Tag: academic

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Text Highlight2026-08-11 12:32:48
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"the output of any sorting algorithm must satisfy two conditions"
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Even the definition sounds like a math test I'd fail.
Text Highlight2026-08-11 12:14:48
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"the output of any sorting algorithm must satisfy two conditions"
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Two conditions? I thought it was just 'small to big' and done.
Text Highlight2026-08-11 03:06:31
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"General reasoning represents a long-standing and formidable challenge"
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The abstract is truncated, but DeepSeek-R1's RL approach sounds really promising.
Text Highlight2026-08-09 16:23:41
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"In a well-dimensioned hash table, the average time complexity for each lookup is independent of the number of elements stored"
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This is why databases use them under the hood for lookups.
Text Highlight2026-08-09 16:14:41
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"In a well-dimensioned hash table, the average time complexity for each lookup is independent of the number of elements stored"
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Depends on the hash function, if it's bad you're back to O(n).
Text Highlight2026-08-07 09:09:18
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"it separates the things causing behavior from things that merely correlate with the causes"
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Good point—optimization shows real causes, not just correlations. That's a big deal.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 16:07:22
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"arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators"
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Is this just for the staff or can anyone pitch in?
Text Highlight2026-07-28 16:05:55
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"arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators"
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Cool, community collabs always bring fresh ideas to the table.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 13:26:34
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"batch norma"
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Does this actually scale well for CNNs though? Batch norm felt more natural there.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 13:24:57
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"The simplest way to perform the copying task perfectly would be to duplicate the signal."
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Duplicating the signal defeats the whole purpose, obviously.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 13:17:34
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"batch norma"
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So layer norm is basically batch norm but for single examples, makes sense for RNNs.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 13:15:57
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"The simplest way to perform the copying task perfectly would be to duplicate the signal."
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If it's just copying, why not use a tape recorder?
Text Highlight2026-07-28 13:04:22
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"use of consistency training on a large amount of unlabe"
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So basically, they found that how you add noise matters more than the amount of unlabeled data?
Text Highlight2026-07-28 13:02:55
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"arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite"
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Huh, I always thought DOIs were just for journals, cool that arXiv does it too.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 12:55:22
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"use of consistency training on a large amount of unlabe"
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Consistency training with better noise is the real winner here, not just the semi-supervised part.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 12:53:55
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"arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite"
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Wait, arXiv is giving DOIs now? That's actually kinda neat.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 10:14:34
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"normalize the activities of the neurons"
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but does it actually help with small datasets or just big ones?
Text Highlight2026-07-28 10:05:34
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"normalize the activities of the neurons"
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finally something that works for rnns without batch size headaches
Text Highlight2026-07-28 10:01:22
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"Semi-supervised learning lately has shown much promise in improving deep learning models when labeled data is scarce"
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We tried RandAugment in our pipeline and yeah, it made a bigger dent than I expected.
Text Highlight2026-07-28 09:59:55
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"effect of the convolutional network depth on its accuracy"
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We tried replicating this and yeah, the 16-19 layers made a huge difference in our project.