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http://a16z.com/2012/06/15/good-product-managerbad-product-m...
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2014/12/02/attentio... White collar crime, like fraud and insider trading, sees as much automated detection software as street crime does. But even if it did
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This is just automating capacity planning. Now done by hand, but better done with computers. As to the degree this is "encoding racial bias", I feel this is passing the buck to the computer. The computer is merely calculating a pr
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If you desire something more one-way, consider PCA, random projections, feature expansions (with something like Random Bits Regression), hashing, or the last hidden layer activations of your best in-house neural net. Then combine these appr
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It is a toy example to show that a form of homomorphic encryption is possible, without going Fully Homomorphic Encryption. And simple linear transforms on already anonymized features are not so easy to reverse engineer as you may think. Jus
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""" https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06574 "An encryption scheme is said to be homomorphic if certain mathematical operations can be applied directly to the cipher text in such a wa
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Why would they love something that goes wrong?
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Hedge funds do not want to run afoul of the SEC rules on marketing. Even though these rules were relaxed in 2013, the risk of revocation is there. http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/why-arent-hedge-f... I
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With meta-modeling you can build an ensemble (single model) that beats any individual model. This should also have less variance (See Breiman's Bagging Predictors). I'm saying that even if there is a super talent on Numerai, one s
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Fair view. A few points: - Numerai does not have the ability itself, it harvests predictions from many others. - To assume that better than random guessing is not possible, is to assume that the stock market is operating at maximum efficien
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I feel like it is foremost a matter of attitude of the practitioner. An applied statistician and a machine learning engineer may deliver exactly the same end product, just the reasoning and assumptions differ. Machine learning uses little t
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I think these distinctions are akin to discussing musical genre in Youtube comments. Something can be all of: mathematics, advanced IT, computer science, data science, statistics, econometrics, control theory, pattern recognition, machine l
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FinTech: Credit risk modeling. Spend prediction. Loss prediction. Fraud and AML detection. Intrusion detection. Email routing. Bandit testing. Optimizing planning/ task scheduling. Customer segmentation. Face- and document detection. S
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1. Games are great for studying intelligent agent behavior and intelligence itself. An intelligent agent will find hidden abstractions and patterns in a large dimensionality. Language understanding, vision, decision science, solving long-te
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> AIXI is a pretty deeply flawed theory of "universal intelligence" What would you propose as an alternative? If nothing, fine, but how can we relate, when we only have a single best (or if you prefer: flawed) thing? > It ca
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In a nod to his history compression schemes, he sometimes slightly changes the punchlines of his jokes. http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/creativity.html
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It is a poor criterion, because it is so subjective and dependent on PR machines. The OP just has not heard of any accomplishments, but anyone with a little expertise in deep (reinforcement) learning knows about the major contributions to t
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AGI (as in, a mathematical theory of universal intelligence) has already been figured out by one of Schmidhuber's students, and, proven to be uncomputable: we may never have sufficient computational resources. https://en.wik
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> developing strong AI but turned out to be a person with severe mental illnesses Those are not mutually exclusive. If you want to actually claim that Chris McKinstry was only insane, and his project without any scientific merit, you sho
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The Cost of AI [pdf](mattmahoney.net)
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Yes, in part. But don't underestimate the deliberate black, grey, and white propaganda elements of all this (see also: "meme magick"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_propaganda http://kno
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They actually did, and then they tried to find connections between the two. Turning up stuff like: https://twitter.com/ClintonGlobal/status/651606553884258304 (A Unilever and Clinton Foundation cooperation found i
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AFAIK there is no such document. The only sourcing for the slang terms was an anonymous 4chan post. “hotdog” = boy “pizza” = girl “cheese” = little girl “pasta” = little boy “ice cream” = male prostitute “waln
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This used to be tied in, but then it was found that Trump also had connections to Epstein, and so this was promptly dropped. > “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York Magazine for a 2002 profile of Epstein.
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I hypothesize this is not so much about influencing US policy and action directly, or even about spying on assets, but more about mutually assured destruction for when a cyber war breaks out. The state actors responsible for this want the U
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http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/post-cp > Post CP is an acronym in which CP can have a variety of meanings. Initially used as an acronym for 4chan posters to indirectly mention or request a child pornography thread, i
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It is possible to inspect black box models. See for instance http://www.blackboxworkshop.org/pdf/Turner2015_MES.pdf and https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~marcotcr/blog/lime/ . It is also
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Like the line in Fight Club [1] about recalls it is a simple formula: Only if the cost * probability of a PR disaster outweighs the cost of a poor credit risk model, is a bank economically incentivized to not discriminate. Then again, even
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The link between increased testosterone and criminal offending has been established by research: > Testosterone plays a significant role in the arousal of these behavioral manifestations in the brain centers involved in aggression and on
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Good rule-of-thumb to always add dropout. Very hard to lower the performance this way. Yes, we have to try a load of stuff, especially in deep learning, where the old feature engineering seems to be replaced with architecture engineering [1

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