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by hongloumeng 4y ago
I agree that a real name policy would help remove the bots and anonymous hate speech. But there is plenty of non-anonymous hate speech that still make Twitter toxic. Those people would have an easier time harassing other people if they kn
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by hongloumeng 4y ago
I agree that a real name policy would help remove the bots and anonymous hate speech. But there is plenty of non-anonymous hate speech that still make Twitter toxic. The ad-revenue model relies on attention, and attention thrives on memes
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by hongloumeng 4y ago
Not too long ago in China, consumers preferred duck eggs with red tinted yolks. Market vendors would crack off the top half of an egg and display its yolk, and consumers thought the redder the better. So, of course, farmers started feeding
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by hongloumeng 4y ago
I'm a professor of machine learning and I also work for a large tech company. I've worked for startups in the past. My PhD is in stats. Large tech companies hire economists. Go to Linkedin and search "economist Amazon&quot
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by hongloumeng 5y ago
Some people want to own houses they can afford and don't hate. Some people want to be present and flexible for their children. Deal with it.
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by hongloumeng 5y ago
All these comments about a story about an undergrad with a chip on his shoulder analyzing data he PULLED OFF OF SOCIAL MEDIA. I suppose, despite the provenance of the data, that causal inferences taken on this data are valid because (1) he
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by hongloumeng 5y ago
If they use data science to make content decisions, and algorithms to recommend content, is that not a tech company?
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by hongloumeng 6y ago
I guess. But we've ramped up uncertainty, people are afraid, and people who have been considering coming to the US will now go elsewhere.
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by hongloumeng 7y ago
This account seems exaggerated. Forced late-term abortions in China were certainly a real thing, and the value of the life of a stranger is on par with that of livestock. However, guns are rarely seen in everyday life in China. This is es
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by hongloumeng 10y ago
As a company, in an industry where IP and secrets are so important, what is their motivation for open sourcing it?
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by hongloumeng 10y ago
I hate when people act as though some of these opinions are just a different point of view on the correct way to fold a shirt. Sam Altman may "strongly disagree with" with certain ideas; other people feel "strongly feel exis
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by hongloumeng 10y ago
"Digital Nomad" is not the keyword you are looking for. The Digital Nomad narrative targets individuals who are trying to escape the prototypical rat race, so most of the focus is on what can be done with a small set of technical
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by hongloumeng 10y ago
I don't think it is quite a long con. Johnny might seem to be exploiting her my Western norms of social relationships. But if he has turned her into a patron of sorts, it is still out in the open, and he might sincerely care for her.
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Ask HN: Who is doing causal inference in industry?
2 points by hongloumeng 10y ago|0 comments
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by hongloumeng 10y ago
I'm a machine learning and have done work with Bayesian methods for modeling dynamic systems. I've been considering jumping into a synthetic biology company in industry. I've been searching for statistics and machine learnin