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by bfrankline 4mo ago
Are you in the United States? Many libraries loan digital goods, e.g., books, music, movies, and even software.
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by bfrankline 5mo ago
In numerical analysis, elementary function membership, like special function membership, is ambiguous. In many circumstances, it’s entirely reasonable to describe the natural logarithm as a special function.
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by bfrankline 1y ago
> Remember the whole point of fair use is to benefit society by allowing reuse of material in ways that don't directly copy large portions of the material verbatim. How do you think masked language models work?
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by bfrankline 2y ago
Yet people love Medicare and Medicaid.
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by bfrankline 2y ago
My wife is writing a novel.
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Exact analytical algorithm for solvent accessible surface area(arxiv.org)
1 points by bfrankline 2y ago|0 comments
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by bfrankline 3y ago
Sure, but I think, for example, representation learning, doesn’t involve manipulating an array of strings.
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by bfrankline 3y ago
I’d bet this was funded by the Fifth Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) initiative.
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Yet Another ICML Award Fiasco(parameterfree.com)
1 points by bfrankline 3y ago|0 comments
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by bfrankline 4y ago
If you care exclusively about numerical stability and performance, why _this_ set of operators (e.g., there’re plenty of good reasons to include expm1 or log1p and certainly trigonometric functions)? It’d be an interesting research problem
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by bfrankline 4y ago
It was very primitive. It was essentially a mechanism for composing operations on vectors. I don’t know for certain but I would guess that it was inspired by IBM and their work on APL.
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by bfrankline 4y ago
The most popular today outside of the shell environment is the statistical environment “S.” John Chambers would recreate it as “R” and I understand that it’s very popular and does a nice job of performing statistics and graphics together.
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by bfrankline 4y ago
The other environment that is still popular today is the “statistical environment” that Rick Becker, Allan Wilks, and John Chambers created. It eventually became “S” and John would essentially recreate it as “R.” It’s a very nice environmen
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by bfrankline 4y ago
I was at Bell during the options “debate.” I think something that this otherwise wonderful article misses is that some believed that commands were never intended to be the only way to use the system as the shell was intended to be just one