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by leegao 11mo ago
For what it's worth, the article is the author arguing why they don't personally use blah-blah (Dependent Types) despite being a leading academic in the field (PLT) where blah-blah is frequently touted as the holy grail of that fi
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by leegao 3y ago
Their in-context long-sequence understanding "benchmark" is pretty interesting. There's a language called Kalamang with only 200 native speakers left. There's a set of grammar books for this language that adds up to ~250
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by leegao 10y ago
That's not necessarily true across all "fast fields". There's definitely selection pressure against fields sensitive to faulty experimentation to "move fast." Computer Science is one of the bigger subjects with
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by leegao 10y ago
There are already several extensions to markdown with LaTeX support. For example, StackExchange supports flavored markdown with a Mathjax backend, as do most static Markdown renderers out there. Nevertheless, since Markdown isn't stand
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Add Math and LaTeX to Your GitHub Readme.md(github.com)
3 points by leegao 10y ago|3 comments
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by leegao 10y ago
More parameters also means that the likelihood of overfitting (the training set) increases. Currently (and rather unintuitively, considering that ML is an applied optimization field, and optimization is usually concerned with underfitting),
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by leegao 10y ago
How is it a waste of time? I can see it being bullshit webtech, but that's still not a reason to wholly dismiss everything.
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Reinventing Fast Inverse Sqrt Using 8th Grade Math(bullshitmath.lol)
2 points by leegao 10y ago|2 comments
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Another floating point quirk(phailed.me)
1 points by leegao 14y ago|0 comments
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Quick Square Root method inspired by fast invsqrt(phailed.me)
1 points by leegao 14y ago|0 comments
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by leegao 14y ago
I think I can sort of see what's going on, we're trying to fit the data of some GPS position taken from a walk around the park or something similar, and fit it to some linear combination of basis of some "street functions" to minimize its t
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by leegao 15y ago
According to Web analytics group Net Applications, Apple's Safari Web browser posted an 8.1 percent jump in market share for the month of July http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0&qpca... tells me that Safari ha
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by leegao 15y ago
For hackish C, http://ccan.ozlabs.org/list.html (it's like CPAN, but for C)
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C's index[arr] notation
5 points by leegao 15y ago|4 comments
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by leegao 15y ago
o_O I don't know about you guys, but our CS affiliation requirement includes at least one semester of Functional Programming (using ML rather than Haskell, I know for sure that CMU (ML) and Berkeley (Scheme/ML) have similar requirements too