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by Homunculiheaded 10y ago
For a more rigorous, scientific and yet still thoroughly digestible talk I strongly recommend watching Dr. Richard Alley's talk "The Biggest Control Knob: Carbon Dioxide in Earth's Climate History" [0] As a Bayesian I pa
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Bayesian A/B Testing: A Hypothesis Test That Makes Sense(countbayesie.com)
3 points by Homunculiheaded 10y ago|0 comments
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by Homunculiheaded 10y ago
At a high level, compilers just translate one programming language to another. A key part of this translation is the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST), which represents the programming language transformed into a tree of computation independent of
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by Homunculiheaded 10y ago
Part II of Skiena's wonderful "The Algorithm Design Manual" is basically a 300 page, high-level overview of a wide range of advanced data structures/algorithms, practical insight into when to use them, and advice on whic
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by Homunculiheaded 10y ago
If you really want them to write "well-tested and modular algorithmic code" then you should teach them how to write packages in RStudio. Then require everything submitted to be in RMarkdown. I mentor learning data scientists and m
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Why Sum Types Matter in Haskell(medium.com)
1 points by Homunculiheaded 10y ago|0 comments
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by Homunculiheaded 10y ago
I worked at BBN (Bolt, Beranek and Newman) from 2006-2008 and was fortunate enough to have a one-on-one phone call with Leo while I worked there. At that time he was in his early 90s, and was still amazingly sharp and full of energy. Even i
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by Homunculiheaded 10y ago
This statement is a misunderstanding of the Bayesian approach: "Take the proposition that the Earth goes round the Sun. It either does or it doesn’t, so it’s hard to see how we could pick a probability for this statement." Bayes F
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Why Statisticians Avoid the Express Lane [video](youtu.be)
2 points by Homunculiheaded 10y ago|0 comments
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by Homunculiheaded 10y ago
For anyone interested, I noticed that Dyalog made their proprietary implementation of APL free for non-commercial use just recently [0]. I suspect this change might have been in reaction to an uptick in traffic to their site from this other
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by Homunculiheaded 10y ago
The best answer to this is the success of JavaScript. JavaScript historically has been a deeply flawed language. However, it was able to become one of the most widely used languages precisely because, despite all its warts, it implements th
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ITA Software Puzzle Archive (2013)(web.archive.org)
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by Homunculiheaded 10y ago
The Neural Network Playground is great for understanding this[0]! The default example is classification of a circle of one class surrounded by a donut of another. There are two features x_1 and x_2 (this is the "raw data"). One so
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Continuous Monitoring of A/B Tests Without Pain(arxiv.org)
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by Homunculiheaded 10y ago
Even worse there are people (utter frauds of course) who confuse MAD and MAD! In all seriousness, there is much confusion between Median Absolute Deviation and Mean Absolute Deviation out there. Ironically the MAD in this article is still n
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by Homunculiheaded 10y ago
A single layer autoencoder with n nodes is equivalent to doing PCA and taking the first n principal components. If you're familiar with PCA in natural language processing, which is called Latent Semantic Analysis (or Indexing), project
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A Guide to Bayesian Statistics(countbayesie.com)
125 points by Homunculiheaded 10y ago|6 comments
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by Homunculiheaded 10y ago
A very useful visual to add next to this is "The Most Common Job In Every State"[0] map from NPR's Planet Money. As soon as I was aware of the research in autonomous driving I was pretty confident trucking would be the first
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by Homunculiheaded 10y ago
Geoffrey Hinton's "Neural Networks for Machine Learning" on Coursera [0] is a pretty excellent course to cover the basics. There's a lot in the course, but if you just skim over the videos you'll get a pretty good &
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by Homunculiheaded 10y ago
If you really want to dive into the technical details there's really no better book than Hull's "Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives". It's extremely well written and if you have a basic understanding of calculu
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by Homunculiheaded 11y ago
Here's an interview question I always ask that has worked pretty well: "If you could wave a wand and instantly change one thing about this company/job/team, what would it be?" This is similar to "what is wrong&
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Bayesian Reasoning in the Twilight Zone(countbayesie.com)
1 points by Homunculiheaded 11y ago|0 comments
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by Homunculiheaded 11y ago
As far as I can tell Wall Street has always had a penchant for pedigree in addition to skills. Large companies are often the same. People used to talk about all software engineers needing CS degrees in the future. Again in Wall Street and l
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by Homunculiheaded 11y ago
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." -- Bjarne Stroustrup I've seen many programming languages become popular (or fail to) over the years and this quote has always
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by Homunculiheaded 11y ago
I think the Scala learning experience is very different depending on whether you're coming from the Java -> Want to use Functional Programming route or the Functional Programmer -> Have to use Java for a project route. As someone
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by Homunculiheaded 11y ago
>Can anyone help me with a rudimentary, simpler explanation for this? Imagine you're in a hilly field and you need to get to the lowest point because some high winds are coming, the lower the better. Normally you could just look acr
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by Homunculiheaded 11y ago
There's actually a case in the early history of perceptrons that brings up this exact issue: "There is a humorous story from the early days of machine learning about a network that was supposed to be trained to recognize tanks hid
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by Homunculiheaded 11y ago
There is a similarly interesting result in ET Jaynes "Probability The Logic of Science" (chapter 5). Where Jaynes demonstrates that increased evidence actually decreases your belief in a hypothesis. Jaynes gives an example of an e
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Why You Should Believe Your Friends' Claims About Food Allergies(countbayesie.com)
1 points by Homunculiheaded 11y ago|1 comments
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The Black Friday Puzzle – Understanding Markov Chains(countbayesie.com)
2 points by Homunculiheaded 11y ago|0 comments

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