NumberCruncher

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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
>> someone with a bit of a spectrum disorder. > I'm surprised I had to scroll this far to see someone suggesting this, since it seems extremely obvious to me that this is part of the case. The whole thread has currently 1471 p
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
Small remark: I think you have a typo there. Jancsi = Johnny in Hungarian.
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> I have no hate for classic statistics, sorry if I gave that impression. You didn't, but a lot of HNlers do. Maybe I should rant on them, that's true.
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> many base assumptions made by e.g. statistics will not help you at all with neural networks There is lately a lot of hate against classic statistics on HN. I don't know why. Does it help to understand why and how NNs work? Not yet
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> Rand implies that you have to do your own studies [...] which is 100% wrong - Facebook will do them for you So FB, who earns on my spending, offers me to measure for me whether my spending makes sense for me. Why would FB ever tell me
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> My feature store hasn't supported time-travel yet. But many SaaS implementations do, including Tecton, Hopswork, Splice Machine, et Good to know, I wasn't aware of them. At the end of the day the make or buy decision is influ
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
Almost all features (maybe with the exception of gender) were aggregations over time like "share of emails the customer opened in the last X days", or "did the customer use service Y in the past: y/n", etc. If you u
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> What I find missing in the internet is that people who have been doing this for years are not writing about this. In my last job I implemented a feature store from scratch with ca. 500 hand crafted and ca 2.500 with code generator auto
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
They are also handy at dimming/turning lights on/off or starting Spotify playlists while in the shower. Nothing essential TBH. [Edit] Google Home seems to be pretty good at separating your voice from background noises, like shower
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> Maybe we can develop healthier forms of social media. Sounds like "let's develop a healthier form of crack" to me.
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
There was a saying before 2008: "How do you start an AI based FOREX trading fund? You pretend to be the russian prodigy developing the algo, while I do the insider trading".
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
I know at least one newly opened semiconductor plant. Link: https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/about-infineon/press/press-r...
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
There is a difference between an academic career in a field which has some real life applications, like CS, chemistry, economy, etc. and an academic career in a field which doesn't. The second group is basically nothing else than a &qu
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
The "the right tool for the right job" applies for ML topics too. If the job involves "looking smart and innovative" for whatever reasons, people tend to err on the side of overly complex solutions. On the other hand if
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> Is this normal? It is. At my last job the first ticket assigned to me was about fixing the bug "average is greater than 80% percentile". When I told them that this isn't a bug, they thought I am just kidding.
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
I used to work in a team where everyone except me had studied at the now closed Central European University. My current personal manager also sudied at the CUE. Very clever and open minded people. And what is "your experience" bas
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
In the video you posted you say "I don't want to work with blurry images". Is that not an image a human could work with (drive), maybe by reducing the driving speed to 50-33% and having more time to inspect his surroundings?
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
There is even a series about them: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Blood_(TV_series)
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
Second comment on the video: would of been nice to see inside of the car.. its easy to say "there was a human driving!" I mean, I am working at a start-up too, fake it till you make it is our daily bread...
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> very least it'd be handy to have self-driving at least on, say, highways Me too, like driving home after a long day on the highway, being sleepy, in the night, while raining. Good luck with that: [1] [1] https://9gag.co
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> Right, that was pretty much the point of the article. Agree. Nevertheless there is a flood of articles showing videos recorded under similar conditions but missing this point.
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> riding around Miami Beach in self-driving test cars several days a week I watched the video. 2+1+2 lanes, no trucks parking on the side, no bicycles, no bicycles-lanes. No pedestrians crossing the road, no pedestrians at all. Clear bl
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
Every time a surveillance system and violation of privacy rights is advertised in the EU as a solution against child abuse and trafficking I ask myself how such a system could have changed the outcome of a case like Dutroux. Would have been
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> You'd expect it to complete to "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" - a very famous quote. What about completing it to "O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead", based on the context, as advertised?
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
Hmm... I should have written making up "blockers" disguised as policies stem from logic. I consider the loop closed. QED
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
I used to work in the public sector myself, so who am I to judge your way of making a living? But still, I don't like if public resources (work-time and tax money) are wasted just because of political reasons. But that is entirely my p
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
My Excel skills are a bit rusty but I remember the times when it was advised to not open .doc or .xls files from an unknown source because harmful VBA macros could be executed on opening the file. Did this changed lately? If not, how is ope
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
Let's agree that we disagree. Like the German public news and the online media disagree on this topic. > I don't believe anyone involved I like the version "I don't believe anyone if money and/or politics is invo
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> It's too hard to get access to GIS software It took me a whole 5 seconds to google [1] up. As far as I can remember Anaconda can be installed without admin permissions on any PC and pulling the needed packages is a matter of minut
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
There are so many other places on the internet to discuss topics like this.

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