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by nicholast 5y ago
The frequency of stuff like this is why I am still on Medium.
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by nicholast 5y ago
Just like in order to become a composer of music you need to start by performing other people's music, I think it helps in writing to start by responding to other people's ideas, dissecting and evaluating, which helps you build th
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by nicholast 5y ago
If you try to wait for the money making opportunity in order to build something it may never come. Just start building. Keep building. There are more ideas at the end of a long path than there are at the start. If you don’t keep building th
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by nicholast 5y ago
Build, iterate, refine, enhance, debug, repeat.
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Show HN: Automunge – The Pitch(medium.com)
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by nicholast 5y ago
Ok I just looked up the phrase false dichotomy, apparently doesn't mean what I thought it meant, probably would have been better said as "the two are not mutually exclusive", still point holds.
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by nicholast 5y ago
I know this is somewhat of a false dichotomy, but at some point I think PG's essays started to shift from being directed at startup founders to giving advice to his children that they can read when they grow older.
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by nicholast 5y ago
I've created the Automunge python library to automate tabular data cleaning for ML, including preprocessing transformations, missing data infill, etc. It's very useful! https://github.com/Automunge/AutoMunge
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State of the Art of Reinforcement Learning(medium.com)
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Competing with Automunge(medium.com)
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by nicholast 6y ago
Hi, I wrote an essay about Kelly Criterion a while back based on a review of paper by Edward Thorpe. Cheers. https://medium.com/from-the-diaries-of-john-henry/an-optimal...
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by nicholast 6y ago
GEB as literature stands up much better than GEB as musings on AI. The book practically invented a new form of expression that hasn't been matched to this day, with recursion between modalities in every chapter.
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Missing Data Infill with Automunge(medium.com)
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by nicholast 6y ago
I was just playing my way through Bach's miscellaneous keyboard works, and there was a particular piece that struck me as could have easily have been written by Glass, but only that one bore the resemblance to my eyes.
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by nicholast 6y ago
Taken to the extreme this advice leads to collections like Randall Munroe's Thing Explainer or Dr Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham.
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by nicholast 6y ago
I believe that J.K. Rowling would fall under the macro planner category, I saw a picture once of an outline she had prepared for the entire series on a single sheet of notebook paper, before starting her first book.
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by nicholast 6y ago
This website was a neat resource. The whole point of complexity science is that there are domains with computational irreducibility where in order to estimate system behaviors we can not rely on formulaic models, in complexity science we in
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by nicholast 6y ago
I'm reading this to imply that as a general rule of thumb, in recent times SPACs have been a better deal for the company going public than for the SPAC investors. That outsized returns exist but are not the norm. There was a good resou
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by nicholast 6y ago
An interesting application is the target of a feature set configuration that returns a specific desired output activation value (eg 50/50 for two of classes). I do not know if tensorflow has an automation for this task available, perha
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QML – Learning with TensorFlow Quantum(medium.com)
1 points by nicholast 6y ago|1 comments
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by nicholast 6y ago
It's true that this biography was not a great vehicle for understanding Shannon's technical contributions as they are in many cases glossed over, is much more focused on his professional arc, hobbies, family, kind of more about ge
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by nicholast 6y ago
In the demonstrations click on the underlined keywords and you can select alternates from dropdown menu.
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by nicholast 6y ago
Thanks appreciate the heads up. It appears when you copy a link from within medium app it defaults to the shortened version. Perhaps this might explain why my shares to hacker news receive so little traffic :)
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Show HN: Hashed Categoric Encodings with Automunge(medium.com)
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by nicholast 6y ago
The brittleness of mainstream ML to out of distribution data is one of the most fundamental channels for error. There are very few domains where a static environment can be depended on over the long term. If machine learning is to be approa
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by nicholast 6y ago
Over time there has been a shift in theme from essays on startups to essays on parenting. I believe this example strongly falls in the latter.
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by nicholast 6y ago
I considered this piece as sort of a loose validation that the Automunge library is filling an unmet need for data scientists. Intended for tabular data preprocessing in the steps immediately preceding the application of machine learning.
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A New Kind of Physics: The Unifying Theory of the Wolfram Model(medium.com)
2 points by nicholast 6y ago|0 comments
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by nicholast 6y ago
Trying to put on my Stephen Wolfram hat here and expect he would refer to this as an example of computational irreducibility.
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by nicholast 6y ago
A fun way to start thinking about the structure of songs is to try your hand at djing, particularly when mixing two songs together with beat-matching and whatnot.

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