eastWestMath

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by eastWestMath 3y ago
Is this some flavour of groupoids symmetry?
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by eastWestMath 3y ago
I was in a PLT group in grad school going into robotics. I could spend all day ranting about how Python is just completely unsuitable for professional software development. Even something like F# would be an enormous improvement.
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by eastWestMath 3y ago
As a police officer you also typically have a high school education, and your idea of whether or not something is constitutional carries little to no weight.
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by eastWestMath 4y ago
I used to be very optimistic about Julia, but my enthusiasm has really cooled off the last year. I find JAX+jax_dataclasses gives me 90% of what I wanted from Julia (a nice monad library that is compatible with jit’ed code and the ability t
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by eastWestMath 4y ago
These are all, of course, things one should learn in an algorithms class.
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by eastWestMath 4y ago
Yeah I’ve always been a bit leery of code competitions. I saw a lot of undergrads spend a lot of effort on these contests, and I was never convinced it was the best use of their time (especially because the university I did my graduate stud
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by eastWestMath 4y ago
> Our method discovers a simple and effective optimization algorithm, Lion (EvoLved Sign Momentum). Come on now
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by eastWestMath 4y ago
I didn’t make it past that point, I got confused about how such meaningless dreck was at number 2(!) on my feed. Mods may want to take a peek if the author used a few sock puppets to give this post a push...
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by eastWestMath 4y ago
Yeah, it’s spending a lot of money to start a lab that: - will probably be stonewalled out of any collaboration with reputable universities (because his reputation is so toxic), - will have trouble attracting talent (because his reputation
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by eastWestMath 4y ago
The paper is absolutely a construction on categories.
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by eastWestMath 4y ago
“I’ve discovered a new thing about Y in X’s! Oh, no I haven't actually looked at the X literature about Y.” This is hardly specific to category theory.
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by eastWestMath 4y ago
My issue is that I can’t see a cursory literature review into the established category literature on these methods - how do they even know they have something new/novel if they haven't checked? This is a bit like the recent news a
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by eastWestMath 4y ago
Oh, I’m talking about the paper they’re hyping up. I’m just not terribly impressed, and I think if was written by people at UCSD instead of Harvard nobody would have even noticed it.
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by eastWestMath 4y ago
Coming from category theory, and having followed the work studying probability theory categorically (e.g. Fritz, Perrone, Lucyshyn-Wright’s stuff, Leinster’s notion of the magnitude of a category), is this actually interesting? The actual c
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by eastWestMath 4y ago
It reminded me of the sort of lazy Wikipedia regurgitation that a lot of undergrads used to give when I was teaching. So it is a bit jarring to see a response like that in a non-compulsory setting.
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by eastWestMath 5y ago
I feel like the NYTimes could take more papers under its subscription - e.g. give subscribers the option to bundle in a state and municipal paper, that the NYTimes essentially vets as a local affiliate (I’m guessing this would probably lead
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by eastWestMath 5y ago
Just because someone doesn’t go to college at 18 doesn’t mean they’re “skipping” higher education. Spending a few years making 30k a year to play basketball would be awesome - my father had teammates in college who put off grad/med sc
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by eastWestMath 5y ago
> Should she have been fired on the spot without even having any form of communication with her employer? Too be honest, that depends entirely on the joke and her role, doesn’t it?
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by eastWestMath 5y ago
Banking seems like the best way to phrase this to prevent people from screaming about socialism.
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by eastWestMath 5y ago
Ugh.
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by eastWestMath 7y ago
I mean, sure, it’s easy to say interesting things if you’re not being held to any standard of rigour.
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by eastWestMath 7y ago
The plural of anecdote is not data.
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by eastWestMath 7y ago
You realize that hate crimes have gone up the past few years? The far right are committing crimes, and Ben Shapiro's rhetoric (along with other far right commentators) is not helping. You're tying to equivocate throwing a milksh
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by eastWestMath 7y ago
I never called him alt-right. And I don't see why the fact that he's jewish negates the fact that he's engaged in hate speech several times - some nice examples here: >If you wear your pants below your butt, don't ben
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by eastWestMath 7y ago
I didn't call him Alt-Right, I just pointed out there have been at least three mass shootings in the past two years by Ben Shapiro fans. Edit: In many countries, hate speech does in fact have a definition. Just because it's not
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by eastWestMath 7y ago
It seems like an absolute win for consumer welfare, to be honest.
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by eastWestMath 7y ago
That would make sense if location didn’t matter and people couldn’t renovate buildings.
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by eastWestMath 7y ago
Maybe you should specify “aerospace”...
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by eastWestMath 7y ago
But if someone else had the same system you’d end up in an infinite loop...
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by eastWestMath 8y ago
>I think the protester in Tianemen square had more of a chance than the students in Kent State. There was literally ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more killed at Tianemen square.

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