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by dbecker 13y ago
I don't think an econ PhD is inherently the right thing nor the wrong thing for people. But this post is just a mix of weak arguments and factual incorrect assertions. Regarding point 1, one reason most econ PhD's get jobs is that many adv
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by dbecker 13y ago
As long as people have some use in productivity, and need to work to eat (limiting price elasticity of labor supply on the low end), technology won't produce long-lasting unemployment, just, under ceteris paribus assumptions, long-lasting
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by dbecker 13y ago
Technology has been replacing workers for a long time, but unemployment hasn't been steadily increasing over time. The inventor of the steam shovel was accused of causing permanent unemployment with the argument "each steam shovel will repl
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by dbecker 13y ago
It'd be great timing for them to release a new Mac Pro. But it's been great timing for a new Mac Pro for a long time.
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by dbecker 13y ago
Not being a web programmer, I have a naive question: Are many websites running into speed or scalability issues? I see programmers in other areas spend a lot of man-hours optimizing code that isn't a meaningful bottleneck. Is the same thin
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by dbecker 13y ago
Google was on the scene well before 2006. I think that comment was meant to be interpreted as "people still used Yahoo! as late as 2006?"
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by dbecker 13y ago
The extremely widespread use of CPython over PyPy suggests that most users feel differently. Personally, if I had to go without 3rd party modules like numpy and pandas for any length of time, I might just switch to another language.
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by dbecker 13y ago
I agree that you SHOULD normalize/scale data before running neural networks and autoencoders.... and this resolves the units issue in most cases (unless measurements in some units are non-linear functions of measurements in others). But thi
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by dbecker 13y ago
Auto-encoders have some big advantages over PCA, but they suffer the same shortcoming (sensitivity to units of measurement) described in the original post.
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by dbecker 13y ago
Regularization is an excellent alternative to dimensionality reduction in most cases.
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by dbecker 14y ago
The most exciting application they can imagine for a super-battery is smaller cell phone batteries? That doesn't seem very forward thinking.
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by dbecker 14y ago
That would never fly in the sciences. It's pretty common in medical research.
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by dbecker 14y ago
They may be waiting on the police and/or their lawyers to allow them to talk publicly about it. Waiting for their own lawyers would be a particularly weak excuse. This is a priority, and they are responsible from conveying that urgency to
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by dbecker 14y ago
I wish there was a similar site where participants collaborate rather than compete to solve interesting data problems.
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by dbecker 14y ago
Kaggle is pivoting, and they don't intend "making a living on Kaggle" to involve contest winnings. Instead, they are offering a platform for prospective employers can use to contract to highly ranked Kaggle members. And those gigs pay hour
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by dbecker 14y ago
Anyone outside of Continuum who can share their experiences with Numba and/or NumbaPro?
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by dbecker 14y ago
This site sees so many posts saying "I just quit my job, and you should too," and so few that say "I quit my job x years ago, and you should too." Is their dream losing it's luster when it becomes a reality?
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by dbecker 14y ago
I don't know anything about gaming. But I assume that means it has a great GPU as well as a solid CPU... in which case this might be a good option for those of us doing scientific computing.
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by dbecker 14y ago
Exponential not hyperbolic He meant hyperbolic as in "hyperbole," not in the geometric sense.
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I thought I got the bulk of the content in less than 4 minutes. I actually preferred this to a video... where the first 4 minutes are frequently just introduction and fluff.
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by dbecker 14y ago
I think this may be solving a legitimate problem, but I think you are incorrect that the source of the problem is hollywood. Online dating follows historically from personals classifieds. Personals ads contained very little information (in
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by dbecker 14y ago
I think her odds of getting a new job quickly are good. There are thousands out there vehemently supporting her. She only needs to find one to offer her a job. Thought of another way, her name has become a cause. Many love the cause, many
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by dbecker 14y ago
Before this, all of the articles I'd seen about MOOC's were vehemently (and baselessly) critical. It's nice to see them publish something informative.
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by dbecker 14y ago
Given the threats at http://pastebin.com/ubmznGhn I think this is clearly the right explanation.
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by dbecker 14y ago
It's a blind insistence on caution. There are thousands of things one might want to do in the future, and many managers "prepare" for each and every change they can conceive.
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Python as 4th language to get CUDA compiler(anandtech.com)
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by dbecker 14y ago
I spent about 15 seconds clicking on a petition, and the guy who started the petition was able to use that to start a dialogue? If anything, it's remarkable how effective that was. What sort of change did you expect with so little effort?
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by dbecker 14y ago
It's a way of expressing to lawmakers that people care about an issue.
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by dbecker 14y ago
Hello. I'm another programmer. I noticed that it takes forever to understand inline assembly. I don't foresee myself ever thinking like a computer and reading assembly as well as a high-level language.
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by dbecker 14y ago
I'm reminded of when I first started following the PyPy project, and I thought it would be impressive if they could ever get close to CPython's speed. They've done something truly amazing. I hope the python community someday coalesces arou

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