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autokad
8y ago
its nice to use when you don't have labeled data such as plagiarism detection. I use it a lot in the security space to see if a user has changed their behaviors by looking at the cosine distance of resources used over a period of time
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8y ago
some strange things about the 'generated' faces. The one face is nearly identical (1,1) (1,5), just that adding the glasses. another is that male + female generates male images. you'd expect more androgynous images to show
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8y ago
I noticed in the bottom image, just by thinking about it you can 'make it' flow left, right, up, or down.
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autokad
8y ago
I agree. if it were a bank exec I'd bet they would be going on about income inequality
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8y ago
I'm sticking with my 6 SE until its no longer feasible.
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autokad
8y ago
i end up waving my mouse around like a spaz to find a place where something isn't auto-previewing. I like the idea of a mouse over preview, but it needs work
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autokad
8y ago
yeah, I'm also tired of lets force everyone to do something to speed up the mean, when what we really care about as anything in this universe is the tails. some people dont need to rush to make their next flight, but some do.
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autokad
8y ago
as a data scientist, it has always been about the data. it has always been a data race. google has known that, which is why they spent billions trying to protect their search moat.
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autokad
8y ago
clearly the data suggests that its bingos that make up most of the luck in the game.
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8y ago
i agree, and I recommend doing it for those wishing to get into the field. i believe one of the things that helped me get where i am now is my performance in kaggle competitions. i do have one concern if it ever became an industry prereq,
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8y ago
> "Golds value comes entirely from the fact that we as a society give it value." thats true for anything. that includes currencies, what you get paid, the value of a hockey card, the value of a car, the value of a banana, etc.
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8y ago
by that logic, amazon should just be selling books to make it easy for investors to make 'pure plays'
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8y ago
> "Reads to me like someone writing viruses that doesn't know a thing about writing viruses" someone who infected 100,000 machines knows at least 'a thing' about writing viruses
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8y ago
> Why are young girls so vulnerable to mental disease trends?" all kids are vulnerable. maybe girls are more sheltered? and.. > "What can we do better as a society to strengthen the resilience of kids?" stop sheltering
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8y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/29/upshot/fentan... "Since 2013, the number of overdose deaths associated with fentanyls and similar drugs has grown to more than 28,000, from 3,000.
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8y ago
clickbait headline. "The legionnaire's daily ration consisted of 78% carbohydrates, mainly from wheat or barley. This diet has the advantages to provide slowly absorbed carbohydrates, to be provide high energy, and to be easily di
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8y ago
> "Training a model is skipping to executing the function, without first learning how to write it. Is training a model even a feat worth bragging about?" do you really think its easy? go do kaggle competitions. if its really e
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8y ago
manspreading is a sexist term. i am also unsure as to why it gets so much attention. if it must be broken down into a gendered attack, I rarely witnessed it and I use to ride the philadelphia subway everyday. however, I did witness on a
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8y ago
https://twitter.com/autokad/status/689896734542069760 https://twitter.com/autokad/status/689897031414886400 keep in mind these profile pictures are not centered, some are group photos, e
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8y ago
one interesting one was that I took 5000 twitter profile photos and averaged the pixel values by male / female. unsurprisingly, the male average had short hair while the woman long. but what did surprise me was that the shirt area of
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8y ago
I have a feeling mexico is a huge factor in that, but have never seen height in US broken down to by race/ethnicity.
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8y ago
I dont use NoSQL that much, but I also dont use relational databases much either. most of my work is in pyspark / spark on top of s3.
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8y ago
how many are peeved they didn't get Julie's GPA? How can I accept its a terrible answer with 0 data provided. How much merit can I give to someone giving advice about investing when they gave me no data to indicate they are good
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8y ago
yeah, its like me saying my name is every character that was/is written by a human. it keeps growing. you have to accommodate me try our best, find compromises, and fail gracefully.
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8y ago
i like the genre, but I think we are going too far to the point its making people nuts. i do think our movies/shows/music have a huge causal impact on your moods/feelings, so we should be weary of how much we consume it. so
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8y ago
murder is rare. assault, robbery, and burglary are not. I prefer those things not happen to me
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8y ago
I didnt say exact, just not easily done aka intuitive. a concept probably lost on you ages ago
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8y ago
I can never get over how ahead of its time the IT crowd was. I just went back and watched a couple episodes and it still nails many things right on the head
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8y ago
That's some really interesting insights from a founder, thanks! I'm a huge fan of the show, but one thing I would like to point out is that I don't think everything of the show is negative. sometimes it makes me wish I was d
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8y ago
i wish people would call out the fed. their primary metric for increasing interest rates is wage inflation. so they play wack a mole when people start seeing income growth, a recession comes, and employers have all the bargaining rights ag
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