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Traditional OCRs are trained for a single task: recognize characters. They do this through visual features (and sometimes there's an implicit (or even explicit) "language" model: s…

I would love to hear more about your experiences running a maths circle here in the UK. My two daughters are a little young (3.5 and 0.5), but this article has inspired me to get t…

I think it's because most of the compute comes from the decoding, since you're doing it autoregressively, while the encoder you just feed it through once and get the embedding. So …

Wow, I did not expect to see David's notation here on HN. The only problem with the notation is that it becomes so second nature that you forget it's not standard!

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You're going from {0,1} to {-1,1} using indices. Seems easier to just transform via (x*2-1).

the only thing keeping me from moving completely from Firefox to Chrome is Pentadactyl ( http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/ ), and better greasemonkeyscript-ability. Firefo…