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by prestonh 8y ago
It's always bothered me too, obviously when people say "we're killing the planet!" they refer to the biosphere, not the hunk of rock floating around in space.
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by prestonh 8y ago
No, I mean for productivity as well. 10 hour days (for many) aren't all that taxing.
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by prestonh 8y ago
There won't be a universally appealing solution. I have had this discussion with colleagues and most agree a 4x10 week is preferable to the 5x8 work week.
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by prestonh 8y ago
> This is just not true. Do you know the game? Are you speaking as a player? Or are you telling us what's written in the OpenAI blog post? There is nothing a player couldn't figure out. The caster team lost because of the broke
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by prestonh 8y ago
Lua looks like such a fun language to program in, but unfortunately I cannot justify its use in my work aside from small side-projects.
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by prestonh 8y ago
>> No complicated behavior was produced. The bots were routinely pulling off coordinated team behavior that players couldn't figure out, but that worked. This has to qualify as complicated. >> Dota 2 game was not played. A
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by prestonh 8y ago
What is the alternative besides chaining, devise a new variable name for every operation? I understand that daisy chaining can be error prone, but the alternative is so difficult to maintain in long chains.
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by prestonh 8y ago
I come from the background you describe, have lots of friends from the same background, and my experience has been the opposite. Most people know that data is messy business and that as data scientists we will often serve more as engineers
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by prestonh 8y ago
Ive nearly been hit by cars twice as a law abiding pedestrian in the 6 months I have been in Seattle,so theres no way I am cycling here. And as a city on the West Coast, I am sure it is more bike friendly than most in the states. Fortunatel
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by prestonh 8y ago
Could you give some examples? Not challenging you, just curious.
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by prestonh 8y ago
Calorie counting can be wildly inaccurate while still producing the desired effect of weight loss. It probably has more to do with mindful consumption of food than getting the numbers exactly right.
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by prestonh 8y ago
That's correct, but what I mean is that this isnt a traditional software problem, it is a problem related to the workings of NNs themselves, whether they are embedded in software or in pure hardware.
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by prestonh 8y ago
I really doubt that at TI level the drafting advantage is significant enough to give one team 90% advantage. My guess would be closer to 2/3, granted thats still just a complete guess. I think often analysts will use the draft as an ex
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by prestonh 8y ago
The barriers preventing self-driving cars from taking off right now aren't software related though, they're fundamentally related to the limitations of neural networks that people didn't think would be an issue 1 or 2 years b
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by prestonh 8y ago
I don't have much experience with Matlab, so forgive me if this is incorrect, but numpy should be able to do everything that matlab can at comparable speeds. No one performing matrix/vector-like operations is doing so with standar
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by prestonh 8y ago
You're right, it definitely depends on the field. The paper I am referencing looked at psychology, I believe. It is likely that a social science would have greater issues with reproducibility than a physical science.
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by prestonh 8y ago
Serious defense: p-values have been in use for a long time, and while they are error prone a larger number of true results has been found than false results (according to recent research the ratio is 2:1 reproducible to non-reproducible). I
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by prestonh 8y ago
This 'assumption' always bothered me when studying for DS roles because it's something that you're expected to know if asked, but isn't really true/accurate. Another is the non-collinearity assumption between v
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by prestonh 9y ago
Uber basically does own the Carnegie Mellon CS department, they hired up most of the faculty a few years back. https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carn...
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by prestonh 9y ago
That looks completely identical to all bike lanes I've seen in suburban areas. I think bike lanes are just inherently dangerous. Would be interesting to see what a well-designed suburban bike lane looks like.
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by prestonh 9y ago
I think you hit the nail on the head with a lot of your points. In particular: >> 1. Smart, capable students have the "inferiority complex" of being surrounded by CalTech, USC, UCLA. They know they need to push harder to hav
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by prestonh 9y ago
It shows correlations between colors. Consider two images, one with lots of purple and one with equal amounts of red and blue. Since the color purple is equal parts red and blue, we don't expect to see much difference in the one dimens
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by prestonh 9y ago
I think you are really missing the point here. The audience doesn't care whether the dinosaurs depicted are scientifically accurate, they only care whether they look like they could be accurate, and that is a big distinction. It is abo
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by prestonh 9y ago
And with anaconda distribution, you can't have any special characters, nor spaces in the path of the installation directory. And, in some machines that have multiple users, the default installation directory is a hidden folder which ca
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by prestonh 9y ago
It is in that she assumed he was American because he was white though.
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by prestonh 9y ago
Spot on, but whoever is to blame the grad students shouldn't have to bear the burden unless we want a society of undereducated people.
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by prestonh 9y ago
In equilibrium that's true, but the whole problem is that we're not in equilibrium at the moment. That's what climate change is all about. If we can increase the albedo (reflectance coefficient, basically) of the planet, we c
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by prestonh 9y ago
I would assume that this means that you may work at home everyday, but must be accessible for occasional in-person meetings.
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by prestonh 9y ago
Haven't read the paper, but the large energy requirements for desalination right now come from the rough interiors of the channels creating large frictional forces which resist the flow of water. Carbon nanotubes don't suffer that
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by prestonh 9y ago
Can't say I could answer all these questions, but I think they're really great and motivate me to spend more time studying statistics. With the rise in data science and machine learning I've noticed a lot of resources devoted

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