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by clickok 4y ago
Damn. I bought rl.ai when I was a grad student but it's been laying fallow since I can't really blog about the stuff I'm working on right now. How does one go about selling their domain for millions of dollars?
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by clickok 4y ago
According to others, that story is severely embellished: https://savingjournalism.substack.com/p/i-talked-to-elon-mus...
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by clickok 5y ago
I see a lot of really divergent results with these time series database benchmarking posts. Timescale's open source benchmark suite[0] is a great contribution towards making different software comparable, but it seems like the tasks&#
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by clickok 5y ago
A good idea and very cleanly implemented. I imagine that there's a ton of other possible applications that don't require much modification to the code. Thanks for sharing!
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IFSTile – Iterated function systems in the browser via WASM(ifstile.com)
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Mathematical Methods for Economic Theory(mjo.osborne.economics.utoronto.ca)
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by clickok 5y ago
None of these solutions are ideal, although Zenodo's better than most. As far as I can tell, they're all targeted more towards the final, authoritative release, so it seems you're still out of luck during the paper writing
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by clickok 6y ago
Who, whom? Less tersely: this article is one in a long procession of journalists trying to exert control over tech. The opening example (Speech2Face, which they aver is transphobic) is inflammatory and utterly unrepresentative of the usual
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by clickok 6y ago
This was great, actually. I don't program in Scala, but it was very interesting to hear about the difference between types as abstractions vs types as they are used. For unfamiliar topics or when presented with uncommon insight, I bel
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by clickok 6y ago
Depends what you mean by "practical". Assuming you've done CV/ML stuff before, you could probably get something working pretty well over a weekend, and I think I could solve it completely with a bit more effort via 3D sc
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by clickok 6y ago
In the words of John von Neumann, there's a lot more that's known than is proved. It's often frustratingly difficult to go from the known to the proven; still, just because something's not proved doesn't mean that s
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by clickok 6y ago
It would be nice if citing repositories were easier-- either for generating a reference for my own code or acknowledging when I've used someone else's code in my research. There's tons of math and physics blogs that contain u
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by clickok 6y ago
> A theory is nothing but a way to turn (a finite number of) measurements into predictions. That's a very nice way of putting it. Is there a particular book, lecture, or other resource you could recommend for this interpretation of
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by clickok 6y ago
Furthermore, over the long term it can change the texture of the Reddit community. What sort of person quits using Reddit after becoming frustrated with yet another imposed hassle? What sort of person stays, or is retained by pop-up notific
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by clickok 6y ago
It's consistent with it. Rich used to be very bullish on neural nets, then somewhat dismissive of them (due to the fragility/inadequacy of FCNs), and then increasingly enthusiastic as the renewed interest demonstrated that those p
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by clickok 6y ago
You have misunderstood Sutton's argument. Quoting Rich: One thing that should be learned from the bitter lesson is the great power of general purpose methods, of methods that continue to scale with increased computation even
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by clickok 6y ago
It's a loathsome book for some people, even angsty teenagers, because not all of them are angsty for the same reasons. I didn't enjoy it either when I was reading it, but later appreciated that it depicted a certain kind of angst—
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by clickok 7y ago
I believe "crank" suffices, or possibly "poseur".
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by clickok 7y ago
It depends– if you're trying to run a specific algorithm on your new supercomputer, then you'd almost certainly be better off paying for researchers to optimize or improve on that algorithm. If that's the situation (which it
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by clickok 7y ago
Hey Will-- congratulations on the publication. It's very cool to see an algorithm reflected in the brain, and the turnaround (from idea to implementation to experiment) in... what, three years? is astonishingly fast. On a more technica
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by clickok 7y ago
Slow compared to what? You could write equivalent verbiage for the slow progress of mathematics, chip design, or cinematography-- the only difference is that uninformed randoms feel less bold when critiquing fields these fields (as opposed
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by clickok 7y ago
My word choice is more driven by exposure to the dataset that I'm working with. There's been some recent successes with autoencoders trained on virtual sensory input (i.e., video games) with surprising results, e.g., neural networ
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by clickok 7y ago
Supposedly, yes-- during his final stay in the hospital, his brother read to him from a book they'd enjoyed during their childhood, Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities . When his brother had to turn the page, John would continue the na
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by clickok 7y ago
Von Neumann is something of a hero of mine, in part because of how he demonstrates (by example) that you can achieve surpassing insight by patiently applying logic and analysis to whatever problem is at hand. But also because he shows that
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by clickok 7y ago
Here in Canada, the "hysteria" is due to the perceptible economic slowdown, bordering on recession, associated with the carbon tax. If such a minor tweak is enough to make businesses pull investment, then surely more than tripling
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by clickok 7y ago
It depends how deep you want to go into the web archiving rabbit-hole, but using something like `archivenow`[0] would probably be the local optimum in terms of convenience, robustness, and permanence. It's "a tool to push web reso
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by clickok 7y ago
You mention possible score functions in Problem 5, so I have a query about that. This has been bugging me for a bit-- is there a characterization of applicable loss functions for GANs? I'm curious about their effects on the results, bu
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by clickok 8y ago
Richard Bellman coined the name, and according to legend it was because the phrase 'dynamic programming' was so anodyne that not even the most officious bureaucrat could object. In Bellman's own words[0]: "An interesting
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by clickok 8y ago
Bertsekas' earlier books (Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control + Neurodynamic Programming w/ Tsitsiklis) are great references and collect many insights & results that you'd otherwise have to trawl the literature for. I
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by clickok 8y ago
Cool! I'd also like to plug my own RL-related repositories: https://github.com/rldotai/rl-algorithms and https://github.com/rldotai/mdpy . The first one implements some of the more "exot

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