birdsbolt

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by birdsbolt 11y ago
Allocations don't have to be expensive if your GC is smart. Smart as C++ destructors positioning :D
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
Yep, as you acknowledge, your reasoning is irrational. Replacing regular milk with coconut milk is more environmentally friendly, medium-chain fatty acids are better for the liver and heart. Still, veganism is much more than just a diet and
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
The author could change the generation of piece by generating a short theme, then fixing that theme at particular points in the note sequence and then generate the gaps, and then repeat the thing as recursively as he wants. This would provi
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
Why do they need a deep learning model for this? They are obviously targeting signs, product names, menus and similar. Model will obviously fail in translating large texts. Was there any advantage of using a deep learning model instead of s
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
http://musicbrainz.org/ already has this data available.
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW39Mt5kscQ Another interesting alternative. Prettier than QR and IMO meshtag.
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
There's also a compiler for Haskell to JavaScript called GHCJS[0]. Many of Haskell libraries can be compiled easily. I think someone compiled Pandoc directly to JS and made a web interface and bundled the app[2]. One interesting things
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
This doesn't seem to solve the puzzle. As much as DSL processing part is done, the whole point of the puzzle was to make the operations sublinear in time complexity.
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
Any generative model can be used to generate a follow up chord. Of course, you need to learn it on a significant amount of data. There has been some generative modelling of CNNs but I'm not sure if there's generative ability in an
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
I'm really interested to see how the author will turn Cover Trees into a generic inference algorithm for bunch of models in HLearn library.
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
Why are archaeologists concluding that this was used for religious purposes? Why is religion always the central theme in those old findings?
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
The Age of Decadence.
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
I did chuckle as it reminded me of the "curing cancer" talk Gavin Belson gives in the Silicon Valley series :D
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
Fundamentally, I guess the difference is that one is type-safe, and the other isn't. You can get compile time errors instead of runtime for bunch of things.
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
Sampling should at most take linear time in the number of pixels (ignoring the edge detection). Even less if edge detection result is represented as a sparse array.
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Algorithm zeroes in on origins of disease outbreaks(newscientist.com)
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
Microsoft case has nothing to do with this - even the market share numbers (that are obviously way smaller in case of Apple) do not influence the absence of lawsuits. Apple produces the hardware and the software. Microsoft imposed software
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
I think I saw a talk, or a statement somewhere, made by Rich Hickey - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8342718 . I believe it was in this talk. Not that I was being negative about it.
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
It improves the performance by fusing some of the operations doing them in one pass instead of multiple passes, and it does so generically - operations are composed regardless of the source, and the implementation isn't looking at the
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
This is only slightly complicated if you're writing your own transducer operation. What is interesting is that these transducing operations can be written quite generically - code reuse is huge. But, usage of transducers is similar to
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
Large dictionaries (set of words) can compactly be represented with tries. For words with similar prefixes and suffixes directed acyclic word graph is a much better option (reuses prefixes and suffixes, not just the prefix as in trie), it&#
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
Interesting, so much corn being used to feed animals, so little for humans. A gigantic energy loss trying to raise an animal first, then meat. It's good to see that efficiency of producing corn has increased enormously. Author - at the
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
There's a lovely book called The Limits to Growth published in 1972, through the years authors have updated their book and their models (there's more than 20). It turned out that business-as-usual model extrapolated very well from
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
There's no general algorithm, but you could probably prove it, if you tried really hard for your given example. :D
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
Not really, models in NLP go beyond human performance in some tasks (not tasks as trivial as part-of-speech tagging). I have a ten year formal training in music - piano (never went to college), I assumed we aren't really talking about
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
Of course one needs the knowledge of the first chorus, and that is possible to do with a sufficiently large degree of Markov chain, or you could add all of the notes before the chorus as features during the transitions. If you use CRFs you
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
Temple of Atal'Hakkar was one of my favorite places (7-8 years ago - vanilla) in WoW. I went there a lot of times, tanking was extremely fun. Silithus, Un'Goro Crater and Swamp of Sorrows were my favorite places for levelling. Oh,
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by birdsbolt 11y ago
It depends on how exactly global they are, a Markov chain with a large enough degree could be good enough. There's nothing stopping anyone in using additional global features when they're conditioning in the chain. But, that would