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by ced 11y ago
Having only been around since 2012, Julia’s greatest disadvantage is a lack of community support. That is true, but if you post a question to their forum, you will get swift answers, often from the core language team: https://g
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by ced 11y ago
Is it common for engineers to earn minimum wage?
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by ced 11y ago
Oh man, you should read: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html It's a brilliant account of the process!
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by ced 11y ago
there is an absolute shortage of experienced and talented senior executive-level people Not quite what I was expecting from the title. As a data scientist in Montreal considering a move to Vancouver, how is the hiring situation for techni
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by ced 11y ago
Yes, but from their perspective, it's an implementation detail. LAPACK could have been written in assembly language or APL, and their Python code would work just as well. Python/Matlab/IDL are important because it is easier t
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by ced 11y ago
Can anyone explain the different between pivot() and pivot_tables()?
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by ced 11y ago
Intriguing. This looks like a good summary: Chapter 2 and 3 presents two key design ideas that guides the overall development of BIDMach: codesign, which means choosing the right combination of hardware and designing algorithms to best lev
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by ced 11y ago
Thanks a lot, statistical sleuth looks very readable and interesting! How do you feel about the Bayesian approach to these questions? (cf. Gelman's Bayesian Data Analysis )
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by ced 11y ago
anova, or sampling distributions, F tests, chi2 Most of the big ML books are heavily Bayesians, and these subjects are less discussed (though IIRC Gelman's book has a "Bayesian ANOVA"). Even Elements of Statistical Learnin
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by ced 11y ago
Do you have any reading recommendation about DoE?
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by ced 12y ago
The blog post has the right idea, but the wrong equations. If we take C3PO's statement to mean: We're going to say that C3PO has records of two people surviving and 7,440 people ending their trip through the asteroid field in a g
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by ced 12y ago
I like the concept, it's a cool way of introducing Bayesian probabilities! The conclusion strikes me as overly confident, though. It implies that if we had 100 Han Solo's, we are very confident that about 3/4 of them are go
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by ced 12y ago
Or pass alpha=0.3 to the plotting function.
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by ced 12y ago
Python indentation (and Lisp parenthesis) saves up a lot of vertical space. It allows me to see many functions at once.
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by ced 12y ago
it advocates bayesian statistics, which is a reasonable decision, but seems to take it to such an extreme that "hypothesis test" never appears in the table of contents... That's not very unusual. It seems to follow the &quo
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by ced 12y ago
Thank you for working on this! Naive question: since Julia exposes the parser interface (as explained in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osdeT-tWjzk ), wouldn't it be easier (and more reliable) give it the code and extr
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by ced 12y ago
Nice article. I'm 100% with you on the irrelevance of NP-Hardness to AI.
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by ced 12y ago
This should have a wider audience than just people familiar with Boolean Satisfiability (SAT). SAT is the archetypal NP-complete problem (kinda like travelling salesman), but the details don't matter much for the article's key poi
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by ced 12y ago
That was a really nice read (it's a quick history of programming languages through a particular lens, with a glowing endorsement of Julia at the end). I couldn't find the link to the second post (which is the one about Julia), it&
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by ced 12y ago
I gave Lush serious consideration, but at this point, it already feels like Julia has more momentum (might be all perception, though). I actually haven't tried Julia yet, what problem do you see with it? The thing is, if you haven&#x2
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by ced 12y ago
Also part of that group - Paul Graham's essays drove me to Lisp. I am very happy with what I've learned over ~5 years of near-exclusive CL usage. I agree - while CL-the-language is amazing, CL-the-ecosystem just doesn't have
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by ced 12y ago
What do you like? What was the most exciting thing you did in the last two years?
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by ced 12y ago
There's an interesting chapter in MacKay's book on Occam's razor. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but it's very thought-provoking.
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by ced 12y ago
Common Lisp supports arbitrary type predicates, and I think that SBCL enforces them (not sure) at runtime. For instance, it will call the predicate before setting a struct's field to make sure that it returns true (under high safety co
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by ced 12y ago
That sounds interesting, do you have a good reference for reading on SRM?
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by ced 12y ago
Just fifty years ago, John McCarthy circulated a notice that he would be giving an informal talk that he thought would be of interest. I drove up to MIT from New Jersey to attend this seminar of typical length in a typical classroom. But t
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by ced 12y ago
Incidentally, I liked Barto and Sutton's book, but it feels a bit dated. Does anyone have another reinforcement learning book to recommend?
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by ced 12y ago
And yet, the entire freaking point of p-value testing is to maintain a pretense that Popperianism makes sense. Validating a hypothesis? While my simple minded fellow, that would be anathema! Don't you know that Popper explained that y
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by ced 12y ago
It's a bit of a tangent from your main point, but: Bayesian methods try to answer the question of "What is the probability of the model" given some observed data There are people arguing that P(M|D) isn't really a mean
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by ced 12y ago
Paul Graham's answer to why some languages become popular: http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html

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