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bob88jg
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Comment #42039581
So it's a plain vanilla ABM with lots of human crafted interaction logic? So they are making outrageous claims - since they are making it sound like it's all spontaneously arising …
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Comment #41454950
Which of his suggestions would "make the city stop working"?
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Comment #41433006
Nah, you've got it backwards. The article isn't about dodging understanding - it's about making it way easier to spot patterns in your code. And that's exactly how you start to rea…
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Comment #41096481
Can anyone explain how an LLM is useful here? The clustering is done traditionally right? Then the llm is given the centroids and asked to give a label? Assumption being that the l…
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Comment #40789985
He literally started the UK side of the persecution - starmer is a cop, always has been always will be....
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Comment #40013919
Nobody is being cut off from anywhere - their route is being made longer in order to avoid residential areas - their journeys would be quicker if they walked they just don't want t…
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Comment #40013870
Exactly this! It all boils down to people being pissed that their car journey in London takes longer than it used to - nobody is actually being blocked from getting anywhere just t…
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Comment #39969276
Tbh I was not including the second one in the poo - I think the 1st and 2nd albums are both equally good in their own ways!
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Comment #39969235
Fascist! How dare you suggest I shouldn't ever go further than 15 minutes to access necessary resources to live my life! It's my god given right to spend at least an hour in traffi…
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Comment #39905882
This is what I clicked on this link for - a masterpiece shame later albums all got a bit poo
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Comment #39386074
That's not what it shows at all - it shows how varying hyper parameters (which are floats and thus can be set at any arbitary precision) effects the speed at which convergence happ…
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Comment #39360178
Same can be said for the madelbtot set or any other fractal - there is a physical bound on the precision of the values - you can in theory run a NN with arbitary precision floats..…
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Comment #39357781
"small changes in the hyperparameters can lead to large changes in training dynamics" This is the definition of Chaos though no? Butterfly flaps its wings, hurricane on other side …
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Comment #39357768
Thanks!! I was also under the impression Fractals required self similarity and not just infinite detail but glad to have that misconception corrected! I think it probably stems fro…
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Comment #39357738
This is what I Initially thought too but I am less certain now - I assumed Fractal implied self similarity (which this doesn't seem to have) but this is in fact not true - I think …
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Comment #39040981
It's not the financial cost of the time that's important it's the time itself - it's the requirement to completely go against my internal body clock to be at a location by a social…
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Comment #38870505
I suffer from extreme time blindness and one apparent solution to this is to have a regular metronome like pulse - I would love an app for say a smart watch or something that did t…
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Comment #38477917
I assumed he got some $$$ - but did he want to be removed or did you tell him he was no longer needed? Was he just as sure that he was no longer needed as u were?
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Comment #38477781
What so the person who "provided a lot of value in getting us to where we are" got ditched in the end? Is that your story? Use people and then chuck them to the curb once everythin…
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Comment #38058020
But ycombinator don't "sell" HN do they? So no infringement...no customers...
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Comment #37831107
Why would you not - analytical solutions are the rare occurrences might as well approach everything with simulation...
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Comment #37648353
Amazing reply
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Comment #37236739
No u have to do a bank transfer -in cash here means literally in cash...
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Comment #36563358
It's nothing more than the chain rule...University level it is not...the engineering aspect is the non trivial part IMHO...
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Comment #35589300
Except your comment doesn't come across like that - it comes across as very condescending thus the downvotes...