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by QML 8y ago
I'm fine with metrics, as long as when people say "best", they'll quote an interpretable formula -- you have to start somewhere. The issue with this metric, however, is that there seems to be no given weight towards the
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by QML 8y ago
Yeah you can find singles for 1k, just make sure you get housemates to share the cost of living space and kitchen.
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by QML 8y ago
I have two pairs of Birkenstocks, a cheap foam pair and another cork leather one that I just got. I've been wearing them for the past year, even in the winter or in the rain. My conversion followed from the thought of having sock-less
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by QML 8y ago
If compound interest is a force to be reckoned with, shouldn’t we expect power law distributions for wealth? 10% owning 84% seems to be the expectation then. This reminds me of an Atlantic article lamenting the “9.9%” [1]. [1] https:/
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by QML 8y ago
Are you saying the kth principal component is equal to the kth prime number?
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by QML 8y ago
I've been having trouble coming up with an analogy until now: my main gripe with Slack is that it brings over the concept of open office from meatspace onto digital space. I don't think I'm the only one with this sentiment; i
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by QML 8y ago
I believe the California community college system is better than most states. Let me elaborate. In the summer before my freshman year, I didn't really have much to do, and so I decided to take up a course. My options were to either tak
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by QML 8y ago
I’ve seen some writer change their article titles a few times after publishing — I would guess they’re trying to A/B test or just indecisive.
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by QML 8y ago
A founder valuing their equity more than its actual worth is a classic example of the endowment effect [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect
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A million-dollar brownstone that no one owned(theoutline.com)
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by QML 8y ago
I agree with a lot of your points, but the way to increasing the base level of education isn’t through making all colleges free — it’s through investing in and making community colleges free. Why? If we’re trying educate the entire popula
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by QML 8y ago
I believe when most people say “make college free”, they’re referring to a “tuition free” education. There is still a housing cost, which is “skin in the game”.
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by QML 8y ago
I'm curious to if this result will extend to the k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) algorithms. Two problems that have to do with k-NN are 1. It's a non-parametric method: the number of parameters grow linearly with the size of the traini
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by QML 8y ago
I view the problem in terms of "computational complexity": if the AI of today requires O(2^n) time to perform at a human level, it is possible to get that down to O(n^2)? I believe there's a connotation with problems, that if
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by QML 8y ago
Algorithmic Game Theory [1] Going into CS as an undergrad, I didn't anticipate the depth that the field had in other domains -- and for some time, I wanted to double major in {math, biology, economics} to supplement my education. Howev
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by QML 8y ago
Modern AI may "beat" humans at certain tasks, but I doubt they are as efficient as humans are at those tasks: it makes sense that throwing more compute at problem will yield better results. But is it possible to get better results
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by QML 8y ago
There's a lot of information already here [1], but I might add it'd be easier to create a Bitcoin wallet for each user than to open a PayPal or Stripe account for each. [1] https://openbazaar.org/features/
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by QML 8y ago
I think in the case mentioned, the implication is that advertisers would be better equipped to target us with ads – which is a fair point. But why must we burden the theorists with ethics, and not the programmers or companies who bring that
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by QML 8y ago
The difference between the fields of biology and computer science, is that CS is way more abstract. It would be like asking, “what are the ethical implications of math?” To this end, we need to distinguish computer science (theory) from tec
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What does this mean for NP-complete problems? Is the term “fast” only applicable to this small Sudoku board, or are solvers optimized to the point where something like O(2^256) doesn’t take that much time to run?
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by QML 8y ago
This article is one of many in a series covering the recent Fields medal ceremony. See more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17662219
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1. Having something equivalent to account with a username and a recoverable password. 2. Credit systems where you loan money to other people based on other's deposits has a multiplier effect [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org
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by QML 8y ago
Could you expand on that analogy? I'm not sure if a one-model fits-all is comparable to a one-optimizer-fits-all. Wouldn't that be an argument against transfer learning, since we don't have a universal programming language an
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Wouldn’t the closest analog be WeChat? Square isn’t a messaging platform.
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Isn’t the argument between transfer learning and neural architecture search the same problem posed by the “no free lunch” theorem, which essentially states specialized algorithms will always beat generalized algorithms in specific tasks and
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For ML, you need both—probability to justify the setup of the problem, and linear algebra and calculus to optimize for a solution. A simple example is with linear regression: find w such that the squared l2 norm of (Xw - y) is minimized. Li
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by QML 8y ago
Ideally, we would be able to provide modern financial services backed by first world institutions to underdeveloped countries. An example of this came through a podcast I listen to [1]. For the most part, I am skeptical of cryptocurrencies
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A great complement to that would also be to use Jupyter, whose notebooks are similarly interactive and not dead like typing into a blank terminal or IDE.
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In my opinion, Scheme is not a good first-language to learn for beginners or for anyone getting into programming. Why? Because if you take an introductory CS course taught in Scheme, and you decide the field isn't for you, then you hav
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by QML 8y ago
I wonder if there's an opposite term for 'leapfrogging' [1], whereby the pace or focus of technology -- instead of allowing poorer countries to skip trends altogether -- it leaves them behind. An example of leapfrogging is Ch

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