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popcorncolonel

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    Comment #47001575

    Individual particle interactions are not chaotic. Simulating them one timestep at a time would take linear time in the number of particles. They're only chaotic if you treat them i…

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    Comment #23897014

    Not necessarily. There have been a number of papers trying to emphasize the generalization power of a network rather than "it got a SOTA number", and so leave off fine tuning resul…

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    Comment #23731643

    Do you really think most smartphone users look at the URL anymore? Or even know what a URL is? From the non-technical people I've talked to, the answer is no, they don't know what …

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    Comment #23248417

    Ah our favorite third world countries, like China, Japan, and Israel.

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    Comment #22150150

    What's the point of this comment? Isn't this pretty much exactly what's in the answer linked?

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    Comment #20901305

    Great visualization, thanks!

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    Comment #18528697

    This article comes at the perfect time for me, while I'm about to choose a tool to read Japanese sentences!

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    Comment #18512802

    That's great! It feels so good to be doing something you want to do.

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    Comment #17413758

    Pretty much all of the relationship to practical stuff in papers like this related to the RH are "it gives us information about the prime numbers, and those are used in cryptograph…

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    Comment #16896956

    I checked that and the only one that had email access was my Windows desktop. This led me to assume my PC had a virus, until I saw this thread.

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    Comment #16684552

    Hence the "pretty much". Clearly Japan has numerous numerous social issues, but other than that they're doing much better than we are over there.

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    Comment #16644085

    Everything in America should emulate Japan, pretty much.

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    Comment #16633496

    So genetic programming, but for NN's? Hasn't that been done?

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    Comment #16473294

    This is why whenever I see news like this, I get nervous.

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    Comment #16002631

    Quick question: Why? What does NVIDIA have to gain by forbidding people from using GeForce for ML in datacenters?

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    Comment #15940126

    Agreed. Plus, its really annoying to open it on mobile and my phone starts downloading the pdf file immediately, which I don't want to have to manually delete in the future.

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    Comment #15748276

    Wow, great comeback

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    Comment #15719420

    Classic Microsoft. See the Windows Phone as well.

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    Comment #15678497

    Can you elaborate? How do you know they're thinking abstractly?

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    Comment #15678491

    A related idea that I had while reading the article is this: it's easy to get computers and machines to talk to each other both unnaturally (with our own protocols) and naturally (…

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    Comment #15538833

    It would be amazing if we could browse "Latest" by category, and for a certain day, much like: https://arxiv.org/list/math.NT/recent

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    Comment #15414236

    Japan was beautiful; visually, culturally, and culinarily. I'd highly recommend it. I just started taking Japanese classes yesterday and I can't wait to go back next year.

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    Comment #15414222

    Then again drinking while eating is also impolite.

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    Comment #15376621

    That's so contrived, and they got it so quickly. And they got #40 even quicker.