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by achompas 11y ago
I think the word "naive" is problematic here. Have you seen instances where Bayesians choose a prior that isn't at least somewhat informed by exploratory analysis?
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Pinboard (pinboard.in) provides this as a premium add-on to your account. It costs $25/year, and you can access your archived links at any time: https://pinboard.in/faq/#download_archived
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by achompas 11y ago
A recent episode of Not So Standard Deviations (a great podcast for anyone in the sciences or applied statistics) covered reproducibility: https://soundcloud.com/nssd-podcast/episode-5-irl-roger-is-t... I'd sugges
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by achompas 11y ago
> A world where data tracking people's behaviour is useful to those wanting to sell them products. Like...Apple-branded shaving cream? In all seriousness, this is not a situation Apple cares enough about to spend time parsing logs&#
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In what world is Apple, one of the strongest protectors of individual privacy in SV, concerned with how long you shave?
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The first couple of steps are actually the easiest. The last paragraph -- which is also your shortest -- is the hardest part, by far. OP, you want to basically extract entities from documents without necessarily knowing them a priori (&quot
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by achompas 11y ago
The fact that Java is used for Android doesn't mean these people were hired to make Android apps. It has many other uses. It's more likely these people were hired into IT departments with legacy systems (and thus IT is treated as
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by achompas 11y ago
Sorry to beat this issue to death, but this is not an easy mistake at all, even given only a cursory understanding of the field.
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> I decided to use scikit's machine learning libraries. [...] The writer I create uses multiple SVM engines. One large neural network for the sentence structuring and multiple small networks for the algorithm which selects words fro
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by achompas 11y ago
I use Instapaper, and switched from Pocket way back when for these exact reasons (highlights and saving my position). They're implemented wonderfully.
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The fact that labor participation rates haven't stabilized or even increased in response to their population level attempts to enter the workforce shows that there really are not enough jobs to go around. I'm not sure the data b
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by achompas 11y ago
Savings Rates-- well, compared to 2006 when everyone was leveraged to the hilt to buy just one more condo, sure they are better. But are they actually good? Well they're higher now than they were 15 years ago: https://rese
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by achompas 11y ago
Agreed. Fortunately, excellent social scientists really care about this -- see Andy Gelman's blog for many rants on this topic.
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> what if they just keep investing in a new company in the US with their offshore money My understanding is that they'd have to repatriate any money they use towards this effort.
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Watch it when capitalists pushing incessantly people to learn coding. They're trying very hard to cut the costs of their input "materials" and they will do everything that they could to devalue us in every way possible. Did
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by achompas 11y ago
Not sure I agree. For example there's a patents set: https://snap.stanford.edu/data/cit-Patents.html with included patent classification data. You can also join the WikiTalk set: https://snap.stanford.e
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by achompas 11y ago
Consider my response in its entirety. There are certainly alpha leadership types, and some of them are obnoxious, but I don't buy the whole pop psychology rationalization of their supposed ability to halt critical thinking in otherwise
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I don't doubt the existence of clueless VCs who throw their money around, but that's no different from any other form of business. They'll soon lose that money. The problem is that, given the anecdote of another commenter wit
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by achompas 11y ago
Amen to this. I know you (justifiably) believe there are many bad actors in technology, Michael, but parent's comment is beyond belief.
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> That people try to dominate and manipulate others for business gain? Is that what you have an incredible amount of difficulty believing? I'm sorry you wrote all of that, but no. I have a hard time believing in the existence of som
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by achompas 11y ago
Weird, confused it with Reddit where you motivate your vote. Deleting.
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by achompas 11y ago
I have an incredible amount of difficulty believing this, and do not think this accurately reflects what took place with Clinkle (or many other failed startups, including even the examples you've provided).
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I disagree with "never." A Masters is excellent if your employer pays for it or if you'd like to transition roles, and you can also complete one while working full-time. Still, they're not great in many cases. The "
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by achompas 11y ago
Don't regret it! My Jawbone Up syncs erratically, and after iOS existed for 8 months Jawbone released an update that doesn't even let me launch the Up app (despite reinstalls, restarts, etc.). I guess both companies are a mess?
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I disagree. There's a 0% chance the Apple Watch's entry price increases above $349, which means Fitbit needs to offer an incredibly compelling product below that price. That's difficult, given that both Apple Watch and Androi
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Was very impressed with a Kano demo a while back, so this seems like a great move for them.
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by achompas 12y ago
Are you sure about that hint? The AWS case study linked below http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/foursquare/ mentions "stream[ing] hundreds of millions of daily application logs each day."
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by achompas 12y ago
Given their location data and technology stack, I wouldn't be surprised if you've underestimated their spend by an order of magnitude (eg. $100-200k/month, ~$1.2-2.4M/year).
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by achompas 12y ago
This article made the rounds among co-workers a few months back. Finally took some time to read it and I thought it was excellent. Briefly: the article suggests the existence of two different thought patterns, mapping and packing. Packing i
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Thinking about Thinking (2007)(the-programmers-stone.com)
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