lemursage

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by lemursage 1mo ago
This is so weird, seeing this. Two years ago, I got a customs notice from FedEx asking to fill in my details. That was just a plain email from __some guy__ at FedEx with a PDF file attached. I wasn't expecting any package. I wrote to t
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MADL Encyclopedia(madl.si5.pl)
1 points by lemursage 5mo ago|1 comments
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by lemursage 5mo ago
Reference on LLM architectures
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by lemursage 1y ago
It seems that the leaderboard doesn't contain the results for all of the supported DBs (I was looking for the pgvector myself). The README.md contains a screenshot from local testing that's got more results included: https:/
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by lemursage 2y ago
I'm "almost" a lifelong user of a cochlear implant. I got my first one when I was 9. Before I got it, I was communicating through lip reading and speaking, I never knew sign language. Lip reading I still use relatively often
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by lemursage 2y ago
I really like the book's subchapter on colours, wish it was even more elaborated on. Colours are one of the subtle things I so often find difficult to get right. As to using matplotlib in published research: when I started out as an un
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by lemursage 2y ago
A timeless classic from Buena Vista Social Club comes to mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5cELP06Mik
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by lemursage 2y ago
In larger companies, and, specifically, bigger projects, systems tend to have multiple ML components, and those are usually a mix of large NN models and more classical (ML) algorithms, so you end up tweaking multiple parts at once. In my ca
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by lemursage 3y ago
For a numerical "physicist" (yes, the quotation marks are indispensable), Sympy was somewhat of a godsend to me. Great for prototyping even more advanced models before optimising them later on in C++. I haven't used Mathemati
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by lemursage 4y ago
I wonder if this is in response to Sci-Hub/Arxiv proliferation or what else. Anyhow, I find it beyond rich -- the authors usually do all the typesetting, spell/grammar checks, formatting etc. themselves and now they get to pay for
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by lemursage 4y ago
As an engineer my concern about "google killers" is that I can't see an easy way to scale and control/optimize them in business settings. Apart from factual misstatements happening in the ChatGPT, what about source attri
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by lemursage 4y ago
I'm a certified member of the Peripatetic school [1]. The ancients knew it and I know it -- I walk therefore I am. It's by the walking alone I set my mind to motion. Needless to say that my downstair neighbours hate me for it. I g
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by lemursage 4y ago
Here's the catch -- I don't have a dog! Utter ramblings, I say!
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by lemursage 4y ago
I actually tested a bunch of those on GH Copilot -- sure enough, it does autocomplete certain prompts. No wonder, some are probably known quotes. Anyway, when I'm feeling down in my VSCode environment, I enter some random prompts in se
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by lemursage 4y ago
Maybe many PhDs attend conferences just because they have to have some paper/poster presentation rather than they are genuinely interested in making new connections? That's what I'm guilty of at least.
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by lemursage 4y ago
I see a lot of folks touch on the UX of the Medium website. For me it's the content -- the paywall and overall layout would be digestible if not for the awful lot of generic Medium posts that regurgitate for the nth time the same basic
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by lemursage 4y ago
My grandma and her friends were projectionists in a small town cinema. It really did have a climate of the early scenes from Cinema Paradiso (although it wasn't that long time ago). I snuck into the balcony gallery for every movie I w
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by lemursage 4y ago
I think the problem here is that articles and publications in general do not provide enough detail to reproduce the results. Even though, that is the exact reason you write an article -- to make research reproducible. Peer-reviewed journals
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HMS Victory: The Total Guide(youtube.com)
2 points by lemursage 4y ago|0 comments
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by lemursage 4y ago
Yes, « Nonlinear dynamics and chaos » is my favorite, I think it’s his best book. It has tons of nice examples and gets you a crash course over multiple concepts. « Sync » is nice too, but not a textbook definitely ( I don’t recall if it ev
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by lemursage 4y ago
As an undergrad in EE and CS this was a bit of a mixed experience to me. Laplace transform was presented as kind of a nice hack, but I think the actual development of intuition is delegated to non math specific (engineering) subjects like f
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by lemursage 4y ago
I enjoy the overall fashion in which he presents the topics — clear, motivating example to start with, building on relevant details etc. His textbooks read like a good popsci book, yet they are of course much more detailed. I’m not sure how
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by lemursage 4y ago
After reading Strogatz, I view past courses I have taken in engineering DEs as a crime on students and lecturers alike. I know there's a substantial difference between pure/applied maths courses and engineering, but a massive fail
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by lemursage 4y ago
It's not a statement about your general motivation for a PhD -- I don't think you can easily find a subject for which you will find a non-stop motivation 24h/7days for 3-4 years (or so, eqv. period required to get a PhD). If
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by lemursage 4y ago
« You will like any subject once you get to know enough about it. » this is a really important observation — good attitude will do wonders to your motivation for research.
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by lemursage 4y ago
That was a really great listen, thanks! It actually mentions some of the concepts discussed around here (up or down, may be hard to tell in a while) about how people perceived the Commonwealth and the Republic.
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by lemursage 4y ago
I was also not quite aware of such feud! I generally assumed that Poles and Lithuanians got along pretty well, or at least that was my impression from talking to Poles. Some time later I asked two Lithuanian guys what's up with this, w
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by lemursage 4y ago
One interesting thing is the perception of Jogalia aka Władysław II Jagiełło (King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania) by Polish and Lithuanians nowadays. I'm pretty sure he's quite cherished historically in Poland due to his r
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by lemursage 4y ago
I found Katherine’s Ashenburg „Dirt on clean” book a nice read on how perception hygiene evolved over ages. It definitely reads as popscience, but for uninitiated ignorants like myself it was pretty sufficient. I see the author cites one o
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by lemursage 4y ago
The scope seems pretty standard but I really like strongly structured form and exercises. Is there a pdf version available perchance?

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