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by thearn4 9y ago
It's a shame that the internet devolved into cat pictures, pervasive advertisements, and political shouting matches. On the other hand, there are still some great communities out there for great discussion. I consider HN to be one of t
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by thearn4 9y ago
You're old enough now that you can actually pick who your friends are. Choose wisely.
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by thearn4 9y ago
I use OpenCV for reading and writing real-time video streams (like webcams or video frames) for my hobby computer vision projects, but tend to use other ML or image-specific libraries for actual processing. The cascade classifiers in OpenCV
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by thearn4 9y ago
That seems pretty sensible to me. When the educational funding bubble pops in the U.S., I could imagine something like that taking it's place.
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by thearn4 9y ago
That's very cool to hear, I'm a lot more interested in the eGPUs (vs. something like an AWS P2 instance) after reading this. Thanks again for sharing.
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by thearn4 9y ago
Caffeine and walk breaks every hour or two work pretty well for me.
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by thearn4 9y ago
It's interesting how amenable image classification neural networks are to the "take working model, peel off last layer or two, retrain for a new application" approach. I've seen this suggested as working pretty well in a
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by thearn4 9y ago
My former advisor keeps his .edu webpage full of pre-print versions of every paper that he has published. I'm not sure if every journal is okay with this, but I'm also not positive that he would stop if prompted. He'd probabl
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by thearn4 9y ago
Well, I still think Stallman is quite crazy still, but makes some excellent points too. He's definitely not stupid.
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by thearn4 9y ago
Shouldn't it be possible to backpropogate those categorical outputs all the way back to the inputs/features (NOT weights) after a forward pass, to localize the sensitivity of them with respect to the actual pixels for a prediction
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by thearn4 9y ago
CFD and other high-fidelity multiphysics simulations can be efficient when GPU-bound. It all comes down to being able to write a matrix and stream a bunch of vectors to multiply it by. When considering Krylov subspace methods, this extends
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by thearn4 9y ago
For packaging pains, do you mean the fact that there is no single agreed on packaging/provisioning method (easy_install, pip, conda, apt, etc.), or that these solutions are terrible?
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by thearn4 9y ago
I do feel like there is a middle ground somewhere there between the "format all content to fit A4 paper" idiom of Word/TeX, and the more interactive markdown + simulation environment of Jupyter. The latter is really growing o
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by thearn4 9y ago
seaborn is actually pretty nice, though not as diverse.
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by thearn4 9y ago
I use Python 3.6 in an Anaconda env
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by thearn4 9y ago
I think the biggest issue with matplotlib is it's straddling of the fence between MATLAB and pythonic syntax throughout the library. It makes it actually pretty hard to predict what the syntax/call signature of a particular method
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by thearn4 9y ago
> I remember when I was a kid we used to borrow each other's NES games all the time and never give them back. I definitely remember it being a very collective ownership thing in my neighborhood when it came to NES games.
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by thearn4 9y ago
On a per-day basis, generally only based on my electronic calendars (personal=gcal, work=outlook). On a week to week or month to month (and longer term) basis, I have rough notes sketched out in a plaintext file.
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by thearn4 9y ago
Scientific and engineering ethics kind of stand in the way of letting people throw away their lives just because it's cool.
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by thearn4 9y ago
That's a pretty neat concept. An audiobook format would be interesting too. Might be tricky to do in the car though, ha.
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by thearn4 9y ago
My comment was less about FOSS actually. I think it has more to do with the branding of Arduino. When people think educational or approachable microcontrollers, they think Arduino. As soon as that gets muddied a bit, I think folks may see t
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by thearn4 9y ago
This looks like a ton of fun!
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by thearn4 9y ago
I think the Arduino civil war is inevitably going to lead to ESP8266/NodeMCU boards taking over this market.
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by thearn4 9y ago
> conda install matplotlib Anaconda Python really should be more popular on OS X and Linux than it is. Homebrew is okay, but a little bit wonky for Python packages.
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by thearn4 9y ago
I did for awhile, until making the resolution this year to use 3.6+ whenever and wherever possible. So far it turns out, I had very few incompatibilities.
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by thearn4 9y ago
Yeah ~3 FTE sounds about right. But if offered as grants for students to work on over internships or something, it would go a bit further. But I don't know enough about the GIMP codebase to know how feasible that would really be.
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by thearn4 9y ago
Want to? Near zero. Have to? Maybe a bit larger, hard to say. As much as I hate having to work in Word for small things that could so easily be a plain-text format, the versioning system within Word isn't exactly the worst thing ever.
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by thearn4 9y ago
I have had the same thoughts too. What also had me a bit puzzled in the ML community is the lack of discussion on local optimality, and constraint/Lagrangian loss functions. But there is probably a subtlety that I'm missing.
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by thearn4 9y ago
The engineers (aerospace, etc) also prefer the term "adjoint mode"
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by thearn4 9y ago
Thanks for the clarification, Travis, that's pretty exciting to hear.

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