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by kahnjw 9y ago
1. A sufficiently large distribution will contain outliers. 2. Where is Madoff now?
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by kahnjw 9y ago
>It actually gave me the impression that avoiding the ire of the SEC is relatively easy if you set your mind to committing fraud without getting caught. I assure you, it is only possible to avoid risk if you're a small fish and extr
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by kahnjw 9y ago
All of those Siri can do maybe half the time. In my experience, it's a completely unreliable service. Sort of embarrassing when your voice assistant can't perform the most basic possible task on an iPhone: locking the screen.
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by kahnjw 9y ago
>>...watch as the last bastion of python gets overrun That is a naive point of view. The python community has been growing for decades [1]. Even if it is not growing as fast as javascript community, the growth is sustainable, and prob
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by kahnjw 9y ago
Aren't you sort of glossing over the fact that he is in high up machine learning position at a company that specializes in recommender systems? Doesn't that by itself increase the likelihood that he deeply understands implicit and
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by kahnjw 9y ago
Agreed. Scientific computing has centered on two languages for well over a decade. I don’t think JavaScript is going to dethrone python as the interpreted language of choice because it can now push computation to the GPU via a well designed
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by kahnjw 9y ago
And the full force of the entire machine learning research community (except for a few still on Lua/Torch).
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by kahnjw 9y ago
Agree with 1. Disagree entirely with 2. I have two MacBook Pros (one from work) and the keyboards both have issues. One is newer and they tried to fix it, didn't work. The touchbar is a gimmick. It's decent on small workloads, and
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by kahnjw 9y ago
Agreed 100%. I did a bunch of js work about 3 years ago, used tons of promises. Then started a new job using Scala. The futures api in Scala is exactly what the author advocates, and it is definitely better for the reasons he gives.
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by kahnjw 9y ago
Have you heard of the precision/recall tradeoff?
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by kahnjw 9y ago
In all seriousness, the problem with insisting on comparing the US economy and the economies of China and India is that they are at very different points in economic development. The US developed huge swaths of infrastructure post WWII, and
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by kahnjw 9y ago
It's pretty efficient if you're in the 1%.
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by kahnjw 9y ago
>> The first order predicate calculus (first order logic) is Turing-complete Brainfuck is turing complete, does that make it as powerful as a general purpose programming language such as Java? I'm not criticizing first order logi
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by kahnjw 9y ago
Could not have said it better. Hinton is one of the most important contributors to the field, but giving him all the credit is a disservice to others who made important contributions. Probabilistic modeling was popular way before DNNs got b
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by kahnjw 9y ago
Seems like these articles are becoming more common. Someone claims new meta-ai alg will change everything. In reality, just another team's hyper-param optimization setup.
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by kahnjw 9y ago
The attack relies on side channel attacks, specifically Flush+Reload, which uses timing to find accessed memory locations in another program, as stated in both the paper and this summary. It is definitely relevant.
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by kahnjw 9y ago
Non amp version, sorry about that
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by kahnjw 9y ago
http://www.inference.vc/my-notes-on-the-numerics-of-gans/
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GANs Are Broken in More Than One Way: The Numerics of GANs(inference.vc)
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by kahnjw 9y ago
1. Third paragraph: "twice a week" 2. They registered multiple accounts to get around the limit. That removes almost all doubt that the submitter knew he/she was cheating
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by kahnjw 9y ago
I didn't even realize this happened. Thank you for posting. Sucks because now I have less respect for Andrew. I don't understand why you'd want to cheat for a competition like this? I get it, people cheat all the time, but th
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by kahnjw 9y ago
You might be able to find a credit Beaureu that does not report to equifax. Might be better off calling your representatives in Washington and telling them we need better consumer data protection regulations. Good luck.
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by kahnjw 9y ago
Experian != Equifax
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by kahnjw 9y ago
If we're talking about economic incentive, having no downside for not doing thing A is equivalent to having no incentive to do thing A. Re: opportunity cost.
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by kahnjw 9y ago
Have you heard the term moral hazard?
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by kahnjw 9y ago
Exactly. And congress can fix it.
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by kahnjw 9y ago
GLBA was enacted in the 90s and is a vague set of guidelines for financial and related industries to follow. I'm talking about real system regulation, down to the level of protocols.
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by kahnjw 9y ago
Thats exactly what I'm saying. There is near zero incentive for congress to enact consumer protection legislation.
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by kahnjw 9y ago
You're oversimplifying. This has more to do with politics than SE technical competence. Banking software and systems are regulated end to end, because banking systems are literally the backbone of the global economy. Equifax? Not so mu
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by kahnjw 9y ago
If you really are a talented machine learning specialist, you don't have too much to compete with in San Francisco. A lot of "ML engineers" and data science people in SF dont actually have the background or expertise to call

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