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by rotskoff 1y ago
My research group at Stanford has been alpha testing Tinker, it's both very useful and also really technically impressive in my opinion. It's a unified framework for post-training models and it abstracts almost all of the complexi
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by rotskoff 3y ago
In fact, the shoe was not banned and it is one of the most widely used marathon racing shoes out there. Nearly all other running shoe companies followed suit and made more efficient racing flats with carbon plates and high energy return foa
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by rotskoff 5y ago
Statistical physicist here. Negative temperatures occur when a system has a finite number of high energy states. On average, when temperature increases, both the energy and the "randomness" or entropy of a configuration increase a
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by rotskoff 6y ago
Convolution is in fact multiplication in Fourier space (this is the convolution theorem [1]) which says that Fourier transforms convert convolutions to products. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution_theorem
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by rotskoff 6y ago
Came here to make the exact same comment, agree completely!
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by rotskoff 6y ago
I follow court news pretty closely and was genuinely curious about this decision. Here is a brief description of what I understand the decision to mean (I am not an expert by any means). Under the federal "Major Crimes Act" (MCA)
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Excavating AI: The Politics of Images in Machine Learning Training Sets(excavating.ai)
1 points by rotskoff 6y ago|0 comments
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by rotskoff 6y ago
I follow SCOTUS news pretty closely; the discussions below are a bit misguided. Audio transcripts of oral arguments are already widely available---you can even subscribe to the Oyez podcast feed and find them in your podcast queue a few day
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by rotskoff 6y ago
As many have pointed out, this rediscovers Newton's method. The reason that this type of approach with a "hessian pre-conditioning" is not widely used in practice is that computing the hessian is costly. Avoiding that additio
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Paper Phone(specialprojects.studio)
2 points by rotskoff 7y ago|1 comments
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by rotskoff 7y ago
In the chemistry / molecular biology community, that is definitely part of the role played by a journal like Cell. It is considered a very prestigious journal and tends to publish only what the editors and reviewers perceive to be very
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by rotskoff 7y ago
This is a fairly bizarre way to rank academic institutions. First of all, the methodology almost entirely neglects computer science because its metric of success is papers published in top tier journals; computer scientists tend to submit t
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by rotskoff 7y ago
As a statistical physicist, the title of this article looks the way "Two new papers explore the complexity of neural networks" might to a working ML researcher. Bubbles and foams are, and have been, a topic of intense research in
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by rotskoff 7y ago
It's a good question: you can see a fairly granular breakdown of the workforce by industry [here]( https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11b.htm ). There are about 5.1 million people working in "Computer and mathematic
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by rotskoff 7y ago
It's probably worthwhile to think about scale in this context: There are only 85000 H-1B visas issued each year by the US; 20k of those are reserved for people with advanced degrees [1]. Given that there are an estimated 3.87 million s
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by rotskoff 8y ago
In NYC, I would say the average at an upscale place is about $3 for a cup of coffee, more like $5 for a cappuccino or similar espresso drink. With tip, I often end up spending $4-$5 for an espresso, though it pains me to admit that.
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by rotskoff 8y ago
I have been using Ubuntu on and off since about 2005. Last year I switched from OSX on a dated macbook to Ubuntu on a newer Dell XPS. On the whole I am happy with the switch: with many of the apps that I use based on electron (slack, atom,
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by rotskoff 8y ago
It's an interesting and complicated question, but it seems like the coinbase business model should be pretty dramatically affected by the massive sell-off. First, as prices go lower, the average value of a transaction is (probably) dec
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by rotskoff 8y ago
The article concludes that it is acceptable to stay on Facebook, but I take issue with its approach. Underlying the logic is a premise: that because Facebook is used by some to spread propaganda and promote hate, it is (at least in part) to
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by rotskoff 8y ago
Currently, for "hybrid" journals, the researcher must pay a publishing fee, typically on the order of $2000-$3000. I have an independent postdoctoral fellowship, which means I have some funding, but not enough for it to make sense
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by rotskoff 8y ago
I have found that the machine learning research community uses twitter pretty effectively. I don't tweet myself, but I do follow a good number of other researchers and often find interesting papers and results through the venue. It&#x2
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by rotskoff 8y ago
One peculiarity of the academic system (true to some extent in start-ups) is that people transition from researchers to managers without any real training or evaluation of their proclivity for management. While you may be a spectacular rese
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by rotskoff 8y ago
The MPIs are set up as director-driven research organizations. There is one person, typically a very prominent scientist, that oversees a group of junior faculty (who I believe have only fixed term positions---i.e., no possibility of tenure
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by rotskoff 8y ago
I'm a mathematician, but I work on things that are not even remotely related to the Riemann hypothesis. I could not possibly weigh in on the validity of the proof. My colleagues who know this area better are extremely skeptical, in par
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by rotskoff 8y ago
This write up not only oversimplifies, but it totally neglects one of the more interesting motivations of the original paper [1]. The authors are probing whether or not quantum mechanics is consistent with a single-world interpretation---th
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by rotskoff 8y ago
I only used Apple products for about a decade, but last year I bought a Dell XPS which I run Ubuntu on. If you're looking to run linux, the XPS is a great choice. The hardware quality is extremely high---long battery life, ridiculous s
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Root robotics(rootrobotics.com)
1 points by rotskoff 8y ago|0 comments
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by rotskoff 8y ago
While sci-hub undoubtedly plays a role here, in my field the arXiv is really what has obviated the necessity of journal subscriptions. Essentially all math papers, in both the preprint and post-review form, can be found on the arXiv. I woul
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The Global Tourism Backlash(citylab.com)
1 points by rotskoff 8y ago|0 comments
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by rotskoff 8y ago
A lot of the comments here suggest that, because participation is voluntary and because there are other incentives, like spending time outside, reduced sentences, etc, this practice is unquestionably fine. For me, the thing that makes it et

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