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by cityhall 9y ago
I'd say the benefits come from the information content of the features or lack thereof. When you have uninformative features like pixel colors or word identities, there's nothing for traditional methods to work with. You have to s
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by cityhall 9y ago
This is handled by choosing a smoother, higher entropy prior. If you have uncertainty about your prior then basic factorization tells us it's equivalent to integrating over your various priors with respect to the probability you assign
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by cityhall 9y ago
They seem to be spotting visible guns, not concealed ones, and the focus is on guns being brandished instead of holstered. This is preliminary work but it wouldn't be useful to have an alarm go off every time another police officer or
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by cityhall 9y ago
If we make the same argument in favor of taxi cartels, people see the flaw right away. The system may encourage conservation but that's only one of many side effects and we're glossing over the costs.
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by cityhall 9y ago
Normalizing the concept of a wealth tax is productive even if it's unimplementable. The right has used the same approach by having think tanks promote flat consumption taxes and zero corporate tax rates. If nothing else the absence of
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by cityhall 9y ago
I assumed they had deals with the cellular companies to get aggregate location data to estimate traffic.
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by cityhall 9y ago
Articles can't be treated as data yet except with respect to very simple questions.
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by cityhall 9y ago
The real professionals are the ones who don't talk about it.
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by cityhall 9y ago
Do bones maintain whatever properties they're exploiting thousands of years after the animal's death? I'd expect they'd have different wear or fracture patterns if they were very old when worked. You'd also expect a
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by cityhall 10y ago
Employees aren't a manufactured product. The claim is the supply is inelastic in the short term. You can outbid your competitors for talented developers but a rise in average salaries won't make weak developers better or get lawye
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by cityhall 10y ago
The problem is we don't tax wealth directly, only when it's transferred. A large portion of government spending is to protect the value of capital, but we fund it largely with taxes on incomes.
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by cityhall 10y ago
There's nothing new about this, it's how speech recognition training data has been generated for a long time. Whether you can align a script will depend on how accurate it is and how expressive your models are for generating spoke
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by cityhall 10y ago
They're a decade late and have no engineering culture. All they could do was throw money at the problem. If they weren't hyper aggressive they would have looked to partner with someone more experienced or to play vendors off each
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by cityhall 10y ago
What you want is competition, not for one entity to control the market regardless of its organization.
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by cityhall 10y ago
There's more than one country interested in pulling off these attacks. The US can say, "Do us this favor and we won't look too hard at your tax avoidance schemes," but China or Russia might have an easier time planting a
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by cityhall 10y ago
This was my experience too. Did you find any standard cost-based robust parsers or are we still stuck rolling our own?
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by cityhall 10y ago
How do GRU cells do on these problems?
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by cityhall 10y ago
In other words he wants founders who will do shady things to make him a profit but not to the point where he loses plausible deniability.
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by cityhall 10y ago
It's worth pointing out Tensorflow is basically Google's clone of Theano, including a lot of the same design decisions. They've improved some things but it's not like Google handed us the secret to fire here. It's j
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by cityhall 10y ago
This is good, the argument order and axis handling was inconsistent.
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by cityhall 10y ago
What ultrasound thing should I search for? A quick attempt turned up strange skincare and aromatherapy products.
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by cityhall 10y ago
Not all algorithmic trading is high-frequency where you need to shave microseconds to beat someone else's order. If you're predicting actual price movements instead of order book fluctuations there's no reason to use hardware
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by cityhall 10y ago
The problem is virtually every company is on the list for one reason or another. Sony's rootkit for example.
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by cityhall 10y ago
Your bankroll needs to be much higher than that to withstand the expected variance. Your edge shouldn't really depend on the size of the bets.
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by cityhall 10y ago
With correct play slots have some of the lowest house edges per dollar bet. Sports betting has a fairly high edge, 4.5% on normal bets and much higher on exotics. The difference is you make a few sports bets and walk away, while with slots
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by cityhall 10y ago
The irony here is it's only illegal to beat the games because the casinos figured out how to rig the democratic process to get favorable laws passed. If we put it to a vote, what would the public think was more unethical, using a mecha
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by cityhall 10y ago
The same thing can happen with copper IUDs.
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by cityhall 10y ago
I think his point is no one can tell you from theory which regularization methods to apply to a particular problem to get the best results. You need expert knowledge, experience, and hyperparameter tuning.
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by cityhall 10y ago
That explains why you don't see track-inspired designs but not why you don't see cheap clones of Bentleys and higher end Mercedes. Hyundai actually seemed to break with convention a few years ago and make their cheap cars resemble
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by cityhall 10y ago
There have been python GPU ML packages for a long time, Theano and Tensorflow for example. This is just a wrapper for Torch so you don't have to use Lua.

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