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by svalorzen 2y ago
The problem with this is that it will not actually parse double in IEEE 754, as you will accumulate inaccuracies at every step of the loop. In theory, when parsing a float, you are supposed to return the floating point that is closest to th
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by svalorzen 2y ago
I recently actually tried to do a very similar thing, although a bit tighter in scope. What stopped me what that actually deserializing floating points cannot currently be done at compile time; the only utility available to do so is `from_c
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by svalorzen 2y ago
I mean, surely if you are doing something that requires this level of precision, you could just ask the user to input its current known location? I doubt that even if the user misdialed by ten or twenty meters the difference in compensation
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by svalorzen 3y ago
Also, in case anyone is interested, the uninformative Jeffreys prior for this in Bayesian statistics (meaning it does not assume anything and is invariant to certain transformations of the inputs) is Beta(0.5, 0.5). Thus the initial guess i
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by svalorzen 3y ago
There is a Vim plugin called EasyMotion, which I absolutely love, which when invoked creates a simple 1 or 2-key "checkpoint" at the start of every word on your screen, and super imposes them on the text. Then it's only a mat
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by svalorzen 4y ago
> No, not necessarily. Several studies have shown that different people can get different amounts of energy out of the same food, depending amongst others on their gut micro biome, though stress also seems to play a role. It’s never goin
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by svalorzen 4y ago
Hasn't your bet already been beat in concept by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r ? He is a chess teacher who decided to train his daughters in chess from a very young age. What do you kno
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by svalorzen 4y ago
I thought about this for a bit, and I have a feeling that as long as everything is touching the ground, then making covering loops is impossible, and so there exist a simple ordering you can compute. The ordering is as follows: I'm ass
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by svalorzen 4y ago
We document that the ban on dumping dioxins in rivers has induced the exit of a number of chemical plants; and following implementation entry of dangerous chemical handling facilities fell by half. Whatever the health benefits of banning di
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by svalorzen 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand why dynamic programming wouldn't work (and the author explicitly mentioned Knuth). Tex's main job is literally doing line breaks, which is the exact same problem being tackled here. I would expect a
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by svalorzen 5y ago
Hi, I'm the author of a C++ library focused on tabular bandits, mdps and pomdps. It's called AI-Toolbox, and it's one of the largest non NN libraries out there. The library is fully documented, but the text is probably a bit
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by svalorzen 5y ago
When you look at something like Borat's swimming suit, it is ridiculed specifically because it is sexualized. However, for men that swimming suit generally results in a negative sexual interest, and it's why you hardly find men we
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by svalorzen 5y ago
> So leave. This is like being unwillingly thrust on the top antenna of a skyscraper, barely hanging on, and you saying "Don't like it here? Then jump."
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by svalorzen 5y ago
Nice work! I maintain a library, cpp-readline [1], with a very similar API. The main difference is that relegates the REPL part to GNU readline. You do have the additional dependency, but on the other hand it automatically adds history and
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by svalorzen 5y ago
> you are your job I'm sorry to say this, but this is one of the saddest things a person can say in my opinion. You can definitely become your job, but I can't see myself ever wanting something like that.
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by svalorzen 5y ago
Not an English native as well, but in my language it works in the same way. "My" is used to designate possession of the set, not of the individuals. I don't own "my friends" as a slave owner, they are "my frien
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by svalorzen 5y ago
What I realized after many long discussions with my friends is that the largest discrepancies in opinions often originate from a simple different assumption. The difficult part is discussing long enough to figure out what that assumption is
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by svalorzen 5y ago
Every time there is a post like this I go check the license of the original project. Invariably, it is MIT. I think this is probably indicative of something, although I couldn't say what.
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by svalorzen 5y ago
I maintain a repository of many implementations of classical (tabular) RL algorithms [1] which you might enjoy playing with when starting out. I use it for both research and for student projects. The advantage of avoiding NNs when starting
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by svalorzen 5y ago
Are you sure about this? In my tests floating points are always considered partially ordered, not totally ordered. This page [0] even mentions this in the notes towards the bottom. [0]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp
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by svalorzen 5y ago
This is what I also do. I rebase all my branches and merge them with a no-fast-forward commit, which does not introduce any changes itself, but can be used to document the overall changes of a specific feature. The best part about this work
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by svalorzen 5y ago
Sorry to sidetrack, but I'm also interested in implementing a Tex engine (in another language though). Any suggestions on how to learn how an engine works?
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by svalorzen 6y ago
Yes... and no. It is true that after a result is obtained, one could clean up the code for publication. And it is true that coding is not seen add first class at the moment. At the same time, you need to consider that such a clean up is onl
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by svalorzen 6y ago
I don't really agree with the reasons given, even though my conclusions are the same. The main reason why research code becomes a tangled mess is due to the intrinsic nature of research. It is highly iterative work where assumptions ke
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by svalorzen 6y ago
If you are ever interested in the topic of RL, but wish to start learning the concepts on simpler algorithms and keep the "deep" part for later, I maintain a library that has most of the same design goals: https://githu
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by svalorzen 6y ago
I apologize if using hyperboles makes my point less clear. I'm not literally advocating Alaska, I'm trying to make the point that cities as we currently know them only exist because they are the most efficient solution when the po
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by svalorzen 6y ago
Personally, I really hate this comment, for several reasons. First, let's consider the price of the rent. Assume for a moment that somebody manages to fix all mental health problems, alcoholism and so on, and that magically everyone ma
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by svalorzen 7y ago
I don't think the author is advocating for less education. The thing is that completing a university course awards you with a title which should in theory certify that you have completed some material and you understand it very well. I
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by svalorzen 8y ago
RL is actually quite an umbrella term for a lot of things. There's policy gradient methods, which improve directly on the policy to select better actions, there's value based methods which try to approximate the value function of
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by svalorzen 8y ago
If you ever feel like trying out the algorithms contained in the book without going to the trouble of reimplementing everything from scratch feel free to come over to https://github.com/Svalorzen/AI-Toolbox . This is a

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