ploika

22 ms·

151.
by ploika 7y ago
To be fair, the answer to that question is probably someone's PhD thesis.
152.
by ploika 7y ago
This isn't meant as an ad hominem attack but a general moan about moans about the media: not enough people distinguish between news reporting and opinion and analysis pieces. RTE, The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Economist, The Finan
153.
by ploika 7y ago
It still sounds like you think I'm experiencing American style politics and media. It's silly to act like tabloid press and opinion pieces by vested interests are the same as dry fact-based reporting on the passage of bills throug
154.
by ploika 7y ago
I absolutely cannot believe that the top answer is "ignore the news and spend more time on Twitter". This is "Live, Laugh, Love" levels of pseudo-enlightenment. It is important to know what's happening in the world.
155.
by ploika 7y ago
The book I used in college was "Mathematics for Finance: An Introduction to Financial Engineering" by Marek Capinski and Tomasz Zastawniak. You can easily find (legal) PDFs of it online. I should say that a lot of people in my cla
156.
by ploika 7y ago
The matrix multiplications should be the same (down to floating point accuracy limitations) but there might be very slight differences in how things like random dropout or stochastic gradient descent work in one framework versus the other.
157.
by ploika 7y ago
I've never used it myself, but kdb+ is meant to be excellent if you need it.
158.
by ploika 7y ago
For a while in secondary school I was learning three languages at once - French, German and Irish (Gaelic). I'm Irish, native English speaker, in case it wasn't obvious. In general I think it helped to learn them in parallel rathe
159.
by ploika 7y ago
Slightly off-topic, but I find it interesting that Google has been taking out two-page ads in The Economist for the past few weeks pushing the message that you control what data you share with them, and that it's really easy to decide
160.
by ploika 7y ago
The lack of mature libraries in the style of pandas, sklearn or the tidyverse, and the lack of a stable REPL is a major drawback for "production" data science. On the other hand though I've had fun playing with it in a person
161.
by ploika 7y ago
A handful of places around Dublin have active Robotic Process Automation (RPA) teams, which seems to be what's being discussed here. The Big Four consultancies and Accenture spring to mind. I think the likes of Fidelity and Citi have f
162.
by ploika 7y ago
University Rankings are like the Body Mass Index of figuring out how good a university is - not entirely useless, but not to be used as anything more than a very rough gauge of what's going on. That said, QS break down their (global) r
163.
by ploika 7y ago
First of all, tone down the aggression. People are constantly harping on about how much better HN is than everywhere else on the internet. Your reply lends the lie to that complete fiction. Take a moment to reflect on your own communication
164.
by ploika 7y ago
That's misleading. It wasn't a bait-and-switch. In fine EU tradition there was long drawn-out horse-trading and compromise and settlement on a candidate tolerable enough to be accepted by 28 different countries and the European Pa
165.
by ploika 7y ago
1Password is my only software subscription, and over the years I've bought the paid versions of a couple of Android apps that I get a kick out of. I have online subscriptions to a couple of newspapers too, which I suppose I should coun
166.
by ploika 7y ago
Not a human right as such, but it's the law pretty much everywhere in the world. A shop refusing to accept legal tender seem pretty brazenly illegal to me.
167.
by ploika 7y ago
Lots. They operate all over Europe. They were called mytaxi until a couple of months ago, and absorbed Hailo and many other ride hailing services over the past few years.
168.
by ploika 7y ago
> a bunch of Irishmen think the forests are spooky Watch those snide remarks please. The people who live near these plantations want forestry to be done right.
169.
by ploika 7y ago
According to the INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard, Atlanta is ranked at 71 while Dublin is worse at 52. How long were you in Dublin? http://inrix.com/scorecard/
170.
by ploika 7y ago
You're talking about prediction and classification, not inference. Why was I denied car insurance? How come I didn't get past the initial algorithmic screening phase of that job application? If you can't answer those question
171.
by ploika 7y ago
Because "computer says so" isn't good enough when your decisions affect someone else's life. The standards are set in other areas of statistical modelling, not other areas of software development. There are countless exa
172.
by ploika 7y ago
Bayesian Data Analysis by Andrew Gelman http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/
173.
by ploika 7y ago
I agree, but that's not really relevant to the discussion about extremism and online censorship. Also I'm Irish, living in Ireland. Apart from maybe funding a health service that's not fit for purpose, it's a serious str
174.
by ploika 7y ago
Why should the web be treated any different to radio or TV? A cable news channel doesn't get carte blanche to broadcast uncensored beheading or mass shooting videos at any hour of the day so why should a website not be obliged to take
175.
by ploika 7y ago
Not a single one of those signatories is far left. The overwhelming majority are centre right. And historically, efforts to curb uncritical airtime for violent and dangerous people have been fairly common (albeit not entirely uncontroversia
176.
by ploika 7y ago
That's a pretty silly example. North Korea is North Korea precisely because of the extremism.
177.
by ploika 7y ago
Live streaming murder is horrifying.
178.
by ploika 7y ago
When I get a plumber over to my apartment to fix the sink I don't want him telling his colleagues what's in my medicine cabinet.
179.
by ploika 7y ago
Get over yourselves. You are a very arrogant bunch. You are not a genius and neither am I. Being able to write a unit test does not automatically make you smarter than someone who studied humanities in college. Living in the USA does not ma
180.
by ploika 7y ago
Not significantly different to how it is today. Potentially much worse. It's solipsistic to think that more engineers and software developers would help with some of these social problems. Sociology, economics and politics are difficul

More ›