princeofwands

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by princeofwands 8y ago
Predictive modeling will be nearly automated (except in cases where manual feature engineering helps). Data science will focus more attention on solution finding, data gathering, cleaning, ETL, and business.
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by princeofwands 8y ago
There is a psychological effect when spending money with credit cards. Spending physical cash hurts one the most, then debit cards, and credit cards cause the least hurt. It is very easy to overspend with credit cards, and leave the tab for
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by princeofwands 8y ago
It was a Cold War battle between Russia and the US. RAND Corporation found in 1973 that the US was falling behind in paranormal research. > (1) Soviet research is much more oriented toward biological and physical investigation of paranor
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by princeofwands 8y ago
1.) A super-intelligent mind could predict what it would do. Then we can make it tell us. 2.) Here you conflate "intelligence" with biological power structures (energy resources, territorial plotting). That is like asking where ai
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by princeofwands 8y ago
You do not need 100% accuracy. Easy data mining: "Religious center" is a top-level category. "Religious school" is a type of "School". "Marijuana Dispensary" is a type of "Shop & Service&quot
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by princeofwands 8y ago
Denying people their right to gather peacefully at a lawful political rally, simply because you posit them as irredeemably evil, is a hallmark of fascism. And even though I do not agree with your blatant Nazi mindset, I will fight for your
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by princeofwands 8y ago
Yes. Foursquare sells your location data to other companies. These companies then know: Where you live, where you work, how you commute, if you use drugs, if you drink a lot, if you are gay, if you are religious, your favorite food, an esti
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by princeofwands 8y ago
Also scary considering that if Airbnb does not like you, for whatever valid or invalid reason, you are not welcome in either local hosting or hotels worldwide. Given that Airbnb already declined hosting people they considered attending a la
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1973: Chile's bold 1970s-era plan to network and automate their economy (2012)(damninteresting.com)
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by princeofwands 8y ago
It is not the ML model that is updated with information, but the predictive modeler herself is updated. She now finds parameters that make the model perform well on that specific test set. This gives you overly optimistic estimates of gener
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by princeofwands 8y ago
To use the test set explicitly for evaluation is a deadly sin. When found out, you'd face serious damage to your reputation (Like Baidu did a few years ago). [1] What the decreasing performance results on the remade CIFAR-10 test set s
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by princeofwands 8y ago
The teams specialize.
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by princeofwands 8y ago
Current application: Better character - and token completion helps make it easier for people with physical disabilities to interact with computers. http://www.inference.org.uk/djw30/papers/uist2000.pdf (pdf) Resea
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by princeofwands 8y ago
PR is quite similar to a neural network with a single extremely wide layer. Unless you are hashing the polynomials, you will quickly run into an intractible problem, while properly setup NNs automatically learn which polynomials are needed
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by princeofwands 8y ago
It really is lizardpeople-style crazy. It is halfway between a troll and a Russian PSYOP. That language really does it justice.
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by princeofwands 8y ago
Hillary Clinton showed 4chan Pepe memes during her campaign. The Vice President is protected by soldiers who wear a Qanon-patch. Pizzagate and Podesta's hacked emails play a large role in the Russia investigation.
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by princeofwands 8y ago
We had a policy of "we only want satisfied customers". Being very forthcoming and easy-going with a return policy makes support super easy. When people complained, we pro-actively offered to reimburse them (sometimes they would ev
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by princeofwands 8y ago
> the ineptitude of ML algorithms. Computer vision can show greater-than-estimated-human-performance, while still failing hilariously unhuman once in a while. People remember the 1 in a 1000 wonky recommendation that made them do a doubl
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by princeofwands 8y ago
- what is your runway? - what is my equity (potential)? - is there already a technical platform/process to do my work, or does this need to be build first?
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by princeofwands 8y ago
Really cool concept. Thanks!
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by princeofwands 8y ago
> you could compress text to an equally random sequence More or less correct. The key difference is that you could not compress a random coin flip sequence (and that a compressed text is meaningless until decompressed to original). >
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by princeofwands 8y ago
Shannon information deliberately only concerns syntactic information (information content). Other, more recent work, focuses on semantic information (information with meaning for a receiver). > Shannon information theory provides various
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by princeofwands 8y ago
An apocryphal story on commercial translation for aircraft maintenance manuals stated how aircraft engineers were instructed to "take out the broken object and place it back in". The original sentence was "to replace the brok
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by princeofwands 8y ago
Please don't accuse me of spreading misinformation. The case was linked on the page I cited. https://www.aclu-wa.org/docs/chinn-v-blankenship-complaint > If police want to classify you as that, that's fine
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by princeofwands 8y ago
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2016/01/20/u-twittert-wel-heel-vee... Tweet: "The city council of Sliedrecht proposes to accept 250 refugees in the next 2 years. What a bad plan! #Resist" Result: Pol
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by princeofwands 8y ago
It is digital surveillance. I could mine all your opinions from 7963 posts. Find those subjects that trigger a nervous or anxious psychological reaction or subjects that produce bad sentiment. Find out your sleep cycle. Find that one post f
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by princeofwands 8y ago
A telling association fallacy. Unlike Zuck, I pose that Privacy is not dead. It starts to smell funny though. Of course, I am a realist: Police Officers are using Google Earth to look in the walled gardens of suspicious civilians. It is pub
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by princeofwands 8y ago
> Is there any reasonable sense to privacy at that point? Yes there is. This data is mined without reasonable suspicion, and shared with all parties, including contractors (commercial companies). Surveillance without suspicion, storing s
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by princeofwands 8y ago
Yes, they are interested in private Facebook data. And no, you can't trust Facebook to not facilitate them if the wallets get opened, or if the police gets creative and starts sending you friend requests. https://theintercep
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by princeofwands 8y ago
But it would be better if they had to show reasonable suspicion. > Effective law enforcement often requires undercover work, information gathering and surveillance of suspected criminals. Such surveillance should be based on reasonable

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