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by axplusb 7y ago
Red Hat net income is growing pretty consistently though [0]. With this price for debt, IBM could be cash-flow positive on this deal within a couple of years even without any big synergy, just by the simple effect of cumulated growth on (ne
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by axplusb 8y ago
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem Permutation City by Greg Egan Ubik by Philip K. Dick
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by axplusb 8y ago
Judea Pearl's The Book of Why. Basically Pearl argues that classical statistics completely ignored the concept of causality so far and introduces a complete framework to bring causal inference into statistical/data analysis. The f
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Data science instrumenting social media for ads, responsible for todays politics(gael-varoquaux.info)
1 points by axplusb 9y ago|0 comments
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A Deeper Understanding of Deep Learning – Prof. Naftali Tishby(youtube.com)
7 points by axplusb 9y ago|0 comments
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by axplusb 9y ago
Yes, I was thinking about the law of small numbers too ! Pretty sure the college with the smallest rate of startup founders is also a small college.
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by axplusb 9y ago
Before jumping to conclusions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_small_numbers Edit: Actual Wikipedia entry = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insensitivity_to_sample_size
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by axplusb 9y ago
In a closed system, hence not the Earth.
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by axplusb 9y ago
I'm surprised to find no mention of Solaris by Stanislaw Lem among the fiction references. In this novel, a whole planet is somehow a living organism, truly alien to human conception of life.
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by axplusb 9y ago
My take from this book is that: - scientific knowledge is embedded in some intellectual ether made of underlying hypotheses often not explicitly stated called paradigms - paradigms follow a Darwinian evolutionary process, i.e. better paradi
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by axplusb 9y ago
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond offers an interesting and academically quite solid perspective.
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by axplusb 9y ago
On that topic Harari's Homo Deus is a pretty interesting read. He argues that Humanism is the de facto "new" (2-3 centuries old) religion. Soon to be replace by the celebration of something even more global -- data.
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by axplusb 9y ago
Superintelligence, The Idea That Eats Smart People: http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm
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by axplusb 9y ago
When you sign a legal contract, you are also likely to spend a non-negligible fraction of the contract to lawyers so that they review it thoroughly. Think of the legal costs of fund raising or the time spent negotiating and reviewing a cont
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Ask HN: What do you do when your client asks for something stupid?
3 points by axplusb 9y ago|1 comments
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by axplusb 9y ago
My plan currently allows 5GB of roaming data per month, which under my current consumption pattern (I don't travel much more than a couple of times a month) is plenty.
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by axplusb 9y ago
1. Oligoploly 2. Collusion It's also why phone services are so much more expensive in the US than say France.
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by axplusb 10y ago
Regarding practicals: is there anything more than the overview slides ?
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by axplusb 10y ago
Gradient boosting also often does wonders.
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by axplusb 10y ago
I am wondering how much of this gets to be real-time. Are they computing the difficulty of finding a spot based on Maps/Waze users' live data or using daily/weekly patterns on past data?
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by axplusb 10y ago
There are actually two sides of what is referred to as causal inference. Either (a) inferring a causal graph from the data, or (b) given a graph and data, measuring the causal effect of variables among each other. The broad idea in (a) is t
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Ethical Advertising (from readthedocs)(docs.readthedocs.io)
1 points by axplusb 10y ago|0 comments
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by axplusb 10y ago
I would recommend the book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages [0] by scholar Carlotta Perez. She studies longer cycles though (~50 years) but the mechanism she describes seems pretty sou
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ML Futures (Bostrom refutation)(inverseprobability.com)
4 points by axplusb 10y ago|0 comments
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Piketty: Capital Predistribution and Redistribution(crookedtimber.org)
1 points by axplusb 11y ago|0 comments
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by axplusb 11y ago
How about Mom, Dad, and Junior share rides with other Moms, Dads, and Juniors who are headed in the same direction?
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OpenAI is about more than saving the world(wired.com)
4 points by axplusb 11y ago|0 comments
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by axplusb 11y ago
As an econ PhD dropout, I never quite understood why such an emphasis was made on physics-lookalike models. I was always more encouraged to come up with a bunch of equations that would mimic some phenomenon, than dig around and understand t
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by axplusb 11y ago
As awesome as this looks, I'm totally missing the point. If they truly believe AI is dangerous, how does promoting / accelerating it is supposed to help? Or is it a way to commoditize R&D in machine learning so that it will ne
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by axplusb 11y ago
I would be interested in A/B comparison of company responses according to immigration status (i.e. whether or not a candidate needs visa sponsorship). Any data available?

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