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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The article only mentions that forecasts for the increase of cell-phone demand in China is around 14%, whereas that same market experienced 27% growth from 2014 to now (we'd have to follow the article's sources to confirm this o
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> This is strictly true the best kind of true.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
More generally this is an empirical question. Does shouting cause improved performance? Just Googling, a lot of people don't think it does (me among them) and seem to have plausible reasons, but that's not an empirically decis
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I think you might be referring to the early exit syndrome of Midwestern startups [1]. The point of the article was not to say that exits are bad, only that to develop a cultural milieu of technology in a particular region, there is a need f
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The same idea happens in sports coaching, where simulating a stressful environment is not generally desired except in certain situations. Yet coaches yelling at youth league basketball players who just so happened to miss their first few fr
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
For more on the view that stochasticity fundamentally parallels reality, an interesting read is "The Dawning of the Age of Stochasticity" by David Mumford [1]. I also think it's interesting that methods like Hybrid Monte Carl
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
No statistical method is impervious to malicious attempts to subvert it. That said, reasoning between two different models on the basis of magnitude of t-stat is inherently flawed. That is, such an inference process doesn't possess
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Exactly. This is a form of counterfactual bias. It's easy to imagine how you were "almost right" and give yourself credit for that, but it's much harder to imagine when you were "almost wrong" and correctly pen
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The way I understand this is that a lot of it comes down to articulating useful prior distributions over some of the outcomes to be predicted. The kind of backtesting that this post explores, which is basically the bread and butter of &quot
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Especially when you consider that the first failure mode should be to ask for clarification if you are unsure. It's completely unreasonable for them to claim they read the rules, and upon their singular reading of the rule, they wer
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
You get to see the feature vectors of the test set, or at least submit your algorithm to execute upon them. If you can see the features of the test set but not the labels or target variable for each feature vector, then you can't use i
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
> Wow, just mentioning himself in an essay about his search to learn historical figures are is pretty normal for this type of essay. He is trying to relate to the figures he is writing about. I've read people talking about Nelson go
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
You seem to have been reading a very different article than what I read, or else you are reading it with a desire to be permissive of Wolfram's overt self-promotion. The issue is not with innocuous asides, like the comment about his sc
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Who is talking about banning what he writes?
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I disagree strongly with this. Wolfram himself litters the entire essay with asides in which he compares and contrasts his own place within science history with both Babbage and Lovelace. If Wolfram wanted to write a neutral historical acco
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I'm not sure that I understand your point. It seems very reasonable to me to consider a raw HDFS as a type of NoSQL data storage mechanism, with other components of the Hadoop framework acting on top of it as query languages and other
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
It could also be possible that most of the time violence is avoided, it is also due to moral sentiments.
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
This is not quite accurate. You'd have to figure that if people are canceling subscriptions as part of a random process, then they ought to also be signing up for a subscription randomly too. When it averages out, ESPN should be seeing
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Julia and Cython are just two of the languages that already achieve this (albeit with their own warts and bumps) and from what I see at the Ritchie page, I think I'll stick with those. BTW -- speaking as someone who first learned to pr
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
While the issue in this article is certainly important, it is frustrating for me to hear about it because I am currently dealing with the opposite situation: small-town local politics are being used by a local prosecutor to justify reducing
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
But in Python, to do currying, you either use decorators, functools.partial, or forced early binding (like nested function factories), etc. Just because currying is a thing you can do in the language (in a much different way than in Haskell
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I love Haskell, but I'm not sure this would actually be better for Python. To be Haskell-like, the comment would actually be different than what you wrote: #greeting :: str -> int -> str and this is specifically related to the fu
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
I resent these kind of counter-intuitive "I made a lot of money, didn't actually think it would make me happy because I'm just that insightful, and lo and behold I was right all along" stories. It reminds me of an Andrew
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
Ahh, that makes sense now. So it's leveraging the built-in hook for custom decoding. I actually did not know that the `# coding: utf-8` happened at parse time, nor that it allowed for custom decoding function. I'd be very happy to
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
This still doesn't make it easy to understand how it is executing. Is there a hook on import that detects the file in which it's imported, searches for the # coding language pragma line, and then actually alters the text of the so
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
The thing I hate about the truth-o-meter stuff (either promises kept or broken) is that so much of it is still subjective and a matter of degrees and opinions. If Obama (just as an example) promised to "implement" some program or
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I agree specialists will not be satisfied with just doing generalist work without any other offsetting compensation, but this is why I said you have to pay them well and be very flexible about work style and work environment. You're al
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by p4wnc6 11y ago
One problem with this that many orgs face is that later down the road when your business has grown, now you need to hire a lot of specialists (usually in a big hurry), and in fact at that point hiring the new specialists often matters way,
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I take this even further. I think all maintenance should be framed by the business as: > What ideas do you have about how the solutions to these specific bugs/tickets/requests can simultaneously improve the existing system, e
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If this happens once or twice and gets resolved quickly, then sure it's OK. It can happen, and even if "team player" is often misused as a politicized HR code word, most of us developers still do want to be team players in th

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