eachro

18 ms·

211.
by eachro 9y ago
Eh, but if you've taken a machine learning course, you should have seen the notion of false positive/false negative when you cover any kind of classification technique.
212.
by eachro 9y ago
Yea, and my point was that this can be expensive regardless of the semantics of whether or not architectural degrees of freedom are hyperparameters.
213.
by eachro 9y ago
Hyperparameter optimization for neural networks can be insanely expensive though[1], to the point where there are even startups (e.g: SigOpt) that do this. [1] https://twitter.com/beenwrekt/status/96126359967415091
214.
by eachro 9y ago
Super curious, what kind of problems do you mean when you say "signal recovery over the action of compact groups"?
215.
by eachro 9y ago
I'm not really sure why you seem to be so antagonized by my statements. I am not making any moral judgement on people. I am not saying anything about this nurture/nature debate. All I'm saying is that in the end you can only
216.
by eachro 9y ago
"We should take away from this exactly what is true, not what is motivational. Our whole problem lately is that we've been doing the opposite. These things are bigger than you and me and the person next door and there are far more
217.
by eachro 9y ago
You bring up a good point about talent. With chess, math, music, there are objective measures in how "talented" the person is. You can say person X is performing above their grade level, or person X is in the top Zth percentile of
218.
by eachro 9y ago
This is what people should take away from this, not that there might always be someone out there better than you no matter what. In the end, you can only control your own circumstances so do your best, prepare/train for whatever it is
219.
by eachro 9y ago
Child prodigies are rare by definition though. Whether or not you've heard of them, I think, is more a function of what media chooses to shine a spotlight on. On the top of my head I'd probably say Chistopher Paolini( https:/
220.
by eachro 9y ago
I similarly have no real intention to drive for my own sake or own a car, but since I do have a license I can be called on to do things for friends and family - moving/dropping or picking someone up at the airport/getting grocerti
221.
by eachro 9y ago
That is a fair point. Back maybe 20 or 30 years ago, the average person would bring their camera on vacations and that was probably the extent of it. But it's a bit different now that most people carry a camera in their pocket so these
222.
by eachro 9y ago
This seemslike a reasonable idea but then you get into the hairy situation of government endorsing different biases. You can bet that a conservative pres/congress is going to push public funding towards more conservative sources and li
223.
by eachro 9y ago
Venmo got its initial traction through college students. I doubt most college students had a paypal account to begin with.
224.
by eachro 9y ago
What makes this off topic?
225.
by eachro 9y ago
theoretical computer scientist
226.
by eachro 9y ago
Would love to hear people's thoughts on this. I don't have the mathematical background to understand this work.
227.
by eachro 9y ago
What is your domain?
228.
by eachro 9y ago
Pinterest is huge for women. I've seen tons of my female friends use it for wedding planning, home decoration, recipes, fashion/outfits, etc.
229.
by eachro 9y ago
Oh there's no question that tree based methods are effective - random forests/gradient boosted trees routinely win kaggle competitions. But I was more referring to how random forests is learnable in a day, whereas deep learning wo
230.
by eachro 9y ago
Random Forests is not really at all in the same class of depth(no pun intended) as the other models you've mentioned; if you understand decision trees, random forests are just a way of combining independently trained decision trees tha
231.
by eachro 10y ago
At this point I have no idea which Google chat client is which. A few years ago I remember having Google Talk on my android phone. Then after some random update the application disappeared from my phone and was replaced with hangouts. Now i
232.
by eachro 10y ago
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell
233.
by eachro 10y ago
Yup. I've also found that I check FB less often using the mobile site, which has also been good.
234.
by eachro 10y ago
Donate to the ACLU. EDIT: link https://action.aclu.org/donate-aclu
235.
by eachro 10y ago
A quote I've always liked that echos a lot of your message: "Go slow to go fast". I can't remember where I heard it first, but I think it's great advice.
236.
by eachro 10y ago
Who embodies both(builder + schmoozer)? Surely they exist right?
237.
by eachro 10y ago
Can someone give me some context? Who is rachelbythebay? I gather she is probably someone well known for her writing on software, tech culture, etc in the HN community, but I am not that immersed in the community(hence my ignorance). Thanks
238.
by eachro 10y ago
Focus on learning and self improvement. Everything else will naturally fall into place.
239.
by eachro 10y ago
Replace 'bet' with 'choice.' It's the same message.
240.
by eachro 10y ago
Why is anyone even still sticking around voluntarily? There is no chance of a lucrative exit and the company will probably die off on its own within 1-2 years.

More ›