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by cpsempek 9y ago
I find this interesting for two reasons. I think I recall that not too long ago, the most popular course on coursera was Ng's ML course. It is ironic that people are now more interested in teaching oneself how to learn versus a machine
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by cpsempek 9y ago
During a fare, an uber driver told me that when he goes to an area with lots of drivers, he will turn off his app for a minute or so to artificially decrease the number of drivers in the area. If this is practiced by multiple drivers repeat
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by cpsempek 9y ago
That's funny, but also sloppy as you note. I would bet the default tick labeling is every 5 in whatever plotting library they use.
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by cpsempek 9y ago
Totally agree. I mean, look at all these dull, uncreative, mindless drones http://www.uh.edu/engines/Solvay-1927.jpg .
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by cpsempek 9y ago
Not that I know either, but the quality control process is possibly a source of much cost of production. Every part must pass a series of tests during and after production before deemed ready for sale. Every failure of a test costs time and
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by cpsempek 9y ago
Interesting, to belabor the sports team metaphor, culture does indeed seem to be an alternative to max salaries. C.f., Spurs being one of the most winningest teams in the past couple decades, Tom Brady taking pay cuts in order to maintain a
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by cpsempek 9y ago
This reminds me of Reed Hasting's culture deck (he even uses a baseball team as a metaphor when describing Netflix's hiring practices). To further the analogy, Netflix would best be described by the Yankees--pay top-of-market for
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by cpsempek 10y ago
At the risk of oversimplifying, making people feel a certain way in order to leverage that emotional state for the benefit of another is at the heart of a lot of marketing and advertising. Maybe it tastes worse when it is as blatant as the
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by cpsempek 10y ago
I don't know about very specific applications, but I think the field itself and is very complimentary to CS, especially when considering finite or discrete structures. As it's name suggests, abstract algebra abstracts "nice&q
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by cpsempek 10y ago
I do as well, to some extent. However, let us never lose sight of the fact that any foundational axioms (e.g., ZFC) are decided upon on a purely philosophical basis. It is interesting to see such philosophical consideration around the &quot
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by cpsempek 10y ago
I do appreciate this, but word clouds really are a terrible visualization method for text data. With regard to the python example, I cannot grasp at all if the frequency of self and None are similar or drastically different. The table on th
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by cpsempek 10y ago
I agree with the problem you raise and I don't have a good solution to the problem. This may invalidate my position. However, per Kahneman, possibly some modes of thought are more susceptible to bias and to a greater magnitude than oth
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by cpsempek 10y ago
I did not intend to be offensive, only skeptical and cautious. I was pointing more to people's nature to erroneously construct narratives regarding cause and effect in their lives. We are all guilty of it, no doubt. I also don't
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by cpsempek 10y ago
I agree that some sort of back test is necessary to evaluate the strength of his arguments. I am not sure what this back test would look like. Presumably some sort of case study of companies (both successful and not) that apply some or all
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by cpsempek 10y ago
I am confident that whatever success Bridgewater and I have had has resulted from our operating by certain principles. I generally avoid this type of advice due to the inherent effects of survivorship bias. Admittedly, I haven't read
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by cpsempek 10y ago
Their colors are off in the AdWords example dashboard. The donut charts in the bottom right, yellow is mobile phones in the chart, but the mobile phone icon is blue. The other chart-icon colors are similarly off.
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by cpsempek 10y ago
Is Google the suitor, or, is Alphabet the suitor? The article says Google, but this could be out of habit. I am not sure that answering my question changes much about the news. But it might say something about how Alphabet views Twitter bas
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by cpsempek 10y ago
And should the turtle flip while digging? Thankfully, we have the assurance of geometry to tell us it will get back to digging in no time. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/275/1630/11
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by cpsempek 10y ago
I searched "tsla" and "tsla price" (and again "aapl" and "aapl price"). The first gave me more or less what I was after, the second returned results about cocaine and mdma prices per gram. As others h
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by cpsempek 11y ago
The sample size? Probably large enough as it comes from Your Mechanic's "huge dataset". /s This is such a poor example of data analysis, even for a non-technical blog post. No mention of at least normalizing data, no men
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by cpsempek 11y ago
I do not get why people, it seems, often use the "...or, how I learned to stop worrying and..." in their blog post titles. Are they doing it as an homage to the film Dr. Strangelove (I'm not sure if that was the originator of
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by cpsempek 13y ago
Does anyone know if the laws that require tobacco companies, for instance, to place health warnings on cigarette boxes also specify the appearance of the label (e.g., font family or size). If not, this article seems to suggest that companie
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by cpsempek 13y ago
I love the picture of Iceland.
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by cpsempek 13y ago
I don't understand the distinction the author is making between defining the problematic word and the process of "tabooing" the word. I do see the distinction in terms of the actual game: certainly 9 innings, 3 outs is not a
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by cpsempek 13y ago
I agree. I felt it was a terrible (excerpt of an) interview, in so far as the word and analogy choices made the questions seem like they were plucked from a professor's profile in comp lit journal. Whether or not Mr. Watterson found it