erikbern

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   by erikbern 10y ago

   There's a similar argument for why Goldbach's conjecture* might just be a statistical fluke. I remember realizing this in high school and deriving the probability – alas it's not a novel idea and Wikipedia has a great summary
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   by erikbern 11y ago

   let me fix
3. 33.▲
   by erikbern 11y ago

   (author here) not sure what happened, but the site is up again.
4. 34.▲
   by erikbern 11y ago

   > Statistical power is simply the likelihood that the difference you’ve detected during your experiment actually reflects a difference in the real world. This seems incorrect to me. Isn't statistical power the likelihood that the nu
5. 35.▲
   by erikbern 11y ago

   This assumes there's a fixed demand for legal help. You might as well envision that the efficiency gains cause a huge drop in legal costs which unlocks a huge latent demand. For instance software engineers are probably 10x more efficie
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   by erikbern 11y ago

   I think the nan issue you are referring to was caused by some weird stuff with Bazel. I put together an AMI in virginia: ami-cf5028a5 and if you have a masochistic streak, here are the steps to do it yourself: https://gist.github
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   by erikbern 11y ago

   I doubt this has much to do with traffic. It can be explained by another observation: on average you spend more time in slow lanes. The checkout at a supermarket has the same phenomenon. Let's say with 50% probability you choose a line
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   by erikbern 12y ago

   I think that's pretty useful approach. It's kind of similar to Hinton's latest work on model compression: http://www.ttic.edu/dl/dark14.pdf The problem with deep models is when you end up having more tha
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   by erikbern 12y ago

   Thanks for the comment. I'm definitely happy to admit I have very limited understanding of computer chess and I think the likelihood of stumbling upon a new approach to chess engines is close to zero. That being said, I'm not conv
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    by erikbern 12y ago

    Sunfish is really impressive work. From my (brief) understanding of Sunfish, the evaluation function is essentially equivalent to a hardcoded 1 layer network in Deep Pink. You're right that everything else equal, a better evaluation fu
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    by erikbern 14y ago

    We've built Luigi at Spotify to solve a lot of similar problems: https://github.com/spotify/luigi Might be worth checking out if you are building large data flows. We probably run 10k Luigi "tasks" every day, of which the majority is Hado