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by dfraser992 8y ago
If you really are having panic attacks about turning 30 (in 6 years??!!), I would suggest finding a therapist and getting a prescription for Xanax. Like the other poster says, 60 is not even 'old' if one's attitude is correct
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by dfraser992 8y ago
I'm American, but I live in the UK and am currently working on a research project for Network Rail to investigate how machine learning might be used to improve performance. So I've been reading up on rail networks in general. The
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by dfraser992 8y ago
https://douglas-fraser.com/FakeReviews/index.html I did my dissertation on this topic - text only analysis. I used a dataset that was commonly used in the beginning, but there are some issues with it. I plan to extend
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by dfraser992 8y ago
I'm 48, but I remember my quarter-life crisis pretty well. Long story short, I sort of realized I was getting tired of the 8 - 10 hr a day coding job and felt the need to do other things, specifically go to film school. But I did not h
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by dfraser992 8y ago
Yes - I primarily used spaCy [0] to handle all the NLP related tasks (tokenization, etc) as well as empath [1]. The Stanford Parser was only used for constituency parsing as spaCy doesn't handle that. The different feature sets were th
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by dfraser992 8y ago
https://douglas-fraser.com/FakeReviews/index.html If anyone is interested... it is my dissertation on developing ML ensembles to classify reviews as fake or not, strictly using features derived from textual analysis (d
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by dfraser992 8y ago
A link, if you have it handy? Not arguing, just trying to get more information. edit: I now recall a UK TV station (BBC? ITV4? sorry) that investigated how people have quite different metabolism - they monitored people with state of the ar
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by dfraser992 8y ago
And your specific mix of gut bacteria / the ecosystem might be a factor in "making you fat" due to the feedback process between gut bacteria and the brain / hormones. So applying evolutionary pressures to that bacteria m
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by dfraser992 8y ago
If your base calorie requirements drop because you have lost a bunch of weight, but you don't change your eating behavior after stopping the fast, then of course you will end up gaining the weight back. They have done studies on the &q
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by dfraser992 8y ago
Everything I have read suggest changing it is quite hard. A study I came across recently was about a 34 year old man who fasted for 40 days, lost about 20kgs. His daily calorie requirements went from like 1800 calories to 1600 (IIRC), but
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by dfraser992 8y ago
I'd appreciate getting the spreadsheet, if you don't mind - then I'd know what to track, what to examine. I keep meaning to do this again - I did 2 weeks a few years ago and it helped a lot (e.g. I was sleeping better and wa
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by dfraser992 9y ago
I am going to be working on a ML + expert system + genetic algo hybrid for the UK's Network Rail, specifically its research organization. Managing delayed trains is a big issue - the trains impacted by the delayed train can be dealt wi
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by dfraser992 9y ago
When I learned Zuckerberg majored in psychology while at Harvard, the reasons for everything he's done and how he's behaved (and the actions of Facebook) became crystal clear - Facebook is little more than a Skinner box, fueled by
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by dfraser992 9y ago
Sorry, I know I'm reading into your statement, but your reaction is very stereotypical 'liberal', aka 'thinks too much'. I do agree with you in that people do have biases, but there are several levels to this, perha
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by dfraser992 9y ago
I would go with Stripe over Paypal. Paypal is just too problematic in many respects. They have perhaps improved their behavior over the years, but I always try to discourage people from using Paypal because... well, after all the e-commerce
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by dfraser992 9y ago
I have recently been doing a literature survey of research into train timetabling and re-scheduling for a potential contract (using machine learning et al). Dealing with train delays in real time is not an easy problem to solve; it's p
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by dfraser992 9y ago
I'm not going to argue with you about "the insurance company is the primary "doctor" that makes medical decisions above and beyond your PCP." They certainly shouldn't be. But unless she is some rare outlier (I
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by dfraser992 9y ago
Well, I live in the UK (am American), had stage IIIb melanoma last year, and will never be able to say enough how happy I was with my treatment. Granted, I was lucky - it hadn't metastasized and Norfolk has the best in terms of skin ca
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by dfraser992 9y ago
The first things that come to mind is Buddhism or Sufism. You might think associated meditative techniques would be all that you need, but I don't think them alone do much without a surrounding framework to guide you in changing yourse
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by dfraser992 9y ago
He didn't explain that point so well, but I grokked what he was getting at (I think). I don't think she was smart enough to understand it, or see beyond it, so thus the gross simplification. That's my impression of her - less
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by dfraser992 9y ago
The main thing I picked up from the interview was the level of precision Peterson uses in thinking and discussing things - which I'd expect from a university professor. I might disagree with him on a few things, but I prefer to deal wi
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by dfraser992 9y ago
The issue with this line of thinking is that it is based on the assumption that a "war" is the appropriate solution because the cause of drug related problems is just people's weaknesses and moral failings. The hard Right of
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by dfraser992 9y ago
Statistics.... No, absolute ground truth is impossible for this problem. There has been some research that estimated the percentage of fake / spam reviews at 2 - 6% but that was from a few years ago. I'm sure the percentage has in
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by dfraser992 9y ago
I did my MSc in Data Science dissertation on classification of fake reviews - I never looked at Fakespot in depth, but my cursory gut feeling is that ReviewMeta.com is better (their blog is helpful). The problem in general is pervasive acro
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by dfraser992 9y ago
https://douglas-fraser.com/datadata/ this will be the blog (at some point). The overall idea of the dissertation was to see if combining different ways of processing the text of the reviews (classifiers using features
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by dfraser992 9y ago
I did my dissertation on this very topic (coming soon to my website... at some point). I do not know what tactics or systems Amazon has that deal with fake reviews, or if they even really bother beyond the easy wins like tracking IPs. My di
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by dfraser992 9y ago
Classification of reviews as fake or authentic is my MSc dissertation, so I thought I'd point out a few things. I have not read the paper referenced in the article yet, though. The article seems fine, given it's a pop-sci sort of
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by dfraser992 9y ago
I logged in just so I could tell the parent commenter off... Then I got distracted writing up a reply to someone about the Damore memo, which referenced how 'conservatives' seem obsessed with biology and base all their nonsense o
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by dfraser992 9y ago
What environment? The social side of IT? I guess I'd say my perspective is based upon all the reading on many subjects, not just technical ones, I've done in the past 45 years. I'm not an expert in anything but I can follow a
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by dfraser992 9y ago
> His lack of political savyness is mind-boggling but then he was hired not for that. No... I can see something of me (from 20 years ago) in him. Engineer (or is he even a 'real' one given his degree?), male, mid-20s... I don

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