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by guard0g 5y ago
Maybe great for research, but not very useful for application at inference time.
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by guard0g 5y ago
TLDR, gravity is a conservative force, and we are at the momentarily weightless stage.
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by guard0g 5y ago
My daughter is going to love this...but I suspect MIT psets may evolve from solving the questions to devising automated methods (like this) to solve them
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by guard0g 5y ago
Labor costs are probably the major reason why US chip firms went fabless in the past few decades. Chip production in the lower 48 makes rational sense for national security but not necessarily economic sense. The higher labor costs will be
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by guard0g 5y ago
Thanks. This applies perfectly to the current organization I consult for with their newly spun up ML team.
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by guard0g 5y ago
When I was young and desperate for $ to survive (I couldn't even afford a can of Pepsi), I found that I could force myself to learn something I had no interest in or hated but was useful to where I wanted to be. Perhaps you just need t
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by guard0g 5y ago
Get a full time job, make friends and treat everyone with respect, work hard and do a kickass job in something essential for the company (that other companies also need), then quit and offer to consult for them. They’re your first client, w
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Shocking Statistics About College Graduation Rates(forbes.com)
2 points by guard0g 5y ago|0 comments
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by guard0g 5y ago
Too much effort on racial equality in the admissions process, too little on ensuring success in college, graduation and beyond. My top 10 college was hyper focused on diversity admissions, but the graduation rate of the under represented po
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Effect Sizes: Why Significance Alone Is Not Enough (2018)(datascienceblog.net)
1 points by guard0g 5y ago|0 comments
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by guard0g 5y ago
no need to tip the driver, yay!
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by guard0g 5y ago
This is the best quote I've seen in a while: "Do machine learning like the great engineer you are, not like the great machine learning expert you aren't."
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by guard0g 5y ago
Wasn't there a similar project that came out several years ago based on ultrasonic range sensors? https://github.com/AssistiveLabs/SynthSense
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Must read for many of our current events and societal debate(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by guard0g 5y ago|0 comments
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by guard0g 5y ago
But they fit perfectly into a conference name-tag badge holder!
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Hero – HeathKit's Robot from the 1980's(robotworkshop.com)
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by guard0g 5y ago
Nextcloud is an open-source Dropbox-like system with clients for multiple OS and decent security.
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by guard0g 5y ago
I wonder if there is a guide specifically explaining the mathematics of quantum mechanics & M-theory, for us mathematicians with free time.
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by guard0g 5y ago
There's a "mirror my video" setting. https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2020/04/how-to-reverse-mir...
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by guard0g 5y ago
It's a functionallity in zoom, I believe.
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by guard0g 5y ago
Going the same way as many other non-profits (like colleges and universities), which pursue for-profit incentives while building bloat. After all, what could go wrong with spending $50 million to build out marketing that can increase revenu
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by guard0g 5y ago
Encouraging students to take coding classes is great, but maybe not at the expense of expanding horizons and knowledge of other cultures around the world. Learning a foreign language conveys many benefits beyond just the language itself.
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by guard0g 5y ago
Gifted students will always have AOPS, which my daughter has been doing since 5th grade. Legislating math deceleration is an attempt to fix the symptom (math inequity) but not the cause (likely cultural attitudes and societal expectations).
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by guard0g 5y ago
Won a pitch contest a while back with this cheeky presentation that aligns with the advice in the article: https://www.slideshare.net/guard0g/deeprem
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by guard0g 5y ago
Nowadays RL and Gaussian processes are very popular on the trading side, as is applying attention-based NLP techniques for pattern recognition. If you are interested in stochastic calculus and convex strategies, John Hull's "Optio
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Ask HN: Blog post about Stanford bad for undergrad entrepreneurs?
1 points by guard0g 5y ago|0 comments
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by guard0g 5y ago
Don’t waste your time or money on a CFA, unless you want a slow buy-side job or aim to become a financial advisor. The curriculum is out-of-date and in some parts wrong. It’s also missing the ‘tech’ in fin-tech. You are better off self-stud
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by guard0g 6y ago
it was a matter of time
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Weight Friction for Neural Networks(arxiv.org)
1 points by guard0g 7y ago|0 comments
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by guard0g 8y ago
When I was in investment banking, it was more like 727 (7am-2am, 7 days/week).

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