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by eachro 5y ago
A lot of people in SF have nothing to lose.
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by eachro 5y ago
I remember this one bit from a video on self driving cars back a few years ago where someone basically said that self driving cars would not work well in cities because people will always want to mess with the cars just because they can. Co
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by eachro 5y ago
SF seems like not the best place to pilot this from a risk management perspective (ex: homeless people messing with the cars).
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by eachro 5y ago
> Each of the big pharma companies were poised to make a boatload of money by being first to produce a vaccine. I'm disappointed, but not surprised. Considering the massive drop in deaths as various countries, US states got vaccinat
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by eachro 5y ago
Just because they were both started by the same guy does not make one a replacement for the other. ESPN ran Grantland into the ground ages before The Ringer was even launched.
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by eachro 5y ago
Yea grad level absolutely (pretty much anything can fly at the grad level). Undergrad? Maybe we should teach it b/c of the historical importance it has to the field and how the community developed but I really do think most ML classes
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by eachro 5y ago
To really understand it (primal, dual formulations) you need tools from convex optimization. So it doesn't really feel appropriate to teach it in a standard machine learning class (unless you just toss out the details). In optimization
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by eachro 5y ago
Putting aside discovery, I've always considered SVMs to be in the realm of optimization rather than ML or statistics (though I suppose you could then also put modern deep learning under optimization too).
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by eachro 5y ago
The code in the statistics library is actually quite a bit more complicated than I had expected. Is there a reason why a function like `mean` isnt just: `sum(data) / len(data)`?
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by eachro 5y ago
what's the intuition for why that might be desirable? I can sort of see that you might care to consider the relation between a given row and other rows (not disimilar to something like kernel methods) and then you can use something lik
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by eachro 5y ago
Oh that's interesting. Can you say more? Haven't seen much relating the two topics before.
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by eachro 5y ago
What is happening on the ground in El Salvador?
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by eachro 5y ago
Note that the author of this piece was the founder of Coderpad, not some industry entrenched journalist. After watching his interview with Jason Calacanis( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hUT8VZNvm8 ), where they discuss the
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by eachro 5y ago
Jason Calacanis's interview with Vincent Woo(the author of that piece) is quite good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hUT8VZNvm8
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by eachro 6y ago
> An average Joe could probably write influential ML papers by gluing RNN/GAN layers to existing models and fiddling with the parameters until they beat current state of the art. Right, but you have to remember there are legions of
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by eachro 6y ago
If people actually read that Chen/Roose piece they'd see that the conversation being had was much more tempered. I saw the point as about the dangers of being in a large echo chamber. For ex: on twitter, if a non-private account s
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by eachro 6y ago
Who is "they" here?
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by eachro 6y ago
Any list of top rollerball pens cannot be complete without the uniball signo 207(ideally the needlepoint tip): https://uniballco.com/207-needle/ My only complaint about it is that the clip and casing are not great. The
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by eachro 6y ago
What I find fascinating is how people so often have this impulse to tear down things that others hold in high regard. Impulse might even be an understatement - it's almost a need. I wonder why that is. Ex: - "vim sucks! why don&#
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by eachro 6y ago
This is super minor but I really wish f-string formatting were the default behavior for `print` or that there were a `printf` command just for it. Typing that extra f character before the quotes is just annoying enough
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by eachro 6y ago
Linux is just 2% of the desktop market. Apple and Microsoft have good enough cloud storage + sync, so Dropbox needs to be even more compellling on macOS/windows to survive. Their Dropbox Transfer offering is a nice alternate revenue st
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by eachro 6y ago
Yup. He could have removed the entire sentence about Parler and the tweet would retain most of its meaning.
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by eachro 6y ago
Has the author looked at how GNNs are used in say predicting molecular properties[1] or molecule generation[2]? GNNs are the state of the art on those tasks and those problems are certainly much harder than the Cora/Citeseer/etc s
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by eachro 6y ago
This is a pretty fun thing to try to do with trading cards. Back in the day when I played Magic/Yugioh, I'd start with a janky common card and see how much I could turn it into. You have to exploit differences in how people value
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by eachro 6y ago
how does one study tactics?
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by eachro 6y ago
I can imagine a scenario where a politician who wants to pick a fight with Google uses some of the unflattering findings in the published work as supporting material for why Google needs to be regulated/fined/etc: "Google doe
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by eachro 6y ago
But in this scenario, shielding Google from liability is actually a primary concern given that Timnit is discussing ethics/bias. A paper on say novel transformer architecture, the lottery ticket hypothesis in a new setting, a new RL be
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by eachro 6y ago
I find it funny that the author is concerned about Scale being the kind of company people join for brand rather than "substance". He never mentions the biggest reason people join companies (esp. in SV): to get rich. It is true tha
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Intel to Acquire SigOpt to Scale AI Productivity and Performance(newsroom.intel.com)
1 points by eachro 6y ago|0 comments
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by eachro 6y ago
It sounds like a big hassle for you or your accountant.

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