tomdre

Any recommendation for fishing around the Bay Area? I read that the water's quality of nearby lakes and rivers is pretty low.

Marty Music for guitar lessons https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmnlTWVJysjWPFiZhQ5uudg

One of my dreams is to do something similar by simplifying neural nets via (bi)simulation (something along the lines of quotient automata).

Never had the chance of studying it. I'll give it a closer look. Thanks.

"Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen et al. is one of my favorite books. It gave me a deep understanding of algorithms and data structures.

My recommendations:

Cafes: Caffe Trieste (North Beach)

Restaurants: The Ramp (Dogpatch), Sunday morning brunch at Thai Temple (Berkeley), Fish (Sausalito)

Sights: Twin Peaks, Coit Tower, Berkeley hills (Grizzly peak)

Weird shit: The Saloon (North Beach), Ruby Room (Oakland), parties at 20 Mission (Mission), Li Po Cocktail Lounge (Chinatown)

This is not a really strong argument against self-driving cars. The fact that a problem is NP-hard doesn't make it untractable. Every day we use apps that deal with NP problems (e.g., routing problems, packing problems, etc.). Also, note that there're P problems whose instances can be harder than (smaller) NP ones.

My steps for learning French and Spanish were: 1) 1/2 months nonstop on Duolingo 2) Cartoons/books for kids 3) Spending free time with French/Spanish speakers (gotta mention that I was lucky because my native language is romance and I lived in both France and Equador)

"The Art of Computer Programming" by D. Knuth taught me the beauty of well designed algorithms. "The Art of Prolog" by E. Shapiro opened my mind to new programming paradigms.

Jaron Lanier's "You Are Not a Gadget" has some nice thought about this point, claiming that the web in the 90s was a way more creative and personal space than today.

I find even more hilarious the opposite phenomenon: English songs with fake Italian. My favorite example "zooma zooma baccala'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msbx4onTzFU

Titcoin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titcoin

Couldn't agree more. A technique should be judged by its usefulness. Not by its catchiness.

Off topic. Yann LeCun really looks like Michael Moore who looks like Peter Griffin.

SOCML (Self-Organizing Conference on Machine Learning) is really nice. Open discussions and interesting people. It's not the classic academic conference.

A long time ago I read "Speed Reading" by Tony Buzan. It provides plenty of techniques, tricks, and exercises.

Murano's glass blowers (Venetian lagoon) are the craftsmen that I admired the most. It's a pleasure seeing them at work. Immense skills and tradition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murano_glass

Jaron Lanier's "Dawn of the New Everything". Beautiful description of his journey in VR and how Silicon Valley has evolved from the early 80s.

Here in Berkeley there's this amazing company https://www.imperfectproduce.com/ that delivers veggies that are not nice enough for markets.

I love Fermat's Library http://fermatslibrary.com/

It provides a good selection of classics annotated with the purpose of guiding you through the paper.

There's also the seminal Bitcoin paper http://fermatslibrary.com/s/bitcoin

Check out "domain adaptation" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_adaptation

If I stick a picture of a dog on a car and my neural net detects a dog instead of a car, can I claim that I've invented an adversarial generator?

Thanks! I'll have a look at it for sure. During my phd I developed a tool for reachability analysis of polynomial dynamical systems https://github.com/dreossi/sapo I needed expression manipulation to compute Bernestein coefficients of polynomials

I worked with GiNaC https://www.ginac.de/ and noticed that the bottleneck was variable substitutions, e.g., replace a variable with a constant and simplify the expression. I'm still dreaming of an efficient CAS.

I really liked "Visual Complexity" by Manuel Lima:

https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Complexity-Mapping-Patterns-In...

Do you guys know if it's possible to programmatically alter ETS environment? (such as weather, brightness, traffic, etc). Thinking of using the simulator to generate augmented data.

Splinter is the best

When I moved to France from Italy I didn't speak a single word of French. I spent 5 months on Duolingo (en->fr), hung out with French colleagues, read books and watch cartoons for kids (Asterix and Tin Tin are my favorite).

After 8 months I was able to speak fluently French. A strong advantage was that I already spoke a romance language.