chewbaxxa

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by chewbaxxa 2mo ago
ChatGPT and family has been effective for me, even to connect equations I’m familiar with to areas I hadn’t encountered before.
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by chewbaxxa 4mo ago
You are not storing these things in your head at the expense of anything else. You’re “training” the existing underutilized capacity in your brain for something useful.
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by chewbaxxa 1y ago
wow, this whole blog is a treasure!
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by chewbaxxa 1y ago
not sure if it's just bait but their is_prime function does not actually do what its name suggests.
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by chewbaxxa 2y ago
Pidgin (and its OTR plugin) used to be the most popular client for OTR (Off-The-Record, an encryption protocol) messaging. That was my experience about 10 years ago and back then I think the plugins were known to be a weak point in its secu
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by chewbaxxa 2y ago
If it was desirable you would still want to isolate it
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by chewbaxxa 3y ago
They are just paying their respects.
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by chewbaxxa 4y ago
by measuring the Deuterium content
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by chewbaxxa 4y ago
See also (M^T M)^-1 M^T
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by chewbaxxa 4y ago
Problem is that most of the time the signs are wrong.
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by chewbaxxa 4y ago
I spoke to a few Alameda/FTX people over drinks before summer. They were delighted to brag about the lack of separation between the two entities. Really there wasn’t any.
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by chewbaxxa 4y ago
The comment section is full of people complaining in general. Nice job OP, I think it looks great.
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by chewbaxxa 4y ago
The pressure is high at the intake
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by chewbaxxa 5y ago
Sure we add up the numbers, but there are thresholds for everything anyway. We might not be concerned about something within a 1MM range let alone a floating point inaccuracy. The uncertainty is accounted for already.
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by chewbaxxa 5y ago
I got this too. Even with a strong interest in the business area and multiple hours of interviews going well: “You’d be a great fit here”, “You were technically strong”, … , “We don’t think you really want this job”. I really wanted that jo
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by chewbaxxa 6y ago
Not sure why you couldn’t just resize the window here?
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by chewbaxxa 6y ago
That’s an autobiography. You read it to hear the author talk about themselves.
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by chewbaxxa 6y ago
This is exactly statistics. This is an expectation of a utility function with respect to some distribution.
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by chewbaxxa 6y ago
What do you mean by hide the uncertainty? To me Bayesian modelling is about making explicit the uncertainty.
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by chewbaxxa 6y ago
I guess they should go ahead and indict Musk and the rest of crypto Twitter too then.
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by chewbaxxa 6y ago
I don’t really agree that Apple is similar. I am no Apple fanboy, but if you want hardware will all the same features, complexity and polish; in particular a phone, there is no competitor that can make an identical clone. Printing vinyl on
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by chewbaxxa 6y ago
My impression is that most of this stuff is bought by shallow people to show off their wealth to other people. Meanwhile, many others waste a significant portion of their income on them. These gullible people buy overpriced clothes simply t
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by chewbaxxa 6y ago
They’re completely different tools. Tensorflow is a specialised matrix math library. Pandas is just for sql-like data handling.
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by chewbaxxa 6y ago
One example: > Two decades ago, neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland and physicist Max Tegmark were among those who launched outright broadsides. Hameroff and Penrose responded, and Hameroff published a list of 20 testable predictions yi
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by chewbaxxa 6y ago
Your comment is grey, but I think you’re right.
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by chewbaxxa 6y ago
Warwick is particularly well regarded for its mathematics department.
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by chewbaxxa 6y ago
That would result in what was described above. You are taking unnecessary risk by committing to place an order at some point in the future. You might not be so sure a second from now.
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by chewbaxxa 6y ago
Math.min(a, x) == at_most_a(x) Math.max(b, x) == at_least_b(x) at_most_b(at_least_a(x)) A similar kind of thing is really common in measure theory (limsup, liminf) and option payoffs.
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by chewbaxxa 6y ago
You could study computer science and then go to a large corporation to help them maximise their ad revenue, or you could study and do something like this instead. Depends what motivates you.
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by chewbaxxa 6y ago
So was the person who dubbed statistics ML

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