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“Even a potato in a dark cellar has a certain low cunning about him which serves him in excellent stead. He knows perfectly well what he wants and how to get it."
Just read Samuel Butler's 'Book of the Machines', from 1872 (!). Brilliant. And funny!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_among_the_Machines

"Wir fragen immer nur, ob es ein Leben nach dem Tod gebe. Wir sollten fragen: Gibt es ein Leben nach der Geburt?" (Samuel Beckett)
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Brandon Aiyuk, Deebo Samuel trade rumors: 49ers GM John Lynch says 'we're past' dealing our star wideouts

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Brandon Aiyuk, Deebo Samuel trade rumors: 49ers GM John Lynch says 'we're past' dealing our star wideouts
San Francisco appears to be moving forward with both players

A direct flight from Calgary to Barcelona is $800 but a flight adding an additional 1000km from Comox to Calgary then Barcelona is $700. Make it make sense.
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Remove that Square Root: A New Efficient Scale-Invariant Version of AdaGrad
Sayantan Choudhury, Nazarii Tupitsa, Nicolas Loizou, Samuel Horvath, Martin Takac, Eduard Gorbunov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02648

Remove that Square Root: A New Efficient Scale-Invariant Version of AdaGrad
Adaptive methods are extremely popular in machine learning as they make learning rate tuning less expensive. This paper introduces a novel optimization algorithm named KATE, which presents a scale-invariant adaptation of the well-known AdaGrad algorithm. We prove the scale-invariance of KATE for the case of Generalized Linear Models. Moreover, for general smooth non-convex problems, we establish a convergence rate of $O \left(\frac{\log T}{\sqrt{T}} \right)$ for KATE, matching the best-known on…

“Even a potato in a dark cellar has a certain low cunning about him which serves him in excellent stead. He knows perfectly well what he wants and how to get it."
Just read Samuel Butler's 'Book of the Machines', from 1872 (!). Brilliant. And funny!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_among_the_Machines

Samuel Beckett, der Schlüssel zum Werk von Eva Hesse

Online Learning of Human Constraints from Feedback in Shared Autonomy
Shibei Zhu, Tran Nguyen Le, Samuel Kaski, Ville Kyrki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02974

Online Learning of Human Constraints from Feedback in Shared Autonomy
Real-time collaboration with humans poses challenges due to the different behavior patterns of humans resulting from diverse physical constraints. Existing works typically focus on learning safety constraints for collaboration, or how to divide and distribute the subtasks between the participating agents to carry out the main task. In contrast, we propose to learn a human constraints model that, in addition, considers the diverse behaviors of different human operators. We consider a type of col…

A direct flight from Calgary to Barcelona is $800 but a flight adding an additional 1000km from Comox to Calgary then Barcelona is $700. Make it make sense.
🤦‍♂️ #flying #CO2 #CheapTravel