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by brian_spiering 5y ago
That might be a big part of the business context behind the "We are going to be Earth’s Best Employer…" statements in the 2020 Letter to Shareholders.
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by brian_spiering 6y ago
Differential privacy is the field of study for sharing sensitive data in a way that allows analysis while retaining some guarantees of privacy.
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by brian_spiering 6y ago
I teach debugging in all my courses. The best systematic approach to give broken code to students, both in activities and on tests. Students are exposed to common errors for each and every topic. I collect examples of mistakes from previous
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College Courses Online Are Disappointing. Here’s How to Fix Them(nytimes.com)
3 points by brian_spiering 6y ago|0 comments
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by brian_spiering 6y ago
There are parts of it that are brilliant. Good stuff about organizing your internal mindset.
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You’re Not Going Back to Normal Office Life for a Long, Long Time(vice.com)
13 points by brian_spiering 6y ago|3 comments
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by brian_spiering 7y ago
http://www.speedcoder.net/ is a good resource for improving programming type speed. You practice on actual source code for a variety of languages.
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by brian_spiering 7y ago
The quote at the end is classic: "Q: You aren't an epidemiologist. Why should I listen to you? You probably shouldn't. I'm a computer scientist and I've spend decades analysing data, but you should talk to a real ep
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by brian_spiering 7y ago
Is there an updated version? It would be nice to see the same rigour applied to SaaS.
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by brian_spiering 7y ago
There is a good chance that complete brain mapping will be similar to whole genome sequencing. The result will be interesting but only answer a limited subset of questions.
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by brian_spiering 7y ago
Pickling is a protocol to serialize Python objects. In scikit-learn that would be serializing an Estimator. https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html https://scikit-learn.org/stable/module
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by brian_spiering 7y ago
Binary Sudoku - https://xkcd.com/74/
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by brian_spiering 7y ago
"hash randomization is enabled by default" https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.3.html
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by brian_spiering 7y ago
Qualtrics is designed for surveys. PsyToolkit is designed for experiments.
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by brian_spiering 7y ago
I take a deliberate practice to improving my programming abilities. I improve my typing speed with http://www.speedcoder.net/ Every time I hear a concept I don't know I make a flashcard and quiz myself daily. I also ha
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by brian_spiering 7y ago
John Ousterhout's "A Philosophy of Software Design" is a good book on the subject. He has worked with Google.
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by brian_spiering 7y ago
Typically, it is not wavelengths from the visual light spectrum. It is common to use infrared. For example, high-power infrared light can penetration at least 3 cm into the brain.
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by brian_spiering 7y ago
"Non invasive" in this context means not physically opening the skull and inserting a device.
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by brian_spiering 7y ago
Optimizing SQL appears to be a reasonable task for Reinforcement Learning. Given it is sequential with clearly defined actions, states, and rewards. There has been work already done, for example https://blog.acolyer.org/2019
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by brian_spiering 7y ago
Here is a previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10635631
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by brian_spiering 8y ago
It could be a time factor. That was published in 2006. "An introduction to optimization and to the calculus of variations" is published in 2017 https://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/mazari/documents/Cours_Pristin
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by brian_spiering 8y ago
I earned a PhD in Neuroscience. Then suffered through a couple of postdocs and was not advancing in that career. I jumped ship to tech, working at startups and big-ish companies in San Francisco. The money was nice but working style did not
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by brian_spiering 8y ago
Here is the course website http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/current_students/syllabus/undergrad/... Are the slides or assignments available?
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by brian_spiering 8y ago
List of books by Richard Hamming - https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/richard-hamming/242314/
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by brian_spiering 8y ago
The chosen visualizations are not helpful. They look like slides from a slide deck for executives. The green blobs in the corners are not related to to the data. Geographic data should be shown on a map.
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Ask HN: What is your favorite lightning talk?
3 points by brian_spiering 8y ago|0 comments
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by brian_spiering 9y ago
Inventing ships also invented shipwreks
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by brian_spiering 9y ago
https://github.com/keon/awesome-nlp
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by brian_spiering 9y ago
According to the court, Uber spends too much on hush money.
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by brian_spiering 9y ago
Here is code for "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" https://github.com/aimacode Norvig wrote some of the Python version https://github.com/aimacode/aima-python

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