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Robusto
Robusto
12:09 AM
@CowperKettle Yeah, you had a typo on Strava. =P
@Mitch It's a twig broom. I can't remember where I heard it first.
 
Robusto
Robusto
12:24 AM
Heartfelt greetings

You thumb through
folded yards of green graph.
In the staccato language
of spikes, skips, stutters,
the meaning that lies
and come to understand.
An angiogram is nothing more
than an electronic message
your heart has sent to tell you
it still loves you and
wants you to stop.

-Robusto
@tchrist Here is the poem I wrote after seeing the sun rise in Pennsylvania that time.
Sunrise, Pennsylvania Turnpike, 11/24/03

For hours cobwebs of spun-sugar
catch at my burrowing headlights.

My mind waters for light, images
beyond these two incandescent eyes

that probe the vacant yawn of night
which lies about everything.

Now the merest arc of cantaloupe
impeaches the darkness, peeks out

from whipped cream, a coquette,
sly and luminous on blue china.

All at once my mouth forms an O:
I have to stop and help myself.
.........................
And here's a pic I took today, not as subtle as the sunrise was. But it's the sun, in his autumn finery:
 
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
2:00 AM
Reality-based community
Reality-based community is a derisive term for people who base judgments on facts. It was first attributed to a senior official working for U.S. president George W. Bush by the reporter Ron Suskind in 2004. Many American liberals adopted the label for themselves, using it to portray themselves as adhering to facts in contradiction to conservatives presumably disregarding professional and scientific expertise. == Origin == The phrase was attributed by journalist Ron Suskind to an unnamed official in the George W. Bush administration who used it to denigrate a critic of the administration's policies...
 
 
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tchrist
tchrist
3:09 AM
@Robusto Thank you for that.
 
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
8:53 AM
 
 
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
10:47 AM
Deep learning is so thick in the news. Almost every other day I see it applied to something.
I have no hope of ever understanding the maths of it.
I tried self-studying statistics, but barely managed to get the school-type basics refreshed.
It's so complicated for my brain.
> John Ruskin has been suggested to have suffered from CADASIL.
 
 
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SmokeDetector
SmokeDetector
12:26 PM
[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Pattern-matching website in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (78): Why are phonewords called vanity numbers? by Tetianita on english.SE
 
 
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Mitch
Mitch
2:10 PM
@CowperKettle So interesting...if you read the paper, they decidedly use a model that is -not- Deep Learning... they state outright that the DL models they looked at have >185,000 parameters, but the model they actually used (a probabilistic finite state automaton) has ~13,800 (which is a good thing), in context.
@CowperKettle Most of the things it is being used for nowadays, it is way too complex (so very likely to overfit), and most of the people using it do not have very much statistical sophistication and so it is likely to be misused.
@CowperKettle If you have an idea of how linear regression works, then you have only a couple smallish steps after that to get to DL.
@CowperKettle Oh...I suppose like any area there's the first easy steps and then all the complexity that comes afterwards.
 
CowperKettle
CowperKettle
2:55 PM
 
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CowperKettle
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CowperKettle
CowperKettle
4:42 PM
Word of the day: Biondi bodies (Biondi bodies (the “silver rings of Biondi”) are filamentous, ring-like or arc-like structures in the epithelium of the choroid plexus)
 

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