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Personal website: https://fwilliams.info I also own https://stonks.money and am looking for good ideas for what to do with it

Ha! I had a side project during my PhD to build a segmenting and straightening program for this project! Source code is here: https://github.com/fwilliams/unwind Paper is here: htt…

This is a utility library I slowly built up during my PhD and has become my swiss army knife for processing 3D data. It's super easy to install (only depends on NumPy and SciPy). T…

I have personally gotten a lot of mileage from just writing the compute heavy parts of my code in C++ and exposing it to Python with a tool like PyBind11 [1] or NumpyEigen [2]. I f…

It’s crazy seeing this on the front page of HN! I grew up in Stanstead. I have fond memories of story time as a child in the library, borrowing movies and comic books, and playing …

Tried this on chrome and it's pretty awesome! Unfortunately it doesn't work on Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04 with an NVIDIA GTX 3090Ti. :(

Then who is "they" in this situation? You need a citation!

If you look at the plagiarized language in the article, it seems as if the BM paper authors are claiming contributions (emphasis mine). Credit is a major currency in research, and …

To quote the article: > But even putting aside the fact that claiming someone else's writing as one's own is wrong, the value in survey papers is in how they re-frame the field. A …

I want to echo the other comments here that low expense ratio ( My time horizon is longer than 5 years, and I buy broad market index funds split up as follows: 55% US large cap (e.…

I was a software engineer briefly before starting grad school. During that time, I found I didn't have the time to sit down and learn about topics that interested me. I also wanted…

It’s not the site you’re looking for, but I found https://poolside.fm recently and it’s become one of those quirky corners of the internet that I have come to enjoy. I definitely m…

No mention of conda for environment management? In my experience, conda is by far the best tool for this. Especially when using packages which have non python dependencies.

It's worth noting that the primary result of this paper has only to do with the error on the training data under empirical risk minimization. Zero training error =/= a model that g…

Link (from the article) to the paper with details: https://www.ilyaraz.org/static/papers/spectral_gap.pdf

Okay so I went and read the paper. They discuss generative modeling in section 5 and in the appendix (section 7.2). Section 5 claims "the corresponding CoordConv GAN model generate…

I haven't read the paper so I can't comment on the success of the method, but most applied ML research will show their best results in the publication and leave out failure cases. …

Somewhat tangentially, some recent work showed that a lot of problems with images (e.g. denoising, upsampling, inpainting, etc...) can be solved very efficiently with no training s…