alexbeloi

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by alexbeloi 10y ago
There was an internet marketing manager on a podcast I listened to once that said the number of people using adblockers on the internet is essentially negligible, it's in the millions but a small percentage of all users (<5% if I re
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Yep, the numbers I ran are already doing exactly what you suggest. Looking exclusively at the 10 lost packages and considering how likely it should be that 9 of them would belong to one category, compared to our expectation (which is that t
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Stats below: If there is no bias, the lost packages reports would have equal probability of having come from the athiest group or the non-athiest group. The (frequentist) probability that the ratio would be 9:1 or worse (given 10 lost packa
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The outside blue field on the pie chart has no title when you hover over it (purchases under $5000). And having the text be upside down for half of the chart is pretty bad (another way to do it: http://media.treehugger.com/a
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Who knows what you mean by purely autonomously since even people can't help but learn from their experiences. Nevertheless, here's a novel composition made by an NLP algorithm trained on classical music: https://www.you
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I think the tough combination is 'single founder' and 'non-tech', I have heard him in an interview recommend finding a tech side cofounder in those cases.
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As you can see here: http://verdantlabs.com/politics_of_professions/ The engineering profession is about 2:1 Democrat to Republican, and software engineering in particular is about 3:1.
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Seems like what you're describing is a planned community or also intentional community. The latter being more of focused on the community part and the former on the planning part. Washington DC is a planned community. https:/&#x2
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Could you clarify who is rejecting FSF's philosophy? Apple? HN community? Microsoft?
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I had plans to do the same, I'm glad somebody beat me to it.
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If you believe he revealed this information for the purpose of debate, so the people can be made aware and have a choice/opinion in the matter, then you have to admit that he has acted on behalf of the country. It is unquestionable tha
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>The internal mechanisms actually work, if you use them. Seems there are numerous examples of people going through proper channels and then getting retaliation[1]. Also, Snowden was a contractor, so was not covered under the whistleblowe
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Technically, whistle-blowers are already supposed to be protected by the law, though in practice they are often not.
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Are there any non-evolutionary training methods for neuromorphic networks? Currently, fixed architecture ANNs can solve the cartpole problem very quickly already with Q-learning or policy gradient methods: https://gym.openai.com&
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You might want to look at "Machine Learning Engineer" positions if you want to do ML in practice, it's starting to be a title I see somewhat often now. As others have pointed out Data Engineering is more about building data p
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If you don't mind me asking, what is it like (going back to?) working for a large company after working for yourself.
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There was an interesting NPR episode on ticket resellers a while back: Planet Money (episode 468 - Kid Rock vs The Scalpers) http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/06/25/195641030/episo... They
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by alexbeloi 10y ago
Can you describe how money/shares/options get traded in a deal like this? Do you get cash for your shares/options or do you get shares/options in Mapbox or a mix of both?
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William Stein, number theorist at University of Washington, founded and built up Sage. It's designed to be cloud-based and acts as a common interface for many things (including Mathematica, Maple, Matlab, etc.) but also has it's o
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I imagine the few people sitting quietly with >1k btc understand quite well the problem of liquidity, that it's impossible for them to sell of such large quantities without crashing the market and taking huge losses, their only choi
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With high resolution images you need large amount of layers to for the later layers to be able to 'see' the whole picture. But such a network would likely be unreasonably large for such large inputs, you'd have to look for di
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Here's the original paper on Neural Turing machines: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401 IIRC, that paper's results focus on the model's ability to extrapolate prediction of sequential data to arbitrary leng