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by cbgb 9y ago
To add a different but orthogonal perspective to this: My higher-level math courses were pure mathematics courses, and we pretty much always used Springer textbooks, which were only a few hundred pages long and the size of a normal paperbac
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by cbgb 10y ago
While that may be true, I think what this boils down to is a form of prosecutorial discretion, where the discretion is in the hands of the ruling party.
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by cbgb 10y ago
For the record, I just read about the use of eagles (not falcons, though they are kept at falconries in France) in combating drones in a daily newsletter I highly respect. Here is the article they cite: http://en.rfi.fr/wire
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by cbgb 10y ago
From the abstract [0]: "Conclusions: Endogenous IAP’s protective effects in regard to the metabolic syndrome may be inhibited by PHE, a metabolite of aspartame, perhaps explaining the lack of expected weight loss and metabolic improvem
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by cbgb 10y ago
There's a lot of prep/clean-up I just don't want to deal with. I've tried this method before, and it just didn't work out. All the washing of things you have to use in intermediate steps really adds up. And unless
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by cbgb 10y ago
Most people I know get grossed out when I mention this, but one way I saved a bunch of time re: all the chicken I had to eat for my bulking diet was to just buy canned chicken breast in bulk [0]. It's not nearly as gross as you think,
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by cbgb 10y ago
This is just a nit, but Andrej Karpathy was never a professor at Stanford; he received his PhD from Stanford and now works at OpenAI.
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by cbgb 10y ago
See, e.g., Quine's "Translation and Meaning,"[0] as well as the blog post I linked to further down the page. Not every philosophy program consists solely of analytic philosophy; continental philosophy writing is rife with pas
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by cbgb 10y ago
The idea that passive voice is used in philosophy doesn't seem to be a novel idea [0]. For what it's worth, I don't think undergraduate CS degrees develop students' writing abilities at all. There are only a few proof-ba
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by cbgb 10y ago
Philosophy/(Pure) Math double major here. I would argue that my Math degree made me a "better" writer than my Philosophy degree did. Writing quality in philosophy is generally much poorer than other disciplines; you pretty mu
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by cbgb 10y ago
Coincidentally enough, this was a submitted puzzler to the NPR syndicated show "Car Talk," except there were 10 men in a line wearing black or white hats. The goal was to determine the optimal strategy for guessing hat colors.
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by cbgb 10y ago
In fact, that's what NVIDIA did at my alma mater, Grinnell College. I believe the intent was for courses like the OS course to be taught using CUDA (at least to some degree). I don't think that has panned out, but now a tiny liber
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by cbgb 10y ago
I can't remember where I heard this, but I think the whole listicle thing generating a profit so that they could produce actually good journalism was always the plan. I mean, I sometimes hear from their foreign correspondents on NPR or
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by cbgb 11y ago
This argument, to me, seems like a lot of inside baseball. I think people attuned to the political conversation vastly overestimate how much political coverage the average voter consumes. Occam's Razor might suggest people are voting f
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by cbgb 11y ago
That's smart money. It turns out he's already suspended his campaign [1]. [1] http://live.mprnews.org/Event/2016_election_breaking_news (just search for the word "suspend")
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by cbgb 11y ago
To be clear, the posted course is not a survey course in machine learning. It is instead a more practical course on using TensorFlow to build deep neural network architectures useful for certain tasks. The link the OP posted is a (great) su
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by cbgb 11y ago
I only doubt this theory because we civilians are not privy to strategic bombing locations. It is entirely possible that the US air campaign (or the Russians', for that matter) recently took out targets key to the financial strength of
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by cbgb 11y ago
Ha, I haven't had the time to listen to it yet, but I was hoping my opinion would change as well. Glad to hear it's changed at least one person's opinion.
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by cbgb 11y ago
I don't really see how much good can come from this season of the podcast if they've chosen such a politically polarized subject. Surely they know there's very little chance the program will be judged on its merits; instead,
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by cbgb 11y ago
FYI: The second imgur link doesn't actually show any pictures. The first one looks great, though.
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by cbgb 11y ago
One technical reason may be that C++ (I only looked at LightLDA) has a higher learning curve than Python, which the Tensorflow docs stress. Though Tensorflow stayed at #1 for a while, it only garnered around 200 comments, which is very high
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by cbgb 11y ago
I would hardly categorize Daniel Craig's refresh of Pierce Brosnan's Bond interpretation as "simple replacement." I think each new Bond actor has great potential to bring their own unique artistic interpretation to the r
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by cbgb 11y ago
I think that what you may be experiencing is a heightened sense of concentration toward a passion of yours that you were passionate about before you smoked pot. However, think about children who smoke pot from an early age and don't de
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by cbgb 11y ago
This is pretty much exactly the message of a talk I attended at CU Boulder. The Microsoft researcher spoke of how linear regression for the classification of whether a given medical patient will be re-admitted to the hospital offered much m
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by cbgb 11y ago
Just for the record, from the first page: "Background material needed for an undergraduate course has been put in the appendix. For this reason, the appendix has homework problems." The appendix covers Probability and Linear Algeb
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by cbgb 11y ago
When I was in college, I was once not allowed to join a Complex Analysis course because there were 15 students in the class. College guidelines advise against more than 12 students in a writing-intensive course, and because this was an uppe
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by cbgb 11y ago
Ah, OK, thanks. I do get a kick out of reading various Google white papers (GFS, Spanner, and the Multi-Paxos implementation for Chubby come to mind), so I'd definitely be interested in the prospect of a future white paper :).
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by cbgb 11y ago
Do you have a link to that white paper? A quick search on their research site doesn't really yield any results.
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If Economists Were Right, You Would Have a Raise by Now(bloomberg.com)
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by cbgb 12y ago
This may be true for mathematics in the analytical tradition (things like Topology, Measure Theory, Real/Complex Analysis), but Linear Algebra is far more important in, unsurprisingly, algebraic disciplines. These include Number Theory

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