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by bigred100 7y ago
Many people view this as wanting to help solve a problem. Many people it in a much less benign manner, and in fact view it as a possible sign of pride, arrogance, and (past a certain point or in extreme cases) delusion on the part of the sp
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by bigred100 7y ago
I sometimes wonder if management and engineers don’t have more in common than acknowledged. Publications such as Harvard Business Review have huge coverage of things like managing AI, and being able to say you managed an “AI project” might
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by bigred100 7y ago
I’m not sure how else you’d describe a vector than something that lives in a vector space. The approach of a mathematician might be different but I do believe the idea of scaling and adding things (and then stuff like inner products) is a l
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by bigred100 7y ago
I’m not sure thatvthe same principal doesn’t apply. For example, by the time I take advanced calculus in college, if I already know a huge chunk of the material and have strong mathematical maturity, I can spend more of my time on “the hard
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by bigred100 7y ago
Is there any reason to expect he’ll have any success at this? Leaving aside the motivation for a fun hobby that you don’t expect anything out of.
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by bigred100 7y ago
I work with a few of those guys. I truly wonder why their managers put up with it. I’d immediately fire them.
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by bigred100 7y ago
This is beyond my reach but I’m giving it a stab: Whatever your computer actually computes is more or less a bunch of pluses, minuses, multiplications, divisions. The function you want to compute may not be differentiable, but the sequence
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by bigred100 7y ago
While the thesis may be true, I also believe that society’s intellectuals will generally come up with intellectual arguments for whatever society was going to do anyway.
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by bigred100 7y ago
I wonder why we as a society valorize advancement at any cost. Surely it’s much more respectable to reach a level that fits your personal abilities, needs, and aptitudes, and then be a generally sane, trustworthy, competent person.
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by bigred100 7y ago
Thanks for sharing your expertise. It was very interesting to hear your perspective.
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by bigred100 7y ago
What are these data scientists? Most statisticians I know would just use the linear regression unless they needed a neural network for marketing purposes. Statisticians will spend years studying linear regression and variations in graduate
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by bigred100 7y ago
Anything to do with scientific computing or numerics can probably be done well and about as fast as it can be done in Fortran. If you look up ACM TOMS people are still submitting Fortran implementations.
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by bigred100 7y ago
Thanks.
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by bigred100 7y ago
I don’t understand this. Can someone explain the typing joke to me?
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by bigred100 7y ago
Not sure how much the idea makes sense, but these days I feel that rather than education, looks, status, etc. being the rare and difficult-to-attain markers or benefits of being of a higher class, being a generally sane person with a cohere
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by bigred100 7y ago
Some parents actively prevent their children from sleeping enough. Eg your brother will bother us if you don’t let him play on his computer in your shared bedroom until 3am and we are too tired to deal with it, so figure it out yourself.
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by bigred100 7y ago
Line from a song I heard recently: “Faith ain’t nothing but a game face, cousin.”
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by bigred100 7y ago
This may be news for reasons I’m not aware of (it got an MIT writeup), but as someone who worked for a bit in scientific computing, using a neural network to build a reduced model has basically no novelty to me.
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by bigred100 7y ago
Read books everyday. Whatever sticks sticks.
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by bigred100 7y ago
I’m not qualified to comment on the mathematical content but given his coworkers in the department I can’t imagine he’s unaware of these things.
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by bigred100 7y ago
Never not trolling
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by bigred100 7y ago
In many ways, algorithms, IQ, and the internet have ruined humanity. Had Facebook recognized itself as a funny website for college students to talk to each other and not begun all these complex strategies, they’d not likely have caused such
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by bigred100 7y ago
Do neuromorphic chips have any practical advantages beyond power consumption?
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by bigred100 7y ago
My frank opinion as someone ~2 years into grad school in something to do with computers and statistical inference (taken a bunch of numerical classes, ML courses, maybe ~1 year of grad level stats coursework): if you actually want to do sta
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by bigred100 7y ago
After working on a completely failed project in a non-software department of a large organization, I’ve realized that (depending where you are) the main deliverable for a lot of things is what your manager can put in his power point present
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by bigred100 7y ago
A a paraphrase of a kind of self-deprecating but insightful comment from a ML prof I heard: There’s a lot of hype around machine learning, but it can’t really do that much. If you want to see what it’s capable of, check your Amazon recommen
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by bigred100 7y ago
Sufficiently deranged people take forgiveness as approval and encouragement. It may be good to forgive and may not (at least in your external behavior—going around internally upset all the time is surely not good for anyone regardless). It
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by bigred100 7y ago
She may also be a deranged and unrepentant child abuser who uses whatever societal approval is thrown her way to justify and escalate her abuse. There’s simply no way to know.
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by bigred100 7y ago
I agree with the sentiment and also feel like working too hard is a bad idea (in large part for the reasons you’ve outlined), but also agree that it’s not clear if this was the cause without more information.
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by bigred100 7y ago
It’s cause they learn when they are a small baby, so that they can get around.

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