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by hnuser355 8y ago
I read very little news except a print version of economist I’m subscribed to
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by hnuser355 8y ago
My question is if people are so good at math why are they doing machine learning, especially in practice? Some very good people investigating it theoretically. But the best young math professors that I’m personally friends with actually do
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by hnuser355 8y ago
To me, a one semester course is 150 hours (10 hours classroom and homework and home study per week, 15 weeks). If you study on your own, without lectures or office hours, I imagine it should be harder. I’m trying to read a good chunk of a m
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by hnuser355 8y ago
Maybe it’s cynical but I feel like halfassing your work is a very good tactic in some situations. Eg your manager halfassed the project idea, he halfasses spending the time to understand what’s going on, he halfasses setting the team up cor
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by hnuser355 8y ago
Haha, I agree. I always had arguments with my dad where he’d say you have to have a passion, etc. and I’d be like “Dude, I don’t care about that extra stuff. I just want money” Of course now I’ll play along since pretending to be passionate
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by hnuser355 8y ago
It’s normal because most people’s lives and normal obligations are difficult enough relative to their abilities that they have issue proactively managing these things. It’s actually a matter of life and death what you eat in many cases and
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by hnuser355 8y ago
For me Facebook messenger is the only part that matters. If I don’t know you enough to speak with you on there I will never see your posts, since I very rarely go on the main site. So political opinions from my grandma don’t really enter in
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by hnuser355 8y ago
So I got about two paragraphs in before saying “why did this weirdo write this” and turning it off
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by hnuser355 8y ago
No, there could be extra credit
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by hnuser355 8y ago
All my dorms did
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by hnuser355 8y ago
Perhaps it’s weird but I don’t seem to have this issue. But I generally drink 1 standard drink per day max (actually weighed out on my little scale cause I am a huge dork) and only 5x per week probably. I basically feel a bit happier and a
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by hnuser355 8y ago
My citation count went up 3x-fold
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by hnuser355 8y ago
I had a lot of anxiety about chores as a kid. As a child, I wanted to be taught very much to do them, but would get yelled at for being in the middle of things if I tried to insert myself. I guess that later my parents would randomly come u
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by hnuser355 8y ago
Woah I’ve never considered this idea
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by hnuser355 8y ago
? I know people at most schools I pay attention to getting paid to specifically work on that. In fact this is what probably one of the most famous applied mathematicians in certain engineering crowds (Ingrid Daubechies) is working on for he
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by hnuser355 8y ago
Hmm, I read a book a few months ago where the author spent a lot of time discussing the intellectual background for Silicon Valley and why he thought these guys ruined journalism and probably lot of other stuff. It was called “World Without
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by hnuser355 8y ago
Frankly my opinion on the majority of religious people I’ve met is that they aren’t actually religious and just want a club that encourages them to be a bit nicer, bit more prudent, and where people are a bit more friendly. Sometimes I worr
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by hnuser355 8y ago
If someone is negative I usually hold them to a higher standard (and correspondingly think them dumber for fixed intelligence) in many cases. If you’re wrong but positive at least you’re helping to be in a good mood and bring up people arou
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by hnuser355 8y ago
Sorry it was a joke :)
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by hnuser355 8y ago
We were looking for someone to do basic web dev for us, but when our leading candidate failed to even derive KKT conditions from scratch in our interview we simply had to eject him from the candidate pool
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by hnuser355 8y ago
Not all parents realize this second thing unfortunately
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by hnuser355 8y ago
This last part can be very true in some circumstances, unfortunately
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by hnuser355 8y ago
If you care about anything that runs on a computer, linear algebra is one of the best maths.
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by hnuser355 8y ago
Montaigne essays is a strong recommend from me but I only read the first book
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by hnuser355 8y ago
Who could have seen that coming
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by hnuser355 8y ago
This is an astounding quotation
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by hnuser355 8y ago
I don’t know why everyone cares about machine learning so much. Frankly there seem to be so many prerequisites to knowing what goes on, when I imagine a software developer could just get better at java and then learn about parallel code or
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by hnuser355 8y ago
most (all? Idk) corporate office workers are not in the union. People who drive around putting boxes in peoples houses and climbing poles are in the union.
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by hnuser355 8y ago
My understanding is that most labs cite themselves over and over in general, but perhaps this is more advanced.
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by hnuser355 8y ago
Frankly I don’t understand how people with access to the rituals, writings, scripture etc of such a complex religion end up with a worldview of “Thing I like - God. Thing I don’t like - devil”. A typical toddler or infant will probably arri

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