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> a low confidence score Neural nets should return a low confidence score. But, the popular approach (described below) ignores that. Neural nets ignore confidence because of a tech…

mpi4py is a solid implementation, but the docs aren’t the greatest, especially if you’re not familiar with MPI.

On iOS this isn’t functional. I can’t advance past the first slide.

>> Going forward, GitHub will remain an open platform, which any developer can plug into and extend. Does an “open platform” mean “open source” or “a plugin system”? I think making…

> Some states destroy the blood spots after a year, 12 states store them for at least 21 years. What are the other 12 states?

My favorite is Alan Turings quote: > Mathpix's AI definitely passes THIS Turing test!

Isn’t this what JITs do?

> “If you understand and agree, Apple and GCBD have the right to access your data stored on its servers. This includes permission sharing, exchange, and disclosure of all user data…

There’s also a closed form for the Fibonacci numbers. It runs in O(1). http://stsievert.com/blog/2015/01/31/the-mysterious-eigenval...

Not true. Infinite sums are not defined for series that don’t converge, and sum(1..n) does not converge as n => infinity. Yes, you can play a nice trick with that sum if you ignore…

Where does Apple Notes store it’s files? What format are they in?

Wow, great demo. Even works on mobile!

> 2% is HUGE at this point Hell, on MNIST 0.14% is huge. Geff Hinton created an entire new architecture to get 0.25% error, which is far better than the baseline 0.39% error [1]. T…

> what has changed in Python 3.6 that they're happy to do this now when they were pissed off about it a couple years ago? Most of mine have to do with developer productovity and I …

This adds support for new compilers. This makes Dask (pure Python paralleization) run 20% faster https://twitter.com/mrocklin/status/923581208482721794 according to Matthew Rocklin…

...I read the article in Safaris Reader mode. The font is too big for mobile. But this is a great article.

> Was this was the anxiety that had been mentioned in the medical literature? I don’t know. I’ve had a difference expierence with brain injury and anxiety. My recovery resulted in …

Turns out generating a ML model is pretty easy too, even after training in Python. There's a simple 2 or 3 line conversion from keras/sklearn to an ML model. http://stsievert.com/b…

D’oh. I meant anonyomized (I would edit comment but can’t).

I’m doing research (not deployment) and have the same feeling. PyTorch has inspired a blog post [1], Tensorflow didn’t. Briefly, the benefits of PyTorch are * easy conversion to Nu…

PyTorch does have ONNX, a tool to convert from PyTorch models to Caffe2 models: http://pytorch.org/tutorials/advanced/super_resolution_with_...

I work with data scientists and it’s scary how much they have access to. One first hand story: this person searched a database to find tax records for a specific individual and the…

iCloud security overview: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303