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by wenc 2y ago
9 months ago (things may have changed) someone showed simple time series models outperforming Chronos. https://github.com/Nixtla/nixtla/tree/main/experiments/amazo... In domains where there is inher
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Peng is onomatoeia for “bang” yes. But usually a gunshot or explosive bang which could be either positive or negative (could be a huge technological “bang”). “Rapid unscheduled disassembly” might be your personal reading of it, but that is
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Parser generators handle a lot of edge cases for you and are battle tested. Unless I had a relatively simple grammar or had very strict performance requirements (like in the case of Ruby), I would not trust a hand rolled parser on a CFG by
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I used to code in pure vim, so no autocomplete and syntax checking. It is definitely possible. Is it a better way to work though? Well, in some ways, it forces you to use more cycles in your head, so you do gain proficiency, and you can spo
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This is mostly just for fun and will be mostly wrong because none of the people who are making predictions take it seriously. And none of the upvoters take it seriously either. There is a discipline to making predictions (Phil Tetlock has o
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Sounds like a great project for learning. However, just FYI, this $25 2K cam (PCMag recommended) can do that sorta (it has motion/pet detection) and more. It also has excellent night vision. https://www.amazon.com/dp&#x
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Yes, it can be helpful in subtle ways. I hang out with NPR/NYTimes types every so often, and knowing their discourse helps me avoid certain faux pas in social situations and helps me to engage better (I start with a good baseline of th
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I used to work in Houston. In Houston, almost everything (maybe not pharmacies, but the average destination) is at least 10-12 miles away and people are used to it. And Houston is highly populated. Kernville (pop. 1549, just outside Bakersf
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News articles like these often cherry-pick their anecdotes to maximize outrage (therefore increase engagement). The NY Times is not above this -- they are losing eyeballs in an era where people are getting news from social media, so it&#x27
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A German auto reviewer Autogefühl did a review of an XPeng (a car made by the Chinese company VW is investing in) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niKz4XePRfQ It was a fair review and the product looks very compelling. We de
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Except for city centers, there's nowhere cheap to park (especially overnight parking). I used to live in upstate NY, and driving was definitely more convenient and fun (I would learn so much listening to long podcasts), but I would nev
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I find Anki is useful for boosting the frequency of important but medium-frequency words/phrases. This is where language learning usually plateaus. Assuming one is being constantly exposed to comprehensible input, the first 80% (by Par
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I'm including security and waiting at the gate. It's the same in the US. I have TSA Precheck but always arrive 1 hr early, even though getting through security only takes 7-10 mins.
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Interesting. It sounds like your analytical skills are really amazing which lets you get away with "solving for x". But sounds like your retention and generative capabilities are underdeveloped because you're able to get
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8 hours is long, but if you factor in ground transportation and station-locations it makes sense. Flying: Berlin to Brandenburg (34 mins) + security (1 hr) + flight (2 hrs) + Orly/CDG to Paris (46 mins) = 4.33 hrs (and that's the
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My personal hack is that before jumping into papers in unfamiliar areas like these, I go on YouTube and search for “<topic> explained”. The power of YouTube is that for any hot area, there are a bunch of people incentivized to make
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Can I ask where BERT models are used in production these days? I was given to understand that they are a better alternative to LLM type models for specific tasks like topic classification because they are trained to discriminate rather than
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Thanks for the pointer to PacMap. I just tried it. My verdict? PacMap >= UMAP >> t-SNE. UMAP captures the basic pattern but PacMap makes it crisper.
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That is indeed an excellent tool. Allows one to dynamically adjust and recompute umap and t-sne.
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This is good, but could also be good to mention that you're using umap for dimensionality reduction with cosine metric. https://github.com/Z-Gort/Reservoirs-Lab/blob/main/src/elect... Dimension
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Yes. Most northern US cities are snowy and cold in the winter and hot and humid in the summer. Even NYC, the largest city in the US has real winters (though moderated by being on the coast, it can dip down to 14F easily). And humid summers
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> Even here in Seoul, one of the more populous cities, so many people would move in a heartbeat if they could keep the same job and e.g. education for their children. They certainly don't love it. That's interesting -- because
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Eh. Sapporo goes down to -10C (14F). That’s nothing for anyone who’s ever lived in Canada or the northern US (apart from Seattle). Source: personal experience. Taiwanese people will move to where the opportunities are. You’ll find many of t
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Aomori pop 270k is different — it is somewhat less desirable to someone like me than somewhere close to Sapporo. I don’t think it’s the weather. It’s the isolation. Most Asian people love living around others. We crave the human energy, the
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Chitose (pop. 98k), though remote, is about 45 minutes by train -- with frequent service -- from Sapporo (pop. 2 mil), which is a fairly big city. This is similar to the commute from Chicago (pop. 2.7 mil) to Downers Grove (pop. 49k), which
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh595PzMDPM
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This is why travel is so important -- it gets us out of our bubbles. Once I was brainstorming with a German colleague about a new business chat feature, and he said we should target WhatsApp as a channel. My American colleagues were like, &
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Yes, they exist elsewhere. Check out Grab (southeast Asia), Line (Japan, Taiwan), Kakao (Korea), Gojek (Indonesia), PayTm (India) or any number of everything-apps.
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I’m certainly a big fan of the European lifestyle (which was in some sense foretold by Bertrand Russell’s In Praise of Idleness, where he argued that raw labor will become less necessary in the future and people should spend more time indul
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How do you prevent wetness on the bottom side if you don’t flip? Also how do you get a thin crust?

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