salty_biscuits

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Just another person. I tried to write a blog for a bit and got lazy.

https://paulbellette.github.io

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Comment · 1 month ago
My new favourite hobby is posts that don't belong on linkedin.
Comment · 6 months ago
I'm experimenting with open research notes now I'm a free agent. I thought this might be a fun project to share, because it ended up being a small metaphor for every ML project I've ever done. Not a serious software project, just me thinking out loud.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, my experience has been that it is great if you need to do something particularly weird, but less smooth to do something ordinary.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm sure there is a way of interpreting a relu as a sparsity prior on the layer.
Comment · 2 years ago
It is fun if you ever find yourself in this situation because you can play the uno reverse card on the interviewer and ask to clarify with impenetrable jargon and look for rising panic (can I assume the graph contains a Hamiltonian circuit? etc, etc)
Comment · 2 years ago
The error budget in the pseudorange to the satellites has various factors due to relativity, but they are just lumped into the errors in the least squares problem that you solve to get the position estimate (as per the article). So relativity is important, but you don't need to know much about it to solve for your position. Various flavours of long baseline/network RTK will need more sophisticated modelling though.
Comment · 2 years ago
Whooping cough does not come from pigs. Pertussis is a bacterium that is a human only thing.
Comment · 2 years ago
Basically kernel methods right?
Comment · 2 years ago
I'd say a fairly large percentage would be disappointed that we let a citizen get treated like that and we did nothing as a country to assist, independent of anything else. Maybe I am out of touch though.
Comment · 2 years ago
Here in Australia the coldest state (tas) uses more energy (8600) than anywhere else (e.g. qld 5500). They have basically 100% hydro power and use reverse cycle AC for heating. Not sure what else is going on there.
Comment · 2 years ago

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