skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The period in question involves cultural revolution period. That was not exactly a small thing nor a nice thing.
> I know naming can be difficult...

Pretty sure this was on purpose.
As a modern society we would like to assume that human sacrifice doesn't happen but just try to blaspheme a nation state and see how quickly people get ready with the pitch forks. The semantics have merely shifted. Rene Girard talks a lot about this. Projecting collective dissatisfaction onto others is how a society renews itself.
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That number seems extremely low. Is it offset by purchases of American military equipment?
Another resource I'd recommend is Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course on Coursera.
People hate it but that's the case with the regressive left. Islamism gets a huge pass from the left (see the whole welcome immigrants with open hands)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regressive_left
I'm not really sure what he expected when moving to the US? Employee protection? Powerful corporations checked from screwing you over?

What was he thinking? "Yeah that stuff happens all the time in the US, but surely when I move there it won't apply to me" -- and if they did believe they were owed this protection, on what basis?

Who was going to protect his employee rights for him? That US corporation he works for which has to be forced to provide such rights when they are operating outside the US? Hahaha

This sounds like someone who could move to work in Qatar and be upset they end up working to support a system of slavery.
Well done. I look forward to digging into this more this weekend.
I would prefer an introduction via the Moore-Penrose Pseudo-Inverse. It's a lot easier, imho
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So what is the realistic alternative - all I'm stating is that I get deeply suspicious when a political system is based on beliefs that you are not even allowed to question.
You can gradually annotate these packages locally for your project with [1], and then contribute it to [2].

Automatic stub generation may also be helpful [3]

[1] https://github.com/python/mypy/wiki/Creating-Stubs-For-Pytho...

[2] https://github.com/python/typeshed

[3] https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/stubgen.html
Well, ST's Dresden fab is afaik still cutting-edge in terms of the 40nm SOI rad-hardened fabrication. Not all things want extreme miniaturization.
I think Houdini is a different kind of beast.

You have software like 3ds Max, Maya, C4D, Blender and others. And then you have Houdini.

But you can use Blender more procedural with the modifier stack. And there are great add-ons like Boxcutter: https://blendermarket.com/products/hard-ops--boxcutter-ultim...
Humans have had a very large hand in this evolution.

Dogs are probably the most heavily bred animal in the last 300-400 years. Many (most?) breeds of dogs only exist because humans specifically bred for certain traits.

When breeding for behavioral traits, a dog with expressive eyes who can make humans feel a connection has gotta be a winner over ol wolf eyes over there.
Sometimes working with Elastic Beanstalk can be like this: https://youtu.be/i5-Tuo1bmFM?t=510
And that's how you retire and go to work at an AIT :-)
> Dogs can track movement and see in low light better than we can.

This goes against my experience. When I was dog sitting my mother's dog a few years ago and we were going for the final walk of the night, she'd regularly get surprised by people passing us from the opposite direction. She'd notice them 1-2 meters away and would jump back and bark, while I was easily able to see them 5-10m away. I've had similar experiences with another dog.

Would they notice them better if they were moving side to side instead of slowly becoming bigger while walking towards us?
Jina is excellent. It makes building a search engine for small and medium company a lot easier.The whole data pipeline could be handled by jina.
> takes every pub and street conversation that happened anyway

... and hugely amplifies them, giving them an audience of potentially millions instead of a couple of people chatting together.

Aside from that, all this offensive ranting and bullying, as well as every other type of conversation, is now saved and ready to be mined for advertising or political gain. Advertising is annoying but can be lived with, it's the political data-mining companies that are a real problem. See, for example, Cambridge Analytica.

Arguably, without these shady political entities and their data mining capabilities, and the amplifying power of Twitter and Facebook, we might not be faced with Brexit and Trump.

Or maybe we would, but at the very least we need to consider this and can't just say, sure, nothing has changed really. Because things have changed, and are continuing to change, rapidly and in ways we cannot predict, due to the sudden central role of tech giants in our societies.
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Pretty cool course. I wonder what the difference between this and the online O Reilly course that he offers.

1. The Python Programming Language. - An in-depth look at Python programming for those who want to advance their Python programming skills. https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/python-programming-langu...

2. Practical Python Programming.
Over 13 years in development and taught to more than 400 in-person groups, you'll learn the fundamentals of Python programming. Now released under a Creative Commons licenses.
Yes, such idea is absurd. I can't fathom along what lines they came to the idea of online marketplaces being the ones to blame, or moreover being burdened by the duty to police their markets... The line of thinking of such people is not unlike the ones of communist party.

