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by dxbydt 9y ago
> What’s the fizzbuzz test for data scientists anyway? Here's 3 questions I was recently asked on a bunch of DS interviews in the Valley. 1. Probability of seeing a whale in the first hour is 80%. What's the probability you&#x2
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by dxbydt 9y ago
I graduated from wvu and apart from “#1 party school” tag, its claim to fame was/is the PRT. fun to ride, not fun when your cabin gets stuck in middle of the track with nobody to call. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by dxbydt 9y ago
>I always feel bad when I read some of Taleb's work and come away empty Took the words right out of my mouth. His recent thoughts/tweets on Deep Learning were even more confusing.
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by dxbydt 9y ago
I have no opinion on what others should deposit in their brains. Am just saying personally if I start keeping track of garbage info like kate and kim, I tend to forget my trig integrals. I have empirically verified that over time. So given
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by dxbydt 9y ago
no, but most of twitter isn't using knowledge of katy perry's whereabouts either. Storing garbage info like katy perry kim kardashian etc. in your brain, in my humble opinion, is a tax on your cognition - one pays that tax by bein
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by dxbydt 9y ago
Back when I worked at Twitter, celebs used to show up randomly at the HQ at lunchtime. I was just your average Indian immigrant data scientist, not clued into American culture. The team I was on was trying to hire a lady for a front end en
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ArrayUDF: Breakthrough data structure(cs.lbl.gov)
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Sexual assault in academia(docs.google.com)
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by dxbydt 9y ago
A lot of practical difficulties with your proposal. A CS/AI PhD program is nothing like a Math/AMath/Stat PhD. In the latter, there is zero expectation that you will start producing anything in the first few semesters. In fac
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by dxbydt 9y ago
> constant optimization towards viral dreck Classifying a topic as/as-not viral dreck is, I posit, quite hard. Indulge me a bit here - I primarily come to HN to read about ML/AI/DNN. I mark the ones I like with the favorit
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by dxbydt 9y ago
pardon my ignorance, but what is the specific correlation of math skills to dominance in AI ? yes, AI/ML/dnn uses substantial amounts of linear algebra, much the way accountancy uses large amounts of arithmetic. but we don’t see
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Exploring Generative 3D Shapes Using Autoencoder Networks(twitter.com)
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What's killing us?(econlog.econlib.org)
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Evidence of the body’s waste system in the human brain(nih.gov)
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by dxbydt 9y ago
am not sure if this article and the recent naval tweetstorm are in any way pertinent to stem. i understand the value of phds in romance lit & english & so forth is zero. but in a stem phd, the timelines are 4-5 years, the educationa
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by dxbydt 9y ago
man, what a weird pov. Start at the beginning - "nobody should do the 40 mile pleasanton to sf commute". I guess he means pleasanton to mv, because if you were to go to sf you'd just take the bart door to door. So do you know
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by dxbydt 9y ago
I understand now. Thank you!
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by dxbydt 9y ago
since france isn't connected by arrow to korea, or vice-versa, the article rightly says you can't determine who'se ranked higher. you have (13>7, 23=23,31<40) in this case. you clearly want the first inequality to preva
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by dxbydt 9y ago
After unambiguously specifying the partial ordering for the triple, its very gratifying to note how each node gets an ordinal rank in the Hasse. So you can talk about USA > Russia ( rank 0 vs rank 1) but can't say anything about US
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by dxbydt 9y ago
very good counterexample, thank you!
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Statistics vs. CS(matloff.wordpress.com)
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by dxbydt 9y ago
Slack, Discord, Gitter, Microsoft Teams, and Atlassian Stride aren't just "chat rooms". They are essentially hosts for programmatic bots. Imagine a newly hired developer posts a question on Stride about some feature-request&#
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by dxbydt 9y ago
> If you want to do it wrong, you start out with lane keeping...recognition of common objects...some machine learning....hope for the best Thank you! Can I ask why the self-driving car programs like the 3-semester Udacity one deliberatel
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by dxbydt 9y ago
> If you really do need to change an array, how do you do it in Haskell? ...It's like someone really wants to implement bubblesort in Haskell but instead the solution ends up being to implement quicksort because the bubbling is diff
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by dxbydt 9y ago
Hey, it's a decent MVP! If you sort by points and pick the top k, that's already better than H1B by a long shot. Getting to the threshold of 30 is hard but doable, and using standardized tests is a big plus to level the playing fi
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by dxbydt 9y ago
Not quite. Another popular example is the cnn learning to distinguish wolves from non-wolves, because the wolf was always photographed on snow & the other animals not on snow. It just learnt to distinguish snow vs non-snow instead of wo
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by dxbydt 9y ago
Can non-Indians invest via Piggy ? What currencies do you accept ?
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by dxbydt 9y ago
Don't you folks have chorbazar's [1,2]? Virtually every big city in India has one. Your stuff gets stolen, you go to the chor bazar, it'll be on sale, buy it back after some haggling over price. [1] https://en.wiki
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by dxbydt 9y ago
imo, this is the right way to do interviewing. I'm currently interviewing with several companies, and one thing that stresses me out is the expectation that 1. candidate must discover algorithm to solve unseen problem 2. candidate must
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by dxbydt 9y ago
This is a bad idea. Definitely well intentioned, but has a lot of bad side effects. Especially at big companies, I was instead actively encouraged to dive right in, make very small changes to existing production code & submit it for a c

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