cgs1019
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Comment · 2 years ago
`cat -n` prints with line numbers, which is occasionally handy.
Comment · 3 years ago
Oh yeah that's gonna be a dense read then :)
I really like Kevin Murphy's books. I learned a lot from them when I was getting started on this stuff. He's just released a two part follow up to his 2012 book. Both parts are available online.
I also really like David Mackay's book (also free online). It's...idiosyncratic. But fantastic!
Best of luck with your learning! Start simple, go slow. Write code every step of the way!! ^_^
Comment · 3 years ago
To grok the ELBO, don't start with VAEs; start with basic variational inference. https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00670 is good, though maybe increasingly dated...Once you're happy with VI in general, https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05908 is a nice read on the VAE.
Comment · 6 years ago
Hi, tech lead for TFP here. The wording here was unclear -- sorry! We're fixing it presently.
We are not migrating away from TF; far from it!
The change here was to interoperate with TF and JAX (and numpy!), by way of some rewrite trickery under the hood. Essentially, we wrote a translation layer that implements the TF API surface (or, the parts we actually use) in terms of numpy & JAX primitives [1]. This lets us leave most TFP code intact, written in terms of the TF API, but interoperate with JAX by way of the API translation layer. (Actually we implemented numpy support first, and mostly got JAX for "free" since JAX is largely API-compatible with numpy).
Sorry for any confusion!
We're pretty stoked about this work, so happy to answer any other questions you may have (also feel free to chime in on the github tracker or email [email protected])
[1] - https://github.com/tensorflow/probability/tree/master/tensor...
Comment · 10 years ago
The link cites a vice article that cites a guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/01/philippines-pr...
Comment · 10 years ago
Plain pdf: http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0312087.pdf
Comment · 10 years ago
Neutrons are electrically neutral but they still interact electromagnetically (they're composed of charged quarks). They have a magnetic moment, for instance [1]. So they wouldn't be dark the way "dark matter" appears (heh) to be.
Comment · 11 years ago
Google's auto library, auto/value in particular, is worth a look: https://github.com/google/auto/tree/master/value
Comment · 11 years ago
I've always thought it would be fun to somehow incorporate technology into climbing for tracking or otherwise augmenting the experience.
Time trials sound like a quick avenue to painful injury, though. If I were a gym, I'd be cautious in encouraging it. In my experience, climbing prowess is not a matter of speed but control -- the more statically you can complete a route the more control you demonstrate. A friend of mine once said his goal is to complete a route as silently as possible, avoiding accidental scuffs of his shoes or knocking of his knuckles on the wall. This is actually a great measure of control, too.
Comment · 11 years ago
Oops, maybe I unwittingly had access by being on work VPN. Sorry bout that! Thanks for the open link, jacquesm.
Comment · 11 years ago
Looks like Nature makes the whole paper readable online: http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys...
Comment · 11 years ago
It's not as snazzy as in the article but this alias in my .gitconfig is an integral part of my git workflow:
gr = !git \
--no-pager \
log -n 16 --graph --date-order --date=short --branches \
--pretty=\
'%C(yellow bold)%h%Creset\
%Creset %C(blue bold)%d%Creset\
%C(white bold blink)%s'
Comment · 11 years ago
They make slightly less than the median tax filer. The difference is potentially significant (I have no idea what the statistics are)