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Hi all, I recently built (and am continuing to improve) intuitivepapers.ai to help me study and understand AI research papers. For me, it's important to build intuition for concept…

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Cool, I worked on indoor localization, particularly with RTT, at Google for many years :)

I took "Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance" from edX, which covered these topics, and found it really rewarding.

From the wiki article: > Scholars believe that the Novgorod Republic had an unusually high level of literacy for the time, with literacy apparently widespread throughout different …

I bought my father a RM-BIV3 ribbon microphone [0] to record violin. It's a beautiful piece. [0] https://micpedia.com/microphone/bashaudio-rm-biv3/

Yes, you are totally correct, but I believe this term is omitted from the cross-entropy loss function that is used in machine learning? Because it is a constant which does not cont…

To bring things full circle: the cross-entropy loss is the KL divergence. So intuitively, when you're minimizing cross-entropy loss, you're trying to minimize the "divergence" betw…

Increasing efficiency often causes an increase in consumption, not less [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

I was concussed and suffered from persistent headaches for 2 years. It was really tough. I was suicidal. My only reprieve from pain was falling asleep. I saw a neurologist and he t…

The Vice documentary mentioned in the article is really great [0]. Best of luck to Agafia. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt2AYafET68

I exploited one of these regional naming conventions so that I only have a first name on Facebook.

I go to the office almost everyday by choice. Free food, snacks, and coffee, gym, and medical clinics on campus. And it's just nice to get dressed and leave the house. But it's rea…

Aren't you describing quantum field theory (QFT)? Anyway, what exactly is a field besides a mathematical object? What is it made of?

Sorry, it's actually 49". It's the Samsung Odyssey G9. I love it.

I've been happily using Magnet for a long time for this purpose. Good window tiling is critical when working on a 57" monitor...

I grew up in Canada, but my family and I are first generation immigrants from Ukraine. The privilege of my peers left a huge, almost traumatizing, impression on me. My parents were…

I slaughtered about 40 chickens once. I was probably around 19 at the time. My ex-girlfriend's dad just told me to get in the truck, asked his kids to stay at home, and took me to …

Yes, but it also makes a huge difference whether we are asking the model to interpolate or extrapolate. Generally speaking, models perform much better on the former task, and have …

One of my favourite economic paradoxes. It changes the way you think about efficiency and consumption. My colleague introduced me to this idea. He had been studying ways to increas…

Interesting, I don't remember it getting hot.

Last time I went into an MRI, I realized half way through that I had forgotten to take off my metal necklace. Thankfully it was silver - it was an extreme purity test.