garbage_stain

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by garbage_stain 10y ago
This is an excellent treatise on both the value of a computer science education and the importance of being sure that things you say in public aren't verifiably false.
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by garbage_stain 10y ago
> being attacked for mentioning possibilities. Given the tone of what you wrote in the linked thread, I think that the redditors there showed surprising civility.
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by garbage_stain 10y ago
Verilog has many drawbacks, including no support for structured signals. On the other hand, the other big language, VHDL, is really difficult to use for "modular" projects. Is anyone here familiar with CHDL, a C++ hardware desig
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by garbage_stain 10y ago
I feel like I've read this article before.
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by garbage_stain 10y ago
> Now, some people may argue that these algorithms are not examples of "intelligence". The obvious conclusion must be that hiring people, beating people at Go, and playing Super Mario must also not be tasks that require intelli
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by garbage_stain 10y ago
PVS-Studio (or more specifically Andrey) used to do a really nice program called "CppHints", where they would email a little tip each day (and later each week I think). Anyway, I guess I just wanted to say, Andrey, I appreciated y
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by garbage_stain 10y ago
mlpack has a nice command-line-accessible implementation: http://mlpack.org/docs/mlpack-2.0.3/man/mlpack_mean_shift.ht...
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by garbage_stain 10y ago
I had fun playing with this, but what I noticed is that the recommendations started well, but as I rated more movies, they became less and less accurate. Is it possible that whatever technique you are using to model individual users is over
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by garbage_stain 10y ago
Number of stars on Github is not a great metric of the health of a project. TensorFlow, in particular, has received a lot of attention, so a lot of people have starred it, but this does not measure the number of non-Google contributors or
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by garbage_stain 10y ago
Hey, not all outdoor cats are pests! My cat is too incompetent to catch any birds and she just grazes on grass, so she's actually improving my yard by making it so I don't need to mow. Now if only I could get her to consistently
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by garbage_stain 10y ago
"Not even wrong". This entire analysis is built on reasonable statistics which are predicated on dubious and unprovable assumptions, which invalidate the entire thing. Consider "the size of alien species". Okay... so w
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by garbage_stain 11y ago
Some useful links... github: https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack ; homepage: http://www.mlpack.org
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Mlpack 2.0.0 released – C++ machine learning library(mailman.cc.gatech.edu)
57 points by garbage_stain 11y ago|2 comments
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by garbage_stain 11y ago
P99 rocks! (just sayin')
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by garbage_stain 11y ago
Now here is some helpful and caring advice. Sigh.
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by garbage_stain 11y ago
It was gray. You may see that I am not very active here, so I made an assumption. Today I have learned something; thank you.
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by garbage_stain 11y ago
This is just not a good response and does not speak to the author's problem. Yes, you can indeed say "you should be happy! It could be so much worse!" but this is not a gratifying or helpful answer to the original poster.
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by garbage_stain 11y ago
I think it's unfortunate this has been downvoted; I think that many people feel the same way you do. It's probably worth thinking about whether your colleagues' life is really as easy as you think it is. What you see of the
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by garbage_stain 12y ago
The project is currently in a state of transition to Github from svn, which explains the lack of issues and presence. http://www.mlpack.org/ has links to all of the old development tools such as Trac ( http://www