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by rm999 6y ago
"Completely reject the validity" is an interesting way to word your thoughts in a comment about checks and balances :P The board that regulates emissions in California is basically run by the executive, with legislative oversight:
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by rm999 6y ago
This feels different to me. Apple released a detailed, concrete ten year roadmap that other companies can follow - this already indicates serious commitment. There are enough in-flight initiatives that if carbon neutrality is deprioritized
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by rm999 6y ago
It’s a nonstandard definition at best. While regression is a name given to some algorithms (linear and logistic for example), this is an artifact of the statistical foundations of ML. Its standard use in ML is to describe the problem, not t
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A short history of the O’Reilly animals(oreilly.com)
2 points by rm999 6y ago|1 comments
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by rm999 7y ago
>It's factually untrue that the Grand Caravan went up in price when adjusted for inflation. He explicitly says that right before? "4/ For example, our inflation-adjusted data say car prices have not increased since the mid
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by rm999 7y ago
Really happy to hear this. As someone who went to Hopkins I would fully encourage my children to apply (I had a great time and got an amazing education). But the idea that I spent a few years of my life there 40 years ago feels irrelevant t
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by rm999 7y ago
>I estimate generously that 50,000 of them are economically productive in the sense of producing something of value that can be 'exported' from this city. I'm confused, are you saying that services don't have value? I
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by rm999 7y ago
NYC has learned the hard way that there should be some preservation; destroying/modifying a building is a one-way act, and over a long enough time horizon someone will eventually make a bad decision that everyone regrets later. See for
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by rm999 7y ago
>Computing has always centered on data Sure, well-thought out data structures were an integral part of good clean code, but the bulk of data was an artifact of software in the form of logs and largely unused database records, not the &qu
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by rm999 7y ago
> A third big name in the field, the roboticist Pieter Abbeel, made $425,000, though he did not join until June 2016, after taking a leave from his job as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Those figures all include s
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by rm999 7y ago
Agreed, I went through a similar flow. Direct link to the image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Pr... Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500
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by rm999 7y ago
Non-WSJ link: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/14/saudi-arabia-is-shutting-dow...
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by rm999 7y ago
>in data analysis/science, there's more than way to highlight/analyze a problem, and more than one way to solve it. In my experience, the best solutions are often the craziest. I strongly disagree. I have hired, mentored,
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by rm999 7y ago
>I'm getting pretty tired of this story. I read an article a few weeks ago that mentioned CreditKarma has free tools for tax prep, so I signed up for it and I'm planning on using it next year. This is exactly what I did this ye
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by rm999 7y ago
I know a lot of senior data people (read: high demand tech people) applying there right now. A few things: 1. People who work there are generally happy. Interesting problems to work on, a company where tech is respected, etc. 2. A lot of th
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by rm999 8y ago
Most of the issues discussed in the article are not from limits in precision, they're from overflows that arise from limits in the exponential range. Finding the average of 8e+307 and 8e+307 is a "low precision" problem, and
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by rm999 8y ago
I moved to NYC from a tier 2 city and found the expectations tend to be about the same (~40 hours). That said, a city like NYC can attract and retain type-A people who work long hours, so I think on average NYCers work longer hours than my
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by rm999 8y ago
Not to disagree because you're totally correct, but the winning model used GBMs (a non-linear model) and a bunch of subtracted correlated features to great success. When using GBMs, subtracting two features can add a lot of value. htt
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by rm999 8y ago
>One competitor found that the difference between two of the features, specifically f527 — f528 I read through the thread where f527 — f528 was discovered, and mostly the finding was that those two features alone were very predictive. Fu
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by rm999 8y ago
I've used Segment at two companies in a row (in both cases they were implemented at early stages before I joined). It's a good product with broken pricing. They charge insane amounts of money for add-ons and seem to get exponentia
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by rm999 8y ago
I'm not a recruiter, but I spend a lot of my time building up teams so I figure that makes me a de facto recruiter. I've personally gone both extremes: 1. Spamming linkedin, message boards, etc. 2. Seeking out specific candidates,
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by rm999 8y ago
Ah whoops you're right! At 8:39 I saw a mention of a scanning electron microscope and thought they were saying they used it in the analysis. They are actually saying one would be needed for that particular sample.
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by rm999 8y ago
Cool video, but what a disappointingly inaccurate title. Spoiler alert: they spent days finding metallic dust, cleaning the dust, and sifting through the samples with a microscope. They shipped ~15-20 interesting samples to Europe where an
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by rm999 8y ago
>Any job that has included in the listing for job responsibilities: "A passion for what you do", I have not applied to. You're mistaking "passion for what you do" with "passion for a job". I've wor
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by rm999 8y ago
Pretty sure yes; after Safari started blocking third party cookies by default a few years ago, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft have all started supporting the option to use first party cookies to get around this. As I understand it, they de
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by rm999 8y ago
This comment is skewing what LIC is. LIC is a neighborhood in its infancy because it was rezoned from primarily industrial to residential/commercial only a few years ago. But it's basically the perfect neighborhood for the city to
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by rm999 8y ago
I believe they are referring to the number of transistors per chip (which as you correctly state are not "moving parts"). Also, fun fact: these chips are 7+ years old now! https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/
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by rm999 8y ago
Yep exactly. Especially for smaller, faster growing companies: what you choose to not work on is usually more important than what you choose to work on (once you remove the core work to support the company's current state). Without s
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by rm999 8y ago
I'm sure many have seen this, but this was clarifying for me: https://i.imgur.com/1zUUPGh.jpg Yes, the notch introduced unfortunate design headaches, but it maximizes utility given current technology. I think if you to
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by rm999 8y ago
Full dataset is here: https://www.scribd.com/document/388081338/BANKRATE-Most-Valu... For those of you who are wondering, Computer Engineering is 14th, "Mathematics and Computer Science" is 23rd and Comp

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