benrbray

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by benrbray 7y ago
Poorer by what metric? I wouldn't agree that life in Japan vs USA is so dissimilar that you can definitively say Japanese people/shop owners are poorer. For example, both countries rank highly on the Human Development Index [1].
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by benrbray 7y ago
Yeah, this seems like a terrible way to actually learn ML. Maybe it's for business-type people who want to stay up to date on the buzzwords?
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by benrbray 7y ago
I'm sorry, what? They only started to do the right thing once they realized a cover-up wouldn't be successful [1]. Even then, we're still hearing about attempts to silence scientists and destroy evidence. [1]: https:&#x2F
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by benrbray 7y ago
I agree with you this is precisely what a social safety net is for, but given that the United States seems to be vehemently opposed to universal health Care and UBI, there should at least be regulations in place to ensure the businesses we
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by benrbray 7y ago
I think it may be an issue with font rendering on different operating systems, screen sizes, resolutions, etc.. The webpage looks quite different on my phone vs. tablet vs. laptop. It's least readable on my tablet (Microsoft Surface
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by benrbray 7y ago
Additionally, the OP seems to indicate the increased accidents are due to issues we have adjusting to the time change. You can certainly argue we should get rid of the time change altogether, but 2-DST would have the same time changes as o
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by benrbray 7y ago
Anecdotally: in places like Michigan where it's dark by 6pm in the winters, darkness really has no correlation with sleeping hours. "2-DST" would actually make it easier for working people to align their sleep schedule with
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by benrbray 7y ago
Who? Why? I said I didn't really expect anyone to agree with me. I'm interested in discussing the pros and cons.
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by benrbray 7y ago
I agree in principle, but if the goal really is to give working people more daylight to enjoy, it's not really practical for something like this to happen bottom up. Businesses' open hours more often than not depend on the open ho
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by benrbray 7y ago
I recognize that my position is uncommon, but I am in favor of what I call "2-DST" (two minus DST), a position which recognizes that DST is fundamentally backwards . Fewer daylight hours in the winter means we should turn the cl
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by benrbray 7y ago
Isn't it fairly well-established that the US has maintained its economic superiority for so long by NOT being bombed to hell like Europe after WWII and afterwards using military force to destabilize developing economies in south americ
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by benrbray 7y ago
Out of curiosity, can anyone point to a similar resource aimed at languages not written with the Latin alphabet? Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, etc.. I'm curious which "knobs" are available to other languages, and how preferenc
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by benrbray 7y ago
Sure, but Jeopardy is all about AQ (Answer-Questioning) :)
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Tokyo too
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For the curious, do you have a link to the paper?
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by benrbray 7y ago
Pragmatically, I recognize that you are right. Businesses and business people do, in fact, operate this way, and anyone who finds this distasteful should not go into business. My question is: Does it really need to be this way? Certainly
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by benrbray 7y ago
That may have been true circa 2010, but in the past decade we've seen rich settings menus and compact, information dense interfaces stripped away in favor of "mobile first" designs. Typically, whenever a website / progra
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by benrbray 7y ago
Not sure why you've been downvoted--it's really tough to know what skills will be marketable in 4+ years when choosing what to concentrate on in college. In my schooling, I really optimized for the math+stats background, since I e
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by benrbray 7y ago
I think the ML hype is actually slowing down. I've been interviewing for ML positions as a new grad and a number of companies have told me they have an excess of data scientists who can train the models, but a dearth of engineers who
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by benrbray 7y ago
Density + mass transport is the solution to the problem of ubiquitous personal transportation.
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by benrbray 7y ago
Not to mention we've built great walls separating rich and poor in the form of highways, so the classes never share common ground, literally.
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by benrbray 7y ago
As an English Wikipedia user, one obvious gap I've noticed is the lack of detailed information about the geography and history of countries where English is not natively spoken. I can only imagine that as time goes on, more of these de
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by benrbray 7y ago
I wouldn't use reddit to find credible info about world events or trending topics. However, it's an excellent source for finding information about hobbies and niche topics. The culinary subreddits have great recipe advice and I&#
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by benrbray 7y ago
I agree with your point but I think it's important to use more realistic numbers. According to [1] the average tuition numbers are closer to the following: $10k public in-state, $25k public out-of-state, $50k private In my own personal
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by benrbray 7y ago
I interned for a team working in this area, and my supervisor was quite happy with their results using Bayesian Deep Learning on ImageNet: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02506
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by benrbray 7y ago
Related: My former supervisor (Dr. Emtiyaz Khan @ RIKEN AIP) held a NeurIPS 2019 Tutorial on "Deep Learning with Bayesian Principles". He gives a nice high-level overview of this area of research.
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by benrbray 7y ago
It's not a punishment for being productive. I think the argument is that, in some way, government services / infrastructure / foreign relations facilitated your productivity or created an opportunity for you to be productive
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by benrbray 7y ago
what do you recommend using instead? I don't know of any good alternatives
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As someone who has worked on online learning (the machine learning discipline), and who is young enough to have taken a few Coursera classes in high school, I must dispute your claim :) To me, "online learning" has nothing to do w
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by benrbray 7y ago
The thing is, right now our cars-first city planning means that things like groceries, schools, shopping centers, etc. are built far away from where people live so that you NEED a car to get there. Places like CityLab are advocating for fu

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