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The reality is also that not everyone isn't technical enough to deal with `ffmpeg` directly. At some point I basically hosted hacked-together website which simply used `ffmpeg` und…

cupy came out a long time before Jax; remember using it in a project for my BSc around 2015-2016. Cool to see that it's still kicking!

This is great! Also made some minor modifications: replaced `xsel` with `xclip` and added truncated version of the copied text to the `notify-send`: #!/bin/bash # Dependencies: tes…

Though I see what you're saying, using a PPL for VAEs just seems like overkill given the simplistic nature of VAEs. PPLs are useful when the data generation process is not easily r…

I work on one of these PPLs, and I personally find Bayesian inference to be useful in a few cases: 1. When your main objective is not prediction but understanding the effect of som…

This post just made me check out XWidget support in Emacs, and oh my bejebus is this amazing. Yes, it's not like running an actual browser, but this is so much better than anything…

I have accounts with both gmail (personal) and outlook (work), and so using an external email client let's me have all those in one place.

Anki is free on anything but iOS. Don't know why the iOS app is the only one with a fee.

In addition, you will be notified if anyone accesses your records. This defers most sane people from looking up the records of family members, friends and neighbors.

The issue is that Germany is testing ferociously while in the US this is not the case. It's therefore likely that the US numbers are severely underestimated, while Germany's are mu…

Cheers :) Autocorrect got me real goof!

If time allows it and I want to ensure I understand some concept, explaining it to someone tend to be very useful. Writing a blog post is then a great way to do so without requirin…

Most certainly. I did not intend to question the usefulness of maxent models. I just find myself a bit uneasy with maxent as a derivation of and/or explanation of the ubiquity of t…

Thank you, I really appreciate the response. This was useful. I do see the reasoning for choosing the normal due to it being the only distribution with finite non-zero moments, and…

Thank you for the link to Jaynes' book! Really nice to see the different approaches. I'm intrigued by your comment on maximum entropy, as I personally struggle with the maximum ent…

Just to add to this, if you take a lot of mathematics notes, you can embed latex fragments in Org-mode. Making use of the yasnippet package, writing latex is actually quite efficie…

The flexibility you get with pen and paper, e.g. draw arrows between arbitrary words / equations, you can't really beat. But for the specific use-cases you mentioned: - Org-mode al…

Then I will! I've always preferred taking notes on a computer due to how much easier it is to - edit - organize (heck, you can even search!) But I'm a maths student and I never cam…

This is the part of his explanation I find confusing too, though I do agree with his general argument: the results aren't really useful when they haven't been tested on a dataset r…