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ludwigschubert

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About ludwigschubert

Clear explanations of machine learning @ Distill: https://distill.pub

CNN (ML vision model) interpretability: https://github.com/tensorflow/lucid

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48965186

    > Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analysis. This suggests that association…

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    Comment #48913999

    Thickness, and also cost.

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    Comment #48875130

    (I was replying to a child comment on fear of deep waters, seemingly deleted?) I’ve heard this sentiment before, and can sort of intellectually follow, but man. I love scuba diving…

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    Comment #48642164

    This seems like an unusually good time to mention https://hnrss.org I’ve been quite happy getting replies to my HN comments as an rss feed! No affiliation, just a happy user. Also …

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    Comment #46236721

    The first Distill publication[0] made tasteful use of minimal interactivity through JavaScript/d3.js[1] on top of SVGs. Many of the illustrations were initially drawn in GUI editor…

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    Comment #45338764

    The user you originally replied to specifically mentioned > without going to text first

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    Comment #45326984

    And what else did Apple do? Build two “Pro” phones with even bigger batteries for these folks. Come on, let a thousand flowers bloom! (Yeah that phrase has unfortunate Mao-era bagg…

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    Comment #45247321

    You seem to sound dismissive, and it did sound wild to me too, yet that is indeed happening and well documented. The “wires” are kilometer long thin fiber optic cables that are spo…

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    Comment #44674814

    I’m not disagreeing, but the magical difference to me seems that Apple _users themselves_ decided ahead of time to trust Apple, whereas _the developer_ would make the decision to t…

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    Comment #44519269

    The US is at half the per capital levels of Sweden, and seems to lag behind most of Europe: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-electricity-ge... Do I misunderstand?

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    Comment #44378671

    “On the Fairphone 6, the battery is firmly screwed in. With the predecessors, it could simply be removed.” Still awkward to turn that into the headline when it’s such a minor part …

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    Comment #43914825

    It’s a lighter-weight “notebook syntax” than full blown json based Jupyter notebooks: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py...

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    Comment #43225579

    Hm, I’m not sure from your comment if you’ve seen this: if you scroll down on an app’s App Store page, there’s an “Information” section with an “In-App Purchases” subsection that y…

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    Comment #43190319

    Are you also on a mini? ;-) Just because I really like bivector.net, despite its questionable web design choices: zooming out one level should make it so the animated “join our dis…

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    Comment #42514718

    I used to be upset at such absurdities. Now I try to appreciate what a relatively universal interface images are instead! :D It doesn’t matter how text gets drawn if we OCR it. (Th…

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    Comment #41774536

    An abbreviation for “signal-to-noise ratio” that imo should have been StNR or simply S/N. (Thus I sympathize with not parsing it immediately — it is widely used, though, so it is g…

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    Comment #41774428

    Here’s a chart of Germany’s energy mix over the last 30 years: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?time... Looks like coal usage for electricity production inde…

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    Comment #41159967

    I filled out a profile to 80%, hit back accidentally (Safari keyboard shortcuts for back/forwards are apparently the same as default macOS beginning/end of line text editing shortc…

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    Comment #41000692

    I imagine your friend is genuine. During undergrad/before 2014 I attended a summer school ( https://www.jass.school ) in St. Peterburg. I found the city to be welcoming, almost Eur…

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    Comment #40829699

    You’ve completed a cursory google search and don’t understand why our leading explanations for the observations cosmologists have made say what they say — OK. Sometimes when our op…

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    Comment #40613619

    Yeah, in ballroom one takes a break between songs iirc. (It’s been a decade or two.) The harder styles of dance and deeper kinds of house music seem designed to put you into a mild…

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    Comment #40610037

    A large part of the “value” a DJ brings is track selection; for sure. Playlists can do part of that, say to create a certain mood. But DJs get to adjust these on the fly as they ob…

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    Comment #40327663

    > far, far more money from services […] than from hardware. Q1 2024 Share of Apple's revenue by product category: Services: 19.33% Hardware: 80.67% (Hardware breakdown: iPhone: 58.…

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    Comment #40302095

    Are you thinking of Bike? https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/ (Maybe not — this isn’t markdown first; but it is a very macOS-y, keyboard driven, hierarchical outliner that I enjoy…

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    Comment #39310087

    Nic was tutoring me in proof-based foundational maths when I worked as a research engineer and I have nothing but praise for him and his tutoring service. He created a hyper person…