kaffeinecoma

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by kaffeinecoma 9y ago
Wow, this is really a great resource. I wish it had been available a few years back when I took the free online version of CS231n. The hardest part (for me, anyway) was the long-forgotten Calculus needed for backprop. Especially as applied
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by kaffeinecoma 9y ago
Adding my own anecdote, there seems to be some kind of problem with high I/O loads on High Sierra. One of my projects involves indexing thousands of URLs. During development I use a large (80GB+) local cache of a few million files. Run
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by kaffeinecoma 10y ago
Paranoid patient question: when one goes for an MRI, is there any kind of scan for foreign metal objects? I'm sure they ask if you have any devices implanted, but do they actually check for the unexpected? What would happen if you had
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by kaffeinecoma 10y ago
I think the concern is more that a sentience that is many orders of magnitude more intelligent than humans simply won't care about us. How do you feel about ants?
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by kaffeinecoma 10y ago
I like to build something that I've programmed before in another language. Maybe this seems redundant. But if you have the problem fresh in your mind, it leads to asking the kinds of (Googleable) questions that get you very quickly to
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by kaffeinecoma 10y ago
A month ago I was in the same place- I would start reading a short blog posting on RNNs/ConvNets/etc., and within 2-3 paragraphs my eyes would glaze over from the math and other foreign terminology. Frustrating. To try and fix thi
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by kaffeinecoma 10y ago
My guess is he's referring to the large number of romance loanwords that came into the English language as a result of the Norman Invasion.
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by kaffeinecoma 10y ago
I'm really looking forward to no longer having to figure out which project I have to axe to keep my "small" plan under the 10 repo maximum. That was always annoying.
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by kaffeinecoma 10y ago
I was just starting the 3rd lecture. A real shame.
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by kaffeinecoma 10y ago
A "kind of" compression using polygons: https://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolu... I believe it was discussed here a few years back.
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by kaffeinecoma 10y ago
No need to apologize- I learned SO much from your blog, thank you. I didn't realize the course was online ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfnWJUyUJYU ). Also, looks like there's a subreddit for it as well: https:
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by kaffeinecoma 10y ago
People are knocking this guy for not being an expert and maybe getting some details wrong. Maybe it's a little bit like watching a non-programmer stumble their way through a blog post about learning to program- experienced programmers
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by kaffeinecoma 10y ago
My comment wasn't meant to knock C++; it was to point out that Linus' opposition to the language is well-documented, and an official git-rewrite in C++ is very unlikely.
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by kaffeinecoma 10y ago
Re-writing Git in C++? Can't tell if you're trolling or not. http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus
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by kaffeinecoma 10y ago
I doubt it. I did Java for over a decade, but jumped at the opportunity to use Go with its statically compiled binaries. The JVM is great, but being tied to it is kind of a hassle. Being able to hand a small binary to someone and say "
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by kaffeinecoma 10y ago
I dread tax time every year. I'm self-employed, so I don't exactly expect it to be easy, but I generally end up spending 3-4 full days working on my return. Not including the meticulous record keeping I amortize over the year with
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by kaffeinecoma 10y ago
If we can digitally describe something as a sequence of bytes, and we stack those bytes end-to-end, can we not say that the bytes together form a (very large) integer, and that the integer already appears in the set of natural numbers?
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by kaffeinecoma 10y ago
You know I think there is this phenomenon of "listening in the wrong language". As an American in France, sometimes I'd meet people and they'd want to try out their English with me. Every once in a while I'd meet so
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by kaffeinecoma 10y ago
For a while now I've been thinking about something like this: once a month I put some amount of money in my "browser account". Maybe it's $25, or $10, maybe sometimes it's nothing at all. This money gets automatical
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by kaffeinecoma 11y ago
Particularly for "small" languages like Go and C, there is a benefit to sitting down with a comprehensive reference and reading it cover-to-cover. A few hours/days spent in quiet study will pay dividends over just searching G
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by kaffeinecoma 11y ago
I discovered it when visiting an old project after a whole OS wipe-and-restore from TM. A week later I found that 'git' wouldn't recognize a project dir due to some missing pieces. I had a 2nd TM drive, and was able to manual
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by kaffeinecoma 11y ago
Do you rely on Time Machine? Drop to the shell right now and try "tmutil compare -n" to see which files are not making it onto your backups. For me, Time Machine randomly ignores certain files, for no discernible reason. Files tha
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by kaffeinecoma 11y ago
For those confused by 25 year old Scala: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_(company) .
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by kaffeinecoma 11y ago
I'm sure he meant speakers of Latin-derived languages. I see native French speakers make this mistake often in English.
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by kaffeinecoma 11y ago
Make the font of your input larger: http://stackoverflow.com/a/6394497/93995 .
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by kaffeinecoma 12y ago
I meant that in general, we as programmers will spend more time reading (our, others') code than writing it. Nature of the business. Did not mean to imply this was a bad thing. When I consider adopting a language, part of that consider
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by kaffeinecoma 12y ago
It's a page from the O'Reilly Clojure Programming book. I hate to point fingers at the authors, because it's generally a really great book. Just that some of the examples are rather dense, and I get the feeling that this is n
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by kaffeinecoma 12y ago
I'm trying so hard to love Clojure, but I keep running into examples of code like this in the world: http://imgur.com/79FlpTL . I don't write dense Lisp code like that, but unfortunately a lot of other people do.
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by kaffeinecoma 12y ago
This article prompted me to dust off Firefox to try it out again. Right away I notice a nice improvement over Safari- Firefox seems willing to cache a page for "back button" behavior longer than Safari. I always hate when sites fa
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by kaffeinecoma 12y ago
I'm curious- did it change your parents' views about DUI inspection stops? If they found them innocuous (or at least constitutional) before the incident, do they still feel the same way?

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