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Grind is a process of slowly getting valuable resources (be it experience points or loot) by repetitive and often simple tasks in video games. It has been present from the beginning of gaming but has become more widespread with the popularization of online RPG games because of their leveling systems and competitive elements. It is highly criticized by gamers around the world for making games boring and work-like, yet many people specifically choose to play grind-heavy games. The reason might be because they
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge These days, Black Friday isn’t so much a single-day shopping holiday as it is an ever-expanding, monthslong event that often begins as early as October. The 24-hour deal blitz that once was the focus of newspaper headlines and mobs outside of stores is no more, which makes knowing when and where you should be spending your cash all the more confusing. Luckily, we’re here... Read more ›
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The explicit reparameterization trick is often used to train various latent variable models due to the ease of calculating gradients of continuous random variables. However, due to its peculiarities, explicit reparameterization trick is not applicable to several important continuous standard distributions, such as mixture, Gamma, Beta and Dirichlet.An alternative method for calculating reparameterization gradients relies on implicit differentiation of cumulative distribution functions. The implicit reparame Read more ›
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When we go abroad for vacation or meet a foreigner on the street who doesn’t speak Russian but is trying to ask, “Where is the restroom? How do I get to…”, we wonder how to explain things to them in Russian in a way they would understand. I asked myself a similar question when trying to explain something to a colleague using SQL while they were working with Java. The... Read more ›
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Napkin AI is an innovative artificial intelligence tool that transforms text descriptions into visual sketches and diagrams. Launched in 2023, this tool allows users to quickly convert their ideas into visual representations, similar to drawing on a napkin – hence the name. In this tutorial, I will walk you through its top features and provide a video demonstration. Read more Read more ›
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