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by tw1010 9y ago
That only works if you have access to electronics, which homeless people might not.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Sorry to go off topic, but isn't this a case where "reasonable" would be a better choice of word than "logical". There's nothing particularly logical about teaching a thing one way over another.
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by tw1010 9y ago
I like the idea of sparklines and I have used them myself on occasion. But now that I think about it, I'm not sure I've actually ever found a sparklines plot insightful or useful.
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by tw1010 9y ago
That's not refining the question, that's completely redefining it.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Not everything needs to be created for happiness maximization. It'd just be really really cool.
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by tw1010 9y ago
It wouldn't be a good article with a dramatic ending if there turned out to be two cities that matched the criteria.
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by tw1010 9y ago
You guys may have this or that problem in the US, but the fact that you have people like this author who put so much effort into communicating the problems and who care this much, that makes me envious of you all. You'd be really hard
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by tw1010 9y ago
I don't buy the "you can't teach yourself this on your own" thing. At least not in the sense that genius is a necessary requirement. The more time I spend on this stuff, the better I seem to become. The pace at which I l
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by tw1010 9y ago
The notation R^G comes from invariant theory[1]. I'm not aware if it has any connection with exponentiation or if that is just notation, but it wouldn't surprise me because notation in algebra seems to have a tendency to be really
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by tw1010 9y ago
The real niche that needs to be filled here is not more textbooks, it is a really really good description of how to actually teach yourself this stuff on your own. There are so many ways to get this wrong. It's insanely easy to trick y
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by tw1010 9y ago
I'm writing this off-the-cuff so don't read too much into it if you don't want to. I love this trend of using comics to describe technical ideas (which, as far as I can tell, started in earnest with Julia Evans). I think it&#
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by tw1010 9y ago
Not everyone in the olympics can get the gold.
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by tw1010 9y ago
The growth issue is only really a problem if assume you're picking your polynomials from R[x,y,...]. But there are other choices that would be more appropriate. Often you want the model to be invariant to rotation (e.g. if you're
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by tw1010 9y ago
Whenever I see stuff like this I think; why RNNs, why not just multivariate polynomials? Every property you want from an RNN you can get from polynomials, except polynomials are significantly more exhaustively studied. Want certain invarian
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by tw1010 9y ago
The cycle continues. The sun goes up. The birds migrate. And the engineers continue depth-first optimizing arbitrary low-hanging fruit instead of the real performance bottlenecks.
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by tw1010 9y ago
I'm kind of of the philosophy that you aught to train yourself to extract the facts on your own. You're unlikely to change the trend and it's a good ability to have in situations other than reading the news, like in conversat
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by tw1010 9y ago
Statistics and probability are different things. I'm fine with the foundations of probability.
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by tw1010 9y ago
What do you mean by that?
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by tw1010 9y ago
This still doesn't feel satisfying. Part of me is still not really happy with the philosophical foundations of statistics. Does anyone know of any legitimately competing theory to statistics? Maybe something that doesn't rest on t
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by tw1010 9y ago
I love living in 2017 when stuff like this is just created out of the blue making my life just a little bit easier, and at almost no cost.
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by tw1010 9y ago
In situations like these you really aught to ask yourself what your end-goal with being elitist like that is really trying to serve. In engineering situations usually the purpose is some form of disguised signaling. This is the purpose of m
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by tw1010 9y ago
Yeah, I kind of think it should be turned on by default.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Geometric algebra seems to be a trendy subject on HN right now. Just so you guys know, this is only the top of the iceberg. If you feel like there are aspects to this theory that are arbitrary (e.g. things to do with determinants) or if you
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by tw1010 9y ago
Looking at this from a totally different angle, I find the fact that we collectively have such a high standard for games to be such a positive signal that life today is moving along swimmingly. The fact that this is what bothers us (rather
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by tw1010 9y ago
I bet the US will end up fine in the end though due to draining the brains of other countries.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Funny that learning actual mathematics isn't mentioned.
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by tw1010 9y ago
Really wish it would link back to the original comments so you could see them in context.
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by tw1010 9y ago
"I think if world events had been different, the timing would have worked out well for a resurgence of this kind of research." But surely you knew that before you started the venture? Wouldn't it have been better then to prod
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by tw1010 9y ago
So what can we learn from this? Did they tackle more things than their time-constraints allowed? Or was the issue that they thought they had more time than they did and they weren't in clear enough communication with the investors? Wou
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by tw1010 9y ago
Tangentially, I've had a similar experience when teaching myself some areas of pure mathematics via books. The first time around I had a hard time figuring out which theorems were significant and worth more attention than others. The s

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