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by psv1 7y ago
In addition to everything else that's been mentioned - you can simple use PCA as a preprocessing step to other algorithms. For example, you can apply a linear regression algorithm using the principal components as input instead of the
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> when I asked them what they knew about their boss's hobbies and interests, they hadn't googled them yet. It feels a bit too creepy to show knowledge about the interests of people you don't know just because you googled t
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And racists.
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Considering how murky the definitions are, it's ridiculous to say that ML has no future but data science is a predictable career path.
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> Stu was a live player and he would probably eat every current "online" poker player alive if he sat down on a real table and could get his legendary reads off. I couldn't disagree more with this but all of that is just s
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It's software engineering with a lot of statistics. Even if the titles and hype-cycles change, the core skills will be in-demand for a while.
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> If he had access to these things, then he would have played at an even higher level than he did. Access isn't enough, it takes a lot of work. There are plenty of talented players who simply can't hang with the people who spen
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I don't know who OP is referring to but I would argue against the notion that there are a couple of players who are clearly the best to ever live. The edges between the top players are way too small to determine this especially at the
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> Being a sick drug addict and winning tournaments was just raw ability. And lots of luck. The variance in low sample sizes is ridiculously high, especially in tournaments.
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I think the idea is that you spend the recession years in a relatively safe albeit badly paid position which can potentially lead to more lucrative opportunities in the post-recession years. This makes some sense except that your skill in p
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I don't keep a general knowledge repo but recently I realised that I've gone through a bunch of books on math, statistics and machine learning that approach the same topics in different ways. I started a "knowledge repository
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It isn't either-or . You can have reasonable laws that protect people's rights and privacy, and compile and check the source if you wish to do so.
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I don't think that a hypothetical person will object.
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> Solution: > 1 - send us your data (probably a spreadsheet/CSV/Excel file) > 2 - we analyze the data, and send you a list of questions that we can answer/insights that we can derive > 3 - you select which of the
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Discussion about potentially laying off a third of the company's employees - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21062231 It's not an outrageous or self-absorbed question to ask.
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A strictly reverse-chronological feed.
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Apart from the official tutorials what are the best resources out there for learning PyTorch?
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Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn PyTorch apart from pytorch.org?
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- The Elasticsearch DSL is obscure on good days and makes absolutely no sense on others. - Matplotlib - both the object-oriented api and pyplot - I need to look up the same things over and over again - More generally - any Python/R fu
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I would recommend 3blue1brown only if you've already covered the material in another way. It's a great way to get some new intuition about things, the videos can help something 'click' and are a pleasant watch with an ob
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Legality aside, this has a bunch of other red flags all over it. Capitalising the nots and musts is so off-putting.
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Not a dig at you because I understand that you're using Apple simply as an example of a big company, but Apple hypothetically buying GitLab sounds soo ridiculous.
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Use this - https://matplotlib.org/3.1.1/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.s...
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Bokeh is not a skin over matplotlib.
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Seaborn isn't usable without matplotlib, nor does it aim to be. It gives you simple high-level calls and as soon as you need to tweak your plot you're back to matplotlib. (Similar to the pandas plotting shown in the article actual
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The matlab plotting syntax got transferred to Python through matplotlib and got very deeply ingrained - was first, got popular, built into pandas and statsmodels, foundation of seaborn etc. Recently I saw a snippet of Julia code that uses &
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The pandas wrappers around matplotlib are convenient but for anything that needs customising, you'll need to reach for the full matplotlib API anyway.
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Are you saying that tech salaries being generally higher than other industries' is a problem?
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> I am also aware of the public sentiment/resentment towards the industry as a whole. Can you or anyone else elaborate on this? I'm really not aware of this negative sentiment.
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The last one is more likely to happen and things work out better when it isn't an explicit goal.

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