tomdre

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by tomdre 8y ago
Any recommendation for fishing around the Bay Area? I read that the water's quality of nearby lakes and rivers is pretty low.
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by tomdre 8y ago
Marty Music for guitar lessons https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmnlTWVJysjWPFiZhQ5uudg
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by tomdre 8y ago
One of my dreams is to do something similar by simplifying neural nets via (bi)simulation (something along the lines of quotient automata).
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by tomdre 8y ago
Never had the chance of studying it. I'll give it a closer look. Thanks.
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by tomdre 8y ago
"Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen et al. is one of my favorite books. It gave me a deep understanding of algorithms and data structures.
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by tomdre 8y ago
My recommendations: Cafes: Caffe Trieste (North Beach) Restaurants: The Ramp (Dogpatch), Sunday morning brunch at Thai Temple (Berkeley), Fish (Sausalito) Sights: Twin Peaks, Coit Tower, Berkeley hills (Grizzly peak) Weird shit: The Saloon
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by tomdre 9y ago
This is not a really strong argument against self-driving cars. The fact that a problem is NP-hard doesn't make it untractable. Every day we use apps that deal with NP problems (e.g., routing problems, packing problems, etc.). Also, no
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by tomdre 9y ago
My steps for learning French and Spanish were: 1) 1/2 months nonstop on Duolingo 2) Cartoons/books for kids 3) Spending free time with French/Spanish speakers (gotta mention that I was lucky because my native language is roma
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by tomdre 9y ago
"The Art of Computer Programming" by D. Knuth taught me the beauty of well designed algorithms. "The Art of Prolog" by E. Shapiro opened my mind to new programming paradigms.
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by tomdre 9y ago
Jaron Lanier's "You Are Not a Gadget" has some nice thought about this point, claiming that the web in the 90s was a way more creative and personal space than today.
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by tomdre 9y ago
I find even more hilarious the opposite phenomenon: English songs with fake Italian. My favorite example "zooma zooma baccala'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msbx4onTzFU
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by tomdre 9y ago
Titcoin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titcoin
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by tomdre 9y ago
Couldn't agree more. A technique should be judged by its usefulness. Not by its catchiness.
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by tomdre 9y ago
Off topic. Yann LeCun really looks like Michael Moore who looks like Peter Griffin.
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Uber’s Credit Card Is Bankrupting Restaurants(blog.producthunt.com)
4 points by tomdre 9y ago|0 comments
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by tomdre 9y ago
SOCML (Self-Organizing Conference on Machine Learning) is really nice. Open discussions and interesting people. It's not the classic academic conference.
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by tomdre 9y ago
A long time ago I read "Speed Reading" by Tony Buzan. It provides plenty of techniques, tricks, and exercises.
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by tomdre 9y ago
Murano's glass blowers (Venetian lagoon) are the craftsmen that I admired the most. It's a pleasure seeing them at work. Immense skills and tradition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano_glass
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by tomdre 9y ago
Jaron Lanier's "Dawn of the New Everything". Beautiful description of his journey in VR and how Silicon Valley has evolved from the early 80s.
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by tomdre 9y ago
Here in Berkeley there's this amazing company https://www.imperfectproduce.com/ that delivers veggies that are not nice enough for markets.
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by tomdre 9y ago
I love Fermat's Library http://fermatslibrary.com/ It provides a good selection of classics annotated with the purpose of guiding you through the paper. There's also the seminal Bitcoin paper http://fer
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by tomdre 9y ago
Check out "domain adaptation" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_adaptation
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by tomdre 9y ago
If I stick a picture of a dog on a car and my neural net detects a dog instead of a car, can I claim that I've invented an adversarial generator?
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by tomdre 9y ago
Thanks! I'll have a look at it for sure. During my phd I developed a tool for reachability analysis of polynomial dynamical systems https://github.com/dreossi/sapo I needed expression manipulation to compute Berne
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by tomdre 9y ago
I worked with GiNaC https://www.ginac.de/ and noticed that the bottleneck was variable substitutions, e.g., replace a variable with a constant and simplify the expression. I'm still dreaming of an efficient CAS.
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by tomdre 9y ago
I really liked "Visual Complexity" by Manuel Lima: https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Complexity-Mapping-Patterns-In...
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by tomdre 9y ago
Do you guys know if it's possible to programmatically alter ETS environment? (such as weather, brightness, traffic, etc). Thinking of using the simulator to generate augmented data.
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by tomdre 9y ago
Splinter is the best
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by tomdre 9y ago
When I moved to France from Italy I didn't speak a single word of French. I spent 5 months on Duolingo (en->fr), hung out with French colleagues, read books and watch cartoons for kids (Asterix and Tin Tin are my favorite). After 8
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Hayao Miyazaki's thoughts on an artificial intelligence(youtube.com)
7 points by tomdre 9y ago|0 comments

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