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This is so weird, seeing this. Two years ago, I got a customs notice from FedEx asking to fill in my details. That was just a plain email from __some guy__ at FedEx with a PDF file…

Reference on LLM architectures

It seems that the leaderboard doesn't contain the results for all of the supported DBs (I was looking for the pgvector myself). The README.md contains a screenshot from local testi…

I'm "almost" a lifelong user of a cochlear implant. I got my first one when I was 9. Before I got it, I was communicating through lip reading and speaking, I never knew sign langua…

I really like the book's subchapter on colours, wish it was even more elaborated on. Colours are one of the subtle things I so often find difficult to get right. As to using matplo…

A timeless classic from Buena Vista Social Club comes to mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5cELP06Mik

In larger companies, and, specifically, bigger projects, systems tend to have multiple ML components, and those are usually a mix of large NN models and more classical (ML) algorit…

For a numerical "physicist" (yes, the quotation marks are indispensable), Sympy was somewhat of a godsend to me. Great for prototyping even more advanced models before optimising t…

I wonder if this is in response to Sci-Hub/Arxiv proliferation or what else. Anyhow, I find it beyond rich -- the authors usually do all the typesetting, spell/grammar checks, form…

As an engineer my concern about "google killers" is that I can't see an easy way to scale and control/optimize them in business settings. Apart from factual misstatements happening…

I'm a certified member of the Peripatetic school [1]. The ancients knew it and I know it -- I walk therefore I am. It's by the walking alone I set my mind to motion. Needless to sa…

Here's the catch -- I don't have a dog! Utter ramblings, I say!

I actually tested a bunch of those on GH Copilot -- sure enough, it does autocomplete certain prompts. No wonder, some are probably known quotes. Anyway, when I'm feeling down in m…

Maybe many PhDs attend conferences just because they have to have some paper/poster presentation rather than they are genuinely interested in making new connections? That's what I'…

I see a lot of folks touch on the UX of the Medium website. For me it's the content -- the paywall and overall layout would be digestible if not for the awful lot of generic Medium…

My grandma and her friends were projectionists in a small town cinema. It really did have a climate of the early scenes from Cinema Paradiso (although it wasn't that long time ago)…

I think the problem here is that articles and publications in general do not provide enough detail to reproduce the results. Even though, that is the exact reason you write an arti…

Yes, « Nonlinear dynamics and chaos » is my favorite, I think it’s his best book. It has tons of nice examples and gets you a crash course over multiple concepts. « Sync » is nice …

As an undergrad in EE and CS this was a bit of a mixed experience to me. Laplace transform was presented as kind of a nice hack, but I think the actual development of intuition is …

I enjoy the overall fashion in which he presents the topics — clear, motivating example to start with, building on relevant details etc. His textbooks read like a good popsci book,…

After reading Strogatz, I view past courses I have taken in engineering DEs as a crime on students and lecturers alike. I know there's a substantial difference between pure/applied…

It's not a statement about your general motivation for a PhD -- I don't think you can easily find a subject for which you will find a non-stop motivation 24h/7days for 3-4 years (o…

« You will like any subject once you get to know enough about it. » this is a really important observation — good attitude will do wonders to your motivation for research.