cgs1019

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by cgs1019 3y ago
`cat -n` prints with line numbers, which is occasionally handy.
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by cgs1019 3y ago
Oh yeah that's gonna be a dense read then :) I really like Kevin Murphy's books. I learned a lot from them when I was getting started on this stuff. He's just released a two part follow up to his 2012 book. Both parts are ava
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by cgs1019 3y ago
To grok the ELBO, don't start with VAEs; start with basic variational inference. https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00670 is good, though maybe increasingly dated...Once you're happy with VI in general, https:/
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by cgs1019 6y ago
Hi, tech lead for TFP here. The wording here was unclear -- sorry! We're fixing it presently. We are not migrating away from TF; far from it! The change here was to interoperate with TF and JAX (and numpy!), by way of some rewrite tr
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by cgs1019 10y ago
The link cites a vice article that cites a guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/01/philippines-pr...
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A16z Podcast: Beyond One Size Fits All for Startup Employee Options(a16z.com)
1 points by cgs1019 10y ago|0 comments
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by cgs1019 10y ago
Plain pdf: http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0312087.pdf
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by cgs1019 11y ago
Neutrons are electrically neutral but they still interact electromagnetically (they're composed of charged quarks). They have a magnetic moment, for instance [1]. So they wouldn't be dark the way "dark matter" appears (h
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by cgs1019 11y ago
Google's auto library, auto/value in particular, is worth a look: https://github.com/google/auto/tree/master/value
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by cgs1019 11y ago
I've always thought it would be fun to somehow incorporate technology into climbing for tracking or otherwise augmenting the experience. Time trials sound like a quick avenue to painful injury, though. If I were a gym, I'd be caut
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by cgs1019 11y ago
Oops, maybe I unwittingly had access by being on work VPN. Sorry bout that! Thanks for the open link, jacquesm.
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by cgs1019 11y ago
Looks like Nature makes the whole paper readable online: http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys...
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by cgs1019 11y ago
It's not as snazzy as in the article but this alias in my .gitconfig is an integral part of my git workflow: gr = !git \ --no-pager \ log -n 16 --graph --date-order --date=short --branches \ --pretty=\ '%C(yellow
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by cgs1019 11y ago
They make slightly less than the median tax filer. The difference is potentially significant (I have no idea what the statistics are)
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Google Ventures leads $60m funding round for music firm Kobalt(theguardian.com)
1 points by cgs1019 12y ago|0 comments
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by cgs1019 12y ago
paper on arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1521
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by cgs1019 12y ago
http://www.flickfilosopher.com/wptest/wp-content/uploads/201...
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by cgs1019 12y ago
So now at traffic stops, "license and registration" can become "unlocked cellphone and registration"? No thanks!
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“Smart propane meter” kickstarter(kickstarter.com)
2 points by cgs1019 12y ago|0 comments
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Magic SysRq key(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by cgs1019 12y ago|0 comments
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by cgs1019 12y ago
I'm guessing they have established relationships with the card issuer and will use your card number only once to establish the link, after which the card info isn't needed.
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by cgs1019 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law
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Uber sponsoring San Francisco police militarization conference(pando.com)
2 points by cgs1019 12y ago|0 comments
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by cgs1019 12y ago
Baez's google+ posts are always super interesting, informative and full of references for further reading. The comment threads are generally also very interesting and active. Highly recommend following him.
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by cgs1019 12y ago
I may be off base here, but I think the distinction is between number of degrees of freedom (what you describe) and density of bits of information. Bekenstein's result showed that the information in a black hole is proportional to its
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by cgs1019 12y ago
Buried deep inside the article is a link to this preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.4226
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by cgs1019 12y ago
downvoter(s) -- this is a subtle, poignant, and (IMHO) poetically written joke about the prevalence of non-convexity in real-world optimization problems.
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by cgs1019 12y ago
I always wanted to try this! I imagined having two antennae, though, positioned orthogonally to give a 2-d signal.
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Fractal free energy landscapes in structural glasses(nature.com)
2 points by cgs1019 12y ago|0 comments
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by cgs1019 12y ago
"A deep truth is one whose opposite is also a deep truth" -Niels Bohr

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