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by sidr 2y ago
Cross-entropy is not the KL divergence. There is an additional term in cross-entropy which is the entropy of the data distribution (i.e., independent of the model). So, you're right in that minimizing one is equivalent to minimizing th
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by sidr 3y ago
The first slide makes the disclaimer that one is not "able to identify if an event was due to climate change", only likelihoods of certain events occurring under various conditions. People might treat those two things the same due
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by sidr 3y ago
Obamacare won't fix it because it's a gutted compromise. Universal healthcare (which is the only way to get around private insurers not paying out, and not tying healthcare spending to income) is a non starter in this country and
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by sidr 3y ago
Those colleagues were very wealthy by Indian standards to begin with and have only increased their purchasing power by being abroad. India does in fact have free care at government facilities and they are certainly not "low overhead an
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by sidr 3y ago
It used to be. https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/press/press-releases/british-so...
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by sidr 4y ago
I have a PhD and this is absolutely not the reason universities don't want to hire their own. In the modern day, there is no reason whatsoever that university affiliation limits the spread of ideas or collaborations. The reason is ther
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by sidr 4y ago
Is this subscription-based hardware though? It's an open linux device and you can write any software you want to work with it. There's no requirement to pay for their cloud storage if you don't want to.
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by sidr 4y ago
Why is this an advantage? The factors in assessing the risk are the creditworthiness of the customer and the amount. Also, I find it hard to believe that the creditworthiness of a customer actually fluctuates fast enough for Affirm to be ab
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by sidr 4y ago
I went to one of these liberal arts college. They all (typically) have science and math departments. Engineering typically doesn't fall under the purview of liberal arts (though pure science and math certainly do). The problem tends to
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by sidr 4y ago
Not really. A lot of these small liberal arts colleges date back to the 1800s. The more prestigious ones are often priced like private R1 institutions as well. I'm sure there are some two-year institutions that started offering four-ye
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by sidr 5y ago
How is this relevant to the pro sports bring value through children's leagues discussion though? It appears these kids leagues exist completely independent of the professional teams, and would continue to do so even if the pro team lef
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by sidr 5y ago
That's what these economic studies look at - is it worth paying for the stadium in order to prop up those businesses? The answer appears to be overwhelmingly "no".
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by sidr 5y ago
By that logic the government should subsidize/fund Netflix, Amazon and Apple because they deliver and produce content that entertains me.
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by sidr 5y ago
> just how important big teams like say, Chelsea or Barca are for a huge chunk of not just the people who live in their home cities but also across the world. Here "important to" is equivalent to "liked/entertained by
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by sidr 5y ago
And they visit, have a couple of beers, and leave. This influx is accounting for in the analysis of "is it worth it?" and the answer is a resounding "no". Well, it's a "no" for most large, dense cities, Gr
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by sidr 5y ago
It is played, almost exclusively, by said immigrants from the Indian subcontinent. So only in a handful of cities where there's a critical mass of them that are somewhat recently immigrated (and there is room for grounds).
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by sidr 5y ago
> why cities keep on bidding for the olympics, which is otherwise hard to rationalise. There was one bid for 2028 and one for 2032. Compare with 8+ bids in years past. There are fewer and fewer new cities that have never hosted before pu
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by sidr 5y ago
> Where are the companies that don't pull this shit? Netflix? Amazon?
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by sidr 5y ago
The people in the sports club will roll their eyes at you because [they think] you are a tin-foil hat wearing lunacy who is paranoid about surveillance from the boogeyman. They will refuse to switch their mode of communication that works fo
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by sidr 5y ago
At a company there's a reporting chain and an HR department to ensure that even in this situation, the candidate isn't left ghosted - offer to shop the candidate's resume around and switch teams, or at the very least inform t
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by sidr 5y ago
They need special livescribe dot pattern paper - any ol' paper won't work.
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by sidr 5y ago
I purchased the remarkable 1 where there was nothing else that had the same latency for pens/styluses. The apple stylus is down to 9ms now, which is way faster than even the remarkable 2 (and that is amazing). I would be annoyed with a
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by sidr 5y ago
Fair enough - the page change UX is a little clunky (and anything requiring changing screens many times on e-ink will be clunky). I read papers a lot more than I do textbooks. For fiction, the successive page turns are fine.
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by sidr 5y ago
This was my primary use case for this and I love it - I need to be taking notes in the margins for me to stay engaged with the material. My rare pain points have been: * sometimes the resolution is not enough and if you really want to zoom
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by sidr 5y ago
The comment you are replying to is not suggesting that Apple is as egregious as Microsoft. Shittiness can be measured on absolute terms - one doesn't have to accept the lowest bar as the standard.
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by sidr 5y ago
you think google/fb production code runs on laptops?
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by sidr 5y ago
They don't need to predict the actual sale price of every given property perfectly to make money. They need to be able to say that with 99% probability, we will find at least one offer for this house >= 500,000. The errant buyer wit
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by sidr 5y ago
Any probability distribution of any attribute can be aribtrarily cut off at the 90th or 85th percentiles to make this point. Are you claiming there's something special that relates integer multiples of standard deviation of the IQ di
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by sidr 5y ago
"Everything was going perfect. I loved my job and the people I worked with, I just left because I am prone to doing that when there are no issues whatsoever."
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by sidr 5y ago
The reality of not being able to publish negative results, and the publish or perish system of academia paralyzes researchers.

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