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by Fede_V 9y ago
It's a scam, but honestly, brands trying to advertise their products without seeming like they are advertising are just as dishonest.
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by Fede_V 9y ago
The description of differential privacy in the article is completely wrong. I am really shocked it was described so poorly.
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by Fede_V 9y ago
That Twitter, as it's currently designed, is an excellent platform for sharing cool links (science/ML twitter is fantastic), but it is downright deleterious for any subject where nuance is called for. I think Twitter had a net neg
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by Fede_V 9y ago
That's not what the quote is saying. First of all, the architecture of a service has important influence on the kind of speech that it will foster: for example, the 140 character limit insures that it's almost impossible to get a
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by Fede_V 10y ago
Biology is at the intersection of those fields. There is an oversupply problem, and it is definitely the worst offender for metrics-based research micromanagenent.
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by Fede_V 10y ago
That list is correct, but it's only half of the problem. The other other half of the problem is supply. In fields like mathematics, physics, computer science, grad students have excellent non-academic options. There is an oversupply
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by Fede_V 10y ago
With an RBF Kernel, you are stuck solving the dual problem which has O(n^2 * m) complexity. With the linear kernel, you can solve the primal scales with O(n*m) complexity.
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by Fede_V 10y ago
Right, especially if you are selling it as something to maintain privacy, I'd like to see the source code.
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by Fede_V 10y ago
This is incredibly awful, but not particularly surprising. One of Paul Graham's most read essays is about the qualities that YC looks for in founders ( http://paulgraham.com/founders.html ). In that essay, he specifical
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by Fede_V 10y ago
This is a great post. However, it didn't touch on the two main problems of AD: - Using Dual Numbers requires that all functions that you call into accept templated parameters. If you want to use GSL, BLAS, or any other mature math li
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MD Anderson pulls back from collaboration with IBM(forbes.com)
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by Fede_V 10y ago
If you want more advanced materials, both Kyunghyun Cho and Yoav Goldberg posted excellent notes: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.07916 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.00726
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by Fede_V 10y ago
Correct me if I am wrong, but you are trying to determine the effect that many different tweaks have on Google's ranking. You are not explicitly trying to reverse engineer their search algorithm, but, implicitly , you are trying to
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Duke sued by whistleblower over fraudulent data used to win big grants(sciencemag.org)
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Ioannidis (Author Of: Most Research Findings Are Wrong) in Running for NIH Head(nature.com)
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by Fede_V 10y ago
On top of being a genius, reading Knuth is such a pleasant experience. Without having ever interacted with him, he comes across as such a wonderful soul.
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by Fede_V 10y ago
I don't think I should have said 'that's exactly right' - I should have said 'that's partially right'. The funding climate right now is very competitive, and the ability to obtain funds is more important
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by Fede_V 10y ago
This is something other commenters picked up on - but the tragedy of this is that in the current scientific climate, doing good, unglamorous solid science has nowhere near the payoff than coming up with feel-good theories and then marketing
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by Fede_V 10y ago
I might be wrong but I thought the STL design docs also had restrictions on algorithm speed? As in - you are free to choose any design you want, as long as it has a given API and has O(1) access.
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by Fede_V 10y ago
Lambdas are an incredibly useful construct, and, once you master them, they do make a lot of programming tasks much easier. However, C++ lambdas picked the most horrifically ugly syntax possible, and they switch between three subtly differe
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by Fede_V 10y ago
Thanks for the explanation, that makes a lot of sense.
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by Fede_V 10y ago
This was exceptionally well written, and it closely mirrors my experience as a python programmer slowly moving into Rust. Rust is awesome, but there are a few rough corners where you end up having to write really un-ergonomic code.
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by Fede_V 10y ago
Depending on how you define 'soon' - it might take a little longer. A bunch of really good people at Facebook AI just worked on Starcraft using reinforcement learning, and even getting the micro down is really hard.
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by Fede_V 10y ago
That doesn't really affect university research that much. It's a much bigger deal in private companies, obviously.
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by Fede_V 10y ago
I am surprised they only used ~2000 samples. That's a very tiny amount of data to train a decently sized CNN, even with data augmentation. I presume using a pretrained net probably won't help you since the features found in patho
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by Fede_V 10y ago
numba works on python code, not on dags generated by tensorflow. In practice, what numba does is turn the python code into llvm types, and then compile those with LLVM. What the OP is doing is turning tensorflow dags into llvm types, and t
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by Fede_V 10y ago
I have a feeling that implementation speed is an instance of Goodhart's Law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law ). If you keep everything constant (code quality, amount of tests, documentation, etc) th
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by Fede_V 10y ago
The cops who have to look at these awful images to track down those monsters are heroes. I cannot imagine having to do that every day without ending up completely broken up inside.
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by Fede_V 10y ago
I'm usually a huge fan of pg, but in his essay about founders, there was one section which I wasn't very comfortable with: http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html Specifically, when he talks about naughtiness, he
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by Fede_V 10y ago
Focusing on your last point: this is true in a lot of fields. ML is amazingly powerful, but if you don't have sufficient domain knowledge, or you aren't collaborating very closely with actual experts, you can make very dangerous m

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