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Moral of the story, the key to happiness is low expectations.

I haven't read this paper yet so I can't speak to it's quality but it appears to be addressing the same questions in this post. Bengio is a coauthor so maybe that's a good sign . H…

I suggest this reference [1] for anyone needing to look something up. [1] https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/matrixcookbook.pdf

The problem is high dimensions knowing the distribution or even characterizing it fully with data is incredibly difficult (curse of dimensionality). I think the real assumption in …

Julia only hit v1.0 in 2018. It's doing pretty well for being so young in my opinion. All the arguments against Julia are basically that python has a lot of momentum and it takes t…

Julia has some packages to address this now. https://github.com/timholy/Revise.jl

SAR has been around since the 70s and works using the same principles as CT scans (projection slice theorem). Think about observing an image by rotating it and projecting it orthog…

Typically when you downdsample you're going to want to filter than use whatever downdsample kernel you want with the correct stride. Since the filter is lowpass, think just Fourier…

I think this suffices as a summary, "The other reality is the frustration and drudgery of operating in a world of corporate politics, bureaucracy, envy and greed— a world so depres…

I was expecting this to be more about writing fast matrix multiplies. Surprisingly, it ends up being a lot more than just a triple loop and there's a reason that everyone uses exis…

They use wavelet transforms for jpeg 2000. Natural images tend to be sparse with respect to wavelet transforms.

I think this is really the tale of two Millennials and is a phenomenon that actually effects all generations currently. There is a concentration of wealth in this country and the w…

This article may have been on here yesterday and seems relevant [1]. For this guy it's probably not about fighting for what he believes is "right", it's all about winning. He bough…

The author does make a point of discussing the question of what business does a team like DeepMind have researching the folding problem? The solution is of no apparent value to the…

Isn't there utility in accepting the null hypothesis? It's almost as valuable to know that there is no signal in the data as there is in the opposite, i.e., knowing where not to lo…

Here is a reference for the comment above and a brief excerpt, "Written in the productivity language Julia, the Celeste project—which aims to catalogue all of the telescope data fo…

I used to only use MATLAB, which for a lot of research code applications is actually nice for getting a prototype running quickly. Now that I have the freedom to choose, I typicall…

Looks pretty nice. Unfortunately, I never run into this issue because I only get to write research code. The Julia language was designed to target the two language problem and at l…

All good points. It would be nice to see some game theory type assessment of these imbalances.

So he's saying that concentration of "wealth" is bad, and war is bad. A quick glance at the definition of moral gives, "a person's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what …

These types of experiments pop up from time to time. You have to compare the performance relative to the single lag error. So the baseline is to use the previous time step to predi…

DRL has definitely shown some excellent results but can someone in the field comment on this paper, Simple random search provides a competitive approach to reinforcement learning […

This latest craze of "AI" research seems to be fueled by a sudden glut of computational power (GPUs) that wasn't available previously. I think that most technical people would agre…

I wasn't implying that the interview was easier for candidates with recognizable track records. Perhaps two sigma was not restrictive enough. I was merely suggesting that if a cand…