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Comment · 7 months ago
I think the idea is that some short peptides might survive the digestion and make it to the blood stream, but I'm doubtful there's any specific benefit to collagen.
Comment · 10 months ago
Lidars use pulsed lasers with peak powers up to the kW range.
Comment · 1 year ago
Silicon carbide fiber reinforced silicon carbide is also being increasingly used.
Comment · 2 years ago
But 'i' is not a car, it is the index of a car.
Comment · 2 years ago
I like einsum, it's concise and self-explanatory. Way better than multiple lines of nested for loops would be.
Comment · 2 years ago
I got to level 8 by asking in rot13. I think I beat the bonus level too but I can't remember how.
Comment · 2 years ago
Also, the problem is to find a global min-cut, which requires all-pairs max flow.
Comment · 2 years ago
Different models have different inductive biases. There is no way you could build GPT4 with decision trees.
Comment · 2 years ago
Is it not possible to compensate for inaccuracy, if you have a sufficiently precise measurement at the hand?
Comment · 2 years ago
Your edit is confusing me. Which variant fails and which variant passes?
Comment · 2 years ago
Here's a variant which gives 64-bit output:

  uint64_t x = 0, w = 1;
  uint64_t msws64(void) {
      x = x * x + (w *= 0xe9acc0f334e93bd5ULL);
      return (x = (x >> 32) | (x << 32)) ^ w;
  }
Comment · 2 years ago
What if you don't truncate? I fell like it might still be OK.
Comment · 2 years ago
One important component is adding significant damping, corresponding to a small probability of jumping to a random page. This makes sure that the graph is well connected and the power iteration converges fast.
Comment · 2 years ago
I though finite difference differentiation was notoriously unstable.
Comment · 2 years ago
I just did this exact thing today, writing a cloth simulator! I wanted to try updating each node position in turn using a Newton step, holding the other nodes fixed.

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