jpiabrantes

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by jpiabrantes 7y ago
Captain Obvious: real world transactions don’t look anything like this.
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Mimicking Evolution with Reinforcement Learning(joao-abrantes.com)
2 points by jpiabrantes 7y ago|0 comments
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Can AI Optimise Governments?(joao-abrantes.com)
2 points by jpiabrantes 7y ago|0 comments
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by jpiabrantes 7y ago
He "sells" these ideas as if he was the first one to ever think of them.
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by jpiabrantes 8y ago
I always thought there should have been an enormous evolutionary pressure for humans to have different skin tones in different geographies. If sunlight is bad for skin than we should all be black or tanned all the time. However, if you don&
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by jpiabrantes 8y ago
Windows 10 + Windows Subsystem for Linux did it for me.
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by jpiabrantes 9y ago
There are now services specific for this that work very well. Example: https://transferwise.com/u/joaoi
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by jpiabrantes 9y ago
Your denominators are wrong. The denominator should be the probability of the classifier being positive: P(True Positive)+P(False Positive) Since you assumed that P(False Positive) = P(False Negative) = (1-P(True Positive))/2 = (1-P(Tr
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Ask HN: Data Scientist vs. Machine Learning Engineer
10 points by jpiabrantes 9y ago|3 comments
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by jpiabrantes 9y ago
The best way to memorise hundreds of different algorithms (or anything else for that matter) is to understand the few underlying principles beneath them. I would be surprised if he knew them all and couldn't come up with intelligent wa
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by jpiabrantes 10y ago
More like learning rate decay. Learning rate is now zero.
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Ask HN: What's the best data visualization python library to use on website?
1 points by jpiabrantes 10y ago|0 comments
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Interactive body map: what really gives you cancer?(theconversation.com)
1 points by jpiabrantes 11y ago|0 comments
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by jpiabrantes 11y ago
The human reaction time is about 0.1 seconds. They shouldn't use a manual chronometer to measure these results 4.9+/-0.1 is the difference between a world record and a good score.
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How Does a Human Internal Clock Tick?(doubtsihave.blogspot.com)
2 points by jpiabrantes 11y ago|0 comments
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by jpiabrantes 11y ago
They are giving poor people another choice they can have access to a very limited Internet or they can have access to none. If they would just loose lot's of money by giving people this choice it wouldn't be a reliable business an
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Simple Experiment Explains “The Dress”(facebook.com)
1 points by jpiabrantes 12y ago|0 comments
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by jpiabrantes 12y ago
Here is the TED talk of Aubrey de Grey about mortality: http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_ag... Worth watching
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by jpiabrantes 12y ago
VPython is missing there
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by jpiabrantes 12y ago
I wish Python 3 was never born or Python 2 got murdered when 3 was born. Both of them live at the same time it's the worst thing.
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by jpiabrantes 12y ago
It's easy to make python faster, you have PyPy, you can even program everything in python and then make a simple C code for the bottleneck and wrap it with python. Php it's another example, Facebook uses php and it made changes to
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Not another Flappy Bird clone(jpiabrantes.blogspot.com)
1 points by jpiabrantes 12y ago|0 comments
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Google's and Facebook's laziness creates opportunity for StartUps(jpiabrantes.blogspot.pt)
1 points by jpiabrantes 13y ago|0 comments