imh

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by imh 10y ago
"...?" should have decent coverage.
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by imh 10y ago
Can I ask what you do for a living?
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by imh 10y ago
Cool! Thanks for the clarification!
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by imh 10y ago
When you say equal for 1, do you mean equal under a simple "their representations match" sense, or under something more abstract?
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by imh 10y ago
The best advice I've read makes it feel much less like a skill. Do your homework and decide what price you would walk away from. It's easy to raise the price you would walk away from by having multiple offers, and once you've
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by imh 10y ago
>The question then boils down to how much of the variation in negotiated offers can be attributed to variation value as opposed to variation in negotiating skills. I think this covers most of it, but it all feels like it's only one
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by imh 10y ago
I think that's fantastic. Sorry if it came out as if I was against the article. I think articles like these help everyone and that's a great thing. I was just frustrated at the (possibly perceived) tone in that paragraph (and othe
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by imh 10y ago
I don't know why, but I get really frustrated at the negative sentiment around and apologetics for negotiation. >I’m the first to admit that negotiation is stupid. It’s a practice that inherently benefits those who are good at it, a
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by imh 10y ago
This prompted me to try to understand what a co-op really is. I read the wikipedia page, and still don't really get what keeps it separate from a regular business, except for ideals. At a co-op like this, they would still need programm
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by imh 10y ago
I'm working on that! Long story short, it's hard. Most functions are big ones, and knowing where to look in the infinite set of functions is a big challenge. But it's a super fun problem :-)
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by imh 10y ago
As an example, concretely I might have a list of people's heights and ages. I can attempt to fit a line to match heights as a function of age. Abstractly, I might have a list of numbers x and y. I can attempt to fit a line to them too.
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by imh 10y ago
They all look interesting. Many years ago, netflix did the same. It recommended me a bunch of movies that seemed really interesting and I liked a ton of them, but these days netflix is a low bar. I'd bet they could do a great job, bu
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by imh 10y ago
You could say it more formally as, "Many variables correlated to outcomes you want are not causes of those outcomes. When you intervene and change those variables, they cease to be correlated to the outcomes," but it's a bit
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by imh 10y ago
I don't like the housing prices. I would love to move somewhere I could afford a house with a nice yard, instead of my little condo. But I don't know anywhere else I can have the career security as a data scientist that I have her
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by imh 10y ago
>Incentivize for the behavior you want. This isn't as straightforward as it seems. It's kind of like that old quote, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." If the behavior you want is there
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by imh 10y ago
>At the time [2011], the naysayers thought coding was a weird, fringe activity for computer-science geeks. Is this at all true?
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by imh 10y ago
Many young-ish people live in 1 bedroom apartments they own, while planning to sell it eventually for a multiple room place they can raise a family in. If there is a permanent downturn, it screws them.
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by imh 10y ago
Where is anyone proposing just looking at vast amounts of data? With certain kinds of data, you can still learn causal effects observationally, like in econometrics. That's the closest I can find in this discussion. I mean, you're
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by imh 10y ago
I think you misread me completely. I am not saying that it's hard, but this is the best we can do, so we have to do it. I'm saying it's hard, but it turns out to be worth doing despite that. It just turns out that using the
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by imh 10y ago
My background is physics, and I used to think that, but now working as a data scientist that has to deal with human data, I've come to think the opposite. The signal to noise ratio in human data is humongous, nothing is static, and the
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by imh 10y ago
I think the whole idea here is frightening and unjust. We are supposed to give all people equal rights. What people might do is irrelevant. A person whose demographic/conditional expectation is highly criminal should be given an equal
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by imh 10y ago
21% of women sending a message first seems surprising. I only skimmed the paper, but it doesn't seem like they removed bots from their data. Back when I was single, the vast majority of women messaging first were bots.
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by imh 10y ago
I'd call it independence.
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by imh 10y ago
Wouldn't it be bad for the same reason that it's bad for residential? Residentially, it feels unfair to get priced out of your home due to forces outside your control. I can't help feeling bad for a local mom and pop store ge
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by imh 10y ago
It's great to mention github. Since you point out to be careful that some software has licenses, it is probably worth noting that software without a license means it reserves all rights [0]. No license != no copyright. [0] https:&#x2F
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by imh 10y ago
>AWS is a data center of supercomputers How the hell was this published?
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by imh 10y ago
I really hope that BNNS is pronounced "bananas." But more substantially, I'm not totally convinced neural nets have quite as well defined required subroutines yet. Because of backprop, it's not just about what the blocks
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by imh 10y ago
Would we let a doctor murder a random healthy person to harvest organs to save ten lives? When we talk about weighing alternatives, it's like you say: It won't save lives in all cases, but it will decrease the loss of innocent liv
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by imh 10y ago
The whole utilitarian "well fewer people died" ignores the distinction between me driving recklessly and killing myself, and me driving recklessly and killing someone else. Blame matters. If we can decrease the negative impact on
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by imh 10y ago
This misunderstanding is kind of the core breakdown in these conversations. People don't agree on what the problem is. Is the issue about equal pay, or about equal pay for equal work? In hiring terms, is it about equal hiring or equal

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