sh33mp

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by sh33mp 7y ago
>not bc of performance, but bc I hate OSXs Cmd-Tab ordering That's a trivial but surprisingly reasonable reason for using two browsers. OSX has some annoying quirks sometimes.
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by sh33mp 8y ago
The 20,000 for advanced degree holders already holds in the current system, and it already over-subscribed. So this would not reduce the number of H-1Bs issued.
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by sh33mp 8y ago
The above commenter probably spoke a little too hastily. "Building Machines" is indeed not a paper about a neural network method, but a survey of problems that we should expect neural networks to do better on, but they currently a
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by sh33mp 8y ago
Could you guys elaborate on the relationship between PyText, torchtext, and AllenNLP? I've briefly used the latter two, but with how quickly things are moving it'd be nice to have a quick answer from the devs themselves.
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by sh33mp 8y ago
>I grew up in a place practicing one-candidate votes (i.e., you choose between "in favor" that in the end will show 95+% and "against" with no alternatives) so acquired immunity to "citizen votes solve all proble
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by sh33mp 8y ago
I want to commend you for trying to learn more about the immigration process. More often than not, I find that Americans tend to not know hoops and travails that internationals have to jump through to work in the US, or even just to keep wo
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by sh33mp 8y ago
"Evidence suggests that the heat death of the universe is unavoidable."
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by sh33mp 8y ago
To put a futurist spin on it: advertising is the commercialization around the information bottleneck in the information age.
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by sh33mp 8y ago
ULM-FiT and OpenAI's Transformer* are quite different. Both are pretrained language-models, but ULM-FiT is a standard stack of LSTMs with a particular recipe for fine-tuning, whereas the OpenAI's Transformer uses the much newer Tr
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by sh33mp 8y ago
Self-documenting code base, right?
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by sh33mp 8y ago
I guess I was a little unclear in what I meant. I meant that everyone (prior to the much later 2DS) had to pay for the 3D tech that most people didn't really want. I absolutely turned my 3D off about a week in and never really used it
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by sh33mp 8y ago
Just a gamer here, but there's something to be said about the success and failure of the 3DS and PS Vita. The 3DS, based on hardware/system alone, should have failed. It was tremendously underpowered, and it forced a terrible 3D t
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by sh33mp 8y ago
Agreed. I think it comes down to the presentation/interpretation of results. The response to "My classifier gets score of X" can be either "wow, that's a good score for a classifier, this method has merit" or &
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by sh33mp 8y ago
This thread is a microcosm of this whole issue of overhyping. On one hand, we have one commenter saying he can train a model to do a specific thing with a specific quantitative metric, to demonstrate how deep learning can incredibly powerfu
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by sh33mp 8y ago
Ah, I was under the impression that RFs choose from a subset of features, not just one feature. In any case, I agree with the thrust of your original comment that the specifications of the RF algorithm can be relaxed, usually for performanc
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by sh33mp 8y ago
I believe the formulation of random forests requires you to find the optimal split, albeit over a subset of features. What you're talking about, where you simply generate a set of random splits across features, is Extremely Randomized
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by sh33mp 8y ago
A funny thing about decision trees (or random forests) is how conceptually simple they are, but in terms of implementation they're very non-trivial. There's always a point in the lecture or explanation where they go So we just fi
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by sh33mp 8y ago
Mortal Kombat is very, very fun. I'm not sure I'd call it a good film, but I enjoyed it a lot. Another good example is the Phoenix Wright movie (in Japan). Both are excellent love letters to their fans.
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by sh33mp 8y ago
To this day, I'm still trying to understand why my freshman calculus class (proof-based), was as effective as it was. It was 30 students, 1 lecturer, and a whole bunch of black board panels. I think part of it was that it felt like a c
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by sh33mp 9y ago
>Facebook run fun psychological experiments to see if they can manipulate their users - without calling for volunteers first or anything I recognise as ethics. I've always wondered: How is that different from A/B testing, or an
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by sh33mp 9y ago
On the other hand, these criteria seem like they would encompass a good deal of all fiction.
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by sh33mp 9y ago
Is this true though? Sure, for a casual observer, these new methods for generating videos appear convincing, but is that the right bar to judge "ability to fake evidence"? As far as I know, there have always been more sophisticate
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by sh33mp 9y ago
Meritocracy is very much in conflict with equality. Meritocracy means you are judged on your merit. It is completely orthogonal to a nature-vs-nurture argument. For example, this is exactly the sort of debate we've been having in Singa
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by sh33mp 9y ago
>But this runs into a problem - if you don't know that the piece was created by a machine, you might assume intent and judge it as an art. Does it stop being an art when you learn that there was no intent? What if you learn that abo
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by sh33mp 9y ago
Here's a no-nonsense video chronicling the progress of the Donkey Kong world record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAQ2vEHq2N4 This guy has also made videos chronicling similar speedrun records for other games, and t
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by sh33mp 9y ago
My view for the longest time is that most of mainstream Economics is best seen as "argument by rigorous analogy". The post-Samuelson heavy emphasis on math has allowed for really rigorous analogies, and at least provides a common
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by sh33mp 9y ago
He spent a couple of years in Singapore, so I'm going by the pronunciation there. (May be different in different regions, and I'm not sure about his preferred pronunciation now). It would do something like this: Start with the wor
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by sh33mp 9y ago
pandas was first developed at AQR Capital. http://pandas.pydata.org/community.html
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by sh33mp 9y ago
There's a great deal of misinformation and wrong-headed insinuation in this comment. >People love to talk about how bad Duerte is in the Philippines (he is), but in Singapore, 18oz of marijuana gets you a mandatory death penalty The
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by sh33mp 11y ago
So could someone clarify this for me? Is is that the TPP negotiations are occurring in secret, or is it that the TPP will be passed without it being available for the public to view (which should be the case for most bills?)? The former see

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