fermenflo

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by fermenflo 7y ago
Damn, I'm doing research involving partitions right now. I used crank/rank all the time -invariants that he introduced years ago. What a shame, RIP
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by fermenflo 7y ago
I don't remember if this is the exact paper but as united893 already posted, the paper was probably: https://annals.math.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/annals-... Long story short: Imagine you have an obj
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by fermenflo 7y ago
Mirzakhani will always have a special place in my heart. I was an undergraduate mathematics student when I discovered her work. It was a paper on closed geodesics and there was something special about her writing. Her approaches were simple
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by fermenflo 7y ago
That's also what I was taught as a best practice, but it's not always possible. Well of course it's possible -there are infinitely many sets of coprime numbers! Silly engineers
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by fermenflo 7y ago
That was also one of my initial thoughts. But who knows. I'm sure milk consumption varies a lot in different geographies, cultural backgrounds, upbringings, etc... I personally never drink milk. The only dairy product I regularly consu
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by fermenflo 7y ago
To be fair, it's a pretty large claim to just assume that something "went wrong with the attempts to screen out the confounding factors" and that the conclusion must be false. It's a shocking conclusion, I'll give
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by fermenflo 7y ago
Exactly. As I said, they didn't reveal much of the process that "accounted for confounding" but I just wanted to dismiss everyone's initial reaction that this is just an obvious case of confounding. Perhaps it is. Perhap
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by fermenflo 7y ago
I know everyone's reaction (mine included) was: "No shit, people who drink low-fat milk probably live healthier lives in general"... But it looks like they really did account for other variables and found that milk-fat percen
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by fermenflo 7y ago
My immediate reaction as well. Seems like the perfect case of confounding. But after reading the paper, I saw this statement: > "High-fat milk consumers may have lifestyles that are less healthy than low-fat milk drinkers. Since thi
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by fermenflo 7y ago
> It searches until it finds a seed, then goes back to the trail, maybe using the angle of the sunlight as a guide, to return to the nest, following the stream of outgoing foragers. I remember reading that ants counted steps to find thei
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by fermenflo 7y ago
So no, lol
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by fermenflo 7y ago
Sounds like they already pricked the patient when they couldn't find a vein in the arm, maybe?
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by fermenflo 7y ago
Except their laptops and phones totally do... What are you talking about?
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by fermenflo 7y ago
The way I understand it (which isn't that well either tbh) is that most modern anti-cheat softwares run off of some Hardware ID (HWID). An amalgam of ids from your GPU, CPU, OS, Mac adress, and so on... that are somehow combined or has
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by fermenflo 7y ago
It's a joke. Being distasteful and offensive was the entire point...
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by fermenflo 7y ago
Damn, I should read the comments first
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by fermenflo 7y ago
Why post the Quanta write up on a months old publication? OpenAI released this months ago: https://openai.com/blog/emergent-tool-use/ and IMO, did a much better job of explaining/detailing everything. EDIT: J
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by fermenflo 7y ago
No, USB-C is a step in the right direction. It's superior in every way imaginable to USB. It can handle almost every type of transfer (data/power), its orientation-agnostic, it's slim, etc. I could list the pros for days. Hav
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by fermenflo 7y ago
I agree, a lot of the code could be improved. But some of what you mentioned is fairly standard. Like "Gaussian Error Linear Units being GELU, w/b for weights/biases, etc...
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by fermenflo 7y ago
Thank you... Everyone seems to be forgetting that this is a 100% opt-in service. Why do we get to say what FB is obligated to do and to what standards they have to keep their website at?
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by fermenflo 7y ago
Yeah, this really didn't state anything novel that anyone who's even aware of Python 3.8 wouldn't have already known...
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by fermenflo 7y ago
What exactly guarantees that reality? Why can't these tools be used for good moving forward? e.g. detecting heart problems. Seems a little arbitrary to spin technological advancements as progress towards some inevitable dystopian AI-dr
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by fermenflo 7y ago
Thank you, as someone with no C++ background, this example makes the issue at hand much clearer.
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by fermenflo 7y ago
Seriously. I can't imagine the rationale behind it being so sensitive and acceleration-packed.
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by fermenflo 7y ago
Ok? I feel like Apple is free to promote whatever they damn please on their own platform. Are we seriously criticizing a company for promoting their products ahead of 3rd party products on their own platform? and I mean, how much money do