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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 32 posts.
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Understanding “Deep Double Descent”
Double descent is a puzzling phenomenon in machine learning where increasing model size/training time/data can initially hurt performance, but then i…
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Multiple ways to compute e in Raku
The first task of the 21st Weekly Challenge was a very old one: to find (what would eventually become known as) Euler’s number.
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Swift Numerics
I’m excited to announce a new open-source project for the Swift ecosystem, Swift Numerics! Swift Numerics will provide the building blocks of numerical computing in Swift, as a set of fine-grained modules bundled together into a single Swift package. My hope is that we can quickly fill some important gaps in the…
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Solving a linear optimization problem on incentive allocation
At Lyft, scientists solve all kinds of optimization problems. While solvers can come in handy, there are times when complicated or…
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New pathfinding algorithm
New pathfinding algorithm Oxyd Last week we mentioned the change to make biters not collide with each other, but that wasn’t the only biter-related update we released this past week. Somewhat coincidentally, this week’s updates have included something I’d been working on for a few weeks before – an upgrade to the…
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Algorithm No One Knows About (2016)
Here’s a program roughly 0% of programmers know how to write: generate a list of random tweets, without duplication. You may think you know how to do this, but you almost assuredly don’…
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The Riemann Hypothesis (Part 2)
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The Riemann Hypothesis
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Exploring Weight Agnostic Neural Networks
Posted by Adam Gaier, Student Researcher and David Ha, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research, Tokyo When training a neural network to accompl...
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Linguistics Using Category Theory (2018)
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Math in Data Science
Find out how much math is involved in data science and what math you need to know to get started in a data science role.
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L2 Regularization and Batch Norm
This blog post is about an interesting detail about machine learning that I came across as a researcher at Jane Street - that of the interaction between L2 r...
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The Riemann Hypothesis Says 5040 Is the Last
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ProtonMail now offers elliptic curve cryptography
Proton Mail has become the first and only encrypted email provider to support elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), providing more security and performance.
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Calculating the mean of a list of numbers (2016)
You have a list of floating point numbers. No nasty tricks - these aren't NaN or Infinity, just normal "simple" floating point numbers.
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‘A Swiss cheese-like material’ that can solve equations
Engineering professor Nader Engheta and his team have demonstrated a metamaterial device that can function as an analog computer, validating an earlier theory about ‘photonic calculus.’
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Calculating a record-breaking 31.4T digits of Pi with GCP
Pi in the sky: Calculating a record-breaking 31.4 trillion digits of Archimedes’ constant on Google Cloud
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MathML in Chromium
A joint effort to add native MathML-Core support to web browsers.
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Analyzing the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns
Discover the secrets behind hit music with our popular song chords analysis from 1300 tracks. Your songwriting journey begins here!