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ML practice has for the moment far outstripped ML theory. But even if ML theory catches up, the answers to your question will get likely be still dependent on the nature of the pro…

You may want to look at this. Neural network models with enough capacity to memorize random labels are still capable of generalizing well when fed actual data Zhang et al (2021) 'U…

They are great books about some combinatorial mathematics inspired by programming problems. Not the best investment of time if you want to learn programming itself, because: 1. Mos…

If you are going to do it at this level, it already exists as an example (section 8.7) in K & R.

awk, sed etc. belong to the museum, now that we have so many tools and libraries that can handle structured data. The whole early Unix obsession with plain text files was a step in…

I procrastinated on my thesis. I got the usual advice: 'perfect is the enemy of the good', 'just get it written' etc. but it made no difference. With hindsight I now realize that I…

Shameful conduct. And as a counterpoint to "nobody cares about your blog", a few days back I got a referee report asking me to cite a Twitter thread. This one: https://twitter.com/…

I think this is an increasing problem as 'liberalism' becomes the official ideology of the elite, so that everyone pays lip-service to 'non-hierarchical' values and overt displays …

For me Twitter is mainly a substitute to RSS: a central location to consume interesting content from diverse sources. In that role having an algorithmically curated as opposed to a…

We live in extraordinary times, standing on the shoulders of the scientific revolution, with gigahertz-gigabyte machines as commonplace and hundreds of years of mathematics ready t…

This what is so great and yet limiting about SQL. Carefully optimized implementations, but only for a fixed set of built-in functions. Are there any frameworks which allow user-def…

I'm an Indian and I beg to disagree. I have made small contributions to open source projects, including fixing typos, and have never felt unwelcome. I'm a teacher of economics and …

DNS queries for vimeo.com are being blocked by Airtel, a major Indian ISP. Possibly an overzealous response to an order blocking a particular video.

I've been having fun playing with Soundtrap. It runs in the browser, allowing you to access your projects on any device. I'm not sure if it can meet the needs of professionals, but…

I really have always wished for reproducibility. Thanks for taking up this feature. How do you handle aliasing and references inside objects? Suppose I have #Cell 1 a = [1,2,3] b =…

In my experiments with MIP there was a dramatic performance difference between free and non-free solvers. Did you also experience this?