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by imh 8y ago
I'd bet the typical mortgage interest is also above minimum wage. Google says San Francisco's median house price is 1.61M. If 80% of that is a mortgage and it's at 4.25%, that comes out to about $55k in interest alone during
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by imh 8y ago
Any specific fun recommendations for a similar target audience as OP?
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by imh 8y ago
>4) If you put a frozen pizza in a cold oven it will always be burnt because by the time the inside is cooked the outside has become overcooked and burnt This seems backwards. The hotter the oven, the less time for the heat to diffuse in
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by imh 8y ago
Rogue Legacy was fun.
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by imh 8y ago
Look up maximum likelihood estimation [0] and look up newton's method[1]. Take the log likelihood of your data and find the parameters which maximize it. If that doesn't make sense, read up on numerical optimization. [0] https:&#
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by imh 8y ago
> While the disclosures weren’t there in the earliest stage, the company has said since the beginning that it intended to add them. > In my test call, I attempt to get Google Assistant to repeat that bit — it’s easy enough to not hear
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by imh 8y ago
The connection between consciousness and quantum mechanics is in the same realm as chemtrails and homeopathy.
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by imh 8y ago
> And while many tiger cubs run the gantlet and emerge as academic gladiators, on average, children subjected to high-pressure parenting actually tend to do worse in school.
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by imh 8y ago
I'm sorry you read that into my comment, but that's not what I meant to imply. I simply meant that there's a balance to keep in mind when making rules.
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by imh 8y ago
> There are several factors which tend to sprout normalization of deviance: > First and foremost is the attitude that rules are stupid and/or inefficient. This is a great reason why to try your hardest to avoid implementing stupi
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by imh 8y ago
I love this paper. The further I get in my ML/stats career, the more relevant these lessons are. I would recommend anyone interested in building long lived ML products to read this.
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by imh 8y ago
One factor that the framework makes worse is linking and tabs. The further everything goes towards single page apps, the harder it is to bookmark things or open them in new tabs. The frameworks people use to make single page apps usually co
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by imh 8y ago
Python 3's string formatting is pretty useful.
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by imh 8y ago
You don't need the IO or state monads in other languages, but that's not the only useful monad. Applicative functors with their own do notation are pretty cool too.
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by imh 8y ago
I wonder if this discrimination is exacerbated in silicon valley where job tenures are so short and perks are so good. If on average, you keep employees for two years and offer 6-12 month parental leave, then an employee who uses it gets pa
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by imh 8y ago
>I couldn’t find him on Facebook or Twitter. The man seemed to have vanished. What a time we live in. The social internet is weird. It's the source of stuff like this article's outrage, and if you aren't on it, you're
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by imh 8y ago
Predicting things and forecasting is an enormous part of ML and stats. Especially in the more statistical side of the community, there are very principled effective ways to do this, even in the presence of weird outliers like the germany&#x
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by imh 8y ago
Uncertainty and randomness are absolutely things that models take into consideration. That's the statistical part of statistical modeling. If unpredictability were a deal breaker, we wouldn't be able to model coin flips.
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by imh 8y ago
I love seeing Cython usage. Python is cool, but as a scientific language, its slowness gets in the way sometimes. Particularly when you have control flow with funny shapes, so it is hard to just apply multipurpose vectorized functions. In m
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by imh 8y ago
Pro of startups: - Get responsibilities you couldn't get at a big company. Don't have a graduate degree in underwater basketweaving? Wearing many hats at a start up means you might get to do some basketweaving anyways. A few years
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by imh 8y ago
I really love that this getting started guide is "do lots of studying and practice, here are the canonical textbooks, papers, conferences, tools, and problems" instead of "spend a few hours on this superficial toy problem.&qu
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by imh 8y ago
Search and recommendation is so interesting to me. The goal of it is fuzzy. If I search "pho" then after the highly reviewed pho places, how might you decide between really poorly reviewed pho places and really highly reviewed ram
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by imh 8y ago
Youtube is the weirdest one for me. I still don't get it, even though I'm already clearly wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by imh 8y ago
Start with Rubin. Potential outcomes are more grounded and concretely interpretable. The epistemology is simple and won't get in your way, if you're inclined to dwell on those things. It also has the huge wealth of well developed
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by imh 8y ago
FYI This post is about deep learning. It could be the case that neural networks stop getting so much hype soon, but the biggest driver of the current "AI" (ugh I hate the term) boom is the fact that everything happens on computers
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by imh 8y ago
It's the difference between Tesla's capital A "Autopilot" product and the english word lower case a "autopilot." The language doesn't define Autopilot, but it does define autopilot, like it doesn't de
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by imh 8y ago
Those things are nothing alike. Some are facts that can be checked, others are definitions. If people all agree that the sun won't come up tomorrow, it's still coming up. If people all agree to start using a word in a new way, the
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by imh 8y ago
Oh cool. TIL, thanks. Seems like a kinda perfect analogy then.
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by imh 8y ago
Everything I buy except for maybe my mortgage, I decide to buy it and expect that within moments the payment will go through. I expect it to be cash-like in ease and quickness. For a while bitcoin looked to be headed that way, but no longer
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by imh 8y ago
This is interesting since it takes the legal status of non-privacy while being in public to the logical extreme. The fact people find it weird just shows the problem with the law more clearly.

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