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by a008t 8y ago
I would say the Eastern Bloc has a culture of hacking even outside of computer science - DIY with limited resources was very widespread.
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by a008t 8y ago
Can confirm - Russian schools and universities, at least before the last decade, perhaps with very few exceptions, were really awful at teaching computer science/programming. Programming, and to some extent maths, were seen as somewhat
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by a008t 8y ago
A couple days ago we were discussing on here how AI winter is coming and will likely arrive because of failure of driverless cars: https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/05/28/ai-winter-is-well-o... Are Waymo som
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by a008t 8y ago
I don't think that was MS researchers - I think they just publicised this bit of research. With GBT, you can check why a particular prediction was made - roughly - by navigating down each tree for a particular sample and summing up the
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Yes, but I also think it's a lot easier to get it wrong in finance without even realizing it than in many other domains. Relatively more difficult to screw up the methodology on MNIST. Many mistakenly assume that the methodology from M
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by a008t 8y ago
In other areas, we can often assume that each example in our dataset is an independent sample from some underlying distribution. We can also assume that the distribution stays constant. Furthermore, we have fairly high-accuracy ground truth
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by a008t 8y ago
When applying CS/ML to finance, methodology is absolutely crucial. Yet most work - even work done by quants in major sell-side banks - pays little attention to methodology; it is often naively assumed that the methodology applied to cl
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by a008t 8y ago
Methodology seems to be poor, like with most publications on finance. 1. How did they split the data for train/validation/test sets? If all of the sets had the data from the same time period, or the same companies end up in multip
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by a008t 8y ago
Interesting, thanks - I am in a very similar situation.
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It seems to me that house prices can be approximated as a function of rents, interest rates (determining required return on owning a house), and anticipated growth in house prices (which again can be decomposed into growth in rents, reducti
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by a008t 8y ago
What is your occupation? Curious as to how you are managing to afford that rent while saving for a deposit.
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Are there any particular reasons why you are not buying?