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Posts about machine learning, programming, investing ML engineer, physics masters, builder-explorer Free newsletter: http://VaclavKosar.com
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vackosar··on Permutation City (1994)
Egan is great. Another good book is Incandescence. Only problem is that some of his novels contain some kind of loneliness. Can't describe it.
vackosar··on OKRs Are Bullshit
I see only the problem of no ability to change the OKRs, otherwise the core idea of making a plan is right. Changing the goals should introduce a additional change process, because priorities change with new knowledge. I haven't see that done well yet. Maybe just having 6 weeks cycle OKR [1] instead could work better as in Shape Up?

[1] https://basecamp.com/shapeup/2.2-chapter-08

vackosar··on Organic Maps: An open-source maps app that doesn't suck
I use mapy.cz often, because of the UI and better maps. Only the traffic is probably not estimated the best.
vackosar··on Ask HN: Which recent research paper blew your mind?
I read about criticism of General Relativity, that I haven't verified so grain of salt please. The criticism is in that the equations are so complex that only the simplest limits of them are studied and so the theory is therefore not verified.
vackosar··on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
https://vaclavkosar.com/ Mostly on machine learning research
vackosar··on Admiral Rickover's 'Paper Reactor' Memo (1953)
True problem is not technical and it is right there in the article. Non-academics "speak less and worry more". So their knowledge is likely scattered and not distilled. Building these devices is probably quite simple in the end, it is just the story is not being told.
vackosar··on Google's Pathways Language Model and Chain-of-Thought
Correction! Cost is around $10M not $10B.
vackosar··on Google's Pathways Language Model and Chain-of-Thought
Sounds interesting! Would you link to that or describe them here? Thanks!
vackosar··on Google's Pathways Language Model and Chain-of-Thought
Yes, of course, thanks!
vackosar··on Google's Pathways Language Model and Chain-of-Thought
Correction!! The model costed around 10M not 10B! Thanks for raising that. Mistake during copying from the second slide :(
vackosar··on Ask HN: Share your personal site
I write on machine learning, software, business, and many other things. https://vaclavkosar.com/
vackosar··on PID Controller: A Simple Control Loop Mechanism
Why it breaks the KISS principle?
vackosar··on Written communication is remote work super power
Give the quizzes at the end of the blog posts a shot:

- https://vaclavkosar.com/ml/starspace-embedding

- https://quizrecall.com/rack/Cynefin-Framework--Making-The-Be...

I use the service for personal training, but it is opened for others now as well.

vackosar··on Written communication is remote work super power
Hi! I recently opened my quiz generation service to public. Would you try out the quiz AI assistant at https://QuizRecall.com and let me know what would you need to be added to make useful also for your use case?
vackosar··on Ask HN: What did you make during lockdown?
I finished my automated micro-training generation tool, that I used a lot myself, but wanted to see if others find it useful https://Quizrecall.com/
vackosar··on Cloudflare TV
Can't you use Firefox with uBlock addon on an iPhone?
vackosar··on Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?
I recently written a software for automatic question generation, which I use for learning snippets of text without need to manually create flashcards for say Anki. You can try it here https://quizrecall.com/personal/ and you can read more on the rationale to build this here https://vaclavkosar.com/2019/11/02/Quizrecall-Learn-any-text...
vackosar··on GitHub Codespaces
Once they have all the coding sessions recorded they can finally replace those pesky devs /jk. But seriously, is there anything in the conditions about ability to record coding sessions of say open source devs?
vackosar··on 'Dead Sea Scrolls' at museum turn out to be forgeries
Why do you think that?
vackosar··on Adjusted Age-Specific Case Fatality Ratio During for COVID-19 in Hubei [pdf]
Death rate: Age 0-9: 0.0094% Age 10-19: 0.022% Age 20-29: 0.091% Age 30-39: 0.18% Age 40-49: 0.4% Age 50-59: 1.3% Age 60-69: 4.6% Age 70-79: 9.8% Age 80+: 18%

TL;DR dont infect ur parents as 60-69 has 1 in 21 chance of death.

vackosar··on Honeywell achieves quantum volume of 64
The paper https://www.honeywell.com/content/dam/honeywell/files/Beta_1...
vackosar··on Japanese woman confirmed as coronavirus case for second time
Cov19 likely contains HIV like mutation making it more infectious and maybe harder to build immunity to https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3052495/coro...
vackosar··on T5: The Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer
Listen to the paper here you can https://youtu.be/gyBdnNY1WPI
vackosar··on Benford's Law
Listen to the paper on this topic here you can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGBcBeX1PSA :)
vackosar··on Fastai: A Layered API for Deep Learning
Listen to the paper here you can https://youtu.be/XO26sNuJaXg
vackosar··on Show HN: A Maven extension for faster incremental builds utilizing Git diff
The project is these days mainly developed and maintained by Famod. A very good developer https://github.com/famod
vackosar··on Coronavirus 3 Day Prediction
At the time I haven't see any chart like that on the net. I also wanted to experiment a bit to see how many views one can get. (It is my third website or so)
vackosar··on WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency
another one here: intraday real-time coronavirus infected count predictor with log scale. If I am right it goes up every minute or so https://www.coronaviruschart.com/
vackosar··on WHO declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency
here is simple intraday real-time coronavirus infected count predictor with log scale. If I am right it goes up every minute or so https://www.coronaviruschart.com/
vackosar··on Coronavirus 3 Day Prediction
I colored the prediction points in blue.
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