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kshitijl

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    Comment #15290270

    In the event of liquidation, shareholders are on the list of those owed a portion of the proceeds. In fact they are last on the list, after creditors (those who have loaned the com…

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    Comment #14828561

    Can't you always lower the brightness in software, at the OS/driver level? Unless you're saying that this compresses the dynamic range of brightnesses too much, to the point where …

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    Comment #13205076

    The studied circumspection in his responses to questions about Trump amused me. But I noticed that he said "the kind of leadership those voters wanted" (emphasis mine).

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    Comment #13173079

    This is what New York still feels like to me, 4 years after moving here. Don't own a car, hope I never have to.

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    Comment #11562548

    For people familiar with Gaussian Processes, it may help to think of Kalman filters as a special case of GPs where you can construct the inverse of the covariance matrix directly, …

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    Comment #11466191

    The whole point is that it enables spam, broadly interpreted to include unsolicited mail of all kinds.

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    Comment #10715576

    I am also very interested in knowing what to do when the dimension of the input space can vary. For example, suppose that I'm interested in learning 4-body gravitational motion usi…

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    Comment #10715552

    Ahh thanks, this line > Notice that both the polynomial and kernel methods have less than N terms which are nonzero, but [...] starts to answer my worry a little bit. It really is …

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    Comment #10715339

    With N parameters for N data points I have far, far too many degrees of freedom and have grossly overfit my training set. The only way to guarantee good generalization outside one'…

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    Comment #10714905

    I am familiar with basic regression theory and numerical optimization; I have a qualitative understanding of VC bound. Given this background: What is the number of parameters in a …

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    Comment #9358666

    Did you read the Wikipedia article you link to? This has everything to do with memoizing the result of running compilation programs (function) on input files (arguments). The "tric…

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    Comment #9266938

    A long time ago I worked on the modified ejabberd servers that provide this service. A shame indeed.