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by borroka 6y ago
The personal references were interesting, the literary references were way too many. This was not a scientific paper in which it is important to present what was done and when and how; here, the author is talking about a very common thought
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by borroka 6y ago
It is a sentence that makes no sense whatsoever, but it feels slightly profound and gives a sense of smugness when liked. Similar to the Heinlein's quote about specialization being for insects, which for some reason attracts nerds like
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by borroka 6y ago
Whenever I get annoyed by the relentlessly banal life lessons of Goggins, I remind myself that his audience is mostly made up of troubled teenagers who took their latest shower 3 weeks ago and middle-age professionals of some sorts who cann
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by borroka 6y ago
It sounds like 95% of the conversations I hear at work.
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by borroka 6y ago
"Bayesian inference on the other hand is a specific type of statistical model where the aim is to model distributions, not just the output variable (which is what ML is traditionally focused on)." - What distribution are you refer
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by borroka 6y ago
It is very challenging for complex models to know what's the coverage (and also could be extremely computationally intensive).
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by borroka 6y ago
The decision is already made, there is no point, nobody is going to backpedal on anything. I remember saying: "I don't get it", but she was clueless about the interview itself. It was a company in LA with a ghost.
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by borroka 6y ago
The choice is not between Bayesian methods and Deep Learning, but between statistical models and machine learning models (say, from random forest to GBM to xgboost and then maybe Deep Learning). There is overlap between statistical models a
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by borroka 6y ago
The focus of statistical models (including Bayesian models) is on inference and uncertainty (both for parameter values and for predictions), the focus of ML models (including DL models) is on prediction and it is rarely possible to obtain a
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by borroka 6y ago
Was it clear for the candidate what you were looking for, like "if it happens you don't know the answers or else, I'd like to know how you think about it"? Because that is what I do in the beginning of the interviews I l
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by borroka 6y ago
FAANGs are a different beast altogether. Especially at the IC level, it is 99% technical, given a normal-human-being-behavior. Then, technical the way they (individual interviewer and company) evaluate it and you don't know about, sinc
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by borroka 6y ago
Altman was referring to people being not willing to work long hours in tech; I am confident he was not referring to movers, janitors, immigrants who come from dire living conditions et similia, since I doubt he ever interacted with any of t
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by borroka 6y ago
Because Sam Altman—who I have yet to find which tangible contribution has provided, sounds likes he knows little from a technical point of view, and who during a Tyler Cowen's interviews he answered the question "So what becomes t
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by borroka 6y ago
That's exactly what's happening. Source: you can imagine.
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I don't remember being this misunderstood in recent times, so let me clarify before moving on (and I don't think dismissive comments like the one I am answering to provide much benefit to the conversation). "You're sayin
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by borroka 6y ago
Yes. I published more than 50 papers before this last one, with wildly variable number of citations.
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by borroka 6y ago
Just to make an example, politicians are certainly not the best political/organizational minds that one can find in this world. When the results of an activity are nuanced, that is the results are not clearly measurable (revenue, profi
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by borroka 6y ago
I went to work in tech from academia, but I wanted to publish a paper I had started working on during my last months as a researchers. I worked on it during weekends, sometimes snatching hours from work. I sent it out for peer-review and it
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by borroka 6y ago
There are a few fields in which there is movement academia to industry to academia, that is there is a permeable academia-industry barrier. Say, computer science and adjacent fields, business/economics if we include business schools, m
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by borroka 6y ago
There are different points that need to be touched here. First, as always, there is a distribution of effects, which means that there is individual variation. We can reasonably assume that, _on average_, the older people are, the less they
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by borroka 6y ago
"nobody is thinking about you (except you) so it’s not worth concerning yourself with status or outside validation." This is often repeated, but it is so untrue that I don't get why well-intentioned people repeat it. Nobody t
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And an amazing Richard Burton in the movie, which I found excellent
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by borroka 6y ago
Netflix is complex and they also have entire teams whose effect on the product or business is zero or negative. Almost all companies are inefficient in different ways.
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by borroka 6y ago
My best Airbnb experience was my first one 4 years ago, when with a partner I booked a room in a house with the owner living in. We had a tremendous time, we had bbq one night together, it was an enjoyable not planned semi-communal experien
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by borroka 6y ago
This is not a platform issue, it is done on purpose to deceive the customer, especially the less tech- or financially savvy customers. People have been complaining about the cleaning fee ridiculousness forever. Airbnb could and should limi
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by borroka 6y ago
Don't forget the thousands/(millions) of companies who have enterprise contract for Office 365 and for which Teams comes for "free". Like the company I work for of hundreds of thousands of employees.
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We can assume that nobody treats them better and some will treat them worse. It follows that non-biological parents inevitably treat on average (and, very important, this is cross-sectional, not paired) their kids worse after they know they
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by borroka 6y ago
Exactly. How do we forget every time there are these conversations that most abuses happen in families? How do we forget about the victims of parental harassment, shaming, disinterest and violence? I don't know whether being a parent m
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That has been found to be empirically not true. As always, there is a distribution (see Homicide by Daly and Wilson, for example). Now, if we know by instinct, smell, or just because we know...
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He is the narrative fallacy made human. And the fact that so many people enthusiastically support his platitudes is truly a sign of the intellectual barren that the current social-media era is.

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