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by tnecniv 8y ago
First thing that comes to mind for me is practical improvements to sum-of-squares optimization for designing robust controllers, but I'm biased. Really though, I would skim through the awards list and workshop lists of any of the big c
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by tnecniv 8y ago
If you use a LaTeX editor, it automates a lot of those steps.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Just curious, what kind of company do the EEs work for if not tech?
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Really great, short read!
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by tnecniv 8y ago
I spent so many hours playing Wintermaul back in the day.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
This is a little surprising to me. I was required to take a probability class for my BS in electrical engineering, and a version of this problem was a homework question.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
I'll give it a thought. I'm not tied to legal paper but I do a lot of quick math and scratch work so I would like to have a disposable paper option.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
I really like fountain pens, but I've ruined too much stuff with ink spills. Maybe I'm just clumsy. Also I burn through legal pads as scrap paper and I imagine I would get bad bleeding on that paper.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
I just switched back to zsh after using fish for a while. I found fish nice, but found the lack of POSIX compliance annoying when I wanted to modify things in my rc. I also just like the (oh-my-)zsh defaults better.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Depends a bit on the professor. Young ones are more involved than older ones for a variety of reasons. In either case, the bulk of the work is done by grad students. Professors are more like managers that provide direction, feedback, etc.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
I believe OP is speculating about state-of-the-art ML. The classical techniques, like linear regression, are well studied. However, at this point, there is a race to explain theoretically _why_ deep learning is so successful at generalizati
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Not that its perfect but US News and World Report puts the grad CS program at #8.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
I'd be very interested to know the route you are taking to get to/from NYC then.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
It's not too surprising. Many Princeton faculty work closely with Google already. Princeton researchers are also known for being very theoretically focused, including the two mentioned in the article. If Google wants to diversity its r
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by tnecniv 8y ago
> My understanding is that there are not very strong theoretical underpinnings to most of the machine learning techniques in use today. Yes, particularly with regards to generalization. There's a large number of theorists racing to
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by tnecniv 8y ago
> Another view is you're doing something like logistic regression. You have a function and you're trying to reduce the distance between it and the "true classification function" that takes points to their proper categ
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by tnecniv 8y ago
> What remarkable faith? It's a program to start/stop AC/heat units based on temperatyre readings, not to send people to Mars. > A talented high school student can write one today, and do it with a Rasberry Pi and for m
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by tnecniv 8y ago
If you're interested in this topic, the "Information Bottleneck Method" [1] is a seminal paper in the area. In rate-distortion theory, you need to pick a distortion function that identifies what information you would like to
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by tnecniv 8y ago
The NYT still published it, which i think counts as "media." Even if they don't necessarily agree it's an implicit endorsement that this is a well reasonable argument.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Name order depends on the conventions of the field, but yeah.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Yes, they do, and it makes sense to do so. You want to point others to the related work that has been done in the topic and it's likely that your lab has done a lot of this work. Of course other groups have also done related things, an
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by tnecniv 8y ago
It is (unless you are...well...applying it to something). I just didn't want to limit my statement to pure math topics, since I find, e.g. optimization, to be helpful.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
I wonder how much better off students would be if the majority of the formal CS classes they take are replaced with more traditional (applied) math classes for that reason. I seem to rely on ideas from those classes more than the ones from
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Most papers include pseudo-code when it helps clarify things. This tends to be a very high-level description of the algorithm though, and is not really the same as including actual source.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
> Why don't people just publish through Arxiv? ArXiv is not peer reviewed.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
It does sound a lot like The Warriors.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Find some way to engage with your hobbies publicly. Hell, even go to a (preferably small) bar you like alone and talk to people. All my friends moved out of the city I was in and that's how I supplemented my social life until it was ti
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by tnecniv 8y ago
This is the same thing I experienced and I grew up in a wealthy east coast neighborhood. The parents were more competitive than their kids. Since high school, all of my close friends have come from wildly different economic positions.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
But cities provide you with a means to find a community if you really want one. It's a lot harder and/or less convenient to find groups that do what you like to do if you live in a suburb.
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by tnecniv 8y ago
Do you have a reference for the crypto trick you described?

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