Found one stall in a giant market selling weed? Ban all sellers. Had one illegal BnB in an apartment building? Expunge all renters in the whole apartment block.
Most of the Wealth the West has comes from industrialization, and industrialization required a lot of capital in order to happen.

It happened in England powered from the money of traffic of slaves in the Atlantic. Those slaves went to the South of the US and also created lots of capital producing cotton that was very expensive at the time. That capital went into machines which powered industrialization too in the North of the US.

After that the US expanded to the West exterminating the native population. The native did not agreed on new cultivation methods that made their buffaloes and bison population stagnate.

In Germany they tried to copy the Americans but exterminating people at the East instead of the West (the "Lebensraum").

Japan tried to do the same "expanding"(and exterminating) to surrounding Asian countries.

In theory those that exterminated the native populations in the US and had black slaves were Christians. Most of the German population supported Hitler and they were(in theory) Christians.

It is human behavior, humans are predators and they predate other animals or Humans from other tribes.

Religion does not remove our canine and incisors teeth. Our nature remains there and it could be dangerous.
I was just wrong. Not sure how -- there was a coauthor with a gmail address but yes, Technical University of Budapest.

[Deleted "from authors not associated with an academic institution" from my original reply.]
It's the other way round for some. Bad experiences can kill motivation.
I slowly realised similar principles when character posing in Daz Studio:

* Work from the core body (hip and 'spine') out to the extremities

* Weight bearing limbs first

Only then obsess about the positions of the fingers

I wish the documentation had said this as well as going on about the mechanics of the user interface
A lot of things that came from Buddhism have found appeal among the west and especially in progressive/liberal circles. Especially among people who are not otherwise religious. The Dalai lama is even regarded as a hero. It becomes difficult to categorically reject something when you take inspiration from it at the same time.
It's hard to say now. It might work or just got busted at the end of the day.
I feel like all agencies should stay away from JavaScript frameworks unless they are willing to be open with their clients on how much time will go into maintaining the project.

My agency regularly take over older JavaScript projects - built in whatever JS-stack was trending at the moment. There are always big parts of the stack that are no longer available or in active development. Not to mention the enormous hassle it is to bring dependencies up to date for a JS-project that hasn't been updated in three years.

Depending on the circumstances we usually recommend moving it to a boring CMS like WordPress unless there are compelling reasons to double down on the JavaScript stack (if it really is more of a web application for example.)
Not to nitpick or simplify your argument but there is a huge difference between "doing nothing in self-defense" and "setting oneself on fire".
True but that came at the cost of being subservient to the CCP.
Compared to the mass enslavement of Africans and genocide of indigenous people in the west, this sounds pretty tame. Modern Tibet is certainly flourishing.

Perhaps the people who fled were the ones guilty of crimes mentioned in the article?
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Actually its not quite that simple. The approaches are "equivalent" (in terms of operational/statistical predictions) but not "isomorphic" (even if we restrict the regular linear algebra approach to the same gates as I use in the book). Basically (because of not implementing normalization/unitarity) in certain situations the "mist" retains a count of the number of "Feynman paths" that led to the output state. For example, concatenate two PETE boxes (hadamard gates) and the output is [W,W], concatenate four and its [W,W,W,W]. Operationally identical (you only observe the ball to be certainly white!) and applying a suitable simplification rule you "drop the extras" of course. But if someone (unlike me!) wants to think of these states as having ontological status maybe they would think the distinction is relevant.

A much more interesting example of something similar happens in the Deutch-Hayden version of Heisenberg picture style quantum theory. There from looking at the "state of the world" you can determine which total unitary evolution occurred to get you there. In the Schroedinger picture, if I give you the inital and final states there are many possible unitaries that get you between them. Its possible to go further and come up with versions where not only the total unitary connecting initial and final state is discernable, but also the sequence of Hamiltonian's that implemented it are too.

These things are mainly of interest to people in foundations of course (since they like to play the game of blurring the line between our math and what is "really out there"). I tried to be very careful in the book to maintain the distinction.
I think it is relatively obvious that the popularity of the Dalai is partially the result of a CIA psy-op (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Tibetan_program)
This happened when Mongo started getting popular, too. Mongo supporters would get nasty if you suggested using a relational database. That, eventually, cooled off. Hopefully this "React or nothing" phase will too.
The jump from "they have a horrible history" to "they should all be abolished" is a but much, I think

The history of the state is also nasty. The history of engineering is also not that glorious, given that it was mostly for war. You can even go to the history of writing...

The question is: what each religion is doing, of harm and good, today. And what we expect they can do tomorrow. On those grounds, you might even be right. But the question is more complex.

