Posts by Derek Beaton
you can work out a lot of the problems with LLMs just from sort of intuition and a rough familiarity with how to run a PCA
A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses. They look cool as fuck. Their arms are reaching out and they have a sandy striped pattern
A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses swimming just above the ground. They look very cool. They have a yellow sandy beige colour.
A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses sitting on the ground. Their two centre arms are raised and reaching back while the other limbs rest on the ground. They have a grey colour with brown spots. They look extremely cool.
A European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) wearing a pair of red and blue 3D glasses reaching for a projection of a shrimp. They look pretty cool. They have a sandy brown colour.
In 2019, scientists velcro'd 3D glasses to European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis)
They didn't do this just to make them look cool as fuck, but in order to study their vision. Using a 3D theatre made for the cuttlefish, they were able to test if cuttlefish have stereo vision (they do!)
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
Going back to the moon is a delight for humanity and, maybe someday if Pan Am comes back, me personally. *fingers crossed*
(rockets and space and moon visits are so cool)
This landmark Toronto grafitti has longevity (it's been at Brickworks for at least 5 years)
Plus it's the meanest (and greenest) graffiti this city has to offer
Also weird that it is, to some degree, giving credit to a company like that.
Also extra weird because we don't acknowledge other tools in the same way (like linters, IDEs)
if performance for forecasting/predicting is suitable and automated, does input matter much? eg two models could have identical performance (auc, prec/recall) but completely different inputs, transformations, or modeling approaches. and those choices (with caveats) likely matter less than output
these look incredible. do you have a recipe and/or technique to share?
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
first of all: this sounds super neat
second of all: damn, I missed my chance to claim CRAN real estate with "weird"
Also this is clearly fiction and a superpower: someone can *think* in LaTeX
I like to read comics to disconnect.
And then the new (Marvel) Ultimates goes and throws some LaTeX typesetting in the proper orientation for the character but backwards for the reader and I'm now just really stressed this won't compile correctly.
I am not having a good time right now!
tidyfeast (is that a thing?)
but it'd be pretty cool to somehow have a stable of special moves, fatalities, or even friendships for every paper one reads
I guess this is true? I certainly feel better about myself when a bunch of silly variables get penalized
Somewhat shameless self promotion, I did my best to help explain and unify a bunch of SVD things
arxiv.org/abs/2010.14734
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if you have two tables of data, where the rows are the same things. but the columns for each table are different *somehow*
but there are a bunch of options to understand two tables, CCA is just one
slow your roll, we just philosophically CI for now. through flamewars.
THIS IS PRODUCTIVE DISCOURSE.
Continuous improvement!
.rs.restartR (the best) vs clicking one or several things (the worst)
also ::: vs "I don't know, copy the code that's not exported?"
like let's flame war over some really weird stuff, the other things have had their time in the sun
bonus/
Here's a very handsome cat (this is also occasionally a cat account)
fin/
Breakfast pizza 2:
Linguica, potato, shallot, green onion, havarti/cheddar blend. Then topped with scrambled eggs. Red pie
Spicy linguica, but this time a Havarti and cheddar blend. Red pie
Broccolini, feta, pickled jalapeños, entirely too much garlic (again, the correct amount). Red pie
"Kind of Caldo Verde": oil, Brussels sprouts, linguica, and potatoes. White pie
"Garlic bread but put a vegetable on it":
Labneh, feta, extreme amount of sliced garlic, peas. White pie
Breakfast pizza 1: white onion, ground beef, diced potatoes. After baked, topped with scrambled eggs. White pie