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by dbecker 9y ago
The $80k roof is especially scary if you live in an area with any type of natural disaster risk. The area I live in just had a huge hail storm. Most roofs in our neighborhood will require repairs. That's a bummer with asphalt shingles
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by dbecker 10y ago
I've had a few DS jobs. And I've been a hiring manager at two of those jobs. I can confirm that it's roughly the wild west still.
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by dbecker 10y ago
Adversarial noise isn't specific to deep learning models. Most model working on high-dimensional input will confidently misclassify noise with high confidence if you construct the noise right. The original "adversarial pixel&quot
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by dbecker 10y ago
This is primarily a fun toy problem. It uses a Raspberry Pi and ~50 lines of code. So I don't think anyone should expect it to do something that's impossible with other approaches.
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by dbecker 10y ago
I don't have great links for this, but for something less technical, you might look at the blog posts from Kaggle competition winners. Here are a couple examples http://benanne.github.io/2015/03/17/plank
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by dbecker 10y ago
I've seen many examples where networks are trained on thousands or tens of thousands. The most common example is digit recognition with the MNIST dataset. This is a common problem given to beginners, and even many beginners to CNN&#x27
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by dbecker 10y ago
For a faster GPU, that allows me to iterate more quickly, I'd be more than happy to pay an extra few bucks an hour.
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by dbecker 10y ago
Keras is significantly higher-level (in the sense that Python is a higher-level language than C). I find it much easier to write in Keras, and think I'm less likely to make mistakes. There are a variety of other wrappers for Tensorflow
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by dbecker 11y ago
I wonder where Salesforce is going to integrate MetaMind's technology. From afar, the overlapping use cases aren't obvious.
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by dbecker 11y ago
I recently used indico.io for a project, and I'm a huge fan of what they offer. From my brief interactions, they seem like awesome people too.
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by dbecker 11y ago
I briefly taught at a bootcamp, but no longer have any affiliation with them, and I don't have any incentive to be dishonest one way or another. They aren't perfect. There are cheaper ways to learn. Instructor quality is uneven, a
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by dbecker 11y ago
When Casadevall (and others) argue for more ethics and epistemology in the first year of a PhD program, they should be transparent that they would take away time and attention for much of the material currently taught in the first year of P
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by dbecker 11y ago
I'm grateful for everything Continuum has done for the Python community. They seem to have such an amazing team, and I'm glad to hear this.
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by dbecker 11y ago
I recently switched from a company using HipChat to a company using Slack, and the differences seem mostly cosmetic and immaterial. Are the differences between these various chat programs big enough to affect user experience or productivity
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by dbecker 11y ago
I'm trying to figure out if I can keep my current car until autonomous vehicles become broadly available. Anyone here have an informed opinion on when that will happen?
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by dbecker 11y ago
You are taking that quote wildly out of context. That quote refers to the use of water as part of the drilling process, not the contamination of water-sources by fracked wells.
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by dbecker 11y ago
People in the industry seem to universally agree that there are some sloppy operators.
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by dbecker 11y ago
I've been trying to follow the Keras development, and didn't even realize there is a mailing list. Could you post a link to it.
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by dbecker 12y ago
I'm surprised to hear this. I think most techies hate how crowded the .com space is (especially with domain squatters). I'm thrilled to see a dramatic increase in namespace.
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by dbecker 12y ago
Most supposedly anti-consumerism arguments I hear imply we should devote more attention to our purchases. But, if you want an identity that isn't based on consumerism, it seems we should devote less attention to your purchases rather t
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by dbecker 12y ago
This blog post by Joel Spolsky makes a case for teaching low-level stuff that I find very compelling. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000319.html Someone who hasn't thought about sorting algorithms i
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by dbecker 12y ago
There are applications of job search in both micro and macro (I happen to have written a PhD dissertation involving a micro approach to job search). The treatment in the book we are discussing is decidedly macro, and looks generally similar
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by dbecker 12y ago
Can you point to any evidence to support these opinions/claims? (I don't mean that to be snarky, but rather that I would find it more interesting and compelling)
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by dbecker 12y ago
It's very rare for anyone to commission studies like this in the social sciences. Rudolph is a professor at Korea University, and professors do research without extra compensation because it is part of how they get tenure.
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by dbecker 12y ago
Zuckerberg's bio on Wikipedia says that he is the son of a dentist and a psychiatrist. I'm sure there are plenty of Americans with wealthier or more connected families, and none of them have succeeded with their startup the way h
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by dbecker 12y ago
I've used both Domino and AWS. AWS isn't hard to use, but Domino is much easier and more streamlined for analytics. My recollection is also that AWS rounds charges up to the hour, whereas domino does not. I didn't know spinni
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by dbecker 12y ago
So, if I start with two devices holding lists, and I place the union of those lists on each device, what is that called? Do you have a reference for the technical definition of sync that this fails to meet?
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by dbecker 12y ago
I find it hard to believe you were among the first to use this phrase for social media and/or advertising services. It seems in fairly widespread use even for that use case.
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by dbecker 12y ago
The fact that the price of something is high does not mean the elasticity is low. Even if we agree that the total cost (including time) of acquiring and reading a book is high, that does not indicate that demand is inelastic.
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by dbecker 12y ago
If you include the value of your time, the library is a more costly option to acquire a book than Amazon for many affluent readers. And most libraries have a small fraction of the books one might want. The fact that people are choosing an e

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