mathinpens

15 ms·

1. 31.▲
   by mathinpens 8y ago

   I have found that good high quality blogs typically link to other high quality blogs. Most of the ones I am familiar with are math/computer science blogs run by researchers. If those topics are in your wheelhouse there is definitely a
2. 32.▲
   by mathinpens 8y ago

   I think you are conflating the relatively recent dominance of nationalism with the existence of states. Well defined states with foreign policies, governing systems, monopolies on the legitimate use of force, regulations, taxation etc etc h
3. 33.▲
   by mathinpens 8y ago

   just an fyi an option isnt a stock or a security. it is a contract
4. 34.▲
   by mathinpens 8y ago

   Anyone know the name of the grant/program/challenge ? I didn't see it in the article..
5. 35.▲
   by mathinpens 8y ago

   I think he is teasing you-before researching this I didn't think a reputable broker would sell a retail investor 26k of options. But apparently they do...who knows why. If I were you I would definitely not actually buy anything he ment
6. 36.▲
   by mathinpens 8y ago

   woah i had no idea zinkevich worked at google. that guy is really legit.
7. 37.▲
   by mathinpens 8y ago

   I was kidding!!! But people do take literature review seriously (which on the balance is good)
8. 38.▲
   by mathinpens 8y ago

   Or this: you spend 4 months on a project and belatedly notice schmidhuber proved a much better result in 1985 and yells at you and you get kicked out of academia
9. 39.▲
   by mathinpens 8y ago

   because they are canadians and this is a canadian newspaper
10. 40.▲
    by mathinpens 8y ago

    He's a good speaker/teacher but I think there are serious problems with his work- mainly that a lot of his results collapse when tested on more general architectures.
11. 41.▲
    by mathinpens 8y ago

    Your example doesn't make sense-like at all- If you want an example about bias look at Compass and recidivism
12. 42.▲
    by mathinpens 8y ago

    huh? not even wrong......
13. 43.▲
    by mathinpens 8y ago

    trust me some of the junk explanations for how deep learning works originate from researchers. we really just don't have a convincing picture about why these networks work or don't work in a theoretical way rather than empirical&#
14. 44.▲
    by mathinpens 8y ago

    if you are interested in this type of analysis are you familiar with the tishby papers? you will at the very least find them enjoyable/mind opening... but some of his key claims are probably contradicted by empirical results. the origi
15. 45.▲
    by mathinpens 8y ago

    I'm sorry but this comment is just at odds with the current literature in deep learning. A few very prominent researchers have been trying to use information theoretic concepts to explain generalization for a while now-see the somewhat
16. 46.▲
    by mathinpens 8y ago

    indeed.
17. 47.▲
    by mathinpens 8y ago

    what a beautiful book.
18. 48.▲
    by mathinpens 8y ago

    nice blog but you should include citations/references even if it is very informal
19. 49.▲
    by mathinpens 8y ago

    that's easy to say when its your car/money on the launchpad and not your body...
20. 50.▲
    by mathinpens 8y ago

    I mean the only safe ship is a ship in a harbor and that's not what ships are for....buttttt I am skeptical that a for-profit-company run by elon musk has rigorous safety culture-particularly given he apparently has no concerns with l
21. 51.▲
    by mathinpens 8y ago

    I don't know all that much about finance but I do know when someone is dodging challenging questions because they don't have good answers...
22. 52.▲
    by mathinpens 8y ago

    I was reading a fun essay by Thoreau about this the other day. I tend to agree that a lot of people pay too much attention to ephemera with minimal value. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/walden/essays/life.h