srean

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A lesson in lighting through blade runner(nofilmschool.com)
8 points by srean 3d ago|0 comments
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by srean 3d ago
They have a nice ring and cadence. One could string some of them along into a Pythonic poem to be recited from castle tops.
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by srean 3d ago
https://saemiller.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/1A934B69-17... One of my favorite photographs. It captures their characters so well.
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by srean 4d ago
> The site is unfortunately filled with rampant upvote rings, AI agents / bots commenting, users that have certain privileges who can rapidly comment and reply without getting throttled Can you tell us about how do you know this
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Bird Haiku Poems Inspired by Nature 5 7 5(alongthebarrenroad.com)
2 points by srean 4d ago|0 comments
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by srean 4d ago
Not memorize but one may need to derive the result. Consider differentiating the matrix logarithm of a complex matrix.
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by srean 4d ago
Now that einsum syntax is supported in languages like Python and Julia this is more true. Before einsum syntax, it helped if the result could be written in terms of matrix operation because then one could utilise the primitives offered by
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by srean 4d ago
Same point made by bollu here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23359467
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You Don't Need Matrix Calculus(julesjacobs.com)
17 points by srean 5d ago|6 comments
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by srean 9d ago
No premonition of anything bad that will happen. Just that it is considered being dismissive or disrespectful towards the abstract concept of knowledge and learning. So you say 'sorry' in some way.
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by srean 10d ago
Could you explain a bit more. What you say about similar objects is obviously true. However the algorithm sketch that you have in your mind is a little implicit. Could you make it more explicit. I am quite curious. I explained my thoughts i
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by srean 10d ago
One way to pose/(think about) the problem is that there are two finite metric spaces linked by an unknown odometry (damn you autocorrect). The problem is to recover that unknown isometry. This, like graph isometry, can be very computat
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by srean 10d ago
Thanks for the recommendation . Sounds like a good read.
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by srean 10d ago
Let's assume that monotonocity of pair-wise distances are preserved. Without knowing the details of how the paper solved the problem, my first attempt would be to find the diametrically distant pair of points in the two different embed
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by srean 10d ago
Fantasys felt so lazy to me. Although sometimes I do enjoy the descriptions. But there is always an escape hatch out of a trouble and one that was not foreshadowed. It is constraints that makes things interesting and especially the higher
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by srean 11d ago
Many of the classics were very popular and got their label later. Classics and pop culture are not necessarily at odds.
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by srean 11d ago
Yeah that's what I thought.
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by srean 11d ago
I understand your curiosity but am glad that this was posted. A Markov chain equipped with a stack is a simple yet powerful combination for text generation. I think we need reminders that simple models can often be adequate and easy to debu
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by srean 12d ago
Try stellarium https://stellarium-web.org/ or the app.
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by srean 12d ago
Yes it showed in the ongoing US Iran conflict. /S
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by srean 12d ago
I share your dismay. I grew up under dark skies and whenever I get a chance to watch the dark skies it takes my breath away. Soon we will be limited to watching starlink streaks. Internet and smart telescopes don't do it for me. For th
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by srean 13d ago
That was a long but a fantastic read. Thanks for sharing.
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by srean 18d ago
It's going South and then trying to close the loop from behind. It gets interrupted by land before the loop closes. Hope it makes sense.
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by srean 20d ago
Yes it goes by a couple of names. Surveyor's formula, shoelace formula. The Surveyor’s Area Formula Bart Braden The College Mathematics Journal, September 1986, Volume 17, Number 4. https://web.archive.org/web/2015
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by srean 20d ago
Indeed. One of my off by one errors is a stupid hacky Monte Carlo intution for Picks theorem. I count the number of points inside. Now about the boundary points I must assign some fractional weight because they are not fully inside. What
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by srean 20d ago
On the other hand, if you want to compute the area of a polygon that have vertices at lattice points, you can count the number of interior points I , the number of boundary points B . Then the area A is A = I + B/2 - 1 T
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by srean 20d ago
They (meaning not just US) are literally proving Upton Sinclair's law.
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by srean 20d ago
For an idea about the rampant corruption in the Himalayan states of India that promotes illegal and dangerous real estate projects. There is a cartel of politicians and builders who are making a fast buck selling to those who are not fully
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by srean 20d ago
Maybe true in the first world. In 3rd world countries some times the information about the hazards is not properly appreciated. For example, there were recent floods, is a location were previous governments had not developed. Now the curren
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by srean 21d ago
> Your question is why they are allowed to build in some areas No that is not my question at all. In fact I don't have a question, I have a position. My position is that population density in many of these super dangerous areas is b

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