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I'd like to see a cumulative version of that power law plot. How many papers had a delay of at least X days. I have been bit by several inexplicable, long delays recently. In my ca…

Here's a question that I hope is not too off-topic. Do people find the nano-banana cartoon infographics to be helpful, or distracting? Personally, I'm starting to tire seeing all t…

Well, yes, but, perhaps shortsightedly, I assumed the goal of the professor was to teach the course.

If you can use AI agents to give exams, what is stopping you from using them to teach the whole course? Also, with all the progress in video gen, what does recording the webcam rea…

> I cannot distinguish between the love I have for people and the love I have for dogs. - Kurt Vonnegut.

> I have evidence of the opposite. Do you? [1] [1] https://myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jcpy.1...

One time I needed to call 911 and was greeted with the recorded message, "Dear Nine One One customer, your call is important to us." Customer? Like others in the thread, I'm skepti…

https://apple.github.io/coremltools/docs-guides/source/palet...

> Write a program for a weighted random choice generator. Use that program to say ‘left’ about 80% of the time and 'right' about 20% of the time. Simply reply with left or right ba…

The best way to compute the empirical CDF (ECDF) is by sorting the data: N = len(data) X = sorted(data) Y = np.arange(N)/N plt.plot(X,Y) Technically, you should plot this with `plt…

Does user-generated content count? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=70213...

> by filtering any "books" (rather, files) that are larger than 30 MiB we can reduce the total size of the collection from 51.50 TB to 18.91 TB I can see problems with a hard cutof…

What will the future use to write about us when all our paywalled records are gone?

Anyone else annoyed at how narrow the term Homelab really is relative to what it could be? Any scientific or maker hobbies could take place in a "home lab," from breeding seedlings…

von Neumann did slightly more than that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_J...

Anyone play RoboWar back in the day? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboWar

There's been a lot of movement in the past few years on colormaps informed by studies of human perception. Viridis, now the matplotlib default, is quite popular: * https://bids.git…

Zero is a digit.

A short fat engineer is likely a dilettante.

Parent is talking about embroidery.

Many industries such as insurance have legal requirements that prevent the use of many black box methods. Scientists using ML for research often wish to understand their subjects, …

Buried deep in this article are some troubling comments about race, gender, and religion. The author argues that historically most "geniuses" have been non-catholic white men and c…

Citation needed. Comcast for one is _vehemently_ anti-union. I see only right-wing media claiming unions drive up internet costs.

Thoughts on how the economic situation will affect machine learning and data science in industry more generally?

He could have a vision impairment.