff often posted here anyday with utmost
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by tezka 10y ago
this is almost on the same level of stupidity as "All lives matter".
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by tezka 10y ago
"Is it really that crazy that you might meet a girl/guy you might want to date at work?" Yeah it's really, really crazy if you are in the position of authority over whomever you are harassing. It's still a huge prob
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by tezka 10y ago
Produce independently reviewed citation that you are state of the art, or even close to it, in any of these functionality.
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by tezka 10y ago
My favorites are Casella and Berger: https://books.google.com/books/about/Statistical_Inference.h... and Hogg, McKean and Craig: https://www.pearsonhighered.com/program/Hogg-Introduction-to...
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by tezka 11y ago
Relevant older, harsher piece http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/the-vertically-integrated-r...
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by tezka 11y ago
Spoken like a true Haskell fanboy. Why don't you give it a shot, OP has posted the code.
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by tezka 11y ago
the point being?
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by tezka 11y ago
this is the most useless book posted on HN.
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by tezka 12y ago
I agree that technical interviews are broken, but not in the way that the author describes. I think the interviews should retain the algorithmic questions, but do away with language gotchas and design patterns etc. More emphasis should be a
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by tezka 12y ago
no it's not. it's more like, the most common dispatch pattern used in C++ (and most other OO languages) as a factor of 7x performance penalty over the less widely embraced alternative. The popularity of the former methods is partl
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by tezka 12y ago
Tesla really shines when you want double precision computations, e.g., for scientific computing, solving PDEs etc. Extra precision is however seldom useful in deep learning, so you will likely get the same performance with the much cheaper

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