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by morelandjs 4y ago
Exactly. A lot of amazing math has come out of string theory.
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by morelandjs 4y ago
Here's the problem I see with it. Say you take multiple "top tier" theoreticians and task them with the same physical problem. Suppose they all make slightly different starting assumptions, and these assumptions lead to mutua
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by morelandjs 4y ago
I'll just add that I appreciate her cynicism because there is a staggering amount of bullshit in the high energy theory community. Embracing creativity is absolutely paramount, but people need to grow up and accept their own theory fai
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by morelandjs 4y ago
She's exactly right. Any science discovery that's worth its salt is falsifiable. If you can't validate your results there's a problem. It's the responsibility of every theorist to make testable predictions, and to c
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by morelandjs 4y ago
Any time I see ML claims, I want to see rigorous validation. At the end of the day, whether or not your approach works isn’t debatable. It’s measurable. My prior is that everyone is full of shit, because most ML claims are.
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by morelandjs 4y ago
Congrats! If you decide you want to monetize this, truebill sold to rocket mortgage for something like a billion dollars. I could see your features supplementing their current product nicely.
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by morelandjs 5y ago
Little bit annoyed that your phrasing attempts to speak for the world on the "coolness of tech". I still find it cool. Neural networks that generate art? Quantum computing making meaningful gains? Apple M1 chips are absolutely bon
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by morelandjs 5y ago
You might add what your general career goals are to this thread. Could be someone with good experience interested in providing mentorship.
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by morelandjs 5y ago
Known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. Still useful to quantify the known unknowns and compare significance of various events according to them.
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by morelandjs 5y ago
Prefect workflow orchestrator: https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect
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by morelandjs 5y ago
Suppose you could buy ads that are active every other week. I feel like after a few months you could compare the active and non-active weeks (perhaps excluding holidays) and have a pretty good sense what you are getting for the ad spend. Su
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by morelandjs 5y ago
I would like to get involved in activism to expose Russians to the horrors of what is happening in Ukraine, via campusing their internet presence with some of the war footage. Does such a movement exist? What channels are still mutual acces
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by morelandjs 5y ago
Thurb off Google Russia. Looks to be one of their more popular websites.
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by morelandjs 5y ago
It’s a tough field to become proficient in because you rarely get to validate your process. But I’m starting to get a better understanding of double ML, and it really does work in a provable way.
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by morelandjs 5y ago
Causal inference has come a long way, e.g. double machine learning is pretty nifty.
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by morelandjs 5y ago
I’ve wondered, instead of betting on “truth” why not bet on the outcome of a webscraping query, where the code is open source? Example, I publish some code that scrapes the outcome of an upcoming sports game. It returns a True/False pa
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by morelandjs 5y ago
Definitely don’t need it, but it does introduce you to cool people.
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by morelandjs 5y ago
This was the value I saw in my PhD. It has opened doors to jobs where the people I work with are brilliant and generally objective in their evaluation of competing ideas. It is an absolute treat to work in an environment like that. On many
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by morelandjs 5y ago
1. Plan to continue investing in index funds on a schedule 2. Watching myself for lifestyle creep. Would like enough reserves on hand that I’m not a cornered animal if I lose my job. 3. Building up separate savings (brokerage) for a house.
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by morelandjs 5y ago
Maybe take a look at the orphan drug act for inspiration, https://www.fda.gov/patients/rare-diseases-fda
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by morelandjs 5y ago
I don’t really understand the narrow definition of quantitative analysis referenced here and elsewhere. If you know your metrics are failing you, then you implicitly have a more advanced model of success. Define this more advanced mental mo
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by morelandjs 5y ago
I see a slippery slope in ML engineering, where to make something “production ready” engineers layer a relatively simple workflow in about 8 different technologies. I sometimes wonder if it’s preferable to just deal with occasional issues a
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by morelandjs 5y ago
I agree with the author’s take for the most part. That said, the best line managers I’ve had have done some IC work in the past of the same nature. The best PMs I’ve worked with vigorously attack the customer facing aspects of the problem a
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by morelandjs 5y ago
You have to admit it’s amusing how public sentiment of block chain mirrors the price trajectory.
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by morelandjs 5y ago
I personally do not trust research that does not have reasonably polished publicly available code behind it. A strong result isn’t just the final number, it’s also the process how you arrived there.
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by morelandjs 5y ago
I think most of us can agree that the bandaid fixes aren’t work for young Americans. The system needs a significant overhaul, both financially and culturally.
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by morelandjs 5y ago
It’s not unscientific to change your mind when presented with new evidence, quite the opposite. It is, unfortunately, unpalatable as a politician to be uncertain, even when the facts demand it. I blame our culture of “leaders always know”.
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by morelandjs 5y ago
It’s interesting to think about this from a Bayesian perspective. What is the posterior probability we expect the virus to have originated from a Wuhan lab, given the outbreak happened in Wuhan?
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by morelandjs 5y ago
I’m open to web3 being a new and exciting phase of the Internet. I’m just wondering when it will come to me. You’d think if it were such a huge revolution it would start appearing organically in my every day web experience, but I don’t own
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by morelandjs 5y ago
This looks incredible! Excited to try this!

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