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by tnecniv 9y ago
Google for a class in (classical) control theory. This is a standard topic for electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering programs. For implementing a PID loop, you can do it in pretty much any language you want -- it's relativel
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Lot's of schools don't put robotics in CS. They put it in EE or ME. Computer vision is often a CS class, but control theory and other subjects that involve interacting with the physical world are often placed in other departments
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The US still has lecturers (who normally have PhDs), but the title is different from the UK one.
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It's helpful if you are reading literature actively. If you are interested in some new technique and want to understand the theoretical aspects of it, then knowing analysis will be useful in deciphering the presented proofs. It may als
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I agree. Too many people conflate a computer science degree with the ability to code. The real purpose of a computer science degree is to learn to model, analyze, and solve problems in a computational framework. Mathematics is the language
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For sure, but a cheat sheet can still be useful. For example, the I find matrix cookbook very useful when I don't feel like rederiving derivatives of nontrivial linear algebra expressions.
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In my experience, you read a lot of papers that sound interesting and then some of them turn out to be good.
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Yeah that's what I meant. It's been more than 5 years so I didn't remember the exact details. Thanks for the specifics!
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Making a Gameboy emulator was one of my favorite and most instructive personal projects. It's worth noting that there was actual extra hardware built into the carts, so you need to implement certain features like extra RAM based on the
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I was only skimming the article, but it seems they were comparing against benchmarks form this contest: http://maxsat.ia.udl.cat/introduction/
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Unfortunately, it crashes instantly upon trying to open any of my documents. Looking forward to the stable build. I'm a big fan of the editor.
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You could have learned them from a very algebraic source, I suppose.
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> Boosting is another example. It really is stranger than fiction. Is this true? Boosting is pretty well formulated in the PAC framework and the classical algorithms (e.g. Adaboost) are well-characterized.
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> DL is a branch of mathematics Don't tell the mathematicians that. There's a lot of informal DL floating around.
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I can confirm dental and vision is offered to grad students at the school I went to. It wasn't included in the stipend but it is cheap.
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My advice is that most learning takes place outside of the classroom. I learned more when I joined a research group in my third year than I did in my first two years combined. That said, take as much math as you can. You don't need a l
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Yup You can trace the origins of the ANN to the 40s and 50s. Since then, statistical ML has come into vogue a few times, but not like today. Phones and other data sources (plus the algorithms to properly deal with all the data) have ushered
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by tnecniv 9y ago
As a note, WASP refers to old money families with ties going back to the colonial era, not just middle-class/wealthy white dudes in America. Also, at least in STEM departments, you will see plenty of non-white names. > In Physics (m
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by tnecniv 9y ago
> Part of me is still not really happy with the philosophical foundations of statistics. You mean you aren't happy with...probability?
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Well you can always fire up LaTeX and write a report. If detailed enough, that in conjunction with the data set should be enough to survive anything.
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Prolonged guerrilla war didn't start after 1928. For example, Napoleon nominally conquered Spain and installed his brother, but the Spanish were engaged in a large scale guerrilla war until Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo.
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> I think in the US you do courses for years before you start actually researching, which is what you're there to do in the first place. This varies a lot by program in the US. Some schools want you to take 10 classes in the first t
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IRC?
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> As with many NP-hard problems (e.g. SAT, TSP), there are very good solvers these days that are much faster than anything you could ever hope to write yourself – and they produce fully optimal solutions. And if it's not fast enough
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The source of that particular one is one of those classic pieces of hacker (not to be confused with cracker) culture that has been floating around for decades.
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I'm thankful I've never had a serious bug with MATLAB. I have a friend who spent two days debugging an issue in one of their distribution files with a rep. Sounded like hell. Similarly, MATLAB's concept of packages is also no
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by tnecniv 9y ago
This article made SAS seem very unfun to work with.
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I take that to mean that you need to have a bachelors in something. Econ is a relatively quantitative field, so that with work experience is likely acceptable.
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I also find that my tolerance drops very quickly when I quit. When I'm on vacation, I don't drink much coffee because my schedule is different. I find after 2-3 days, I no longer am in withdrawal and when I come back from a 1-2 we
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PL / compilers has a lot to do with logic and formal reasoning, so I wouldn't be surprised if he's interested in applying that to other domains. Merging DL with more traditional reasoning frameworks is an interesting question

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