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Yeah - my guess is this was just a very roundabout solution for setting axis limits. (For some reason, plt.bar was used instead of plt.plot, so the y axis would start at 0 by defau…

I don’t understand the trend of individual studies making it to the top of HN, while metaanalyses are ignored, despite examining 10s or 100s of such individual studies in aggregate…

Good motivation for a PSA: This happens more and more often, and there is a fairly easy + popular workaround (which also comes with 99% ad blocking as a bonus). Just either set up …

You didn’t mention an important point: speed. Suppose conda had projects. Still, it is somewhat incredible to see uv resolve + install in 2 seconds what takes conda 10 minutes. It …

> The meticulous PT format and exercise selection allows them to achieve more muscle gain in 20 minutes per week than median trainees achieve in 2-3 hours. This is a strong stateme…

I agree but the opposite can be true too. Sometimes the narrator seems to target some general audience that doesn’t fit me at all, in a way that makes me cringe when I listen, unti…

An obvious question that isn’t answered (in this article - not sure about the paper itself) is whether feeding fructose results in MORE tumor growth than feeding glucose (or other …

> it was just the wrong abstraction: too easy to start with, too difficult to create custom things Couldn’t agree with this more. I was working on custom RNN variants at the time, …

What causes comments like this one to get faded out? I guess many people flagged it? Isn’t it just a logical statement?

But the chain rule for ordered derivatives is exactly the backprop rule. It's just the mathematical representation of 'the simple implementation' I mentioned. I think what you're s…

I don't have a great answer. Most modern descriptions are shallow and/or unclear. My favorite discussions were actually in Werbos's original papers. A nice overview was Backpropaga…

Actually by 'ordinary chain rule' I am referring to what you're referring to as 'the chain rule for partial derivatives'. It seems like backprop follows very quickly even from that…

> chain rule is defined for partial derivatives I agree. That's what I'm referring to as 'the ordinary chain rule'. > so it's still technically just chain rule No. Go try to derive…

Anyone who believes that this completes their understanding of automatic differentiation is tricking themselves. When your graph is a TREE, then everything is very simple, as in th…

I’m surprised no one has mention AdGuard. In settings, blocking “Annoyances” is off by default. By toggling it to true, the Google login banner will be blocked, along with the “Chr…

It seems that many agree with this. At the risk of getting downvoted I want to share an opposing opinion: This way of thinking is not just unhelpful but even harmful. If one would …

Flathabits looks great. I used to use a paid iOS app until they pushed enough UI changes and buggy updates to motivate me to create my own bare bones solution. Wish I had seen your…

My comment isn’t about the paper. It’s only about the surprising response it’s getting from HN. This small level of evidence can be found in some paper for almost any fitness claim…

From the actual paper: > Methods Non-resistance-trained young adults were assigned to one of the four groups: CON-ECC (n= 14), CON (n=14) and ECC (n= 14) training groups, and a con…

Agree. To put it in the context of the article, if the author looked at getting desired outcomes as a video game, then this article is just a rant, and time would have been better …

Agree. Current title is inaccurate and click baity. Also, the confirmation requires authentication (at least by default, unsure if this can be changed).

I've personally had (many) more signal issues than WhatsApp issues, and not one of the signal issues was accompanied by a banner. I am not vouching for WhatsApp. I just don't think…

The two that stand out are telegram and signal, and which is better for you depends on your personal balance of usability vs. privacy. I personally can't use signal. It's great tha…

This article says this result may transform communication, but seems to make no mention of why . What improvements does this have over classical communication?