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by tnecniv 9y ago
I'd be interested in hearing someone with knowledge talk about how these models get used in practice. From an engineering perspective it seems like actually applying them would be very hard. For example, how good are parameter estimate
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by tnecniv 9y ago
The series finale reveal is that Pied Piper exists and was using the show to fund their company and distribute their software.
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Many fields do but everyone, including AI, submits to conferences and journals because arXiv is not peer reviewed.
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The flip side of all the prestige incentives that everyone mentioned is that there's little downside. Either your institution will foot the bill for the cost of publication or it's built into grants. On the other end, the institut
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by tnecniv 9y ago
What I meant is that learning songs by ear makes you a better musician because you are effectively doing ear training at the same time. Ear training is an important part of growing musically that many people over look because it is tedious,
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by tnecniv 9y ago
> When I started to learn guitar several decades ago, I would learn guitar solos off of records by slowing them down to 16 rpm (old turntables could do that) and moving the needle back repeatedly to listen to tricky phrases over and over
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Course prerequisite are more like suggestions. I came in knowing how to code pretty well, so I didn't want to take Java for new programmers.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
At my school, they would waive requirements if you take a higher level course in the same track. For example, if I just took CS102 that requires CS101, I wouldn't have to go back to satisfy the CS101 requirement. Obviously everywhere i
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by tnecniv 9y ago
What prevented SVMs from catching on in industry?
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by tnecniv 9y ago
This nomenclature didn't start on HN and goes back quite a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture
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by tnecniv 9y ago
From his website, he entered his BSc in 2005, suggesting he'd be about 30.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
On top of what others have mentioned, there is something to be said about getting numerical linear algebra tools as native citizens of a language. There are many things I hate about MATLAB, having matrices built into the syntax is nice.
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No it isn't. Modeling how a robot interacts with cloth is actually quite difficult dynamically. Much more difficult than how a car operates.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
> Julia is a great language, but it is still focused on the numerical computing world and is not "1.0" Word on the street is that Julia is supposed to get a 1.0 announcement at JuliaCon, which started today.
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It's why the horror that is MATLAB exists. I'm looking forward to replacing MATLAB with the much more ergonomic Julia soon though.
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I also know plenty of geeks who played sports through high school.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
This is the right way to think about it. The talks are probably recorded anyway. Really, you want to get some people to go out, see how others are doing things and solving problems, and bringing back the parts that are relevant to your curr
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by tnecniv 9y ago
VHDL (or Verilog) isn't harder to reason about than C in my experience, it's just different.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
The other thing is that episodes that seem episodic are a really not. There's certain episodes that don't become significant until much later (e.g. Signs and Potents).
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Spoiler!
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Heck, Harlan Ellison was also a contributing writing!
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> So to see such a long-reaching cohesive story, something I'd never seen on TV before or since, and have it actually be good, made Babylon 5 an amazing show for me. A benefit of JMS planning seven seasons of plot before starting an
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by tnecniv 9y ago
What do you want to do with this mathematical knowledge you want to acquire? Learning for the sake of learning is fine, but, like programming and many other big topics, it can be much easier if you have specific goals and motivations. Perso
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Babylon 5 should get way more love. It was ambitious in a way it's contemporaries weren't [1]. The fact that J. Michael Straczynski wrote the majority of the episodes is both unheard of and shows in how consistent and well-crafted
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by tnecniv 9y ago
> I particularly liked the higher level Abstract Algebra stuff over the more grinding equations of calculus/linear algebra as it was more similar to programming. Linear Algebra Done Right takes a more abstract approach so there is m
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by tnecniv 9y ago
It's also fuzzy because money doesn't just come from one place. I know grad students who were paid off NSF grants but worked on projects also funded by private companies.
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by tnecniv 9y ago
Tenure isn't the end of the road and tenured researchers don't work alone. Tenured professors are often not the primary authors on papers -- their students and post-docs are and they need to get their papers into good (paywalled)
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by tnecniv 9y ago
I mean, MGS5 effectively had zombies... I get the point though. I'm also bummed out by the exodus. I love MGS and I want to see what he can do on that engine given enough time. MGS5 was great but felt like Konami told him to cut it sho
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by tnecniv 9y ago
I don't listen to tech podcasts. Since it's E3 time of year, I've got a bunch of Giant Bombcasts slated for next week. I'm also listening to Kevin Smith do commentary on Frasier episodes...
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What can you do with the measure theoretic foundations vs the traditional approach? I know graduate classes typically take the measure theoretic approach, but it's never been explained to me why.

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