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Yes, you are right to point this out. There are some important details that are still being debated. Personally my impression is that the debate has advanced enough to the point wh…

In the Everett/Many Worlds interpretation the appearance of randomness can be explained as an emergent phenomenon resulting from not being able to predict which part of the wave fu…

It has stax, which is a minimal example of how to build a high level library: https://github.com/google/jax/blob/master/jax/experimental/s... It seems that the JAX developers are f…

I really like JAX as well: https://github.com/google/jax . It's younger than PyTorch and TF, but feels cleaner and more expressive. It has a very nice autodiff implementation (base…

Do you also write your own automatic differentiation tools? Using libraries like TF and PyTorch makes sense if you use neural networks because they provide automatic differentiatio…

I don't think that the GP is advocating that we motivate students to study linear algebra by telling them it will make them rich. They were merely saying that this is a nice way to…

I can recommend the drive command line tool: https://github.com/odeke-em/drive It's also written in Go, but is different from gdrive and skicka in that it has a push/pull workflow …

Looks like this is a rebranding of the existing Vector app. Here's the blog post from the creators: https://medium.com/@RiotChat/lets-riot-f5b0aa99dc8e#.3toozs7...

That's a good point, but I suspect that a lot of serious gotchas that a data scientist might encounter in the wild are not taught as part of a graduate-level statistics course. Bei…

Why should not having a BS in statistics prevent anyone from properly learning and applying statistics in a rigorous scientific fashion? There are a lot of people with a rigorous m…

Great question! There is more to it than you can see in the animation. Because this is a quantum mechanical problem, it's not enough to take into account a single given field confi…

This is a good question! It's different because if you pass quantum entangled information to the other person, you will be able to cooperate more effectively with them on certain g…

You have to take into account that quantum processes are governed by a kind of "randomness" that is different from the one in stochastic processes. Scott Aaronson explains the basi…

XMonad has been my window manager of choice for years now. I especially like that the code is short and easy to understand, so you can easily modify it (or write an extension) if y…