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by dtjohnnyb 6y ago
I've recently come across the MLOps community here https://mlops.community/ . The meetups are all on YouTube and have great topics like putting models into production, but also more interesting ones (to me) like ml obse
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by dtjohnnyb 6y ago
As a counterpoint, "Marco Tulio Ribeiro et al.: Beyond Accuracy: Behavioral Testing of NLP Models with CheckList, ACL 2020" is a highly practical paper that should be incredibly useful in helping IT industry professionals to make
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by dtjohnnyb 6y ago
I think one issue with discipline is that there's a value judgement attached, so that when I procrastinate, I'm an undisciplined slob, I feel worse, more procrastination, spiral. As you said, having discipline reframed into trigge
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by dtjohnnyb 6y ago
The book Range talks about a similar idea, the idea of "kind" and "wicked" learning environments. In kind environments (most games) "patterns recur, situations are constrained, and importantly, every time you do som
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by dtjohnnyb 6y ago
I've just moved to a data scientist job where most of the work is done through Scala. I've loved working with Scala for all the type safety and compiler helpers, but the lack of a data visualisation library makes me feel like I
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Books in CompSci, Engineering, Physics, Math and Others Released by Springer(link.springer.com)
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Why Was It So Hard to Raise the Alarm on the Coronavirus?(nymag.com)
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by dtjohnnyb 7y ago
A related question, does anyone have good resources on how to set up WFH for a small company from an IT/security perspective? VPNs? Teamviewer to a desktop at work? BYOD or company laptops only? Use the cloud? Help!!!
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by dtjohnnyb 7y ago
That is one hypothesis, though there are a lot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flu_season#Cause
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by dtjohnnyb 7y ago
I've seen the role you're describing (taking insights to production) move to be described as a "Machine Learning Engineer", whereas Data Engineering is closer to the front end of the process, productionising the _data_ g
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by dtjohnnyb 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22297621
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by dtjohnnyb 7y ago
is 7% a reasonable 90 year return? I would guess closer to 1-2% would be reasonable over that time frame, which puts you in the black at year 90 even at 90% confidence.
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by dtjohnnyb 7y ago
IANAquant, but he said in the intro that he used a market neutral strategy, so he _should_ make money both when the broader market is going up or down. It would be interesting to know though!
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by dtjohnnyb 7y ago
He talks a little bit about that in the (equally interesting) follow up post: https://rootsofprogress.org/cement-redux
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by dtjohnnyb 7y ago
Similar one I enjoyed in the Naive Bayes article from yesterday https://blog.floydhub.com/naive-bayes-for-machine-learning/ Multiple Choice: If you choose an answer to this question at random, what is the chance yo
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by dtjohnnyb 7y ago
How many dimensions can you use this with efficiently? Could you use this to store embeddings from machine learning models and find nearest neighbours of various items, like aNNoy or faiss does?
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by dtjohnnyb 7y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20190909013313/https://www.seat61...
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by dtjohnnyb 7y ago
Sean Carroll had an interesting podcast recently https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/08/19/60-l... where the guest put forward the theory that a lot of prehistoric monuments (e.g. Stonehe
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by dtjohnnyb 7y ago
The book mentioned in the article, Capital in the 21st Century, shows this in really interesting detail. I can't remember the details myself, but the idea we have of inflation being normal is actually highly abnormal in the history of
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by dtjohnnyb 7y ago
Thanks for putting some brakes on the hype train! We're a pretty diverse team of developers with a wide range of skill levels and development environments. I was hoping that docker may have helped some developers get their environment
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by dtjohnnyb 7y ago
Thanks for the input, given the generally negative outlook in the comments on this idea, maybe multiple static environments might solve enough of our issues. For uptime requirements, it's the main tool our company uses to organise and
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by dtjohnnyb 7y ago
Appreciate the measured warning, as you mentioned there's a lot of strong opinions either way so it's hard to find the more practical advice among it all which is what inspired the original question. I'll take all the advice
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by dtjohnnyb 7y ago
Does anyone know if there's a similarly great "missing introduction to containerization," but for a less CS oriented audience. I'm currently trying to convince my team members that using a dockerised version of our inter
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by dtjohnnyb 7y ago
(The period at the end gets cut off)[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Blaine_Wolfeschlegelste... ]
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by dtjohnnyb 8y ago
It's not quite your question, but here's a cool site that put its location in space in context for me: http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/sattelit.html
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by dtjohnnyb 8y ago
I think so: https://web.archive.org/web/20190412213052/https://www.inete...
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by dtjohnnyb 8y ago
Interesting discussion on this article over on the machine learning reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/awu86b/dis... I particularly agree with the comment saying: no software is c
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by dtjohnnyb 8y ago
https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib for anybody else googling this library
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by dtjohnnyb 8y ago
The intro to the paper has a nice comparison to other similar methods (generative and non-generative) and the blog post linked in this article by inFERNCe https://www.inference.vc/unsupervised-learning-by-predicting... has
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by dtjohnnyb 8y ago
Does Scala fit as a functional language that is useful for data science?

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