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Comment · 7 years ago
With which option! I have used Colab myself and I don't see live editing. I would like to see the cursor of the collaborators in real time while they edit. Also, the option to share the runtime.
Comment · 7 years ago
Does anyone now if this system supports Google Docs-like live editing? I'm struggling to find such a service.
Comment · 7 years ago
Not necessarily, it depends on the advisor, university, program and field.

The problem is that once you start you are committed for 4 years. Abandoning a PhD program and starting another one is quite more complicated than changing of job.

Comment · 7 years ago
SpaceX always beats my expectations, unlike Tesla.
Comment · 7 years ago
Hey! I didn't see your answer. That's very useful, thanks!
Comment · 7 years ago
It's not only about the odds, but the expected return. That's the whole point of insurance, for instance. Having an accident under these circumstances is quite improbable, but in case it happened, the return would be massive. Actually, since it might be a matter of life or death, perhaps it doesn't even make sense to think about the expected utility, because it would be infinite.
Comment · 7 years ago
For studying it would be fine, but for taking exams no way the instructors can let you in with your phone.
Comment · 7 years ago
That depends on the language.
Comment · 7 years ago
This is the kind of ad-hoc PEP proposal that could be completely avoidable if there was a generic modifier or initialization/declaration construction for declaring a variable as constant. So incredibly simple, so incredibly useful that it's hard to believe that it hasn't been accepted yet (it was proposed).
Comment · 7 years ago
I see, thanks for warning me.
Comment · 7 years ago
I do it all the time... on Twitter and Reddit.

In real life I would never even look at eyes of a stranger.

Probably some people here can relate.

Comment · 7 years ago
When I was in college I was mystified by genetic algorithms, without knowing much about them. After taking 2 subjects on the matter and reading some books, I came to the conclusion that apart from being inherently inefficient (that's what you apply them when you have no alternative), they are actually outperformed by hill climbing (which can be seen as a particular case of the former if population = 1). Also, the crossover operator seems to make more harm than good, and it's not fully understood it's usefulness in nature, although there are some theories (this last point is taken from Pedro Domingos book).
Comment · 7 years ago
AFAIK TensorFlow is not Tensorflow but "Matrixflow". This library is truly tensor-based if I understood it correctly?

I found useful the diagrammatic notation, by the way.

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