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by piccolbo 8y ago
It's good to look at previous experiences that failed, but conditions are ever-changing. Ad clickthrough is down, ad-blockers are up, more media outlets closing. Eventually, it will be advertorial content or subscription. Or some other
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by piccolbo 8y ago
It's simple, you retrain the model several times removing one sample at a time (leave-one-out cross-validation), until the erratic behavior disappears. You repeat until there are no more instances of erratic behavior. Sorry couldn&#x2
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by piccolbo 8y ago
At first glance I thought it was the sw equivalent of the "slow food" movement. No such luck.
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by piccolbo 8y ago
I inherited a code base that other people thought they understood. People have very different tolerance levels for complexity and lack of control. People here complain about bad coders but the incentives out there are all aligned against qu
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by piccolbo 8y ago
Another update, on their v2 sentence embedding basilica is ahead of Infersent for my task. Well done basilica!
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by piccolbo 8y ago
So I am going to answer it myself. On batched data, it's a lot faster than 200ms per embedding and I'd say on a par with Infersent. On the other hand, I couldn't get statistical performance in the same ballpark as Infersent a
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by piccolbo 8y ago
You quote a target of 200ms per embedding, not sure if it's one type of embedding in particular. I am using Infersent (a sentence embedding from FAIR https://github.com/facebookresearch/InferSent ) for filtering an
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by piccolbo 8y ago
The funny thing is that this is actually how R development works. The main package repo is CRAN. If your package is not there, your inbox will fill with "can't install help". But getting your tests to pass on CRAN is an obsta
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by piccolbo 8y ago
I am collecting links to SCRUM-related criticism at https://againstscrum.tumblr.com/ Please contribute!
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by piccolbo 8y ago
One thing that fascinates me about archeology is how they would come up with new conclusions based on a single observation. Quite the smallest sample size of any natural science I can think of, only thing I can compare to is the case study
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by piccolbo 8y ago
Look, email doesn't work, that's clear proof. DNS doesn't either and if the whole Internet hadn't been centralized long ago, it would have stopped working in, like, 1982. Or, maybe, they are not being honest and centrali
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by piccolbo 8y ago
That's unavoidable. He's called manager for a reason. I would replace powerpoint for excel in my experience. Everyone wants a leader they can look up to and admire, not a PM.
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by piccolbo 8y ago
Please one element of evidence that scrum predates agile.
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by piccolbo 8y ago
If you know how to read through the lines, these documents are pure gold. Bosses who say "work under/for me"? Stay away, egomaniacs. You always work for an organization, not an egomaniac. My job is to "give you context&q
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by piccolbo 8y ago
You just need to hire engineers that fit the space (between 5'9" and 5'11" tall). What is the problem? Hiring is difficult anyway ...
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by piccolbo 9y ago
This is free AI. If you paid for it, it would serve you. This way, it serves whoever pays for it. Email from top fintech asking me to work on their "personalized recommendation system that balances engagement, revenue, and our partner
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by piccolbo 9y ago
"designed to make you come back" ... but that's true of the whole ad-supported internet, broadcast TV etc. If it's free, you are the product. Still a problem, but not just a FB problem.
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by piccolbo 9y ago
I got tired to skim hundreds of RSS feeds, some very noisy. So I created an NLP and ML-powered RSS proxy that scores each message for "interestingness" and re-delivers it. "Interestingness" is a purely subjective classi
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by piccolbo 9y ago
Why not work on the only two existential threats to mankind currently known, nuclear war and global warming? If global nuclear war or extreme climate change occur, what else matters?
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by piccolbo 9y ago
And by the way, I couldn't care less about this post, it's just that I can't stand seeing ego depletion theory repeated forever and the fine minds of HN readers contaminated by it.
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by piccolbo 9y ago
As an aside, the research on ego depletion that he quotes in uncritical terms has been completely discredited. The phenomenon does not exist. Of course, to know that you need to read science blogs, not books. But there are books about ego d
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by piccolbo 16y ago
Main points: * works with most feeds and feed readers * filter the feeds you want, not some other stuff on top of what you have to read already * uses 1 second yes/no feedback for fine tuning * uses state of the art algos for text analysis
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Rightload: an adaptive feed filter -- feedback sought(rightload.info)
1 points by piccolbo 16y ago|1 comments