BiasRegularizer

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PhD student in Machine Learning, primarily focused on multimodal representation learning, contrastive learning, and robotic applications
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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I personally dislike these kinds of comments. The idea that androgens aid in recovery may be known in theory, but this study provides empirical evidence to support that claim. So yes, there is scientific value in it.
Comment · 3 years ago
What aspects of the economic studies makes it a pseudoscience? Highly empirical, sure, but so does modern machine learning.
Comment · 3 years ago
Distribution shift in the real world data will always be inherent to any data driven methods. Unless there are major advances in continual learning for DL models, they will always struggle with distribution shift degradation.

Similarly, humans are also prone to the distribution shift unless we get updated information on a specific topic. The key differences are that we are great at continual learning and we are much better at learning abstraction

Comment · 3 years ago
A 17 million parameter model (~Resnet50) takes more than 50s proof time. Is this on top of the inference time?

I can see some niche applications for this system, but I am very skeptical it's ability to handle larger models (100M+) and the ability to and it's scalability when there are increased demand.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Apple Watch has so many health features, but the main hinderance for me is its relatively short battery life - I often forget to put it back on after charging it.

Has anyone tried having two apple watches so one can be worn while the other charges?

[edit] Charging it at night is kind of missing the point, as I would like to track both my daily activities and my sleep

Comment · 4 years ago
VPN might have a part in this too. I remember when I was in China, I was connected to ExpressVPN 24/7 (whatsapp, gmail etc), and the battery drain was visibly higher than when I had the VPN off.
Comment · 5 years ago
While this may be amongst the long term goals, I don't think it's useful for military applications yet until laser com is fully online. Currently there is no sat to sat com, so there's is always ground station within sight of a sat. Unless SpaceX places a ground station near a conflict zone, military can't utilize it much yet.
Comment · 6 years ago
You didn't quite get the point. As individual currencies governments exert a lot of power over their relative value to other currencies. As a whole, worlds fiat currencies hold no intrinsic value. No government can dictate that a kilogram of gold to only cost $1.
Comment · 6 years ago
I suggest you look into modern economic theories and why inflation is crucial to economic development. There are two problematic assumptions in your statement:

1. Nobody would store all their wealth in a deflationary currency - other forms of assets, stocks etc will still exist. They will need a high liquidity vehicle to trade a.k.a inflationary currency.

2. Deflationary currency doesn't necessarily mean it will gain value overtime. Unless it contains growing intrinsic value, the overall market cap will drop/plateau.

Think of inflation vs deflation as lubricant vs sandpaper, one encourages economic activities while the other discourages.

Comment · 6 years ago
Yes, but one would prefer spending money using an inflationary currency since holding on to it devalues over time. As long as inflationary currencies exist, people will prefer to spending those first before deflationary currencies.
Comment · 6 years ago
I believe this applies to all currencies - they don't have intrinsic values. The values are derived from the market. Be it USD, BTC, EUR, or the Zimbabwean dollar. However, the purpose of currency exists as a vehicle for wealth transfer.

IMO the biggest problem with most cryptocurrencies is their deflationary nature. Limited supply means they behave more like assets than currency. As currency nobody would want to spend it as they gain value over time. As an asset it lacks intrinsic value, and therefore overall market cap will tank slowly.

Comment · 6 years ago
I believe he's referring to the absurdity of this statement, especially in relation to SpinningUp (it doesn't have any UI as it's a RL library, and the docs site are generated using standard Sphinx doc generator)
Comment · 6 years ago
I personally like the name Reels, it implies a level curation needed in the process.

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