(but I agree: the bible does not fit with our values today at all)
I have yet to see this...
Just imagine if Soviet Union could prove US faked the Apollo program, faked claims of landing on the moon.

But i bet Soviet Union was on the conspiracy too xD
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Jesus wasn't opressed by taking away his slaves, was he?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23562434
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The government needs to be in debt to a certain degree. Debt is a zero sum game: If someone is saving, then someone else needs to make debt. Private house holds are always saving, they can not make debt. That leaves private companies, the government and foreign countries. Often private companies are also reluctant to make debt if times are not good, so the government has to invest to keep the economy from grinding to a halt. Some countries like Germany manage to save in all sectors, but this only works because they export their debt to other countries like Greece, which is unsustainable and ultimately caused the euro crisis.
>It seems that China is picking fights with everybody

It's no about fight's, but to see how states react when you pinch them, common tactic before a grand finally.

Like Russia, first Crimea checkout reactions, then east-Ukraine.
The original study can be read here: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/29/14677

Abstract:

> Domestication shaped wolves into dogs and transformed both their behavior and their anatomy. Here we show that, in only 33,000 y, domestication transformed the facial muscle anatomy of dogs specifically for facial communication with humans. Based on dissections of dog and wolf heads, we show that the levator anguli oculi medialis, a muscle responsible for raising the inner eyebrow intensely, is uniformly present in dogs but not in wolves. Behavioral data, collected from dogs and wolves, show that dogs produce the eyebrow movement significantly more often and with higher intensity than wolves do, with highest-intensity movements produced exclusively by dogs. Interestingly, this movement increases paedomorphism and resembles an expression that humans produce when sad, so its production in dogs may trigger a nurturing response in humans. We hypothesize that dogs with expressive eyebrows had a selection advantage and that “puppy dog eyes” are the result of selection based on humans’ preferences.
On the other hand, there's "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war."

(e.g. https://medium.com/covilian-military-intelligence-group/you-... )
While I agree with your general point, I think livestock is more heavily bred. Chicken, cows, poultry and pigs that "live" in factory farms nowadays can't even survive out in the wild, nor do they have particularly long life-spans.
> it's hard to see why everybody talks about linear regression all the time when with gradient descent or any other numerical optimizer there's really no limit to what f(x) can look like.

Even though there is no limit to what f can look like (except being differentiable), the kind of models that you can reasonably fit and obtain good performance from is still very much limited by how much data you have, and of which quality. And data is indeed the bottleneck in the vast majority of cases.
This article had a brutal leap from being aimed at someone with barely any understanding of maths (complete with friendly emojis) to use of cost functions (without any explanation) and associated code. It's bit like the "how to draw an owl" meme.

A good article on linear regression, in my opinion, would break it down into three steps:

1. Spend a bit of time looking at cost functions. In principle linear regression is finding the "best" line, where by "best" we consider all possible lines (yes, all uncountably infinite of them), compute the cost function for each one, and pick the one where the cost comes out lowest. You want to show a few example lines on top of some example points and label their costs. Start with absolute deviation (i.e. l1 norm) to start with - let's face it, that's really the most obvious cost function if you don't already know what comes next - then contrast with least squares (i.e. l2 norm). For example, note that least squares cost function "cares" more about points that are a particularly long way away.

2. Admit that, OK, we do want an algorithm more sensible than "try every possible line, labourously computing the cost of each one". Now you can talk about gradient descent - and I mean WHY you use gradient descent, not the computation. And now you can mention that least squares is differentiable, so solves nicely for gradient descent, which is the real reason we tend to prefer it over absolute deviation.

3. Finally, after both of those you can solve the gradient descent equations and show some associated code.
I don't understand. Is stuff like this supposed to be serious? Even if there was a disaster that completely destroys the communicative link between us and a future people (say, because humans have to return to subsistence hunting/gathering), there is an outrageous amount of written language everywhere as durable artifacts. Any future industrialized (or hell, even agrarian) society will be able to learn to read our language and understand huge amounts. These sorts of widespread written artifacts just didn't exist before the printing press, so pretending that looking at our current era by future people will be like us looking at 1000 BC makes no sense.

The only way to change this is to go to the far future when tectonic activity plausibly erases most artifacts. But once you've looking millions of years in the future, you're talking about a different species and everything about interpretability goes out the window.
That's very true. But this means we shouldn't blindly trust either of the sides.
Aren't microg supposed to get installed first on the device? Which mean if the user doesn't have it, then your app won't run? Or can you embed the FCM support into the app itself so it doesn't depend on google play service or microg availability?
I had never actually seen "Data Science from Scratch" - sounds like a book I should read!

