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by gillesjacobs 7y ago
OP makes highly dubious claims and does not pass a basic smell test: ALL CLAIMS MADE ARE DUBIOUS: Implementing 130+ papers in 7 months is highly implausible. This would require: - Insane productivity. - Implausible access to pricing and new
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by gillesjacobs 7y ago
I also find it highly unlikely anyone is able to implement 130+ papers in 7 months. This would require insane productivity, implausible access to pricing and news data resources (which are often not freely available) and expertise in machin
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by gillesjacobs 7y ago
Exactly, I also find it extremely dubious a "Tier 1 professional quant trader" implemented 130+ papers in 7 months. This means obtaining the same data, reproducing feature engineering and hyperparameters. Implementing learning alg
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Robots and AI Threaten to Mediate Disputes Better Than Lawyers(medium.com)
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The article generalizes and remains superficial in what it asserts. "AI that fails" currently will improve in the future and is currently being mitigated in use. Then there's the toothless "dumbed down" section:
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A Framework for Creating Business Value with AI(medium.com)
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Particle Filter: A Hero in the World of Non-Linearity and Non-Gaussian(towardsdatascience.com)
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by gillesjacobs 7y ago
While you can work unbothered in these late night hours same as morning hours, I did personally find greater benefit in working in the morning over late at night: opening hours of shops, sports facilities, etc. are more convenient. You&#x27
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by gillesjacobs 7y ago
Adrenal fatigue is indeed pseudoscience. There is no scientific basis for the existence of adrenal fatigue, and the term should not be confused with a number of actual forms of adrenal dysfunction such as adrenal insufficiency or Addison&#x
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by gillesjacobs 7y ago
Here is the researcher's visualization of the near-infrared flaring activity: https://twitter.com/i/status/1160368687590727680
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by gillesjacobs 7y ago
I have been in similar circumstances at my university where critical servers were made inaccesible during ongoing research. So I understand Dr. Povey's frustration first-hand, but breaking into the building (and the protest) was an esc
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by gillesjacobs 7y ago
Talking about company weaknesses and difficulties the new employee might experience before signing might sound noble. It can be a sign of an open and transparent employer if it is not a cop-out for improving work-life balance and cultivatin
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by gillesjacobs 7y ago
The blog post does not include the original analysis. You can find the full study here: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903856116 PNAS is a highly regarded and high impact journal with stringent peer review. Scepticism i
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by gillesjacobs 7y ago
Here is the original paper: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903856116 They use multinomial regression analysis with several county-level socioeconomic factors. It looks like a solid study that shows no statisticly valid
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by gillesjacobs 7y ago
My scouting group was fond of "dot-arrow" droppings. We were dropped blindfolded in the woods and only given a piece of paper with arrow symbols on it indicating the turns to take on the route. Of course we missed turns and got lo
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by gillesjacobs 7y ago
In Western Europe, general practitioners are instructed to prescribe relaxation and not working starting with 3 months up to 6 or 7 months. Six months of non-activity seems to be the average recovery period prescribed after burnout. However
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by gillesjacobs 7y ago
You are right in that lack of sleep is never healthy. It also has a bidirectional relation with chronic stress: lack of sleep can decrease performance and increase stress. And insomnia and sleep issues are a symptom of chronic stress. Insom
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by gillesjacobs 7y ago
You're assuming that continued high stress is enough to induce burnout. What causes burnout requires high stress but also a lack of reward and relaxation, and a mismatch in personal values. Great leaders probably do not suffer from sel
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by gillesjacobs 7y ago
Nice work! Would be nice if the tooling could be open sourced so it can be applied to any area of interest.
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by gillesjacobs 8y ago
This is very similar to Andrew Ng's Deep Learning Specialization course [1]. If you found this blog post enjoyable be sure to check it out. It is a great course and the intuitions behind NNs are explained very clearly. 1. https:/
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by gillesjacobs 8y ago
The news article is misrepresenting several things: 1) Obviously, Twitter is not representative of the whole internet and its users. Twitter has a particularly activistic base, so it's no wonder "happiness" went down after Tr
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by gillesjacobs 8y ago
I am doing a PhD in natural language processing coming from an undergrad study Literature and Linguistics, and I can relate. I gave up on the humanities very early on because of the blind activism in research and the classroom at the cost o
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by gillesjacobs 8y ago
I studied Spanish and English literature and linguistics undergrad in W.Europe. I made the conscience choice to move into STEM during my postgrads. Now I am pursuing a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning. The tuition fee
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by gillesjacobs 8y ago
The field of Information Retrieval has largely moved to multi-modal retrieval (search across video, audio, text), linked data, question-answering and so on. But document retrieval (classic search as you describe it) is not a hot topic anymo
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by gillesjacobs 8y ago
Of course many services exist for other languages too. I helped research and implement aspect-based sentiment analysis systems for Dutch customer feedback. It is almost the exact same task OP implemented but for Dutch. The project was acade
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The Logic of US Foreign Policy Visualized(swprs.org)
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