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It seems like this page is updated with the followup questions asked by every visitor. That's an easy way to leak your search history and it's (amusingly) happening live as I'm typ…

For me, the gradual build up of (1) maximum likelihood estimation to (2) maximum a posteriori estimation to (3) full posterior approximation (or posterior sampling) was helpful to …

Slight tangent: does anyone know of a good source for more useful blog posts on ML in the wild? Many that I come across are a funnel into some product, are very short, too theoreti…

That's such a cool nugget of information. The Versailles one is apparently A = 435 Hz, the 'diapason normal'. Nowadays we mostly use concert pitch at A = 440 Hz. The 99% Invisible …

Conventional methods of rendering 3D objects and spaces rely on specifying geometry and material properties in some format. You then simulate a viewpoint using that info and physic…

How do you deal with adversarial/byzantine updates that attempt to degrade performance or even install a backdoor? Do you use plain averaging, or some other aggregation algorithm l…

Thanks!

The last time a post like this appeared on HN prompted me to write a gist with a simple neural network in Python (with Numpy). It downloads the MNIST dataset for you, trains a full…

Yes, I'm also using Hetzner and have not run into any limits in what plugins you can install and use yet. They used to call 'storage share' just 'Nextcloud', but moved it to the ne…

In macOS it is not entirely clear to me what category of things the cmd key is for. On one hand it's used for keyboard shortcuts related to window management and the system, but on…

These are exactly the type of silly applications that are needed on macOS because the OS too locked down, or at least not made for people who like to do this type of stuff. On Linu…

I used to be all in on Apple. On macOS I had a little program called Magnet to snap windows to sides and corners, and on my iPad (with external keyboard) I SSH’d into a VPS to writ…

I studied piano full-time for a short while. My favorite thing about it was how working on my technique or a particularly tricky rhythmic pattern tickled my brain. I often found th…

Fiducial markers are commonly used in photogrammetry to either speed up the process, make the resulting model more accurate or a balance of both depending on what the user is looki…

I once had to count the number of set bits (the Hamming weight) for an assignment. It had to be done in under 40 bitwise ops, without loops and with constants of up to 8 bits. The …

In June I worked on a comparison of the original NeRF [1] to a state of the art proprietary photogrammetry method. The photogrammetry method could process ~80GB worth of 24MP photo…

> A key feature of neural networks is that the outputs are a nonlinear function of the inputs. However, steering a 2D car is simple enough that a linear function is more than suffi…

I spoke to someone who started working in sheet piling when he was 16. This is in the Netherlands, so plenty of that to go around. He stayed with his parents and saved until he cou…

> Even if Apple agreed to the demands and made the options available to all developers, Epic would have an advantage. I don't know that that's the case. Steam, the Humble Store, GO…

Cool! I really like the (upcoming) idea of watching your own online profiles on HN and such for upvotes and saving those pages. It’s essentially what I already use those upvotes fo…

Fwiw, you can run Pi-hole locally just fine. But using the hosts file like Maza does may be a little bit faster than running a DNS-server.

Pruning in general is about trimming larger structures down. This is nice for using a network, but indeed doesn’t help with training it. Lottery tickets on the other hand are confi…