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by jaredtn 6y ago
Eh, if I wanted bankrupt a trading account by playing a reliably bad strategy, I'd buy deep out-of-the-money options expiring this Friday. The expected value is $0 (neither positive nor negative), but they have only a miniscule probabi
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by jaredtn 6y ago
Two counterarguments: 1) Trading fees. If the house takes a cut of 0.1% on every transaction, then on average those who trade more lose more money. 2) Risk/reward tradeoff. If you buy deep out-of-the-money options, you might have a 5%
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by jaredtn 7y ago
I'm currently enrolled in Georgia Tech's OMSCS program - http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/ . 2-3 years of part-time work for $7000, and it's a fully accredited degree with no distinction from the on-campus degree.
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by jaredtn 7y ago
I would love to understand the dynamic better, so please correct me here or chime in. Tech is has one of the best combinations of (lucrative + meritocratic) I've seen. Fields that pay similarly or better (law, medicine, investment bank
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by jaredtn 7y ago
I recently released an open-source framework for machine learning debugging. Proper discipline can be the difference between wild success and a your project slowly sinking, like a stone to the bottom of a river. Why? Because a customer adop
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by jaredtn 7y ago
Fantastically put! Just as periodic wildfires are necessary to clear the flammable brush and enable new growth, recessions will trim the fat and close down our least successful businesses. This creates more resources to pour into stable, or
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by jaredtn 7y ago
It’s the potential for exponential growth. The flu and world hunger are mostly known, contained quantities. While there’s a low probability that the coronavirus will become a pandemic, there is an extremely high downside if that happens. Th
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by jaredtn 7y ago
I don’t see the problem here. Businesses are choosing a more convenient way to manage cash flow, completely electronic. It eliminates many problems with cashiers stealing from the register and susceptibility to robbery. It’s a rare person i
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by jaredtn 7y ago
Once you put deep learning in the same sentence as quantum computing, I can’t take the argument seriously any more. One has delivered state-of-the-art results in self-driving cars, machine translation, recommendation systems, and even robot
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by jaredtn 7y ago
I’ve found reading to deliver the longest-term benefits. When I read, I can sit in a quiet room for hours just soaking up information. Video and audio tends to be more click-baity.
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SageMaker Debugger – Cracking ML Debugging(github.com)
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by jaredtn 7y ago
AMD is blowing Intel out of the water with the latest benchmarks. Intel's lone remaining advantage is its MKL performance in single-threaded performance (and they've done some shady handicapping of AMD CPUs to get there), but in m
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by jaredtn 7y ago
Summary: - They created an entirely new dataset of ~5000 molecules, all hand-labeled by perfume experts. - They held a competition (presumably Kaggle or a similar platform) to classify this dataset, and used the results as a strong baseline
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by jaredtn 7y ago
The new iOS update would disable scrolling on Safari - but only on some websites, and only about halfway through the page. You had to quit and reopen to fix the effect. This bug was remedied in 13.0.1, but I have to wonder: Did no one try o
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by jaredtn 7y ago
The main issue here is that a single buzzword won’t give your pitch the punch it needs. Specific, enticing detail is what pulls people in. Recruiters are loath to share too much, so these messages just become more of the same.
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by jaredtn 7y ago
Summary: - Google overhyped their results against a weak baseline. This seems to be commonplace in academic publishing, especially new-ish fields where benchmarks aren't well-established. There was a similar backlash against OpenAI&#x2
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by jaredtn 7y ago
Summary: - Rather than rewriting a C++ library in Rust (difficult and will introduce bugs), wrap it in a Rust interface. This seems like the cleanest way to move a codebase forward without too much regression work. It reminds me of how Tens
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by jaredtn 8y ago
Recommendation systems are often too specific, full of recency bias. I use YouTube for classical music while I'm working, so I play several hours of video every day. My feed is full of similar videos that are all the same! YouTube can
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by jaredtn 8y ago
There is nothing worse than watching a live debugging session. On the flipside, DeepMind did a great job with their StarCraft presentation yesterday, showing pre-recorded commentary/analysis as well as select highlights. These types of
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by jaredtn 8y ago
Interesting comparison to the food industry's race to the bottom, only to be supplanted at the top by retails such as Trader Joe's. Could Facebook's addictive algorithms eventually be supplanted by something more wholesome? T
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by jaredtn 8y ago
There is a vast market of companies willing to scoop up talented software developers - many don't require the demanding work schedules that the gaming industry takes for granted. Especially in such a highly-skilled field, I don't
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by jaredtn 8y ago
Really well-written. I especially agree with two points - "focus" and "learn to work hard without burning out". Those two skills will take you far, no matter your field.
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by jaredtn 8y ago
I'd be interested to see its hierarchical strategy and planning, especially across such a long timespan. Does anyone have any good references for similar hierarchical planning work (Feudal Networks, etc.) to look at?