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by coef2 1mo ago
I wish medicine were more like theoretical physics. I understand that it’d be difficult to come up with theories that could fully explain complex brain functions and diseases like Alzheimer’s. It’s also difficult to test those theories safe
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by coef2 1mo ago
As an ML engineer, I improve models through trial and error. Sometimes a change improves my metrics, and other times it makes them worse, and I just revert it and try something else. It's scary to think about neurological surgery makin
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by coef2 3mo ago
Ironically, developers may turn out to be easier to replace than taxi drivers. We've seen technological progress replaced workers or made certain roles obsolete, and this may become another example. I hope governments and public instit
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by coef2 6mo ago
It sounds like a fun project. I worked on a vision based biometric system that used near infrared light as its light source. NIR was supposed to be more stable than natural light but we still experienced issues similar to yours. We found th
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by coef2 6mo ago
People use their laptops under various lighting conditions. I can imagine it would be difficult (or likely impossible) to bring this PoC to a solid production level technology. It looks like a fun project though.
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by coef2 10mo ago
I agree with you. About a decade ago, I got really tired of coding interview prep. I somehow ended up getting into Project Euler and worked through the first 100 problems. It was a great way to learn a bit of number theory and regain my int
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by coef2 1y ago
I found the news hilarious. Orcas used to wear salmon hats back in the 80s, then the trend disappeared, only to make a comeback in recent years. It really feels like they have their own version of human fashion trends or group behavior. The
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by coef2 1y ago
His name could be interpreted as "aspiring to be a scholar". I guess he's done an exceptional job living up to it.
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by coef2 1y ago
> To add: Reading is also thinking (ideally). I've heard that some philosophers like Schopenhauer argue that reading can become a passive process, where we simply follow another person's thoughts without engaging our own critic
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by coef2 1y ago
I miss the old days when Facebook was simply a fun way to reconnect with friend and family who lived far away. Unfortunately, those days are gone. It feels like an over engineered attention-hogging system that collects a large amount of dat
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by coef2 2y ago
It's sad to see the interviewer wasting the opportunity to interview Penrose. I found Lex Fridman does a much better job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXgqik6HXc0
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by coef2 2y ago
We should thank Meta for laying off a talented engineer.
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by coef2 2y ago
I recently used an LLM to translate an algorithm from Go to Python at my work. The translation was quite accurate, and it made me think tasks involving obvious one-to-one correspondence like code translation might be easier for LLMs compare
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by coef2 2y ago
I have a conundrum about this. If an LLM can learn our codebase and generate reasonable reviews, does this imply it could perform the work independently without us? Perhaps generating code and conducting code reviews are distinct tasks. Ano
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by coef2 2y ago
I’m the same way. I bought 12 and 13 minis and stopped upgrading my phone since then. I’d love to have a mini version with a good optical zoom camera.
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by coef2 2y ago
So the progress of human proficiency in Go and our collective advancement over time is hindered by dogmatic rules introduced over time. These rules predispose players toward specific strategies and consequently limit the scope of our creati
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by coef2 3y ago
I started my journey in machine learning fifteen years ago. Ironically, at that time, my professor told me that neural networks were outdated and trying them wouldn't result in publishable research. SVMs were popular and emphasized in
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by coef2 4y ago
This is a relevant thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28191408
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by coef2 4y ago
I thought neither mathematics nor engineering is strictly science. Engineering utilizes scientific knowledge to solve complex problems, but its purpose isn't to make scientific discoveries through hypothesis testing. It's interest
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by coef2 4y ago
Taiwan has important semiconductor companies like TSMC. It’s also one of geopolitically unstable regions. I guess this is part of mitigating the risk of chip shortages.
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by coef2 5y ago
debugging a machine learning algorithm is already hard without this approximation method. I can see adding another layer could make it extremely harder.
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by coef2 5y ago
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/8833/4/dome_100711.pdf It looks there's a paper related to the topic.
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by coef2 5y ago
I'm not familiar with ketamine at all, but it just feels unsafe to decide by ourselves. Do psychiatrists have to monitor patients closely and determine the amount and frequency of doses? I wouldn't mind taking medicine for a cold
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by coef2 6y ago
I will use tor browser and duckduckgo for the rest of my life
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by coef2 6y ago
Is this because they are afraid of the model misused, like used for generating fake reviews? It is frustrating that I've been hearing great news on NLP but am able to try none of them myself.