Fair point about the gradient descent Vs normal equations closed form solution. I am planning on working through a few algorithms so thought it would be better to introduce gradient descent with something simple before talking about gradient boosted decision trees and Neural Networks. Also I would have to explain more complex matrix stuff like invertibility issues and linear dependance like you said.

I guess I just dodged that bullet and went for gradient descent. Maybe another post for the linear algebra fans! Thanks for reading though!
Thanks for being open-minded and having a dialog.

I wouldn't call China loosely-enslaved; Chinese certainly don't see themselves as working for the Party, but for themselves, or for a prosperous China as a whole. Even though the information environment here is completely controlled, life really does feel free for the most part.

Is it really a Pyrrhic victory when a Chinese middle class family can have a comfortable, genuinely happy life? How is that family's happiness different from that of a family of westerners that comes here and lives happily for many years, as many of my friends have done?

But more to your point, it's true that America has some special sauce that 1) drives innovation faster than anywhere else in the world, and 2) attracts people to settle there from all over the world. But we see that Freedom is neither sufficient to become an innovation powerhouse (look at much of Europe) nor is it necessary (see Korea and Taiwan in the 70s and early 80s, which back then were very much not Free).

If you want to point to something as the reason why China is less innovative than the US on the whole, I'd point to the emphasis of rote memorization in the school system, and to the fact that college is kind of a joke, at least for the techies I've talked to. But that will slowly change, and even now China has a vibrant startup ecosystem.

The Party knows that for its long-term survival it must align its own interests with those of the people. And right now, to quote Singaporean academic Kishore Mahbubani in a recent Sinica podcast, "the primary goal of the Chinese Communist Party is to revive Chinese civilization." Of course, the party will insist that this be done on its own terms.

Human rights issues need not be addressed here because in practice they do not factor in. The US especially emphasizes these things because it loves to have the moral high ground (and I believe it does), but that unfortunately does very little to slow the rate at which the US, with its ineffective strategy over the last two decades, is ceding the geopolitical high ground.
In a society where renting is increasingly common, that seems like a quick way to kill off a bunch of young, poor people.
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I am surprised nobody has come up with "virtual tickets" system where you set up speakers on the stadium and you can have multiple people join in and shout at home into their microphones to be heard at the stadium.

It seems such an obvious solution that would make a lot of money and make games actually have chants that follow the game play.

Eg. you probably need a group of only 10-20 people all virtually seated in a single area (one speaker at the stadium) to get a song started as others pick it up on their headphones.
Please refer me to the passage in which Jesus freed the slaves serving under Rome?

Religious figures aren’t always perfect in our eyes; that doesn’t mean aspiring to virtue is meaningless.

It’s an endless journey to salvation and nirvana, but we’re all slouching towards Bethlehem.
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> In this case it is because you need that rejection email in writing to go file a claim with your credit card and trigger your purchase protection.

If it's a case of extended warranty, wouldn't the card company just require an official repair quote?
Christopher Alexander wrote a lot of books with rules for building. He also said in one of his talks that he could imagine software that could generate a building (or the basic form) with the rules as constraints but with user input for the details.

I believe that would be great to have. And this post looks very promising that such software is possible.
>One view is authoritarian, a person with lots of power who can do whatever he wants.

>The other view is democratic, a person employed by citizens to be a representative and have some managerial role.

but there are also views about what responsibilities are in relation to these kinds of figures.

One could easily conceive of the responsibility would be to not let the authoritarian (a dictator) broadcast because their authority is illegitimate. So not let them broadcast at all on your service, whether they hold to the rules or not.

But let the democratically chosen leader broadcast, whether they hold to the service terms or not, because of needs to serve user base of democratically chosen leader's constituency.

That said I personally believe in shutting him down, but I can conceive of lots of different viewpoints which might find him reprehensible but still consider that it is needed to let him have access, although probably the real viewpoint is "show me the money!"
I don't think they've missed the fact that for linear regression there's an algebraic solution, but machine learners typically treat linear regression a simple special case, and as soon as want to go a bit beyond you have to go with an iterative numerical optimizer anyway so why bother with the special case solution.

My main criticism on the article would be that the nitty gritty section only makes sense to a reader that has already done a linear algebra / multivariate calculus course. In which case they've likely already covered least squares in greater depth (including the exact solutions) than this article. So I don't really see the purpose of the math section, except maybe to signal that the writer has a descent understanding of the algorithmic detail.