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by joker3 7y ago
Don't spend 50 hours on a take-home for an interview. Instead, email the company and very politely explain that they're delusional. You probably won't get a response to that either, but at least it takes less time.
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Galactic Algorithms (2010)(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
4 points by joker3 8y ago|0 comments
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by joker3 8y ago
You don't need much math to pick up the very basic theory, but after a certain point you're going to hit a hard wall unless you have a strong background in analysis.
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by joker3 8y ago
Anxiety can be a symptom of some physical conditions, and maybe you have one that's exacerbated by air travel. Might want to get yourself checked out.
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On algorithmically detecting model legislation(twitter.com)
2 points by joker3 8y ago|0 comments
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by joker3 8y ago
This really ought to be better known. I think a large part of the reason that it isn't is because most books that cover linear models in general require a background in linear algebra, and there are very few people teaching from that
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by joker3 8y ago
That doesn't mean that 0% is your best estimate of the future cancer rate. Even frequentists can look for better methods than the raw frequency.
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America's Got Talent (and Not Just in the Ivies)(bloomberg.com)
1 points by joker3 8y ago|0 comments
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by joker3 8y ago
There's a shortage of developers in part because of terrible management practices.
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by joker3 8y ago
If they don't come out and say that Amazon's not paying these employees a lower wage, then I'm not going to place a lot of faith in any implication.
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by joker3 8y ago
The last Revolutionary War widow died in 1906 ( https://blog.genealogybank.com/last-revolutionary-war-widow-... ). She was receiving pension payments until then. A 109-year old former slave's daughter voted for Obama in
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Drunk Americans Spent $39B Online Last Year(vinepair.com)
4 points by joker3 8y ago|0 comments
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by joker3 8y ago
Famous numbers that are believed to be transcendental, anyway.
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by joker3 8y ago
Designing novel algorithms is very hard. You can borrow some ideas from the existing literature, but you have to figure out how to apply them to your problem and that can take some nontrivial inspiration. I have one paper with a few new al
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by joker3 8y ago
The secretary problem is the first and simplest problem in optimal stopping. It's not the only one that people have studied, and while it is too simple to describe many realistic scenarios, the insight you get from solving it is valua
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by joker3 8y ago
I knew that I wanted to be a math major when I started college, and my college's program required a course in programming. I took that first semester, and the rest was history.
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by joker3 8y ago
> "The kinds of software businesses you want to get into require no management at all." Nice work if you can get it.
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by joker3 8y ago
The difference between the two cases you have isn't anything to do with limit pushing. Instead, it's a matter of specialization. If you develop some real depth, then that's a different matter than just being a regular progr
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by joker3 8y ago
That sounds like auditory processing disorder.
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by joker3 8y ago
There's a problem here. The only thing that Triplebyte can claim based on their data is that easier programming questions are more predictive of performance among candidates who received an offer . Since candidates who get offers ar
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by joker3 8y ago
Same. This seems to be remarkably common.
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by joker3 8y ago
I think that's a very good point. Yes, you can approximate any given clasical NN with a polynomial, but how does the number of terms in the polynomial scale with the network size and the desired accuracy? There might be a very good p
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by joker3 8y ago
Think about the property of being tall. If someone is 5'4" (162.5 cm), they're not tall. If they're 6'8" (203.2 cm), they are tall. What happens in the middle? In classical set theory, every person is either
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by joker3 8y ago
It'd be easy to split them by year or subject, as that's provided by the arXiv.
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by joker3 8y ago
Who are Facebook's competitors?
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by joker3 8y ago
"one set to failure is all you need!" is one of those ideas that seems to come up every fifteen years or so, and gets really popular for a while before people discover that it doesn't really work all that well. Mike Mentzer
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by joker3 8y ago
What is the purpose of a proof? You may think that it's intended to solve a problem, but that's really only half the point. A good proof is one that communicates your solution to other people. Mathematical writing is hard to lea
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by joker3 8y ago
This might be a good roadmap for pure math, but don't use this for guidance on how to be a statistician.
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For the NFL and all of football, a new threat: an evaporating insurance market(espn.com)
5 points by joker3 8y ago|1 comments
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Unprovability comes to machine learning(nature.com)
218 points by joker3 8y ago|124 comments

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