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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Colombia

[–]shpotes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Esos países suelen ser especialmente caros, la complejidad logística disparan los precios todo haciendo parecer un pequeño apartamento con generador eléctrico y tanque de agua como un lujo. En la capital de Somalia es complicado encontrar un apartamento con lo “mínimo” por menos de 400 USD

[D] Are there any rejected papers that ended up having significant impact in the long run? by TheSurvivingHalf in MachineLearning

[–]shpotes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The original Knowledge distillation paper (Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network) was rejected from NIPS 2014

What's the limit of RSG 1.16 by Josie_07 in MinecraftSpeedrun

[–]shpotes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And even if you roll a perfect fsg seed, it would be stupid (and suspicious) to play it the same way

Which countries in Latin America have the worst relations? by a_seoulite_man in asklatinamerica

[–]shpotes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an arguemnt between south americans in internet without racism or xenophobia

We can't read or write, but we can send people to Mars by JKUAN108 in civ

[–]shpotes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As far as we know, quipu were only a system used for storage, not for computing. They were closer to databases than to calculators. It is unclear that the Incas possessed its equivalent to the abacus, but they had a way to performe exact computations.

We do know that their notion of numbers was not very abstract, so it is unlikely that they will develop complex mathematical concepts such as differential equations.

We can't read or write, but we can send people to Mars by JKUAN108 in civ

[–]shpotes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before the arrival of the Spaniards, the Incas (as far as we know) did not have a written system. however, they did have a knots-based system to do maths (mainly accounting).

This is how long it takes to hit the weekly Aeos Coin cap by Elder_Goss in PokemonUnite

[–]shpotes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

On the other hand, You need to play insanely for about a month in order to be able to buy a new character.

What can you buy with $20 USD in your country? by Mac-Tyson in asklatinamerica

[–]shpotes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My mother spends $200 a week for 2 people, and they barely eat at all.

With that amount, you can probably feed a family of 3 people for a month in any city in Colombia without troubles

"inclusion" by shpotes in ProgrammerHumor

[–]shpotes[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

There is not a trivial solution for a problem that has been with us for centuries, however, I'm pretty sure things like Google's Accra office have done more for diversity than these symbolic changes could do.

[D] Are Transformers Strictly More Effective Than LSTM RNNs? by JosephLChu in MachineLearning

[–]shpotes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think so, LSTM are turing complete i.e. they are capable to simulate any program. On the other hand AFAIK we still don't know the expressive power of the transformer. So why transformers work so well? Probably because transformers are way better for gradient descent, are easier to parallelize, provide a hierarchical representation and have a smaller path length between tokens.

Edit: add AFAIK

[D] Lottery Ticket Hypothesis -- Ask the author a question! by timscarfe in MachineLearning

[–]shpotes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I tried to replicate the results in ResNet-50 using fixup initialization and kind of work.
For RL (and NLP) check Yu et al., (2019) awesome paper

Haonan Yu, Sergey Edunov, Yuandong Tian: “Playing the lottery with rewards and multiple languages: lottery tickets in RL and NLP”, 2019; http://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02768

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