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When claire stopped writing the tgif emails I was very sad, among others I talked to. When I heard, years later, about all this bs she went through, it helped crack the illusion fo…

The flip side is redistributive pensions require an ever growing population and most European pension systems will go bankrupt within a couple of decades given current birth and im…

Choose the top N according to the proxy objective and then use the real objective to choose the best out of those N candidates.

Claire deWitt and the city of the dead, by Sara Gran is a good example. Very colorful language. Also the first volumes of the Berlin Noir "trilogy".

How is brain separate from the rest of google?

The historic picture makes a little more sense (though this is not something a 5yo would understand). We call these things embeddings because you start with a very high dimensional…

I've contributed to autograph and would love to answer any questions.

Cool! Did you try using tensorflow's eager execution?

I think Keras is a real deal framework. It provides a higher-level API than most other frameworks, but it has pretty sweet portability of models across frameworks and platforms and…

We're still fairly early in the project, so for now threading is the only supported way. We can do better, however, and we're working on ways to leverage the hardware better (for e…

Ah, I didn't know SavedModel didn't work in android. I think freezing is still the way to go there? I'm sorry, I don't personally work on the mobile side of things.

Did you try using SavedModel? It should be seamless to use downstream with tensorflow serving and it's not that hard to get estimators to spit those out.

You can read out more about it in the blog post ( https://research.googleblog.com/2017/10/eager-execution-impe... ) or the README ( https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/ma…

I write tests not to convince myself my code is correct (it often is, and repl and ad-hoc testing are more than enough to make sure it does the right thing now) but to prevent myse…

The averaged perceptron is the one to which the proof applies :-)

Regarding the perceptron, most modern texts also have a regret analysis for the perceptron, which coupled with an online-to-batch conversion tells you how well do you expect a perc…

ML PhD student here. The reason why this is different is that the parallel monte carlo simulations are running on different subsets of the data in each machine, and then averaged. …

Honestly, more people should use stabilizer http://plasma.cs.umass.edu/emery/stabilizer . The best can still be an outlier.

Fun fact: this is pretty much the same dynamic program as CKY, the parsing algorithm that can parse any context-free language in the appropriate normal form (only productions looki…

The fallacy behind arguments like this is that when someone says that we're "proposing to push people to speak at conferences who aren't necessarily the most knowledgeable speakers…

A foot a second is off by several orders of magnitude. It's closer to 300 thousand km per second in vacuum, and around 200 thousand km per second in fiber.

The above construction is a not a breakthrough and it is how I was taught in my approximate algorithms class. Also the way the optimization problem is usually defined is not as "gi…

A temp agency?