angry-tempest

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by angry-tempest 4y ago
Here is what ACT had on Neom: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/model-city-monday-8122
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by angry-tempest 4y ago
In medical images, you don't record first and then compress later. Instead, you make sparse measurements and then reconstruct. Why? Because people move, so getting more frames/sec is a thing; you don't want people to stay for
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by angry-tempest 4y ago
Probably not for a few years, you need a (maybe few) A100(s) to be able to backprop a model that big with float32.
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by angry-tempest 4y ago
Or $X.69! OP, do you even Matt bro?
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by angry-tempest 4y ago
I was about to recommend the same book. Also, recommend Klosterman's interview with Tyler Cowen [1] if you want to get a sense of what the book feels like. [1]: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/chuck-klo
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by angry-tempest 4y ago
It randomly deletes all of the comments in the file. I had this happen at least four times. Preview overwrote the file, deleted all of my comments, which were at least a couple of hours of work.
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by angry-tempest 5y ago
Great points but email is the easiest thing to A/B test in the world. If you were correct, somebody would have figured it out by now.
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by angry-tempest 5y ago
> In theory, they should have failed the class or been expelled, but the professor didn't want such a high rate of her class failing and just gave them a zero for the one assignment. It's likely that this decision was not up to
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by angry-tempest 6y ago
I'm down
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by angry-tempest 6y ago
Santosh Vempala is also considered to be a genius, at least in the statistical learning community. I don't know how he didn't get tenure from MIT though
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by angry-tempest 6y ago
1/3rd I can agree with, but 1/10th?? That has to be a senior L7/L8 salary
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by angry-tempest 6y ago
She interviewed just the right people too! She is like the equivalent of Ed Yong for math
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by angry-tempest 6y ago
Also the Simons Foundation, which funds the Simons Institute, which is just fantastic
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by angry-tempest 6y ago
This is one of those "I can't prove it but I know this to be true"s. I would bet on this with 1/50 odds.
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by angry-tempest 6y ago
I think that the proper hierarchy is as follows: new Magic card smell > new GPU smell >= new laptop smell > old book smell
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by angry-tempest 6y ago
Expanse but actually shot in space
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by angry-tempest 6y ago
> Expanse has a tendency to get preachy, like BSG did, about politics. I found B5 a lot purer and more universal, but maybe that's just my selective memory/recollection I agree but it's not fair to rate these series on tha
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by angry-tempest 6y ago
> All of the authors are respected academics in the field of medicine, health policy and epidemiology. That was true as of January 2020, it is no longer true now. I don't know about Gupta, but both Bhattacharya and Kulldorff (and Io
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by angry-tempest 6y ago
At that point, why not get an actor and use a ton of make up to cover the imperfections?
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by angry-tempest 6y ago
This is fucking genius. It's like coding in a comic book world.
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The Most Important Statistical Ideas of the Past 50 Years (Gelman&Vehtari, 2020) [pdf](stat.columbia.edu)
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by angry-tempest 6y ago
It's ridiculous people are buying this shit.