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by laingc 6y ago
Firstly, your English is indeed very good - for a second language, that's awesome. Well done! Secondly, I'm in a similar position to you with German. I have two advantages over you: 1. I lived and worked in Germany for several yea
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by laingc 6y ago
At the risk of flinging ad hominems, reading his history with the maintainers of black he comes across as quite demented. Even if he were right - which I don’t think he is - I wouldn’t use software maintained by someone that unstable.
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by laingc 7y ago
No, a former Ukrainian colleague of mine from Germany. I also just had a double PhD apply for a job with me - one PhD in stochastic differential equations, one in machine learning. It’s rare, for sure, but not unique.
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by laingc 7y ago
What utter rubbish. I know several people with two PhDs - for example one guy who went from theoretical physics to economics - and they are all humble and brilliant. If I didn't have a family to support and a mortgage to pay, I'd
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by laingc 7y ago
Fantastic. Just installed it now, will give it a go.
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by laingc 7y ago
For those like me who hate videos, here’s a link to Open Review: https://openreview.net/forum?id=r1xMH1BtvB
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by laingc 7y ago
Since HN threads often attract a bit of a negative vibe, may I take the opportunity to say to any Hashicorp employees reading this that I think your products are fantastic. Terraform is particularly excellent, but everything you produce is
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by laingc 7y ago
I have no issue with you asking for a reference for this, but when I read your comment I did a double-take. To someone familiar with deep learning, this claim is completely self-evident. The article is indeed almost farcically out of date,
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by laingc 7y ago
I loved this interview, and generally have a lot of time for Tyler Cowen’s podcasts and blog. This topic is one that Peter Thiel has been talking about for over a decade. I have a general theory that whatever smart people are talking about
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by laingc 7y ago
France is sensitive to international law mainly when it works in their own interests. For example, go and read about France’s attitude towards the French agents who sabotaged the Rainbow Warrior.
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by laingc 7y ago
As a foreigner who lived in Germany for several years until recently, my experience is also that cards were accepted at 50% of places at most - often with a minimum purchase, and usually no contactless. By contrast, in New Zealand even most
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by laingc 7y ago
Yep. Riding to work, I often got an unexpected and unwelcome eyeful.
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by laingc 7y ago
Personally, as an iOS user, I do not want the App Store opened up at all. Currently, I can go to the App Store, install any app, and be about 99.9% confident that the app will do me (or my technologically illiterate mother) absolutely no h
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by laingc 7y ago
Well that’s not what I think, it’s a matter of public record and is widely known here. The city council had to remove parking from in front of shops in order to put the cycleway in. No parks means no customers.
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by laingc 7y ago
This doesn’t directly address your point, but a particular cycleway in my city (Wellington, NZ) has unquestionably put several small businesses out of business, and is well on its way to killing a previously thriving village centre. As a pe
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by laingc 7y ago
That’s a fantastic anecdote. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when the results were reported to management.
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by laingc 7y ago
Same issue here.
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by laingc 8y ago
Whenever anyone asks this, I always wonder whether I live in a bubble or they do. Creating simple predictive models where your problem is already easily narrowed down to a "given x predict y" definition is pretty trivial. Having i
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by laingc 8y ago
> A particularly bad solution You’re free to have this opinion. I don’t see how it could possibly be justified. > that requires data of still huge amount This is true for some problem spaces, but not true in general. If your exposure
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by laingc 8y ago
> which nobody in ML claims it is. > We don’t even use machine learning for every problem. Since your comment is in obvious bad faith, this is the only response you’ll get from me.
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by laingc 8y ago
These sorts of posts are just so ridiculously off base. People are absolutely desperate to show that ML isn’t the answer to everything, which nobody in ML claims it is. But it is the very clear answer to some things, and problems like licen
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by laingc 8y ago
I - and everyone I know - would not even remotely consider allowing my self-driving car to be rented out to other people while I’m not using it, let alone deliver meals or similar. Here are some of the many perks of having a car, currently:
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by laingc 8y ago
This does not explain the substantial disparity in outcomes for black Americans of West Indian origin, who were also enslaved, discriminated against, and continue to be on the receiving end of whatever racist attitudes persist in American s
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by laingc 8y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if around 90-95% of special interest funded studies that aim for a p value of <5% aren't published. This is true of the majority of publicly-funded research, too.
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by laingc 8y ago
That makes sense. It's good that PEP8 makes exceptions for such cases, I suppose, but it just looks wrong to my eye.
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by laingc 8y ago
Off-topic Python question: is the use of “CapWords” / CamelCase for method names correct here? I assume this is the “prevailing style” of pyobjc or Objective C itself, and it therefore comes under the exception in PEP8. I ask because I
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by laingc 8y ago
I run an ML team whose primary language is Python, and I’ve been doing scientific computation in Python (eg finite elements, numerical optimisation) in Python for a long time. My personal impression is that Python is used in more fields tha
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by laingc 8y ago
Pandas dataframes can autocomplete column names using the dot syntax.
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by laingc 8y ago
I completely agree with you. When I was 19, I had far too many opinions and far too little wisdom. The same is probably true of me today, now in my 30s, but I think at least the trend is positive.
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by laingc 8y ago
If you’ve used both R and another, more reasonable language for any length of time, it’s perfectly coherent.

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