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One of these "convolutions" is called center-embedding. It's discussed on Lex Fridman's podcast: https://lexfridman.com/edward-gibson-transcript#chapter9_cen... It's objectively less comprehensible,
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Something similar is happening in academic papers. With different dialects in different fields.
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Hypothetically, anything can happen. A "senior" cosplaying as junior can easily turn into conflict and deadlock when people feel their toes being stepped on by someone beneath them. A junior cosplaying as senior reflects a situati
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Since one person can never be held liable to agree with another's definition of "seniority", it is just a subjective term.
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But also, people are responsible for estimates from the first day of their career. It's the scope that changes.
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It seems based on questionnaires sent out about projects, and they've found some correlation between "uniqueness of a project" (unclearly defined) and cost overruns. Because "uniqueness" is unmeasurable, they can pr
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"Understanding the music" alone isn't helpful unless you know what features are relevant for recommendations, and these must be learned from meta- and usage-data. Genre, tempo, key, vocalist sound, instruments, and so on. The
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by yobbo 2y ago
Around 10 minutes in, they discuss why the price/unit of aircraft fell between "kitty hawk and WW2", whereas it has increased exponentially since then. The actual answer to this is "target" monetary inflation. That
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Software is as much a cultural product (like books, movies and pop music) as it is a technological product. All human interfaces exist in reference to expectations and assumptions based in culture and language. Japanese culture isn't c
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"That product doesn't fit this market" seems originally just a polite way of saying "we don't believe you will ever succeed" without explicitly criticising the product or the people. From an investor's per
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There's probably a way to engineer it such that the spin of the planet is 24h, the core is spun up. We'd also like ~365 day years.
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Let's do it. No one remembers a coward.
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Elite schools could just mean "otherwise wealthy enough to take risks".
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The problem is air escaping from the hot side through "cracks" or holes and causing condensation as it reaches the cold side. In nordic standards, there must be an air-column between the insulation and the outer "cold" l
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Some fibreglass boats are still filled with spray-foam, and it has the known effects of eventually causing rot to any wood that might be embedded in the fibreglass. Embedded plywood is much less common nowadays though. (The foam cores in mo
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Yes, but this article seems to be talking to a business that has no competence in "data" outside of a handful random engineers that have no stake in the business. The advice given amounts to "avoid bad things". Resume-dr
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The output of an MLP is a black-box function f(x, y). The output of a KAN is a nice formula like exp(0.3 sin(x) + 4 cos(y)). This is what is meant by interpretable.
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The decision makers are bureaucrats but "the people who pay" is the government, through grants and as underwriters of student loans, and parents through tuition. And then, the product "sold" in return to students/pa
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No, the potential for this is large. For, schools and universities just $10-$100 per student per semester is enough, and cheap in comparison to teachers when they can reduce teaching and lecturing hours. If it works. Nothing similar in &quo
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This is a very compressed work-through from perceptron to transformer. When he is working through the gradients of an LSTM, for example, it is to help understanding, not help you implement it in your favourite framework. When he is showing
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From a link in the article: > It felt like a family fridge decorated with printed stock art of children’s drawings. Yep. "Generative AI" is like an infinite clip-art gallery that can be searched with very specific queries. The
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> if coding AI gets good enough will it eventually be possible to pirate SaaS The secret to SaaS is knowing customers and having/getting buy-in. The code is mostly boilerplate.
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Slightly off-topic; but does anyone know legitimate reasons why Seiko spring-drive-like movements are either very expensive or don't exist? And any patents should have expired by now. A spring-drive movement works by electro-magnetical
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The reason behind value is similar to the value of a military/exclusive medal. It's a "legitimate" way for the owner to signal prestige.
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Rather, the goal was to lower ("subsidise") the purchase price (initial barrier) of the NES/SNES and then recoup it on licenses for cartridges. It makes each purchase of a console cheaper. It's the rational way to maximi
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Things were different in 1960s/1970s since at that time there weren't huge catalogues of works owned by a just few media companies, although there were far fewer channels (with less and more expensive bandwidth.) In our time, most
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The reason people sometimes need to be "unkind" is to prevent some cost from being incurred. (Another conceivable reason is personality disorders, but let's assume normal healthy people.) For normal healthy people, kindness i
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Stalingrad (now Volgograd) looks to be where Kursk is. Gulf of Finland is marked as "Gulf of Sweden". But Koskenkorva is actually a town. Carthago is Carthage in English, the state which existed in present day Tunisia from which H
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Paper pulp production leaves lignin as by-product, at least for some processes. Otherwise it is burned as fuel. Biodegradable plastic bags are made from this (I think) and they have been in stores for many years; for example in fruit/v
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The model code is comparatively tiny compared to pytorch or CUDA itself. Translating models from CUDA/C could be laborious but not a barrier. Making AMD work effortlessly with pytorch et al should make the switch transparent.

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