followmeon

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by followmeon 9y ago
> But there's no computation happening to it. It's static. There are three possible answers to this: The binary string itself is a form of computation, with 1's being upwards fluctuation and 0's being downwards fluctu
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by followmeon 9y ago
If our reality consists of mathematical programs and the multiverse theory holds, then the theory of everything is a simple incrementing binary counter. Every possible binary string is ran on a Turing machine in a different universe. The ha
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by followmeon 9y ago
It seems to me you were given three jobs: database admin, data engineer, and data scientist. When I am talking about automated data cleaning, I am talking more about preprocessing text, dealing with missing variables, discarding duplicates,
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by followmeon 9y ago
Yes, counterfactual inference is relevant to this. But it is not so much about answering "what would have happened if?", but more about control theory and feedback loops: Your model never being a static function, but a node inside
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by followmeon 9y ago
Dirty data is not as much as a problem for me than human-biased data. Dirty data engineering, like modeling, will soon be largely automated. Let's say you are predicting store sales. You create a feature that holds the store sales of o
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by followmeon 9y ago
Next it'd be interesting to see Python 2k vs. Python 3+. My own experience tells me that the majority of top Kagglers still use Python 2k, despite Kaggle Kernels being Python 3+ exclusively. I also am quite amazed with the predominant
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by followmeon 9y ago
One man's hate symbol is another man's freedom of expression. https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/pepe-t... If Twitter really bans Pepe the Frog I expect a huge backlash. Whatever