yomritoyj

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by yomritoyj 2y ago
ML practice has for the moment far outstripped ML theory. But even if ML theory catches up, the answers to your question will get likely be still dependent on the nature of the process generating the data and hence they would still have to
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by yomritoyj 2y ago
You may want to look at this. Neural network models with enough capacity to memorize random labels are still capable of generalizing well when fed actual data Zhang et al (2021) 'Understanding deep learning (still) requires rethinking
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by yomritoyj 3y ago
They are great books about some combinatorial mathematics inspired by programming problems. Not the best investment of time if you want to learn programming itself, because: 1. Most of the time you are not implementing foundational algorith
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by yomritoyj 3y ago
If you are going to do it at this level, it already exists as an example (section 8.7) in K & R.
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Claudia Goldin (Nobel '23) on 'Career and Family'(jyotirmoy.net)
1 points by yomritoyj 3y ago|0 comments
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by yomritoyj 3y ago
awk, sed etc. belong to the museum, now that we have so many tools and libraries that can handle structured data. The whole early Unix obsession with plain text files was a step in the wrong direction. One grating holdover of that is the &#
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by yomritoyj 4y ago
I procrastinated on my thesis. I got the usual advice: 'perfect is the enemy of the good', 'just get it written' etc. but it made no difference. With hindsight I now realize that I was working on an unfeasible project wi
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by yomritoyj 4y ago
Shameful conduct. And as a counterpoint to "nobody cares about your blog", a few days back I got a referee report asking me to cite a Twitter thread. This one: https://twitter.com/NilsEnevoldsen/status/15
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by yomritoyj 4y ago
I think this is an increasing problem as 'liberalism' becomes the official ideology of the elite, so that everyone pays lip-service to 'non-hierarchical' values and overt displays of power are looked down on. Power strug
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by yomritoyj 4y ago
For me Twitter is mainly a substitute to RSS: a central location to consume interesting content from diverse sources. In that role having an algorithmically curated as opposed to a strictly chronological feed is essential. For most people&#
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Greedy work is chewing us up – Claudia Goldin on ‘Career and Family’(jyotirmoy.net)
1 points by yomritoyj 4y ago|0 comments
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by yomritoyj 4y ago
We live in extraordinary times, standing on the shoulders of the scientific revolution, with gigahertz-gigabyte machines as commonplace and hundreds of years of mathematics ready to be built upon. It is criminal not to be busy. I agree that
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by yomritoyj 5y ago
This what is so great and yet limiting about SQL. Carefully optimized implementations, but only for a fixed set of built-in functions. Are there any frameworks which allow user-defined functions to gain some of these optimization benefits w
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R, OpenMP, MKL, Disaster(jyotirmoy.net)
103 points by yomritoyj 5y ago|30 comments
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A Relativity 'Paradox'(jyotirmoy.net)
1 points by yomritoyj 5y ago|0 comments
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Resurrecting Fortran(ondrejcertik.com)
116 points by yomritoyj 6y ago|36 comments
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by yomritoyj 6y ago
I'm an Indian and I beg to disagree. I have made small contributions to open source projects, including fixing typos, and have never felt unwelcome. I'm a teacher of economics and open source software including Python, Julia, LaTe
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Vimeo Blocked by Indian ISP
4 points by yomritoyj 6y ago|2 comments
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Nonmeasurable sets of infinite independent fair coin tosses(jyotirmoy.net)
2 points by yomritoyj 6y ago|0 comments
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by yomritoyj 6y ago
I've been having fun playing with Soundtrap. It runs in the browser, allowing you to access your projects on any device. I'm not sure if it can meet the needs of professionals, but for someone just starting out with music it has b
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Springer: Free access to a range of essential textbooks from all disciplines(springernature.com)
3 points by yomritoyj 6y ago|0 comments
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An alias-based formulation of the borrow checker (2018)(smallcultfollowing.com)
3 points by yomritoyj 6y ago|0 comments
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by yomritoyj 7y ago
I really have always wished for reproducibility. Thanks for taking up this feature. How do you handle aliasing and references inside objects? Suppose I have #Cell 1 a = [1,2,3] b = (a,True) #Cell 2 b[0][0] = 5 #C
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by yomritoyj 7y ago
In my experiments with MIP there was a dramatic performance difference between free and non-free solvers. Did you also experience this?
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Breakthrough prize criticized for rewarding 'failed ideas'(physicsworld.com)
12 points by yomritoyj 7y ago|0 comments
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by yomritoyj 7y ago
Isn't this a bit ironical coming from the creator of Ubuntu that provided a foundation dueling Debian? As a user I see myself as a gainer from the Debian/Ubuntu or GCC/Clang duels.
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by yomritoyj 7y ago
This is not necessarily a wrong thing to teach. As one progresses from old things that are well-understood to new developments,students will have to deal with fuzziness and gaps. They must learn to make progress using a heuristic feel for t
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by yomritoyj 8y ago
When it comes to masturbation narrowly defined, most people now accept that it is not harmful or sinful. Nor is it a sign of a failed sex life. I believe that we should have the same attitude towards more general forms of self-gratification
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Are casual inference and prediction that different?(jyotirmoy.net)
2 points by yomritoyj 8y ago|0 comments
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by yomritoyj 8y ago
From the headline I imagined a curriculum that updates itself based on developments in the field.

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