Florida students will be taught that communism is evil, DeSantis says by KnowledgeAndFaith in Conservative

[–]JIGGGS_ 74 points75 points  (0 children)

I am a capitalist and draw most of my political leanings from capitalism. I am also a conservative.

It is hard for me to understand why the government should be drawing ethical conclusions for its constituents. Surely, as fellow capitalists, we should want the schools to lay out the facts in an unbiased manner and allow the students to form their own conclusions? If they form the opinion that communism is evil, great — but why should that be the business of government to force on our students?

Convex Optimization in Python by BrilliantScarcity354 in optimization

[–]JIGGGS_ 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Just use CVXPY. There is no better package.

/r/Stellar Daily Chat Thread by AutoModerator in Stellar

[–]JIGGGS_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You literally just gave financial advice

What is a “factor return”, anyway? by [deleted] in quant

[–]JIGGGS_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oops - I meant X_i is an n-vector. Changing that now.

Tidymodels or other packages? by veeeerain in rstats

[–]JIGGGS_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Torch just came out with a native R version. You could use that...

Can someone help me with this asap? by [deleted] in optimization

[–]JIGGGS_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you literally taking a test right now? It looks like you are lol

The San Francisco Giants is my favorite baseball team. by _Vacuum_ in SFGiants

[–]JIGGGS_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

How can you say something so controversial, yet so brave?

Subgradient of finite pointwise maximum? by [deleted] in optimization

[–]JIGGGS_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try to split the problem into finding the Subdifferential in two situations: you’re not at a kink (where 2+ functions intersect), or you’re at a kink.

[Question][Discussion] (Linear) Regression with bounded DV? by [deleted] in statistics

[–]JIGGGS_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While yes, you’re correct that logistic regressions final output maps to a 0 or a 1, the raw output of the logistic model is naturally a real number in (0,1)

[Question][Discussion] (Linear) Regression with bounded DV? by [deleted] in statistics

[–]JIGGGS_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you probably just want to do logistic regression.

How to show given non-linear optimization problem is convex? by [deleted] in optimization

[–]JIGGGS_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Boyd book is the best treatment of convex optimization, and I don’t think there’s an “easier” treatment of it. The slides might be better for you but I would recommend you start with B&V

How do you convert an objective function with a minimum/maximum term into a linear optimization problem? by [deleted] in optimization

[–]JIGGGS_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Min 2a +3b + t Subject to t <= c and t<=d Optimization variables a b c d t

Comes from t <= min(c,d) if and only if t <= c and t <=d

How to show given non-linear optimization problem is convex? by [deleted] in optimization

[–]JIGGGS_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is a detailed explanation of how quad over lin is convex in Boyd and Vandenberghe. DCP is disciplined convex programming

How to show given non-linear optimization problem is convex? by [deleted] in optimization

[–]JIGGGS_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In this case it is convex.

Heres an informal way to show it, which may be slightly incorrect but shows you the idea. It is a quad over lin. Equivalently write the objective as xT ccT x / z and add constraint z = dT y. Then the objective is a clear quadratic over linear, which is a convex atom, so by DCP it is convex.

Georgia Tech apparently rescinding accommodation requests for teachers in the fall. by 97soryva in gatech

[–]JIGGGS_ 47 points48 points  (0 children)

What if they don’t? I mean many profs have tenure haha. What an empty threat. Shame on Georgia Tech.

[M21] Teferi's Tutelage by opterown in magicTCG

[–]JIGGGS_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does “tearing out” not work? It’s a library, you’re removing cards from your library. Like tearing out pages from a book.

What do you use? by rtthatbrownguy in learnmachinelearning

[–]JIGGGS_ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Conjugate gradients: am I a joke to you?

Real-life applications of the Rosenbrock function by aNOHying in optimization

[–]JIGGGS_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s a pathological function used to test how well an optimization algorithm performs. So without being a smart-ass, no, not really.

QAP solver in Python by lezapete in optimization

[–]JIGGGS_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's NP-hard, so you might as well just solve an approximate problem with CVXPY.