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New comment by sliem in "Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen"

sliem — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:20:39 +0000

other relevant people are probably dead

New comment by sliem in "The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates"

sliem — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:13:02 +0000

You got to have a paid subscription to read the article. The main output of remap radio is a (number of) podcast(s). The written game criticism articles is an extra.

New comment by sliem in "Nevergrad: A Python library for performing derivative-free ML optimization"

sliem — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 20:56:41 +0000

A fundamental problem is as the number of parameters increase the probability of sampling from the edge of the hypercube increases. You will then not effectively explore the parameter space. This might be some what alleviated by a concentrated multivariate normal, but I guess that has its own caveat.

If you instead have a sampling algorithm informed by the loss functions you avoid this problem. (You instead might have to worry about local minima.)

New comment by sliem in "Sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha"

sliem — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 18:17:04 +0000

Looks fantastic, I just signed up to try it out.

Small ux thing; the nav bar on top are different for every subdomain. Probably easier to navigate if the elements are in fixed positions.