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Lol - the code example seems to imply that Zuckerburg's user id is 4.

Geoffrey Hinton gave results to this effect in a talk about "Dark Knowledge" [1]. Haven't seen any of these results published, though. I think he mentions something in the talk abo…

Thought I'd chime in that for image compression (e.g in the JPEG2000 standard), the 2D discrete wavelet transform takes advantage of similar pixel intensities for neighboring pixel…

May I please have your faster than nlogn sorting algorithm

This is actually some really great advice to hear upon graduating from college. Thank you.

This is really cool work. There is a lackluster theano feature which allows you to print a flowchart figure for the "computation graph" corresponding to the symbolic representation…

Yeah, imagining him touring while writing his thesis has been a source of inspiration lately.

Am I wrong that the title seems to imply something negative about word vectors? But the article is super pumped about them!

There is a seemingly dead github repo called "R2D3" by hadley wickham. Wonder what came of that project? https://github.com/hadley/r2d3

cf. Searle's Chinese Room argument!

I know! According to [1] the minimax algorithm does indeed originate here. And Hamming said in that talk [2][3] that Shannon didn't do anything killer after Info Theory... [1] - ht…

Alarm radio wakes me up with jazz {run,don't run} make coffee/tidy up/drink coffee shower make breakfast eat breakfast over coffee and {math textbook, video lecture} commute on bik…

This reminds me of an opinion that I have which I've been looking for an opportunity to flesh out and share. Despite all of the research and engineering that's gone into the user i…

Incidentally I'm reading Sipser's book for a philosophy course right now.

wait - are they actually building aircraft carriers??

Hilarious moment at 36:00. Sutton has just finished talking about how in real life, functions that learning agents wish to estimate will often be non-stationary because life is con…