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by 51109 11y ago
> I am genuinely surprised that I am even slightly offended by this... its not a rational choice. Racism is not rational. You feeling offended could have more to do with your own prejudice being exposed (the joke worked) than feeling sor
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by 51109 11y ago
I thought you were asking me a (loaded) question. The advice given was not "never use Python 3 until...", that was a suggested reply to people telling newcomers to go for Python 3. Perhaps too tongue-in-cheek, but coming from some
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by 51109 11y ago
You should do whatever makes you happy and productive. So install 2.7 and ignore the people who say 3 is the future (unless you can work better in 3).
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by 51109 11y ago
It's not an act. LPTHW is my Bible. I retake the courses every Sunday. Saying that I should hop on the Fortran train for stating that even advanced fearless Python users opt for 2.7 is heretics!
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by 51109 11y ago
It is good advice, because it works. You can give reasonable explanations for Python 3, involving politics, the future, and dead languages, while still having your students be confused when Google releases TensorFlow with only 2.7 support.
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by 51109 11y ago
From LearnPythonTheHardWay.org: > A programmer may try to get you to install Python 3 and learn that. Say, "When all of the Python code on your computer is Python 3, then I'll try to learn it." That should keep them busy f
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by 51109 11y ago
Thanks for the links to interesting papers. I really liked the Breiman paper. I did not try to qualify either machine learners and statisticians as bad or good, just pointing out a difference in their approaches to problems. I do not know e
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by 51109 11y ago
I don't think the paper asked for that. Relevant quote: > machine learning is more concerned with making predictions, even if the prediction can not be explained very well (a.k.a. “a blackbox prediction”) So in your example: an al
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by 51109 11y ago
For the security people at ad networks: The URL was whatsapops.com, the mobile device was Android latest, the region was The Netherlands. It's not a virus on the device itself: - No app installs since setting up the device a ye
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by 51109 11y ago
Working with both statisticians and pure machine learners on the same task, I did notice some tendencies, presuppositions and modus operandi that were different (beyond being a specialized subset). Like said in this position paper, machine
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by 51109 11y ago
As we start to use AI/ML for more tasks, the need for model interpretability rises. We expect doctors to explain their gut feelings, much like we expect computer vision models that detect disease to explain their findings and have a (t
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by 51109 11y ago
An interesting paper at NIPS aims to combat the lower quality of Turkers with gamification. Instead of yes/no answers they offer a choice of: absolutely sure, yes, don't know, no, absolutely not. Monetary reward is doubled if they
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by 51109 11y ago
Thanks for the link to the paper. I think the older criticisms still stand: - They created their own data set. Instead of a general Q-A system, they may have overfit to this particular task and question types. - They set the human intellige
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by 51109 11y ago
Please change the link. This one serves up a malicious advertisement to mobile users in certain regions (whatsapop browser hijacker with vibration and redirect).
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by 51109 11y ago
1 - Arrogance is confidence projected outwards (in a way that looks ugly) 2 - People who are arrogant do not ask much questions. Arrogant people are unpleasant to interact with. 3 - Coping mechanism for little internal confidence. Alternati