koningrobot

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by koningrobot 1mo ago
"This much of x0, and this much of x1, and this much of x2, therefore it's that much of y"
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by koningrobot 5mo ago
The Buyr app is made for this, though not sure it covers clothing and toys yet.
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by koningrobot 11mo ago
It goes further back than that. In 2014, Li Yao et al ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0585 ) drew an equivalence between autoregressive (next token prediction, roughly) generative models and generative stochastic networks (
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by koningrobot 2y ago
> how much livestock is grown and slaughtered specifically for leather Yes and, I would hope that the majority of leather comes from cattle that are grown and slaughtered for meat. In that case, the amount of cattle put through the meat
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by koningrobot 3y ago
I think you're not aware of all the available evidence. The lab leak theory does not implicate China so much as it implicates particular people in the US who intentionally moved the research to China to evade the US' ban on gain-o
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by koningrobot 3y ago
And yet "debunked" it shall be, by taking the weakest argument and showing it is wrong with such condescension that good citizens will be afraid to believe any of it.
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by koningrobot 3y ago
I think the point is that 0.5 is 1/2, and the 5 digit only appears because of our base 10 presentation of numbers.
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by koningrobot 3y ago
Have you seen the author list of DeepSpeech2? https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02595
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by koningrobot 3y ago
The one thing that I most wish Python had is Common Lisp's restartable conditions. They're like exceptions but they don't break your whole process if you don't handle them in the code. If you forgot to define a variable,
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by koningrobot 4y ago
They meant algebraic in the sense of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_operation .
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by koningrobot 4y ago
I notice it mentions Ctrl-a and Ctrl-x which "increment or decrement any number after the cursor on the same line". I hate these shortcuts because several times I've accidentally pressed them (e.g. on some level thinking I&#x
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by koningrobot 4y ago
More like 10x. Black is truly a terrible thing.
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by koningrobot 4y ago
It definitely works, JAX only sees the unrolled loop: x = 0 x += y x += y x += y x += y x += y return x The reason you might need `jax.lax.fori_loop` or some such is if you have a long loop with a complex body. Replicatin
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by koningrobot 4y ago
Ah yes, deny people the right to die because we could make their lives better in principle . Assisted suicide is the messenger that tells us that we are otherwise failing these people. Without it, we would still fail them, but at least i
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by koningrobot 4y ago
Did you mean to write dμ(x) instead of μ(dx)? As a non-measure-literate person, I can understand dμ(x) as the d of density μ(x) evaluated at x. But μ(dx) has μ evaluated at the infinitesimal dx which is very different. Is μ(dx) the correct
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by koningrobot 4y ago
You made a statement about "keto diets" in the plural, and "for control of obesity" in general. An anecdote would be you relating which of this plurality of keto diets you tried and what results you found with each of th
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by koningrobot 4y ago
> Just an anecdote: keto diets for control of obesity are so effective it feels like a hack. I'm genuinely fascinated that you prefaced this clearly-not-an-anecdote with "just an anecdote". If it had been an anecdote, it w
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by koningrobot 4y ago
I don't think the author is talking about utilitarianism at all. They're talking about compressing their moral intuitions. They already believed it's bad to kill grandma, therefore "utilitarianism" must be beaten in
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by koningrobot 4y ago
> The argument being that it was better for someone who would only projected to make it to 50 years to die early than it would be if someone who was projected to make it to 75 years died early. That's not what it says at all. It say
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by koningrobot 4y ago
According to https://gis.cdc.gov/Cancer/USCS/#/Trends/ the rate is still going down. Literally the first place I looked and their graph goes to 2018.
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by koningrobot 5y ago
Yes, I've worked with this exact algorithm before, and others like it, and it should be much worse. Better than finite diffs or reinforce, but way worse than backprop's exact gradients, to the point of being unusable. Moreover the
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by koningrobot 5y ago
There has since been follow-up work to extend Onsets & Frames to multi-instrument music: https://magenta.tensorflow.org/transcription-with-transforme...
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by koningrobot 5y ago
Because rationalists gonna rationalize. They like deep-sounding stories that justify the things they are emotionally invested in.
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by koningrobot 5y ago
Interesting example they chose there. It requires no fewer than three deus ex machinas: apply this trick, then apply this very particular substitution, then find another substitution. If you encountered this integral in the wild without kno
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by koningrobot 5y ago
They did name the boolean expression; they named it `is_unique`. It's a poor name, but that's a different argument.
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by koningrobot 6y ago
I switched back to Firefox last week and I had the same experience -- Google apps and Slack were dog slow. But after a day or so they were working fine, I imagine it's a matter of populating the cache. YMMV.
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by koningrobot 6y ago
You're right what you propose is not quite equivalent to batch size 1, as you don't update the parameters until processing the entire batch. Still, having to process the examples in a batch sequentially seems like a very costly co
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by koningrobot 6y ago
Mine too. My main gripe with object graphs is that often you need to make arbitrary decisions about what comes "first" -- should I represent my customers as a list of `(name, address)` records or a record `(names, addresses)` of l
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by koningrobot 6y ago
We don't compute per-example gradients, so in your second code snippet there would not be a loop across examples. We compute the batch-averaged gradient in the same time it would take to compute a single example's gradient, so it&
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by koningrobot 7y ago
Steve Yegge's classic platforms rant gives some insight into why Amazon was ready for the cloud: https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

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