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I always enjoyed his dribbling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLVmBJEzXhk

In the online dating market of 2019 looks is all that matters. Because of these reasons:

1. Online dating mostly depends on looks, it's based on your pictures. Almost no woman reads your bio. Simply because people don't have time (this is another reason why new apps like tinder and bumble even don't give you enough spaces to write about yourself, because it doesn't matter at the end).

2. If a woman does not find an attractive man "interesting" after first couple of dates or so, she can easily find another attractive man with "interesting" personality. They do not have to go for an ugly male with interesting personality. Because women (even average/non-attractive ones) have an extremely large dating pool, men don't. For example:

https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=168948903&pa...

3. Almost no woman picks a mate based on political views. I have seen die hard leftist women dating neonazi guys.

https://mtonews.com/.image/t_share/MTUzODEzNzk4OTYyMDc5NDg2/...

Same sex (specially between men and men) is a completely different ballgame. The mate choice strategy of women is completely different from that of men.

There are many interesting ideas about how to come up with a "fair" online dating market.

But I guess everyone is completely disregarding the basics of human nature, attraction is mostly based on "looks/facial aesthetics":

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPillScience/

In a free/unregulated sexual market, women are the selectors, not men. Women are biologically hardwired to select good looking males (irrespective of his money, personality or social status). Therefore ugly people don't get matches. Very simple.

No matter how many ways you try to engineer/fix the system, it's not going to work. Because the existing system is already doing what it is supposed to do.

I am going to hit 37 this year. I am still a student doing a PhD (an international student). These kind of story scares me.

Those who are wondering why Indian languages are a subgrouop of Indo-European languages, this chart might be helpful. It shows some of the many words that Sanskrit and Slavic both share.

https://www.rbth.com/blogs/2014/11/01/sanskrit_and_russian_a...

Why do all those thinkpad bios logos feature anime girls? Also I am seeing one with that "Hitler and gas" meme. LMAO.

I am actually quite surprised to see this kind of article on hn. Well, I am even more surprised because it's getting upvotes.

Please get a copy of Russel-Norvig's A.I. text and read at least some part of it before clicking that link.

Yea, looks like it's possible to some extent.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/270969/is-it- possible-to-noise-cancel-a-sonic-boom

Interestingly, the style of art and writing is very similar to that of Hokusai Manga. Which is considered as the one of the predecessors of today's Manga and Anime.

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

Why all these sightings are never accompanied with sonic booms? If something is moving that fast through the atmosphere, there must be a sonic boom. Or is there any way to suppress this? At least theoretically?

Yes, that's true. But in optimization domain the concept of "convexity" is understood in terms of set, not always from the 2nd derivative of a function. Because you might have search spaces where you are not able to differentiate the objective function at all. In those cases the "convex" means a "convex set".

>Just because you can prove convergence for convex functions does not mean you can't prove it for non-convex functions.

I don't understand. How do you prove a gradient descent is guaranteed to escape local minima?

I did not understand the paper very well.

1. It's theoretically impossible to guarantee a convergence to global optima using gradient descent if the function is non-convex.

2. The only way to guarantee is to start the gradient descent from different points in the search space or try with different step sizes if the algorithm only starts from the same point in the search space.

3. Also does "achieving zero training loss" mean the network has converged to the global optima? I used to know you will get zero training loss even if you are at a local minima as well.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Just to add, J.C. Bose also authored first science fiction in bengali language.

Very interesting. Is it possible to make a trebuchet that can throw stuffs beyond escape velocity?

I work on a project related to combustion and fuel efficiency and we need to run thousands to fluid mechanics simulations/FEA on the cluster computing facility in our university. Sometimes they go like weeks to finish, a powerful clsuter machine will definitely speed up everything.

Is there any technical paper on this somewhere on arxiv? I was trying to implement one of my own without all the enterprise abstractions and now I am stuck.

This comment reminds me of siberian/slavic shaman music, the whole musical genre is about mimicking different animal sounds. Very strange.

https://youtu.be/YeAp1fPt8Eg?t=31

To folks who are complaining the trade-off between it's price and what it does offer: this dog is more about a robotic toy with animatronics similar to that of spot-mini than a cloud powered AI (i.e. siri/cortana/google). You are buying an AI powered hollywood level animatronic toy for 2 grands, I wouldn't say this is too expensive.

I think even if they had no rock formation or the whole layer was uniform, they would still deflect. It's similar to walking in a straight line blindfolded.

Good catch, may be the work was too exhaustive and the exhaustion led to depression once you realize that whatever you do it does not matter at the end, everyone is paid the same, even all the credits go to the "united workers of the world", not you.

Harvard medical school did a similar experiment on fast evolution of bacterial resistance to antibiotics on a petri-dish. It also clearly shows the lineage of evolution. Very interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk4NVIUh8

What do you mean? How does that help you to decide if a paper is worth reading or not?

Not only across Europe, they are more or less similar all over the world.

https://visual.ly/community/infographic/science/prehistoric-...

"something is not quite right" is called intuition, machines can't have intuition, once they have they won't be machines anymore.

Well I won't say the HSBC voice ID one was a failure, identical looking guy with similar voice can fool any human being.

Plot twist, playing chess is considered as "haraam" (forbidden/degeneracy) according to most Sunni Islamic clerics.

What does it actually mean by "unknown alloy"? All periodic table metal/metalloid elements can be extracted and detected. Even a standard high school chemistry texts include these processes with wet experiments to be done in the labs. Do they mean new element? If that is the case then those elements must be radioactive. Or do they actually mean "known alloy with new electromagnetic/crystalline properties"? Still it does not make any sense.

Because you can't establish any gradient information from the design variables (antenna topology) to the objective function (i.e. antenna gain). So most of the time you might end up climbing towards some wrong direction (i.e. local optima).

What do you do if you don't have any computable "gradient"? Many real world optimization problems don't come with any gradient information.