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basedbertramon Firewood Splitting Simulator

Fun experience, but the forced rotation after a certain number of cuts diminishes it.

basedbertramon Zuckerberg's internal emails rendered as Facebook Messenger

There seems to be an issue with the messages sidebar snapping back to the top whenever a thread is selected. Pretty tedious to scroll down each time.

basedbertramon Discrete Mathematics – An Open Introduction, 4th edition

> A PDF of the book will be made available by August 15th.

On the sidebar:

> PDF coming soon

basedbertramon Linear Algebra Done Right – 4th Edition

So did you read through Strang and then read Axler, or did you try to work through both of them at the same time?

basedbertramon An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in Python

> This is, as a ML researcher, exactly where I'm at (in belief).

As an ML researcher myself, I'm glad to see other researchers maintaining a level-headed approach amidst the noise.

basedbertramon What is a transformer model? (2022)

There's a newer version of [4]: http://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/annotated-transformer/

basedbertramon What is a transformer model? (2022)

From looking at the video probably someone who has good working knowledge of PyTorch, familiarity with NLP fundamentals and transformers, and somewhat of a working understanding of how GPT works.

basedbertramon Killing Community

In my experience, you have to wade through too many unnecessary posts to find anything useful on 4chan.

basedbertramon YOLOv6: Redefine state-of-the-art for object detection

> But note that YOLOv7 doesn't meant to be a successor of yolo family, 7 is just a magic and lucky number. Instead, YOLOv7 extend yolo into many other vision tasks, such as instance segmentation, one-stage keypoints detection etc..

Are you kidding me?

basedbertramon YOLOv6: Redefine state-of-the-art for object detection

At the very least v4 has a paper attached to it. The authors of v5 have claimed that they'll release a paper at some point, but it has never materialized. It doesn't seem like v6 even makes that promise.

basedbertramon Why Are Topre Keyboards So Expensive?

Yeah, pretty interesting! I had no idea there were all of these different offerings for the switches.

basedbertramon Why Are Topre Keyboards So Expensive?

Oh wow, do people really bring mechanical keyboards to the office? I thought that was generally considered a no-no.

basedbertramon Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website

Holy cow, that's incredible

basedbertramon How to rapidly improve at any programming language (2016)

I remember hearing about his MIT Challenge. This answer on Quora from an MIT student highlights some of the issues with that challenge https://www.quora.com/How-do-MIT-students-and-professors-fee...

In the book does he reflect on any of this, or is it based on the MIT challenge at all?