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by dxbydt 11y ago
I interview a lot of developers for ML positions at our company. The first red flag is always a lack of math. Candidates who come in with API-level competence ie. can implement an ML algo using this,that or the other API, without any unders
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by dxbydt 11y ago
Did someone actually pay up ? I am curious to see if there's a market for something of this nature.
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by dxbydt 11y ago
> The EB-1 quota is for outstanding researchers with truly exceptional skills, and who have made significant impact in their field of research Its not. (Disclaimer:I have an EB-1)
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by dxbydt 11y ago
To find k dominant colors using kmeans and then replace all the colors with their closest dominant color, try this - http://github.com/krishnanraman/colorquantization 50 lines of Scala with lots of comments. I threw in
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by dxbydt 11y ago
>If this is possible you don't have a real job and the Indian will be shortly be replaced in turn by a piece of software. This is actually possible for a LOT of jobs that Americans do, modulo edge cases. Most of what nurse practitio
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by dxbydt 11y ago
May yield... May lead...May replace. That's a lot of maybe. I submit that from purely a business ROI pov, you are far better off building a 'very complex hand engineered system' as you put it, since that's the natural ou
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by dxbydt 11y ago
Why should a trading strategy be "particularly sophisticated" ? I'd settle for terribly boring and profitable.
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by dxbydt 11y ago
I used to be a fan of polyglotism and knew a bunch of languages to various degrees of profiency. But the market pays much , much more for depth than breadth. The tools that pulled me into the quarter million paycheck territory were - 1. Goo
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by dxbydt 11y ago
xyz will be a lucrative profession if and only if 1. xyz is gated 2. xyz is intrinsically hard 3. fewer people attempt to get into xyz over time 4. xyz yields higher wages per hour relative to other professions. I don't see programmin
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by dxbydt 11y ago
Marin Software, San Francisco, Onsite/Full time Looking for skilled Scala+Spark developers. Also looking for talented Data Scientists with proven expertise in math/statistics/machine learning, willing to work with Scala/
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by dxbydt 11y ago
Just wondering...does that tell us more about office managers, or about Biomedical Engineering ?
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by dxbydt 11y ago
I don't know about the rest of their stack, but their Machine Learning team is pretty good. They were using PMML the last time I spoke to them. And a little bit of Scalding as well. Preventing fraud at scale is quite a challenging exer
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by dxbydt 11y ago
Actually approachable math - senior undergrad math major or first year grad can easily understand what's going on. ADMM is actually very old primal dual setup solved via Lagrangian, goes back to 1980s I think. Good reference - https:&
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by dxbydt 11y ago
Stupid nature paywall honestly makes me furious. Why doesn't altman or some other yc partner throw some money at nature & get all their articles up on the web for free ? /endrant
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by dxbydt 11y ago
> awful lot of bullshit > endless series of aspirational stories One of the strange things about the software business is that software is an iterative process where the rate of iteration can go from linear to polynomial to exponentia
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by dxbydt 11y ago
the part about ubiquitous insider trading is accurate. that's all I can say, after spending a big chunk of my life in finance.
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by dxbydt 11y ago
I believe while you are right in general, she is looking at a class of problems for which tensors handily triumph other methods. You might be interested in these papers - http://newport.eecs.uci.edu/anandkumar/pubs&#x2F
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by dxbydt 11y ago
Luckily, I was at mlconf last week where Dr.Anandkumar spoke - they called her the "tensor lady" :) She's using tensors in machine learning for a bunch of things - Latent Variable Models: Training LVM's using local searc
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by dxbydt 11y ago
>I'm confused why the price per gallon for water isn't skyrocketing in California. It doesn't quite work like that. For eg. Fresno pays one-third of what San Francisco pays, even though both of them are in California. htt
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by dxbydt 11y ago
Is this a particular style of writing ? He takes 3 sentences, makes 1 paragraph. Then repeats with the next 3, and the next 3 etc. The paragraphs are completely disjoint - so he mentions almonds in a para, then Romney in another, then Glenn
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by dxbydt 12y ago
This is a stunning book. 15 years ago, when I first came to this country from India, a classmate gave me a copy of this book. I guess he wanted me to understand America or Americans or whatever. It definitely affected me at some deep level.
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What distribution does my data have? (2010)(johndcook.com)
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by dxbydt 12y ago
But Obviously. The same chap can invoke the SparseVector and DenseVector Java APIs from Spark, but doesn't know what a simple unit vector is or how to compute one. I think we are entering into a bleak era where there are umpteen built
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by dxbydt 12y ago
> ML is getting closer and closer to being an everyday tool for engineers rather than something that requires you to be a full-time math person I so wish! As a Sr Data Scientist, I interview potential candidates quite often, many of thes
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by dxbydt 12y ago
Indicator RVs are introduced on p738 & used all over the book. But on p788, he proves Markov without mentioning indicators. Typically, you create an indicator for the (R>=x) event, compute its expected value & voila Markov! Somew
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by dxbydt 12y ago
when I read this question, I thought - let's see how long it takes for me to do this from scratch. so I got conscript, downloaded scalatra, started coding , and about 26 minutes later, I have created this webapp exactly as you specifie
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by dxbydt 12y ago
As someone who was in your shoes, lemme suggest the following - the enemy is not your coworkers with big egos, or the work days, or meetings or whatever. The enemy is your own ignorance. You are bothered because they know stuff and you don&
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by dxbydt 12y ago
You know, if there was a private ticker say BYC53 on sharespost, which mirrors sama's 3 bets with the 5 year expiry, then a lot of us can trade alongside & quantify the worth of those 3 propositions.
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by dxbydt 12y ago
> Perhaps you value novelty... > What might not be "adequate" for you... It isn't about what he values versus what you value. What the author complains about are well known problems with recommendation engines. Take the
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by dxbydt 12y ago
Can I ask you what is the point in airing this dirty laundry ? Even as a learning experience, it comes off pretty sour. Do you really want to be known forever as "creo ? oh those guys who trash talked yc ?" , because that's w

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