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by autokad 8y ago
> "but I rarely see good results, especially with structured data." what algorithms are you using? I dont know if I am a ds neanderthal, but DNN are the last thing I try. xgboost and some ensembling with catboost usually gets
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by autokad 8y ago
when it started with the obligatory blame trump for something paragraph, i closed it. I dont like much of what trump has done, but I dont got time for their propaganda.
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by autokad 8y ago
it wouldnt make for a good interface, but I wonder if there is any value to having up/down vote for karma and i agree / disagree to allow users to express their level agreement with the comment.
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by autokad 8y ago
does anyone know when/why we started going from the dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago to now 66 million?
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by autokad 8y ago
I'm an absolute luddite when it comes to shopping online, but I found Amazon to be one of the easiest. i throw lots of stuff in my cart, and then pull things away at the end based off shipping cost/time. I have had shopping cart
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by autokad 8y ago
IN healthcare, when I order a prescription they default the knock off brands. I honestly dont have a problem with Alexa defaulting to the cheapest option with near equal quality
907.
by autokad 8y ago
> "It's insanity, and because we can't see the wood for the trees we have smart people go study things like how much titanium you have in your body rather than solving the actual problem of carb intake." if we can red
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by autokad 8y ago
I read an article like this a while back on hn: https://aeon.co/ideas/its-not-that-your-teeth-are-too-big-yo...
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by autokad 8y ago
retail sounds really perilous to me. there is little to differentiate yourself from competitors. even if you find something, others can just copy.
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by autokad 8y ago
what was really surprising was that they made the connection that modern day hunter gathers do not have the teeth problems we have, but then jumped to stating our jaws evolved smaller faces/jaws. Evidence does not seem to coincide with
911.
by autokad 8y ago
Mitt Romney had such a low income tax because the majority of his earnings was through municipal bonds. (which are not taxed) I rolled my eyes when the media said he was 'taking advantage of a loophole' and some people floated rem
912.
by autokad 8y ago
you are very devoid of facts. I'll start with the simplest one: bush kerry Popular vote 62,040,610 59,028,444
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by autokad 8y ago
> " despite fielding a smaller coalition demographically" I don't follow, the ratio is about 50:50.
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by autokad 8y ago
> "dogma" You have a dogma yourself. that's ok, just be aware that you have one, and are espousing one. > "Then get them to acknowledge that the free-market argument is a model that needs to be backed by empirical
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by autokad 8y ago
> "There are just way too many combinations" truncated SVD
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by autokad 8y ago
I finished top 25 in kaggle using NLTK and sklearn. word2vec is thrown around like the gospel in NLP, but simple techniques usually do a lot better because: #1 there isnt that much data in most cases and most importantly #2 the corpus diff
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by autokad 8y ago
Both New Jersey (-1) and New York (-2) lost electoral seats. Just because their population rises, doesn't mean the rest of the country doesn't rise faster.
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by autokad 8y ago
Am I remembering things wrong, or wasnt baby sitters potentially 12 years old when I was growing up?
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by autokad 8y ago
males are more susceptible to diseases than women, and probably not just genetic ones: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-03/jaaj-xck0316... other explanations included, its no surprise that there's
920.
by autokad 8y ago
But what if there are demographics A, B, C, and D and C is under-represented in their workforce. I get why a company would want to target C. Whether that is right or wrong, I have mixed feelings on. I can also see legitimate situations wh
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by autokad 8y ago
I made a qbasic baseball game when I was in high-school, about 1995. I was so proud of how I made the baseball go towards the mound by using a for loop and increasing the size of a white circle
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by autokad 8y ago
its really hard. I imagine company hiring practices (their growing dependence on recruiting firms) also doesnt help. For instance, the best way to go to a new geography would be to land a job there prior to moving there. Even in data scie
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by autokad 8y ago
our brains shrank, we have that going for us https://phys.org/news/2011-06-farming-blame-size-brains.html
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by autokad 8y ago
the nodosaur found in Alberta doesnt seem to have had feathers. https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-dinosaur-fossil-has-been-...
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by autokad 8y ago
"Realtek, which means that the authors of the worm were somehow able to break into the most secure location in a huge Taiwanese company" err, no. The companies gave the US access. as for all the 'unknown windows vulnerabili
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by autokad 8y ago
I have talked to CEO's of ad companies. They use to try and prove how much ROI their adds where. What they found was their large clients didnt want to know. An exec at a large firm would be given a huge add spend budget, and they go
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by autokad 8y ago
from the article: “The fact that Google and Facebook were able to generate such enormous profits and growth does give hope to some companies,” IF the bubble bursts, companies that seemed profitable might not remain so. companies like Faceb
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by autokad 8y ago
starts at 400k? where do you get that number? I can imagine a director 3 type position, which would be true for most fields. But interviewing, talking with recruiters, and looking at salaries on glass door, facebook pays a median 130k.
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by autokad 8y ago
the last ice age peaked about 21k years ago and ended about 11.5k years ago. Humans have been around for about 200k years, so it probably took some time 'getting on its feet' and reaching critical mass with the ending of the ice
930.
by autokad 8y ago
My only thought on that idea is that it feels like an undergrad in AI is less useful in the sense that most AI positions prefer PHD over masters, let alone undergrad.

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