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by laingc 9y ago
apologies for sounding flippant, but my opinion can be summarised as follows: TensorFlow is Python/C++. Nice! Beam is Python/Java. Not nice.
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by laingc 9y ago
Having any kind of confidence in the peer review system is, in my opinion, horribly misplaced. Particularly with regard to Nature, the following website might interest you: http://retractionwatch.com/category/by-journal
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by laingc 9y ago
To answer your first question, I actually don't think it's a big deal. It may become important if you end up having a ton of models running in production that need to be maintained and further developed, but in general for new app
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by laingc 9y ago
Your comments are mostly valid, but I disagree about Keras. Although it's marvellous for patching something together quickly, if you want to branch out at all then it quickly becomes an absolute mess. Far better, in my view, is to work
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by laingc 9y ago
As a concrete example, iOS10 runs reasonably well on my spare iPhone 5, which is coming up on 6 years old.
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by laingc 9y ago
Mac has cron. It's pretty standard on *NIX systems.
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by laingc 9y ago
I'd be interested to know how you formed this impression. My own impression is formed by: * The work I and my colleagues are doing * Recently published literature and arxiv pre-prints * Conference talks * Industry meet ups * Blog posts
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by laingc 9y ago
I'm a LastPass Premium subscriber, and I would be interested in trialling a move to BitWarden for myself and my family. However, the lack of a Safari plugin is a showstopper for me, and it seems that plans to develop one are on hold in
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by laingc 10y ago
It's worth mentioning that I come to HN explicitly searching for a mix of interesting reading in my field(s) and Ancient Greek. I think it's super important for me as a mathematician working in technology to try and understand wha
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by laingc 10y ago
I'd be surprised if there are more than a handful, but I often wonder the same thing about posts about systems programming and, well, basically anything that mentions Rust in the title. For my own part, I find this kind of post fairly
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by laingc 10y ago
A personal anecdote to support your point: The first company I worked for in Europe was a well-established ML company that had been doing predictive analytics long (10+ years) before the current fad. Founded by a former professor from CERN,
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by laingc 10y ago
As someone familiar with the field, you likely know this already, but the similarities between the Karpathy post from 2015 and this work from OpenAI is likely because Karpathy is a founder and lead researcher at OpenAI.
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by laingc 10y ago
That's to be expected. Lucozade and similar products are packed with electrolytes. It's basically water, salts, flavouring, and a ton of sugar.
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by laingc 10y ago
Based on personal experience and media reports (but no hard data), I would say yes, it is failing at peak times. In particular, the trains on the commuter lines to and from London.
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by laingc 10y ago
The O'Reilly blog was unknown to me until today. On first glance, it seems that they have lots of interesting articles in my areas of interest (ML, data science, data governance). Thanks for the tip!
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by laingc 10y ago
There is precisely one person who can be productive with Penrose notation, and that's Roger Penrose. You should see him do it, though - very impressive.
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by laingc 10y ago
> do you feel you already had good mathematical intuition earlier too and the PhD made it better? Or did the PhD by itself help you build such skills from scratch? I really think that the PhD experience was the major factor in me develop
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by laingc 10y ago
I'm note really sure what a good first approximation would be, but maybe I can break down the elements of it a bit, and we can see whether there is some other experience that mimics it. * Spending several years, uninterrupted and undis
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by laingc 10y ago
> No need to scare the OP, then, he is not a direct threat to your job. I find it a bit disheartening that this is how you read my response to OP's question. The denizens of HN may in general disapprove, but I believe my education t
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by laingc 10y ago
An answer in two parts: The software tools: For me, PyCharm and Jupyter for development, Dask for data preprocessing, Tensorflow, Theano, and various scipy libraries for ML, as well as helpers such as PyMC3 and Edward for probabilistic prog
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by laingc 10y ago
Yes, they can enter your country, donate a million dollars to a city crippled by earthquakes, invest in your most dynamic startup to fund their US expansion, and bring a massive network of contacts to a country with little access to venture
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by laingc 10y ago
As a New Zealander, I think it's absolutely fantastic that Peter Thiel is a fellow citizen. I welcome him, as well as other law-abiding wealth creators with open arms, and hope that Government policy of providing such persons with easy
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by laingc 10y ago
Nice idea, but does this offer anything over and above the well-supported and functional pyscaffold? [0] [0] https://pyscaffold.readthedocs.io/en/v2.5.7/
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by laingc 10y ago
In Germany, you should also be careful with §203 StGB-relevant data [0]. There is no really good legal solution to this. The so-called "Gehilfern-Lösung" has never been tested in court, and is not possible with AWS in any event.
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by laingc 10y ago
It's not a dumb question at all. The classification accuracy and "uncertainty" are different, but the explanation depends on what you mean by uncertainty. Let me try and give one intuitive explanation; if others would like to
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by laingc 10y ago
It was an iPhone 5c. No Secure Enclave.
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by laingc 10y ago
If your data suggest that the stock is trading at a discount due to irrationality, then you have a perfect opportunity to buy lots of an underpriced stock.
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by laingc 10y ago
Good grief. Any child with $2 in pocket money has more wealth than 2bn people. If you are a doctor with a massive student loan, you're probably in the bottom 10% of humanity in terms of wealth.
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by laingc 10y ago
I live in Germany, but I'm not German.
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by laingc 10y ago
I don't want to write a thesis here, but hopefully a bullet-pointed list will suffice: * The EU is not only undemocratic in the sense that the powerful European Commission is unelected, but is in fact antidemocratic in the sense that o

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