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by joker3 8y ago
I think that's true for anyone who's comfortable with proofs by induction, but most people aren't until well past the point where they'd normally learn to program.
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by joker3 8y ago
What's true intelligence?
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This paper will eventually be seen as a landmark in the field of machine learning systems. Read it, learn, and write up what you discover along the way. This literature needs to grow.
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It's more relevant every year.
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by joker3 8y ago
Google's innovation isn't predicting mortality. It's predicting mortality based on data that was hidden from previous models. That's very likely where all of the improvement is coming from, but since it's hard to
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by joker3 8y ago
People are working on this, but it's incredibly complicated and hard to get right. Look at what's going on in evolutionary psychology and neuroeconomics, as well as the controversies surrounding them, for an idea of what's i
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by joker3 8y ago
The description of this article should be updated with the date (1999).
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People respond more or less rationally to their incentives. Who knew?
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The thing to keep in mind is that, from the point of view of someone who works with data, R isn't a programming language. It's a statistical software package that has a programming language. Its competitors are things like Minit
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It is.
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Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science(introtcs.org)
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In addition, it's not clear how to keep a currency's value stable without some kind of central authority. It may not even be possible to do in a distributed fashion.
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by joker3 8y ago
Imagine what Manhattan would be like if you didn't have the option of renting in Brooklyn or Queens. That's roughly what the situation in San Francisco is like.
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That's not what GIT says. See https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/ for a description of what it does say.
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"Mathematics is a part of physics." Try telling that to a statistician, or a computer scientist, or an economist, or.... I think it's worth noting that category theory, which was initially derided as abstract nonsense even by
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by joker3 8y ago
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/alpha.asp
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About a year ago I spoke to someone at Google who described her job as trying to convince people not to use machine learning in cases where it wasn't really appropriate. They take this seriously.
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It's not really clear that the author got anything out of doing a math degree that he wouldn't have gotten out of doing most other degrees. I was expecting a bit more from this. (That said, it would be very interesting to see the
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by joker3 8y ago
No, it takes a lot more than a master's degree. Even a PhD is only really entry-level. There's no substitute for practical experience and talking to someone very experienced. Shame there aren't a lot more very experienced
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Data science is like security: it's very easy to come up with something that looks really good but is horribly broken in subtle ways that you won't find until it's too late. I think there's a lot of value in having lots
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You think you've got it bad, imagine how it is for us candidates.
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Still no silver bullet, huh? Who would've thought?
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What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t(talyarkoni.org)
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That's not what the actual Dunning-Kruger effect is. See https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-... for an explanation of why this is wrong and what Dunning and Kruger actually
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by joker3 8y ago
They did a Lenten fast once a week, which is not usually the same as abstaining from food. From the article, it sounds like they were eating but not eating meat. However, note that fish is not considered meat for the purposes of Lenten fa
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by joker3 8y ago
How many people really need to know functional analysis to practice machine learning? How many developers need to know TCP coming out of school?
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This is one of the standard PhD-level textbooks. It's probably a little bit much if you just want to use somebody else's library, but if you're developing your own algorithms or you want to engage seriously with the research
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That would likely be a major FERPA violation.
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The psychomotor vigilance task ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychomotor_vigilance_task ) is the gold standard for alertness testing. It's practical for the police to administer it during a traffic stop.
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If you drive while sleep-deprived, you're at a significantly higher risk of being involved in a fatal accident. And it might not be you that gets killed. https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/best-cars-blog/201

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