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by tnecniv 7y ago
A lot of them are very domain specific, like controls engineering and stuff like that. If I recall, a big chunk of the code that controls Toyota engines is generated from a massive Simulink model.
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I don't see how any of those behaviors are wrong. It's just a standard that MATLAB elects to follow.
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He means that neural networks are applied statistics in that they solve a statistical regression problem. It's not conceptually different from classical methods of regression like least squares. The phrase "statistically optimized
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by tnecniv 7y ago
Don't mess with tube amps. If you touch the wrong capacitor without knowing what you're doing you could really injure yourself. That said, there's plenty of safe audio equipment out there to experiment with. Before I got an E
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by tnecniv 8y ago
I think this goes either way. In referencing these things, you alienate an audience that hasn't seen them, but I can think of a lot of artists with small but dedicated followings that do this. If a demographic identifies with your tast
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Continuous != differentiable. The standard proof uses some functional analysis techniques but nothing too complicated to show you can get arbitrarily close to any continuous function with an NN. That includes things like step functions whos
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Do you have an application in mind to help guide suggestions? As others have said, if you know know probability, start there.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
> I know that DARPA funds some robots DARPA funding is not necessarily violent. One can argue that the current explosion in self-driving cars is due to the DARPA challenges in the 2000s.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
I still have nightmares about Xilinx FPGA tools.
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Out of curiosity, how does this compare with loose tobacco for rolling your own cigarettes in price and packaging? I was in Australia on a trip last year, and met a lot of people who rolled their own because that was still affordable for th
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Sci-Hub isn't a thing that you cite. It gives you a publication from a conference / journal. That's what you cite. Citing Sci-Hub would be like citing google.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
My biggest complaint with BotW was that the pacing was odd. It was clear they designed everything in the world to be completed on the time scale of a subway ride. I understand why they did this, given that it was the launch game of a new ha
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Honestly my biggest bug with Julia was the lack of good programming environment. I detest MATLAB, but I can be very productive in that IDE. PyCharm is pretty good too when using NumPy. For Julia though, the tooling just didn't seem the
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Agreed. It's pretty clear 10 minutes into Post Office that the protagonist is not living a glamorous life.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
At least GB puts out so much content I don't have time for another podcast...
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by tnecniv 8y ago
That presumes the existence of an arbitrarily precise simulator, that you can run efficiently enough to generate the large datasets required for deep learning. That's a tall ask for not a lot of gain. We've understood rigid-body d
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by tnecniv 8y ago
It really depends on your application. If your system is so complex that you give up on understanding the dynamics, then a "generic" ML algorithm makes sense. However, a big problem with applying ML to robotics is you need a ton o
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by tnecniv 8y ago
> All of the subtleties of measure theory, which occupy most of what mathematical measure theorists/analysts work on, are introduced when you assume you've got an infinity or a continuum somewhere in a model, and that assumptio
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by tnecniv 8y ago
I've only studied measure theory in a probability context. Can you talk a little bit about why the Radon measure isn't sufficient there, and what it is useful for outside of probability?
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by tnecniv 8y ago
It's also disappointing because that's about as conservative as they can be in terms of franchises. They should resurrect Lost Vikings.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Functional analysis shows up all over the place. Everywhere you can take a Fourier transform, you can use functional analysis. For robotics, control theory and computer vision both come to mind.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
I did like the Timeline book as well, but I read it at around 13. It did really change a lot of images I had of the period though. One thing that sticks out in my memory was a comment on how much distance the average serf could cover in a d
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by tnecniv 8y ago
You should definitely read Sphere and Prey if you haven't! Also avoid the Timeline movie at all costs unless you are trapped on a flight.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
My middle school class had so many menaces that the gym teacher normally just let us play what we wanted as long as everyone who wanted to play could. This normally devolved into some quantity of boys playing basketball and most of the girl
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by tnecniv 8y ago
As I mentioned elsewhere, I recall reading Turing was starting to think about what we now refer to as information theory, but shortly thereafter he met Shannon. After hearing Shannon describe his work, Turing was so impressed he decided to
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by tnecniv 8y ago
If I recall, Turing actually started to formalize some ideas in information theory, but stopped after meeting Shannon. Shannon showed Turing his information theory work and Turing decided Shannon already solved the question he was intereste
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Even when physical copies aren't being manufactured, length constraints would still exist. Different publication venues serve different purposes and these purposes are best served by articles of a certain length. The purpose of a short
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I don't know how it's used in practice, but aviation companies dump a lot of money into formal methods research because getting their code certified to meet scary specs is very expensive and they don't want to do it for every
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by tnecniv 8y ago
This is neat. Any idea if in the paper they address how well the network works if you swap out the robot for another one of the same model / if the parameters of the physical robot change?
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Yes, also most years in any field don't have a single revolutionary paper to which you can point. The reason I suggest looking at the workshops at conferences is that each one is effectively a cluster of ~6-8 talks and papers / po

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