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by newrotik 2y ago
It is unclear this model should be on that leaderboard because we don't know whether it has been trained on mteb test data. It is worth noting that their own published material [0] does not entail any score from any dataset from the m
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by newrotik 2y ago
Though not relevant to the Atlantic ocean, it is worth noting that the Australian coral reef has in fact recovered from the disastrous state it was after the bleaching and damage events in 2016/2017. Reef coverage is in fact at the hig
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by newrotik 2y ago
I believed the author of the blog was referring to tech roles specifically (not sales or similar). I can say from personal experience that, at least in Australia, tech workers for mining companies that work in city offices are paid fairly s
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by newrotik 2y ago
Though I agree with the idea that MLPs are theoretically more "capable" than transformers, I think seeing them just as a parameter reduction technique is also excessively reductive. Many have tried to build deep and large MLPs for
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by newrotik 2y ago
Privacy is (a) freedom. The reason why people care about privacy is not necessarily because giving up privacy has some directly observable negative effect. But, simply, living without freedom sucks. I don't want you to know my personal
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by newrotik 2y ago
I have very recently published a mobile plant identification app ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hiddengard... ). It's the first mobile app I have ever written and I enjoyed the process quit
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by newrotik 2y ago
Lack of differentiability is actually a very important feature of the underlying optimization problem. You might think that it doesn't matter because ReLU is, e.g., non-differentiable "only at one point". Gradient based metho
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by newrotik 2y ago
Only tangentially related, but I have been trying to enroll for Apple's developer program for almost 3 months now. Understanding what the problem is is essentially impossible. Going to a physical store doesn't help, calling their
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by newrotik 4y ago
No layoffs at WiseTech.
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by newrotik 4y ago
Would you be able to elaborate on your approach to TDD with spark sessions? You can persist them, which is only useful if you are doing multiple tests in a run. But I find myself running one given test, making some code changes, and then wa
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by newrotik 4y ago
Could you elaborate on how you use the tool for the two purposes you mentioned?
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by newrotik 4y ago
Adding to the answers already given (complexity related to the computation of full Hessians). First order methods, i.e., methods that only require gradients, are the methods of choice when extreme solution accuracy is not required, which is
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by newrotik 4y ago
This is not correct and proves the point made in the parent's comment. Australia had much more severe bush fires in the 70s [0]. Note that many Australian plants are have evolved to adapt to bush fires, which means they must have been
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by newrotik 4y ago
You focused your 10 replies to his post on the unimportant bits instead of addressing the many plots referenced that clearly indicate what he means. How does the data referenced map to your understanding of climate change?
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by newrotik 4y ago
It is a conservative leaning news outlet. You may not agree with the view point but that does not imply that it is not respectable.
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by newrotik 4y ago
I see a lot of complaints about this but find little information about what the actual problem is. The abc link referenced mentions that Murdoch's reach through physical newspapers is indeed outsized, but acknowledges that only ~11% of
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by newrotik 4y ago
What evidence do you have to support your claim? Many countries have been subjected to sanctions for years, yet their military power hasn't diminished significantly (NK, Iran, ...). The misery of the poor and disenfranchised, which you
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by newrotik 4y ago
Have had to do lots of technical / latex-y drawings in the past as academic, and found Ipe [0] to be incredibly useful. It is very minimalistic and easy to use. The images produced are simple to embed in latex documents, and they fit t
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by newrotik 4y ago
check scikit-learn feature selection utilities https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/feature_selection.ht... besides techniques mentioned in other posts (l1 regularization) sequential feature selection (backward
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by newrotik 5y ago
A bit off putting how nonchalantly people are asking for economic sanctions on a population of 144 million people that are already quite poor. Not defending Russia here - but let's be more mindful of the fact that there are other human
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by newrotik 5y ago
It appears a cyclist has never zoomed past you on a path downhill. If for whatever reason you step in a direction the cyclist doesn't expect and you collide, at the bare minimum both of you are going to the hospital. Happened all the t
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by newrotik 5y ago
From the perspective of the 20 drivers behind you, you are the inconsiderate person.
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by newrotik 5y ago
The point the article raises is whether those "non-FAANG engineers" should be using serverless at all. Will their requirements ever scale to a point where it actually makes sense for them to be deployed as serverless services?
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by newrotik 5y ago
I use django-cookiecutter [0] for most of my projects as it sets up a myriad of things, saving an incredible amount of time if you need your app to be production ready quick. May be better suited for those experienced with django though. [0
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by newrotik 5y ago
Worked quite a bit in the field of mathematical optimization, more towards the SWE side of implementing and deploying systems for actual usage for the past ~decade rather than the theoretical end / designing new algorithms. In many cas
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by newrotik 5y ago
Moderna use has been suspended for individuals <30y in several Scandinavian countries due to its side effects. The point discussed is not whether it works or not, but what are the actual safety parameters.
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by newrotik 5y ago
Have been using uni-ball eye for over 10y. As a left handed, this is the best pen I have ever used. Many other pens "scratch" on the paper or result in inconsistent line thicknesses. Writing with this is a pleasure. Also dries qui
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by newrotik 5y ago
Another compact source of information that is well referenced and is being kept up to date is here: https://jamiemetzl.com/origins-of-sars-cov-2/
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by newrotik 5y ago
Is it realistic to expect them to comply with demands that they should stop GOF research / shut down wet markets without a credible threat of (at least) an economic retribution?
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by newrotik 5y ago
How many times you had three of your colleagues sent to the hospital for a flu they caught at the office?

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