hellepardo

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by hellepardo 6y ago
mlpack, a C++ machine learning library, includes xeus-cling notebooks directly on their homepage: https://www.mlpack.org/ The xeus-cling work is awesome and has made it possible to do data science prototyping in C++. There
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by hellepardo 6y ago
> This field pushes away the Van Allen Belts, a radiation swim-floaty that surrounds Earth's middle. "swim-floaty"? I get what they are referencing, but can we really not come up with a better term than... "swim-floa
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by hellepardo 6y ago
> I feel there is a bit of undercurrent of Luddite sentiment going around here. Oh, I'm no Luddite, don't get me wrong---I'm a machine learning researcher. I have no problem with data science. The difference between all
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by hellepardo 6y ago
> the real downside of this model: it overfits on regular crying I'm with you there, that's a big downside too, but that's not the "real" downside---there are like seven different downsides present with the data
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by hellepardo 6y ago
So, don't get me wrong. This is a fun project and a neat little device. I don't mean to take away from it in any way. However it is really important to consider why baby monitors are so primitive: because the cost of a false n
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by hellepardo 6y ago
Similar experience here in Georgia. It sounds like there is more to do on setup morning here, since we had to show up at 5am (and didn't have things really ready until 6:30 or so). There are so many seals to check and record; lots
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Restoring a 1984 “Space Shuttle” pinball machine(ratml.org)
3 points by hellepardo 6y ago|0 comments
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by hellepardo 6y ago
I would agree that the coronavirus could be a factor here. At the same time, I've been noticing issues since probably December or January (before the coronavirus started being a real problem), which makes it seem like maybe there are
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by hellepardo 6y ago
Yes, and so this is actually a thing that bugs me, because I use Github every day. Over the past several months, there have been numerous days in which I've had problems (`You can not comment at this time`, 500s, etc.) and no correspo
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by hellepardo 6y ago
Is it just me, or has Github's quality of service been continually degrading over the past several months? What is going on internally? Is this because of the Microsoft acquisition? Increased usage? An internal transition to Azure?
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by hellepardo 7y ago
True, and I think that this makes the statistics somewhat misleading. The Atlanta metro area has a population of roughly 6 million and it's not very centralized.
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by hellepardo 8y ago
A couple of thoughts on Minecraft, though note I am not familiar with Education Edition: 1. We played Minecraft with the specific intent of making visually appealing buildings. So at some point, when you can't see, that's not goi
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by hellepardo 8y ago
If we are in the same place, either someone else will roll for him or he'll roll and we'll tell him what he got (and he has little choice but to trust us :)). If we aren't in the same place, he rolls virtually (did you know
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by hellepardo 8y ago
Ah, sorry, you are absolutely right. When I said 'no real other option' I was missing the numerous other RPGs that are out there. I did not mean to denigrate them by omission. I meant more that we were forced away from computer
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by hellepardo 8y ago
My friends and I play D&D because we have no real other option. We used to play Minecraft and other collaborative building games as a group, but then one in our group went fully blind. There is a complete lack of good multiplayer comp
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by hellepardo 8y ago
The mlpack library ( http://www.mlpack.org ) also has a C++ implementation of Hamerly's algorithm, as well as Elkan's and some other accelerated variants. My experience has been that while Hamerly's algorithm can b
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by hellepardo 8y ago
I don't think "emsmallen" can be said reasonably :)
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by hellepardo 8y ago
Thank you for saving me from needing to write the exact same thing!
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mlpack 3 released: fast, flexible machine learning library(mlpack.org)
2 points by hellepardo 8y ago|0 comments
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by hellepardo 8y ago
Whoa, hang on a second. SourceForge? Acceptable with new owners? Have you tried to download anything from the site recently? They may not be bundling crapware with downloads anymore but it's still an ad-laden slow-loading pile of t
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by hellepardo 8y ago
Armadillo is built on any BLAS you might like to use. (Eigen is a hand-implemented replacement for BLAS, by the way.) So I, too, am interested in what BLAS implementation is used here. OpenBLAS vs. regular LAPACK/BLAS (or ATLAS) can
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by hellepardo 8y ago
> why not just get a job at Google so you can do that? Don't want to move to California? Can't pass the interview? Salary too low in the offer? There could be lots of reasons. I agree with your other points, but what I'
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by hellepardo 8y ago
> Bigger example is how much they give away in terms of AI/ML. You think they are publishing all these papers and open-sourcing TensorFlow for the good of the community solely? No... if the entire ML community publishes papers with
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by hellepardo 8y ago
I have always felt that, in a "typical" open-source project, I could approach the community, join it, build some rapport, and eventually help with the decision-making process (assuming I was any good and people in the community li
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by hellepardo 9y ago
My opinion is that as long as there exists free ways to connect with people, nobody is going to pay for it. So it's tough for me to see a way to build a business around this; I don't think people will be particularly willing to p