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by thisisdave 10y ago
Not a great example. Apple's graphics layer on OS X is very closely tied to PDF, and basically uses the Adobe Imaging Model that PDF is based on. It actually does include a PDF-based scripting language for drawing and updating shapes
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by thisisdave 10y ago
To some extent, this could be addressed with standard error detection/correction techniques (e.g. error-correcting codes). But that would make the strings longer and often wouldn't help until they made it to a computer anyway.
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by thisisdave 10y ago
The suggestion I've heard is that the xkcd style is a good way to signal "this is just an informal whiteboard sketch, not a highly-refined analysis". I think there's a place for that.
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by thisisdave 10y ago
In both models, there's an unobserved state that changes over time according to relatively simple rules, and you get indirect information about that state every so often. In Kalman filters, you assume the unobserved state is Gaussian-i
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by thisisdave 10y ago
legalized theft [0] [0]: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240531119034809045765122...
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by thisisdave 10y ago
How? With a bad review, or some other method? I didn't see anything on the App Store page, but I might have been looking in the wrong places.
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by thisisdave 10y ago
Not to be confused with the Eddington number in physics[0] "I believe there are 15 747 724 136 275 002 577 605 653 961 181 555 468 044 717 914 527 116 709 366 231 425 076 185 631 031 296 protons in the universe and the same number of e
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by thisisdave 11y ago
My understanding is that this is based on the policy network output. If I understand correctly, the policy network is designed to estimate probabilities accurately, although I don't know how accurate it is for low-probability moves lik
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by thisisdave 11y ago
Or to wipe the phone if it's updated without being unlocked.
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by thisisdave 11y ago
NSFW|ADJ does work, though. Maybe NSFW is a reserved word of some kind?
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by thisisdave 11y ago
And don't interfere with the "back" button, either. Scrolling back to the previous location isn't what anyone intends when they press it.
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by thisisdave 11y ago
It's easy if your data is already in two columns for x and y. If it's a raster, then you have to remember the right command from reshape2 or tidyr or write one yourself.
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by thisisdave 11y ago
So, it's an edge detector? What makes it better than existing methods?
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by thisisdave 11y ago
>The S is for "stochastic" -- i.e. you get a different 2D projection every time you run it on the same inputs. That's not the part that's "stochastic"; sensitivity to initial conditions is just nonconvex opt
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by thisisdave 11y ago
A one-watt laser is pretty powerful (Class 4). Most laser pointers in the US can't exceed 5 milliwatts. One watt is several times what's needed to light various common materials on fire. https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by thisisdave 11y ago
>the class of models Stan fits is far more general. This is mostly true, but last time I checked, Stan still couldn't sample discrete variables like BUGS can. Stan can only fit models with discrete parameters (e.g. finite mixtures)
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by thisisdave 11y ago
"distinctive characteristics" reminds me of "The peculiar institution of the South---that, on the maintenance of which the very existence of the slaveholding States depends" http://users.wfu.edu/zulick&#x
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by thisisdave 11y ago
I don't think the commenter you're responding to was accounting for the possibility that the growth occurred in discrete jumps once per year.
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by thisisdave 11y ago
> I don't think that most researchers would view writing a review article for Nature as "volunteer work" I was referring more specifically to the fact that Nature had to enlist volunteers to referee the paper he wrote. I w
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by thisisdave 11y ago
Has LeCun changed his position on open access? He'd previously "pledged to no longer do any volunteer work, including reviewing, for non-open access publications." [1] A major part of his reasoning was, "Why should peo
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by thisisdave 12y ago
>I'm still pretty sure a mathematical mind on the order of Newton's could find a way to state evolution by variation and natural selection as a theorem rather than a theory, that follows necessarily from the laws of probability
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by thisisdave 12y ago
My understanding is that early humans were substantially closer to the equator than South Africa is, but you could be correct.
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by thisisdave 12y ago
Perhaps they should have specified that they were referring to specific populations of humans that evolved in the last few hundred thousand years, then. Seven million years ago, our lineage hadn't even split off from gorillas.
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by thisisdave 12y ago
>Seven million years of human evolution were dominated by two challenges: food scarcity and cold. Almost all of that time was spent in Africa. Even during glacial periods, was it ever icy? I don't know much about the paleoclimate, s
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by thisisdave 12y ago
I'm having fun with this, thanks for posting it. I'd love to see reports of basic genetic genetic properties of the population. What's the variance in fitness within each generation? This turns out to be the key factor i
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by thisisdave 12y ago
The argument is that single-layer networks would need to be impractically wide to have the same representational power as a narrower network with multiple layers. I haven't looked into the math myself, but apparently there are situatio
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by thisisdave 12y ago
This could be an important result, since there's a lot of theory and expertise regarding renormalization group methods, but I think it's too early to tell. The write-up is a bit misleading, though: the model in their preprint[1]
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by thisisdave 12y ago
It was mostly true in 2007 [1]: >Detroit just watched its last mainstream grocer, Farmer Jack, close its doors for good. [1] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1247787...
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by thisisdave 12y ago
Right. I think that there's a big difference (legally and morally) between the beams of light passing between my cell phone an the cell tower, versus something that's being broadcast specifically so that everyone with an antenna
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by thisisdave 12y ago
An overlapping group of authors (compared with the ones that wrote the "intriguing properties" paper) recently published a neat preprint on using adversarial networks as part of the training process. The goals of the paper are dif

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