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by martingoodson 4y ago
This is a poor headline (from The Economist) that does not reflect the referenced work. The correct interpretation is that nudges need to be tested in the field to find out if they work. This is common knowledge in behavioural science. Expe
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by martingoodson 4y ago
“So Vic, we have an urgent issue, one that I need addressed right away. I’ve already assigned someone from my team to help you, and I hope you can fix this tomorrow” said Steve. “I’ve been looking at the Google logo on the iPhone and I’m no
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by martingoodson 4y ago
Just to clear things up: Joseph Redmon (who made the first YOLO) has anointed Alexey Bochkovskiy as the keeper of the flame [1]. Alexey is a very careful researcher and does a ton of performance evaluation on his models. His results are to
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by martingoodson 4y ago
The BMJ has had to issue several corrections about this author’s work. For example: This Feature (BMJ 2015;351:h4962, doi:10.1136/bmj.h4962) by Nina Teicholz stated that when the guidelines advisory committee started its work in 2012 t
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by martingoodson 4y ago
This is highly misleading. The 45% rate only applies to the portion of salary over £150k. Someone earning £200k will pay 75k in income tax. That’s 37.5% overall.
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by martingoodson 4y ago
It’s essential to read Hernando Barragán‘s perspective. His ideas and work were stolen and turned into Arduino: http://arduinohistory.github.io/
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by martingoodson 4y ago
Evolution AI (AI data extraction from financial documents) are looking to hire someone for applied deep learning research. Must like a challenge. Any background but needs to know how to do research properly. Contact Martin@evolution.ai
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by martingoodson 4y ago
Study slowly Don’t skip through anything Do the exercises
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How the 1996 Dunblane Massacre Pushed the U.K. To Enact Stricter Gun Laws(smithsonianmag.com)
4 points by martingoodson 4y ago|0 comments
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by martingoodson 4y ago
Another 808 cowbell recreation and a lot more here: https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/synthesizing-cowbell... . The whole series is a valuable guide to analog synthesis.
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by martingoodson 4y ago
Behringer TD-3-RD Analog Bass Line Synthesizer Model 15 Modular Synthesizer App (not hardware but close to the experience and sounds great)
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by martingoodson 5y ago
Geoff hinton’s dropout was based on neuronal stochasticity. Convolutional neural networks were based on the processing in the V1 visual cortex.
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On the Origin of Minds(aeon.co)
1 points by martingoodson 5y ago|0 comments
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by martingoodson 5y ago
I once worked with a CTO who decided to move from AWS to GCP (and also move from Spark to Hive and python to scala, at the same time). That guy was an idiot. (At one point somebody accidentally spent £30,000 in data transfer costs with one
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by martingoodson 5y ago
After hiring many industry researchers at MSc and PhD level, I think the ones with PhDs are better researchers. The knowledge they gained of their niche subject is not that important but their ability to do research is very important. If
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by martingoodson 5y ago
The IRA Russian troll farm had 1000 employees in 2015. They used Facebook as a tool to influence elections in the United States. This is very well documented https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency And
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by martingoodson 5y ago
See how the site exposes refugees to risk of exploitation: https://mobile.twitter.com/funnymonkey/status/15052449560337...
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We consider UkraineTakeShelter to be unethical(twitter.com)
5 points by martingoodson 5y ago|1 comments
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by martingoodson 5y ago
I absolutely hate my induction jobs. Touch interface does not work unless your fingers are completely clean and dry. Therefore it does not respond to touch while I’m cooking. It turns itself off and I cannot turn it back on again. This happ
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by martingoodson 5y ago
Why is this being discussed now? Matt Yglesias has publicly admitted that this piece is flawed. This is critically important context that is being missed by everyone in this discussion: ‘…SIGNIFICANT factual error in my newsletter.’ ‘…we kn
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by martingoodson 5y ago
We use it for the London Machine Learning Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/London-Machine-Learning-Meetup/ We have about 10K members and run events every 3-4 weeks (online at the moment). We are still going strong - we
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Defensive tactics from the modern history of urban warfare(mwi.usma.edu)
359 points by martingoodson 5y ago|411 comments
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by martingoodson 5y ago
‘Normalcy bias, or normality bias, is a cognitive bias which leads people to disbelieve or minimize threat warnings’ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias We saw this at the start of the pandemic too.
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by martingoodson 5y ago
There is good evidence that breastfeeding is protective against Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. There is a dose-response relationship, which is good evidence for causality. The risk is cut by about half, depending on how long breastfeeding co
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Finding the Freedom in Free Will(psychologytoday.com)
1 points by martingoodson 5y ago|0 comments
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by martingoodson 5y ago
I completely agree. Literature is just one of the thing it writes about. I really like its boldness. I love the fact that they turned over an entire issue to telling the stories of those who died in the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 (the UK
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by martingoodson 5y ago
The London Review of Books marked 20 years of increased circulation in 2020, and has grown by 13% since then. I think it would be of interest to some people here and I highly recommend buying a subscription: https://www.lrb.co.uk
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by martingoodson 5y ago
Perhaps we should adopt the Elizabethan school system then. All lessons were in Latin and students were punished for speaking English. 'Memorising texts and performing endlessly tedious translations of Latin phrases was the norm [...].
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by martingoodson 5y ago
This is wrong. Of course Shakespeare had a formal education. "If William Shakespere had the grammar school training of his day - or its equivalent - he had as good a formal literary training as had any of his contemporaries. At least,
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by martingoodson 5y ago
I’ve done this. It was really hard. Also the best thing I’ve ever done. I had to be very ruthless with my main job. Working strictly 9-5. This really annoyed my boss and I almost got fired, but I just powered through and held my ground. I h

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