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`cat -n` prints with line numbers, which is occasionally handy.

Oh yeah that's gonna be a dense read then :) I really like Kevin Murphy's books. I learned a lot from them when I was getting started on this stuff. He's just released a two part f…

To grok the ELBO, don't start with VAEs; start with basic variational inference. https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00670 is good, though maybe increasingly dated...Once you're happy with …

Hi, tech lead for TFP here. The wording here was unclear -- sorry! We're fixing it presently. We are not migrating away from TF; far from it! The change here was to interoperate wi…

The link cites a vice article that cites a guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/01/philippines-pr...

Plain pdf: http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0312087.pdf

Neutrons are electrically neutral but they still interact electromagnetically (they're composed of charged quarks). They have a magnetic moment, for instance [1]. So they wouldn't …

Google's auto library, auto/value in particular, is worth a look: https://github.com/google/auto/tree/master/value

I've always thought it would be fun to somehow incorporate technology into climbing for tracking or otherwise augmenting the experience. Time trials sound like a quick avenue to pa…

Oops, maybe I unwittingly had access by being on work VPN. Sorry bout that! Thanks for the open link, jacquesm.

Looks like Nature makes the whole paper readable online: http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys...

It's not as snazzy as in the article but this alias in my .gitconfig is an integral part of my git workflow: gr = !git \ --no-pager \ log -n 16 --graph --date-order --date=short --…

They make slightly less than the median tax filer. The difference is potentially significant (I have no idea what the statistics are)

paper on arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1521

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So now at traffic stops, "license and registration" can become "unlocked cellphone and registration"? No thanks!

I'm guessing they have established relationships with the card issuer and will use your card number only once to establish the link, after which the card info isn't needed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law

Baez's google+ posts are always super interesting, informative and full of references for further reading. The comment threads are generally also very interesting and active. Highl…

I may be off base here, but I think the distinction is between number of degrees of freedom (what you describe) and density of bits of information. Bekenstein's result showed that …