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by wwarner 3y ago
How you can use R without knowing calculus? Why would you even turn to R if you didn’t have a calculus problem to solve?
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by wwarner 3y ago
I like the idea, but I’m gonna say that (a) calculus is more than a good challenge and (b) math is actually easy. To understand how things actually work, you need math, especially calculus. Deep learning? Calculus. Statistics? Calculus. Fin
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by wwarner 3y ago
Fair point -- making a clothes dryer more energy efficient will only result in less energy consumption if the utilization of clothes dryers stays about the same, just as adding lanes to highways to reduce congestion reduces congestion brief
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by wwarner 3y ago
Tim Maudlin was recently on Mindscape [0] talking about renewed interest in pilot wave theory, updated to allow non-locality to account for entanglement. It’s a good interview. [0] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcas
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All of spacetime is rippling with gravitational waves(bigthink.com)
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by wwarner 3y ago
"The FreeBSD host can run any other FreeBSD as long as its not newer then the host system version." Docker does not have this limitation. You can run a container that is based on a newer version of Linux than the host.
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Density Uncertainty Layers for Reliable Uncertainty Estimation(arxiv.org)
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Did physicists get the idea of “fundamental” wrong?(bigthink.com)
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by wwarner 3y ago
I just joined you as a supporter, thanks for the nudge
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Arrival Time Distributions of Spin-1/2 Particles(nature.com)
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Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations(preposterousuniverse.com)
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by wwarner 3y ago
"Nothing can satisfy, but what confounds; Nothing, but what astonishes, is true." Edward Young, Night Thoughts
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Isolated Notes as Pre-Training Data for Predominant Instrument Recognition(arxiv.org)
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by wwarner 3y ago
I totally agree, but I don't think the reason has anything to do with what god would think, actually. It's about trying to put yourself in the mindset of christians throughout history. That something of the original last supper is
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by wwarner 3y ago
Loving introspective methods such as this. It’ll be cool when to answer a question, a model will provide an answer, and because it knows a lot about itself, also provides annotated references.
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by wwarner 3y ago
Really enjoyed reading this
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Grokking of Hierarchical Structure in Vanilla Transformers(arxiv.org)
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by wwarner 3y ago
It’s not impossible if you have the weights [0]. So the company itself can provide the service. [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11305
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by wwarner 3y ago
I like this title. Mathematicians can already explore an idea with computer programs, and it seems like ML (tho maybe not gpt) could be used in this capacity. Sort of like fuzz testing in software development. Theorem proving might or might
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by wwarner 3y ago
I really believe phase changes in models are going to tell us a lot about what they’ve learned. Though it has to be said that seeing that sharp improvement in a model during training is the exception rather than the rule — normally you just
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by wwarner 3y ago
I would agree with most of this, but would point out that science does advance, hilariously and almost accidentally, and that gives me hope. I guess Camus would classify me as foolishly optimistic, but to me the possibility that the unive
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by wwarner 3y ago
this isn’t nearly as comprehensive, but Michael Collins’ notes on machine learning for NLP are really succinct and IMO intuitive http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~mcollins/ (search for notes, where he’s listed links to pdfs
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by wwarner 3y ago
Kip Thorne explains it pretty clearly in this 2002 lecture https://youtu.be/mGdbI24FvXQ
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by wwarner 3y ago
haha catchy love it
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by wwarner 3y ago
Would be nice to see throughput tested at this level. There is may be a good reason for Go to allocate more per thread if each thread is really doing something. Hat tip to Rust and C# tho!
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by wwarner 3y ago
Co-working could be a great place for people to meet people working on interesting ideas. If WeWork had focused on producing great collaborations, it really would have been a game changer.
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by wwarner 3y ago
I had exactly the opposite reaction, though I came in thinking it all be fire and brimstone. Genesis is a wonderful take on the attitude one should adopt toward the natural world. Regardless of what our scientific understanding of nature is
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by wwarner 3y ago
Calculus I, Tom Apostol Introduces calculus using vectors from the second chapter. For me, it was a very natural and intuitive introduction to the topic.
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by wwarner 3y ago
Isn't that the idea? The ride-share co distinguishes itself by offering (some) driverless rides, and the self-driving company can say it has real passengers. Synergy!
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by wwarner 3y ago
A devastating conclusion in the last sentence: > I feel that the crap store lockdown and race to the bottom have drained much of the enthusiasm out of our industry, and left us in a state where we think the programming language is the m

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