naturalgradient

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by naturalgradient 8y ago
This makes sense to me as a characterization, thank you, although I don't understand why people get so upset about these distinctions as if I had personally offended them. Where I am from dragging the US into wars is naturally seen cri
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
I did not call the NYT a far left magazine. I said their reporting on EUROPEAN politics ("politics here") copies points from the far left (e.g. all mass migration is unquestionably good, parties against it must be right wing popul
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
To be honest I think you are just proving my point by getting upset and calling me 'ranty right'. Tribalism sells because it triggers emotions like these. It works for the Guardian just as well as it works for the NYT, Fox news or
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
A good read on this is (at least to me as an outsider to American politics): https://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberal...
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
The greatest marketing trick the NYT has ever pulled off is presenting themselves as the last bastion of objectivity in the trump era. Nothing could be further from the truth. I think the most recent Sarah Jeong controversy and virtually al
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
The Washington Post. The NYT is unapologetically taking a side in the culture war and on many issues (campus politics, feminism, title IX, migration..) will ever only let one side make their point. The Wapo in my observation has a much bett
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
Your argument buys into the core of identity politics, namely creating a hierarchy of oppressors and victims, where the supposed victims can do no wrong. I find this an incredibly patronising worldview.
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
I would disagree with 3 because there are many in 2 and 3 which can go to 1 just by losing their job and e.g. having one high medical bill (in the states at least). So surely there must be differentiation on whether any given job or emergen
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
You are referring to my comment about 'worth their salt' in a gross misreading. I said anyone worth their salt has other choices, so going to FB is a deliberate choice on these professors.
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
Any researcher in this area worth their salt can easily get cloud credit grants and collaborations from Google, Microsoft, Amazon. I pose if you go to Facebook, it's very much about money.
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
I understand the call of money but I cannot help but feel very negatively towards academics doing this with facebook of all organisations. After recent events, they cannot pretend not to know the impact and damage their work may have here.
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
I completely disagree. You can find Google's pricing tactic aggressive, but it made me think about the entitlement there. They complain that Maps at new prices would be more than the cost of their infrastructure, when actually their en
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
The problem is that antitrust laws like these are very selectively enforced. Selection and prosecution of these cases is hence inherently political as these are non-standardized arguments or verdicts.
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
This is a weirdly shallow article containing lots of diagrams and bullet points to just summarize the known points that RL needs a lot of data and needs to learn from scratch. No mention of all the ongoing work in learning from demonstratio
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
Thank you this is a helpful data point.
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
Thank you for the response. It seems like liquidation preferences really come into play at growth stage when things get 'messier' due to capital needs, and declining them at seed round would send a very negative signal because the
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
Can someone familiar with the current funding climate say if standard deals at all levels involve liquidation preference nowadays? As in, if Im considering a seed-round, will there be any sophisticated investors doing no preference? Have ta
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
The guy said 'allow me to disagree slightly' after complimenting her on her thread and she lashed out at him in a highly unprofessional manner. Thinking you can interact with customers of your employer like this in public even on
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
There are schools in various countries, e.g. Romania, which are known for producing extremely well prepared applicants. They select for these schools from the entire country and have them focus on sciences, math and computer science early o
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
Each applicant receives multiple interviews and I can perform one of these as a PhD student, and have received the same training any faculty member would have. The interview process is relatively standardized, and if my results were to diff
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
I am aware, PhD students design and mark these questions, and can interview :) The point is that if you go to a target school doing Math olympiads throughout your school life, the admissions exam and interview is a walk in the park. The app
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
>They try hard to let in disadvantaged kids, but it's a crap shoot deciding who has potential and who doesn't. They rarely care about anything other than academics. (I'm not sure how they recruit the rowers.) They don&#x27
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
Thank you, I had not considered that. I think researchers or a HN audience may perceive this differently than the average reader.
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
So this goes off on a tangent but I feel it relates to noncentrality [0]. Fokas has a PhD in maths. Being an MD or having gotten an MD 40 years ago is clearly entirely non-central to his career. Calling him Mathematician-MD seems like it is
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
Just pointing out that interestingly Cambridge, where Fokas is a professor, has not released anything. He is merely visiting USC so it strikes me as weird that they would claim this PR so quickly. Also Mathematician-MD somehow makes it soun
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
I think you should refrain from making such comments and follow the best-intention assumption on HN.
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
Yes, thank you for that by the way, did not want to diminish your efforts. Just wanted to point out that papers are often misleading about how many resources are needed to get to the point of running the result. I have received significant
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
I would just want to comment that while this is true in principle, it's also slightly misleading because it does not include how much tuning and testing is necessary until one gets to this result. Determining the scale needed, fiddling
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
Yes, I am aware, I did not mean random search as in random actions, but random search with improved heuristics to find a policy. The point being that that the bells and whistles of PPO and other relatively complaticated algorithms (e.g. Q-P
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by naturalgradient 8y ago
Thank you for taking the time to respond, I appreciate it. Well I guess my question regarding the expensiveness comes down to wondering about the sample efficiency, i.e. are there not many games that share large similar state trajectories t

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