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by he11ow 6y ago
You may want to consider the possibility that the poor hit rate could be a cause not of your inferior hiring skills, but due to the fact that you are looking for a rare combination of skills, for a job that doesn't sound very appealing
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Natural Language Processing in Investment Companies(towardsdatascience.com)
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by he11ow 6y ago
It depends where you fall between 'wanting to do something with models like GPT-2' and 'wanting to understand where we are at with NLP'. If it's the first, you should look at HuggingFace, which package transfer lear
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by he11ow 6y ago
You're right, was looking at a different dataset. The correct number is 20%
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by he11ow 6y ago
This depends on which stock index you're looking at. If it's the S&P 500, it's a cap-weighted index. 20% is made up of 5 companies: Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Alphabet and Facebook [0]. These 5 companies are doing, by and
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by he11ow 6y ago
This. For Algebra, look for Topics in Algebra by Herstein. It reads beautifully, and the problems at the end of each chapters are very good at solidifying the knowledge.
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Ask HN: Can you recommend Sci-Fi books/stories?
1 points by he11ow 6y ago|2 comments
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What's the end goal for which you feel you need to get good at social media? The thing to consider about "social media" is it's a term that's taken out of the pages of 1984, like the Ministry of Peace. It's soc
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by he11ow 7y ago
Yes, there's a book called 'The Pyramid Principle', written by Barbara Minto. It's the foundation for good practices in management consulting, and your hear about it a lot in business writing. It reads very much like a
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by he11ow 7y ago
Fair point, I was deliberating between the two: I think shyness is the manifestation of introversion in this particular case. Meaning that, if you're in a room full of people, the introvert would hate the idea of networking whereas the
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by he11ow 7y ago
As a general personal observation, tech folks seem to be more comfortable listing skills than talking about the their professional value-add. I thought this was true even twenty years ago when there was a lot less of the self-promotion. You
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LinkedIn networking when you're an introvert(medium.com)
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by he11ow 7y ago
I really like this question. If I'm honest, it rarely happens that I don't finish stuff. But this wasn't some magical switch that happened overnight. Rather, a bunch of stuff, so this question kind of gives me an opportunity
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by he11ow 7y ago
Reliable data on asymptomatic cases. The models we have at the moment are trying to fit parameters based on the known data, but of the known data, the only reliable one is the death rate. So there are a lot of degrees of freedom here with r
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Ask HN: How have your reading habits changed recently?
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by he11ow 7y ago
The virus doesn't care that you're wealthy. And the treatment we currently have isn't so much treatment as helping one breathe under diminished lung capacity and hoping for the best, money again seems of little help. What doe
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by he11ow 7y ago
I don't think your problem is that it's not open-source. Your problem is marketing and positioning. For one thing, the copy on the website is not commercially oriented at all. I sense your earnestness, but copy needs to be clear a
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by he11ow 7y ago
I think that if someone told me that there's a 99.8% chance I've won $5 million, I would have pretty much assumed I just became rich. And the stakes here are not money, but actually life. That cheers me up. I am worried for the el
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by he11ow 7y ago
Hi, would be happy to chat, do feel free to reach out to vered at fintext.io
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by he11ow 7y ago
Excel. In a very profound way it aligns with how humans naturally think. This is far beyond the concepts of UX/UI. It's like someone invents the pencil, and it becomes so ubiquitous you stop thinking about it as a tool that didn&#
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by he11ow 7y ago
I'd start with Python. With the exception of (3), all the other resources you've mentioned are - to me - about getting conceptually better at developing. Mentioning your background does help, actually. I'd recommend 'Au
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Learn Natural Language Processing the practical way(towardsdatascience.com)
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by he11ow 7y ago
This is not intending to minimize in the slightest the amazing work that Jeremy does - I am a huge fan. But Fast.ai has TWO co-founders, and somehow, Rachel doesn't seem to get any credit in these discussions (not the book specifically
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by he11ow 7y ago
It's been a long long time since I've interviewed for a developer job, and unless anything wildly radical happens, unlikely to happen ever again. BUT... At the time I recall that what worked very well was that I'd start with
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by he11ow 7y ago
Your pain really comes across. I don't know that cool new tech is the way value is created. Airbnb's first 'tech' was an Excel spreadsheet. Observe, on the one hand, the person recently open-sourcing the e-commerce platf
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by he11ow 7y ago
As long as you're prepared to lose all these customers, and take the risk of whatever bad rep it causes, sure. When you weigh the pros and cons, it's better to get the emotional maths right: Factoring in just the disappointment of
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by he11ow 7y ago
Wow, the responses to this thread are such an excellent marker for skin colour. I don't know the Google stats, but as far as labeling black women as male, Amazon and IBM get it wrong 30% of the time. Microsoft errs in 21% of test case
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by he11ow 7y ago
One thing that's important, I think, is to recognize in the moment that you're getting upset, that in that moment right there, it's not the design itself that's causing you pain, but your reaction to it. It's not go
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Is business-launching a basic skill now?(medium.com)
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by he11ow 7y ago
You can do all of this without a PhD. I'd go a step further and say that a PhD is probably orthogonal to most if not all of these goals: 1. With PhD you drill deep into a niche. By the time you're done, if a dozen people in the wo

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