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by tnecniv 9y ago
Reminds me of an old Mad Magazine bit (I'm sure it didn't originate there) where someone gives a scathing review of a movie and the PR guy hacks a positive one together through creative use of ellipses.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
I mean, you could just never leave your house if you were concerned about safety.
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> I don't think it will. Level off - maybe. I mean, the dotcom bubble popped but websites are still here and more profitable than ever. The bubble popping doesn't mean that DL is going to go away. People will just have more rea
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by tnecniv 9y ago
I mean, there's not much difference between NumPy and MATLAB/Octave.
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I see, that makes sense.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Actually, not originally by JFK: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks
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What is the difference between fuzzy logic and a Bayesian interpretation of probability?
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I admit I'm puzzled as to why she went to the dean first instead of her advisor?
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Part of it is me inheriting a legacy code base and part of it is the fact that it is easier to collaborate with members of my field using MATLAB as it is common knowledge. Python is fine, but I do like having matrices as first-party languag
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It's also arguably faster since you aren't lifting the pen from the paper. I don't write in "formal" cursive, but there's definitely cursive elements in my (cruddy) penmanship, and I know a lot of people who wr
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by tnecniv 9y ago
It's just Poe's Law coming into play. It can't be avoided really. Hell, people can't decide if The Prince is a satire or not.
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I always carry a pen. I prefer handwriting to taking electronic notes and have never found a touch device I'd rather write on than paper. Aside: Teaching kids cursive also still has value in teaching fine motor skills.
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> involves lots of math, which I suck at How I got over this was actually through learning applied math. I thought I sucked at it, too, but really I just never tried hard before. What I liked about programming was formulating and solving
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> when NASA examined the evidence, they found no issues in Toyota's products. Well they found plenty of issues. The code was unreadable. They didn't find anything that would cause unintended acceleration.
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My favorite contribution of Chernoff, however, is the Chernoff face: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face
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by tnecniv 9y ago
I can't wait to never use MATLAB again.
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That's not quite right. Both of those problems are actually pretty related and very active areas of research in academia.
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Not only that, but it's difficult to mathematically model deformable objects in ways that are computationally tractable (e.g. running on a 10ms update loop)
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Watching Excel power users is really fascinating.
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I don't know why, but people always seem to forget that optimization is an important topic in machine learning that requires study. Boyd's book is the canonical source (and free online). If you want to get some functional analysis
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by tnecniv 9y ago
That's how it was at least once upon a time. To appeal to media, the opening scene of The Godfather is a good example of that.
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I mean, that police department has had more than it's share of incidents and crime in general is still a major problem in that city. Not too surprising.
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I always had the same perception growing up. When an older relative asked me to fix the TV settings or something, I had no idea what I was doing. I just clicked things that sounded reasonable until something worked out. It's almost imp
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My understanding was that Gen Y originally referred to older millennial. At least, as a younger millennial, that's what I always heard them called growing up until the millennial term got solidified. Meanwhile, Gen Z is the name for th
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by tnecniv 9y ago
> When you run barefoot, or in a pair of ultra-light "shoes" like Vibrams, you learn very quickly not to do that, or you stop running. The "right" way is to land on the ball of the foot, with the knee slightly bent. T
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Plus they tend to make old articles free pretty quickly.
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> I don't have any trouble reading English, but papers are almost universally written in a way that is more complicated than necessary. This is a function of two things. The first is that venues often have strict page limits for the
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Writing papers as they are now is already a labor-intensive and arduous process. That link is great [1], but producing such a thing would add quite a bit of time to the paper cycle. Besides, many people still like to print papers out... [1]
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Utopian literature has a fundamental problem where there is no conflict...because it's a Utopia. The only popular utopian literature I can think of is Star Trek and all of their plots either involve characters leaving the utopia to exp
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I had the opposite reaction to Blade Runner and thought it cut the most interesting parts from the source material, like Mercerism and the whole weird culture about buying fake animals. I liked the movie, but the only real similarity to the

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