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bagrow
·вчера·discuss
I'd like to see a cumulative version of that power law plot. How many papers had a delay of at least X days.

I have been bit by several inexplicable, long delays recently. In my case, I suspected the reason was choosing stat.ml as primary and cs.lg as cross-list, which, after my time in purgatory, was flipped (without asking me, of course). My choice was completely defensible.

It's almost like peer review all over again!
bagrow
·4 месяца назад·discuss
Here's a question that I hope is not too off-topic.

Do people find the nano-banana cartoon infographics to be helpful, or distracting? Personally, I'm starting to tire seeing all the little cartoon people and the faux-hand-drawn images.

Wouldn't Tufte call this chartjunk?
bagrow
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
Well, yes, but, perhaps shortsightedly, I assumed the goal of the professor was to teach the course.
bagrow
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
If you can use AI agents to give exams, what is stopping you from using them to teach the whole course?

Also, with all the progress in video gen, what does recording the webcam really do?
bagrow
·12 месяцев назад·discuss
> I cannot distinguish between the love I have for people and the love I have for dogs.

- Kurt Vonnegut.
bagrow
·в прошлом году·discuss
> I have evidence of the opposite.

Do you? [1]

[1] https://myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jcpy.1...
bagrow
·2 года назад·discuss
One time I needed to call 911 and was greeted with the recorded message, "Dear Nine One One customer, your call is important to us." Customer?

Like others in the thread, I'm skeptical of plugging new tech into that network.
bagrow
·2 года назад·discuss
https://apple.github.io/coremltools/docs-guides/source/palet...
bagrow
·2 года назад·discuss
> Write a program for a weighted random choice generator. Use that program to say ‘left’ about 80% of the time and 'right' about 20% of the time. Simply reply with left or right based on the output of your program. Do not say anything else.

Running once, GPT-4 produced 'left' using:

  import random
  def weighted_random_choice():
      choices = ["left", "right"]
      weights = [80, 20]
      return random.choices(choices, weights)[0]
  # Generate the choice and return it
  weighted_random_choice()
bagrow
·2 года назад·discuss
The best way to compute the empirical CDF (ECDF) is by sorting the data:

    N = len(data)
    X = sorted(data)
    Y = np.arange(N)/N
    plt.plot(X,Y)
Technically, you should plot this with `plt.step`.