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by dasboth 11y ago
That sounds like a sensible way to work as a freelancer. Have you already had success with it or is it just a plan for the future for now? I'd be interested in hearing how it pans/panned out.
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by dasboth 11y ago
Thanks, I just successfully wasted 15 minutes on it. 10/10, would procrastinate again.
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by dasboth 11y ago
The fact that you have to explain a reference to The Jetsons with a Wikipedia link makes me feel old.
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by dasboth 11y ago
The marginal utility of having a refrigerator connected to the Internet is not something I ever thought someone would have to estimate.
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by dasboth 11y ago
"What do you mean it can also keep my food cold? I don't need all these useless features, I only bought it for the calendar", he didn't add.
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by dasboth 11y ago
That makes sense. I was thinking of the multiple test set approach, but rather than forcing people to re-submit on a new test set near the end (if that's what you meant), the organisers could just return the score based on a random fra
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by dasboth 11y ago
I should have read the comments, I just asked the same thing. I always wondered how that worked, though - you don't submit an algorithm, do you? Just a spreadsheet with your predictions, in which case how can they evaluate your algorit
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by dasboth 11y ago
Congratulations to the author for both of his last 2 posts making it to the HN front page! This explains the need to drill home the train-test idea from the last post. I hadn't thought about this before but multiple submissions do amou
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by dasboth 11y ago
Your opinion might not be popular in general, but I don't see how immigration can be feasible/sustainable without integration. Surely it's beneficial for both parties that immigrants try to integrate. I realise some of these
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by dasboth 11y ago
Interesting, apart from longish compile times on big projects I've never had speed issues. Installing Resharper, useful as it is, made it crawl so I abandonded it, but I feel productive in VS on its own.
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by dasboth 11y ago
I agree, recent versions are preety customisable. I hardly use the mouse and I didn't have to do much to make VS comfortable to use.
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by dasboth 11y ago
Out of interest, what in your opinion was so bad about VS that you wanted to get rid of it?
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by dasboth 11y ago
I love those kind of annotated videos. I had one of the Chessmaster series (9000 I believe) which had videos by Josh Waitzkin where he did the same thing, often going into the psychological side of the game too. I spent a summer addicted to
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by dasboth 11y ago
I read Breiman's random forest paper, but I'll give his others a read too. Does the variance reduction effect apply to any ensemble method then?
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by dasboth 11y ago
I was just listening to that podcast yesterday and loved the way he presented this information. I know next to nothing about NNs but I could pretty much follow everything that he said (from an intuitive sense, anyway, if not a technical one
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by dasboth 11y ago
The software development aspect that you describe cannot be taught at a boot camp. I think the people claiming you can learn to code in a day mean (or think they mean) the coding part, and probably don't realise there's all that o
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by dasboth 11y ago
Of course not. There isn't really a programming equivalent though. I guess you could memorise the syntax for one specific, complicated program and you're right, that wouldn't make you a programmer.
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by dasboth 11y ago
My to do list only ever consists of life admin things that have a hard deadline, like paying taxes, doctor's appointments etc. Anything else is just unnecessary pressure, and as someone else pointed out - if there's a penalty for
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by dasboth 11y ago
I've noticed the same thing, it often boils down to finding a strategy to 'fool yourself' into starting.
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by dasboth 11y ago
That's one of the best articles you could read on the subject, I might give it another read seeing as you've linked it here. This was another favourite, the one that started my 'journey': http://www.raptitude.
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by dasboth 11y ago
"The most dangerous form of procrastination is unacknowledged type-B procrastination [...] the to-do list is itself a form of type-B procrastination" This resonates so much with me. It took a long time to realise that my specific
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by dasboth 11y ago
Yeah I just thought it was worth hammering it home, especially because of some literature's use of "test set" to mean "validation set" which can really throw off a beginner like myself.
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by dasboth 11y ago
I'm only a data science student at the moment so I don't have much "real world" experience with machine learning, but this is what I would have thought. If you're trying to get quick value from a dataset, you can pr
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by dasboth 11y ago
This is a well-written article, and the concepts are explained clearly, thanks for sharing. I'd just like to add a caveat. When the author says "if a researcher runs 400 experiments on the same train-test splits" - then depen
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by dasboth 11y ago
Depends what you're tuning. If it's something like the number of trees in a random forest, definitely do that automatically. If it's the number of clusters in a clustering problem, that's where you'd be asking an ex
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by dasboth 11y ago
Seconded. Brought my linear algebra and probability theory up to scratch within a day. I don't know what it is about how he explains the material, but it just clicked for me first time, every time.
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by dasboth 11y ago
Wow, that PGM course looks exactly like what I need to get my head around GMs! I'm using Andrew Ng's class to support my learning for my MSc in Data Science, and it's been an invaluable resource. There is nothing like hearing
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by dasboth 11y ago
You're right, I should have mentioned that, as I actually had a similar experience. A lot of the comments I received were also along the lines of "that's great" (when I knew it wasn't and I was actually looking forw
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by dasboth 11y ago
I took the "Developing your Musicianship" and "Jazz Improvisation" courses, which I believe are in the same specialisation. The first one was at a very basic level and the improv was one was more advanced, but both were
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by dasboth 11y ago
I may be missing something here, but isn't the fact that it's made of tree pulp going to hurt the environment?

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