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by rm999 11y ago
People concentrate on legislative solutions, but the H-1B program is well-defined by the current law. It seems to me that this is on the executive branch - why isn't the Department of Labor cracking down on obvious abuse? Does anyone k
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>the hardest part isn’t: “We need to increase our accuracy by 2% by using Restricted Convolutionallly Recurrent Bayesian Machines!” The hardest part is convincing people you need to integrate a new process into a “production” workflow, a
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Targeted Marketing with Collaborative Filtering at iHeartRadio(tech.iheart.com)
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These kinds of things can happen surprisingly easily in the real-world. The most common cause is "target leaks", which happen when the thing you are trying to predict accidentally ends up in your dataset, usually indirectly throug
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I can't state this strongly enough: machine learning is not hype. It has been going strong longer than you may realize, has been generating more sustained revenue than you may realize, and has been disrupting (ugh sorry, I hate that te
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>So how do you make a 10x environment on purpose? I think there are two necessary parts: 1. A high level, well-known, agreed-upon plan. Everyone needs to know what they're working towards, why they're working on it, and how the
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>What if the main thing that holds us back is the reliance on cost functions? ... why don't we try modelling emotions as the basic building blocks that drive the AI forward? There are theories that intelligence comes about from rela
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It comes as nitpicking; it should be obvious to even a small child that events outside something's existence couldn't have affected it. It would be like if someone said "IBM has survived every major downturn in the economy&qu
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It's not that I want more features per se, but I want sensible ones. The way f.lux works is worse than a featureless alternative in many ways; it's like an alarm that's hardcoded to go off at sunrise every morning. Flux.s&#x2
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A couple thoughts, as someone who has used f.lux for years and loves what it does: 1. It's a feature, not a product. And a simple one, conceptually. As much as I'd love to have competition in apps offering this functionality (like
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>If people who claim to be MSG-sensitive are eating typical dishes (the kind where MSG is buried in the label as "yeast extract") and reporting symptoms, but aren't responding to a blue cheese burger with mushrooms, someth
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>do you get headaches when you eat blue cheese, parmesan, mushrooms, or tomatoes? Those are naturally intense sources of glutamic acid How much, though? Some quick and dirty math (please correct me if I'm wrong in any of this): 100
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It's not common sense to freely experiment with policy unless you're trying to sell a controversial progressive agenda (like, FDR in 1933). And I say this as a progressive who supports much of what he did. Applying sweeping change
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Yep, that's why the Gear VR has seen such huge investment from Oculus. It offers a decent VR experience with mainstream phones and a cheap(ish) accessory. https://www.oculus.com/en-us/gear-vr/ My impression i
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Not to defend suburbs, but a well-designed suburb/exurb let's you access quite a bit in a reasonable amount of time. My old commute from the East Village to Tribeca, both in downtown Manhattan, was about 25-30 minutes by subway wi
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A Protein in the Gut May Explain Why Some Can't Stomach Gluten(npr.org)
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Most of the educated criticism I've seen isn't about money, it's about power. A lot of his actions have shown that he values power far more than money, and we all know he has been successful in this pursuit (look at the way h
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by rm999 11y ago
Discussing nursing isn't relevant, and even if it is two wrongs don't make a right , which is the logical fallacy you keep making here. But if you want to hear me say it: there's a shortage of nurses and the fact that men ar
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by rm999 11y ago
>Why aren't we as interested in getting, say, more men into nursing... I also don't see a lot of "Women in Pro Football" groups This is seriously your argument? That's so fatalistic: this is the way things are,
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I just skimmed the paper, they achieved 10 microwatts at 10 feet. Yes, micro: this is about a million times less power than a modern smartphone or laptop charges at.
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>While it's hard to interpret a random forest, it's still much more interpretable than a neural network Depends on the domain. The first layer or two of a neural network can be fairly interpretable on image or spectrogram (soun
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>Doing many thousands times better will not be done by incremental improvement This assertion isn't obvious to me. In my experience incremental updates are often exponential in their impact (especially if enough resources are put in
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by rm999 11y ago
Very cool, thanks! Looking forward to playing around with this. FYI, you named a column a reserved sql keyword ('by'). For future reference, and for others reading this: this is bad database design and makes it harder to use the t
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by rm999 11y ago
Effective birth control isn't recent - it was a reasonably flourishing industry and concept by the 1850s (including rubber and skin condoms). American birth rates plummeted from 1800 to the mid 1800s because of this. Modern innovations
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by rm999 11y ago
This stuck out to me: > Even under some very tolerant assumptions, the expected payoff from playing on, for either player, was greater than the expected payoff from accepting the repetition. Payoff, sure. But it's well-known that th
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This should be a top comment - this kind of tracking is not possible at scale and probably won't be for a long time. Identifying a person in a group of 100s/1000s has been a solved problem for decades. Consistently identifying a s
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There's some discussion of companies that hold monopolies in free markets here: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/04/18/for-monopol... . Basically, small companies with strong brands in
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The information issue with healthcare and education is even more perverse than in "Market for Lemons" - it's not that the quality of the product is unknown (although it often arguably is), it's that the price is unknown.
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>you can lobby your local city or state to pass laws against obnoxious billboards, but at some point it is someone else's property Such bans are completely possible and within the rights of a local jurisdiction - they're just e
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>everyone seems to frame the debate in the wrong terms ... when I'm in the middle of something I do not want to be told to pay someone else for goods I do not need ... I flat out refuse consumerist society whenever possible. I don&#

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