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| Edit | Post #290004 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Incremental training vs. transfer learning Is incremental training the same as transfer learning? What exactly is the difference? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290003 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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What is unsupervised learning? In unsupervised learning, training data does not have labels. But, how can a model be trained without labels? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289981 |
Thanks! I know that I'm fuzzy on both of those points. To get the ball rolling, I figured I'd do my best and let someone else correct it. But now I see the answer is already quite long, so I think I'll ask some more specific questions and link from here. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289913 |
Post edited: Removed the exclusion of full-time managers based on feedback |
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| Comment | Post #289913 |
Fair enough. Besides your logic, it is also probably safer to start broad and narrow down later while this site is small. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289994 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Why don't registrars redact country and state/province? How come country and state/province is often excluded from WHOIS privacy? So everything else is redacted, but not country and state. However, apparently there's no special requirement from ICANN, so in principle you can redact country/state also. But why do so many registrars not do so? Why would ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289983 |
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| Edit | Post #289983 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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What is hyperparameter tuning? What is hyperparameter tuning? What makes the parameters "hyper"? Is tuning the same as learning or training? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289982 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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How does fine tuning work? LLMs are trained on a lot of text. At its heart, an LLM is a glorified autocomplete engine. You give it text, and it adds more text that matches the pattern. You need to "direct" the autocomplete, so that it's useful. For example, when given a question, you don't want it to simply keep rephrasing ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289981 |
I may have butchered some of this, I'm not a total expert of the field :) Edits are welcome and appreciated, but please try to preserve the "for laymen" tone and superficial, summary style (try not to add much length) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289949 |
There's a handful of basic types, but then people like to invent new types in their papers and marketing copy. How comprehensive do you expect answers to be? Or maybe it's better to have one type per answer only, in "question-wiki" style, rather than trying to enumerate them all in one single answer?... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289981 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: What types of learning should I know about? This question sounds basic, so I'll try to answer with a layperson in mind. "Learning" is a bit misleading, because programs do not currently learn the way humans do. They do not have a mind or ability to reason, they don't "think". In essence, all machine learning today, including advanced AI lik... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289913 |
I think communities with a full-time manager are worth discussing (let's call them "large" vs. "small"). But we have the question: Should large and small communities be discussed in the same site? Would there be a lot of overlap between them?
My superficial thought was that there wouldn't much ove... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289913 |
Great question! Nothing against you personally, Monica :)
I'm not very strong on that. However, there are certain "communities" that are very complex. For example, technically Catholics are a community, imagine if people started asking questions about the actions of the Pope and cardinals. It's a ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289195 |
Why would you move it to a freezer? That seems user-hostile.
Having the proposal at all is valuable, even if it never graduates into an actual site, because then people can still ask and answer questions in the incubator. Since the distribution of activity is always that most sites have less, we c... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289930 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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What is the most cost effective way to purchase specific, non-rare public domain English books online in the US? Over the years I've done a lot of my reading through libraries, borrowed books and chance finds at garage sales and the like. Now I want to start working on my reading list, so I will be purchasing quite a few specific books that I've noted for some reason or another. I want to own the books permanen... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289920 |
+1 to official sources *per state* - at least in the US there is quite a bit of variety between what each state considers invasive. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289913 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Communities Site Name communities.codidact.com Description The site is about part-time human communities. How to manage, run, create, participate in them and solve common problems. Topics Topics covered would include: - Advice on creating bylaws, for example along the lines of Robert's Rules of Ord... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289890 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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What is the point of buying grounding wire? Many stores seem to sell "grounding wire". This is a solid copper wire, similar to normal THHN wires used to do house wiring, except without the plastic jacket. I'm confused why you would bother buying grounding wire. Can't you just strip your normal wire as needed and get the same thing? Groun... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289702 |
See https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/289888 (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289888 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Is economics on topic for everyday science? Is economics considered on topic for "everyday science"? There are many everyday situations which seem counterintuitive from an economics perspective, but a closer look reveals interesting forces at work. The book Freakonomics goes over some of these, as does the authors' blog. These seem like a g... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289886 |
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| Edit | Post #289886 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: Can a household vacuum double as a dust collector? I've tried this out with some equipment I have on hand. Generally, yes, a household vacuum will work as a dust collector, but it's not as effective or convenient. For occasional use, it might be better to use the vacuum to avoid acquiring yet another piece(s) of bulky and expensive machinery. If you ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289885 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Can a household vacuum double as a dust collector? When I work with wood in my garage, it quickly fills with sawdust. Everything in the garage gets covered with a film of dust. Many of my tools have dust extraction ports. I know some people get specialized dust collectors or shop vacs to attach to these. But instead of buying one, could I just use... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289859 |
>5. If I install a dust collector and an air purifier both, will my garage now be dust-free no matter how much lumber I saw, route and sand inside? Or am I better off investing in some carts and portable benches so I can continue working outside?
This is now https://proposals.codidact.com/posts/28... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289859 |
I will be splitting off some sub-questions because this one has been deemed too broad. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289859 |
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| Edit | Post #289877 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Is there a device that will keep my garage sawdust free? In the past, when I tried to use power tools for woodworking in my garage, it created a lot of sawdust. Everything in the garage got covered by a layer of dust, and it became hard to do things like polyurethane coats because the dust would float up and get on the coat. Many tools have dust extract... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289859 |
>The question is very broad
I thought so too. When I finished typing it all out and even with the numbered list of sub-questions, I thought, well why don't I just ask each one of those as its own question? What do you think, would that be better? I can actually self-answer some of them :) (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289859 |
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| Edit | Post #289859 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Collecting sawdust in a garage I want to do woodworking in my garage, but when I've done this before it created a lot of sawdust and everything else in the garage got very dusty. This is really annoying when doing polyurethane coats. I also don't really like breathing it in, even if I'm wearing a mask. Currently I solve the proble... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #289818 |
This is addressed in the proposal I link to. Check the last section about cross-posting. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289818 |
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| Comment | Post #289770 |
It was intended as a funny quote from a popular blog. Since evidently humor is not welcome, I have removed it as per your request. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #289818 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: Should recommendation questions be on-topic? If Home Improvement is the only proposal we consider, I think all should be on topic. They are all important topics for people discussing home improvement. Forbidding them would undermine the usefulness of the community. For many home improvement projects, a tool or specialty part is necessary. Th... (more) |
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