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by psoy 6y ago
This is called "rationalization", and to be honest, it looks worse than you may realize.
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by psoy 6y ago
The inference-based methods in AI qre more likely to he of the "probabilistic graphical models" variety (there are already marriages of Bayesian and Deep Learning techniques), and less likely to be of the "first order predica
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by psoy 7y ago
That's not an example of genius by any stretch of imagination, sorry.
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by psoy 7y ago
Borges used to deliberately make up medieval sources and reference non-existent works of literature. It's in his genre, see [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertiu...
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by psoy 7y ago
Sensitivity and recall are two names for the same thing, Mr Stats 101 :) Also, please explain the problem with using ROC here. The probabilistic interpretation of ROC's AUC is the probability of correctly ranking a random mixed pair (i
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by psoy 7y ago
Ever heard of the halting problem?
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by psoy 7y ago
"Less bad" and "equally bad" are incompatible statements, you're claiming both are true
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by psoy 8y ago
Same with Armenian: I can read and understand 5th century texts simply as an educated native speaker. It probably has to do with how much the culture relies on its written texts (because there are spoken dialects of Armenian that I dom&#x27
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by psoy 8y ago
What kind of company do you work for?
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by psoy 8y ago
> 1. Steve Jobs was a couple of standard deviations better at this than almost anyone This is a statistical oxymoron.
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by psoy 8y ago
It matters very much in computational / quant finance
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by psoy 9y ago
I don't know, wouldn't be so sure without actual supporting data. Anecdotally I know many talented people who got "broken" at high school level (due to any number of issues, from poverty to physical and emotional trauma)
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by psoy 10y ago
Sounds like Appeal to Authority to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority FWIW I am also someone who knows what he's talking about, as I am a seasoned professional in the same line of work. This
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by psoy 10y ago
This is silly in my view, and bordering on pseudoscience-level writing. It's not a random historical accident that we use these quantities. Variance / stdev appear all over probability and statistics. For example, in this famous S
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by psoy 11y ago
Thanks for the link. I've been looking through these subreddits too, there's some neat stuff there: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lightbulb/top/?sort=top&t=year https://www.reddit.com&#x2F
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Ask HN: What is a useful, minimal app that doesn't exist yet?
5 points by psoy 11y ago|3 comments
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by psoy 11y ago
Armenia was an empire at some point, just not at the time of Ani. The title could be referring to Armenia in general, since it's most definitely an empire the world forgot about :)
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by psoy 11y ago
Yup, Bagratunis were among the longest reigning dynasties in the region (in all of Europe & Middle East, AFAIK). The last name still pops up even today, in various dialectal forms. Like this Lebanese-Armenian politician: https:/&#