baron_harkonnen

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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
Where are you getting that I'm assuming that "personal working style is the best and only one for every person"? I am recommending what worked for me. It's a bit different than the question the OP ask's but, given a
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
Call it what you want but that advice comes from experience. I worked remote for many years before pandemic and had plenty of issues with isolation. Sometimes in life socialization comes easy and requires no work, but that's not always
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
I would recommend looking into decoupling your social needs from your job. Even in the time before wide spread WFH this was an issue, during good times it feels great to go into work and get all your social needs met but when layoffs come o
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
A variation of this comment shows up in every FB related post, and it seems completely absurd to me that anyone holds this view seriously. The idea that interacting on Facebook is somehow "keeping up with friends" is itself perhap
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> chain rule is basic calculus that precedes understanding hessians. It doesn't have to be that way. The hessian is an abstract idea and the chain rule and more specifically backpropagation are methods of computing the results for a
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> at most you can follow recipes cook book style. Here I disagree with you pretty strongly. Once someone is comfortable with differentiable programming it's much more obvious how to build and optimize any type of model. People shoul
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> to read this as though it is very obvious and commonly accepted fact I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to by "this" but assuming you mean my comment, I think what I'm saying is very much up for debate
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
Given the current state of automatic differentiation I'm not so sure it's even necessary or particularly useful to focus on backpropagation any more. While backprop has major historic significance, in the end it's essentially
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
I'm a bit surprised that nobody has mentioned how much we have failed as technologists that a story is being shared by png images of text... brave new world indeed.
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
Just because this is an older problem doesn't mean it's not a problem . Yes, people that loved fixing up cars would have complained about "kids these days" not knowing how to fix a car. I was certainly one of those kids
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
I don't think that's as relevant as the current demand for VCs to unload their investments as fast as possible before the next major economic catastrophe. It boggles my mind that we're set to nearly double the record number o
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> It's not the wackos we should be worrying about. It's really amazing to me how easily the "left" was able to be tricked in the same death of critical thinking as the "right". The "stick to the libs!&
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
Not to mention that industry itself only accounts for 6% of Arizona's water usage [0] so we're talking about one single structure increasing the industrial usage by ~10%. [0]
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
As resources start collapsing, more and more major world powers will begin to keep their own resources for themselves. China didn't say they were targeting a net reduction in building coal, only that they weren't going to be build
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> We just got through our wood and lumber shortage Prices have started to drop but I would hardly say we "got through" the shortage. Just last week I was talking to the owner of a lumber yard asking when cedar would be readily
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> you replace trusting your ISP with trusting a different group of unknown people with similar motivations I've always seen this argument but it's never made sense to me. For starters I absolutely don't trust my ISP. I k
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
You're just reiterating my point. Even if this where true, it doesn't add any information. For a Catholic it simply affirms their Catholic worldview, however for someone with a secular worldview it is also perfectly inline with th
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
Let's suppose this was even true, what would it matter? There's this weird assumption in popular culture that somehow the moment near death contains more truth than other moments, as if right before passing we have some "ah!&
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> In practice, these huge models are, in laymans terms, fucking awesome and work really well A similarly surprising result from an adjacent community, Bayesian Statistics, is that in the case of hierarchical models, increasing your numbe
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
Rather than implying a limit to the usefulness of data, I find it speaks more to the folly of substituting data for critical thinking. You can reduce a fever by treating the underlying infection, soaking in ice water, or taking acetaminophe
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> most people on hn will not experience much issues If the AMOC collapses as we are already starting to see [0] then at least the European portion of the HN community will be deeply impacted. If the American South West continues it&#x27
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> much more than that at times in the last few thousand years. When was that? If you look at this estimate of temperature on Planet Earth[0][1] you can clearly see the last time the planet saw > +2C was the Pliocene. Even if you look
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
I once mentioned Goodhart's Law to a data scientist at a company and they immediately rejected it based on the unironic assertion that "that would mean that KPIs shouldn't be the sole measure of our performance that that does
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> China would never get rid of such a powerful way to annoy everyone else. I've mentioned this in another comment, but you're severely underestimating the real relationship between North Korea and China. For the government, ma
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
NK has a very complex relationship with China and I'm fairly sure they would not be "wiped out" immediately. Even in the extreme case of North Korea nuking Japan, it would still lead to an extremely complex international situ
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> i just got used to working in vectors and arrays for computational tasks. Have you worked with R? R, like matlab, natively supports vector based operations. In fact, all values in R are vectors. Many of the problems with Pandas ultimat
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
Pandas indexing system is overly complex and I've never personally benefited from that. To start with there are __getitem__, loc and iloc approaches to accessing values. If your library constantly has to warn users that "you might
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
Of the many companies I've done data science with I can only think of a few, rare exceptions where R wasn't used as much as if not more than Python. If you're mostly dealing with Neural Nets you won't see much R, but for
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
I used to very strongly agree with you re: matplotlib, but I've recently switched from using almost exclusively ggplot2 to almost exlusively Matplotlib and my realization is that they are very different tools serving very different pur
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by baron_harkonnen 5y ago
> Maybe I'm the outlier A good sanity check of this is to use Dunbar's number (usually considered at ~150)[0] and see how many of your friends and friends of friends have a number of social media "friends" that reache

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