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by rm999 10y ago
Glmnet has quite a bit of functionality that is lacking in the Python elastic net implementations. The most notable is the regularization parameter sequence grid search (alpha in statsmodel, lambda in glmnet) which works remarkably well and
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I've put substantial amounts of R code into production - it's a nightmare. Both for development and operationally. I think 2-3 years ago R was still a superior language for ML/data science dev work. But Python's library
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by rm999 10y ago
Years of experience is just a half-assed but objective proxy for "are you good at this?" Do you feel like you're a good match for the positions? If you're not a good match the HR person is doing their job and doing you a
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This is one of the most insightful things about Moore's Law I've read: https://www.quora.com/How-long-will-Moores-Law-continue-to-a... Moore's Law is a limit that ultimately arises from economics. The costs t
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by rm999 10y ago
For anyone interested in Spark, I created http://www.reddit.com/r/apachespark a couple years ago. It's a relatively small subreddit given the popularity of Spark, and could use more users :)
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I found this study that supports chimeracoder's claim: http://www.aidsmap.com/Life-expectancy-now-considerably-exce... >A study from the US has found that some groups of people with HIV, especially those treated bef
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by rm999 10y ago
>The IRS claims Facebook’s tax adviser Ernst & Young LLP undervalued the company’s property as it was transferred to Facebook Ireland Holdings Ltd. by evaluating pieces of the online platform separately, according to court filings ..
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Maxims for Modelers [1989/1997](anderson.ucla.edu)
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> "Ms. Highsmith has stipulated that her photographs are in the public domain" - Library of Congress ( http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/482_high.html ) > "Highsmith says she never abandoned
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by rm999 10y ago
All the discussion and research in the thread you responded to is about genetics, not race. So you're either not following carefully or you're trying to create a politically charged tangent. Either way I think it's worth resp
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by rm999 10y ago
>There was a huge movement, especially post-WW2, to scientifically "want" to find that all humans were the same and therefore "equal" ... The Chinese obviously have little need to adhere to US political correctness I
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by rm999 10y ago
>Using self-identified rich to derive an income baseline for rich still means “rich” is self-identified, no? I don't agree with this - I know a guy who makes 500k a year who considers himself "upper middle class", but this
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by rm999 10y ago
I'm confused, I just read the report in the article and everything you're saying seems to be wrong. Are you referring to a different report than this one? http://www.urban.org/research/publication/growing
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by rm999 10y ago
This paper covers mixing different types: http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b97053/paper/Rendle2010FM.pdf (this paper covers a related but different technique). See figure 1 for an example of mixing ratings, indicator v
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by rm999 10y ago
That's the dimensionality of the resulting word vectors in word2vec; in the item2vec paper this is the "dimension parameter m".
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by rm999 10y ago
I don't get the innovation in this paper - are they just running word2vec on groups of items? If so, Spotify has been doing this on playlists for years now: https://erikbern.com/2013/11/02/model-benchmark
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by rm999 10y ago
In all fairness, future cities may still be designed around that kind of transportation. Not many cities have been designed and built in the last 10 years. Also, I didn't know Steve Jobs had any kind of relationship with the Segway. Bu
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by rm999 10y ago
Western Europe I think? It's confusing, some of the circles are shaded inside and some outside. I think the idea is if the ping is high it covers the whole globe except a circle around the antipodes (shaded outside), and if the ping is
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by rm999 10y ago
The video in the article says they automatically turn the oven on when they're 3 minutes from the delivery (they have like 50 ovens in the truck). I think that's actually the coolest part of their idea.
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by rm999 10y ago
Stock prices aren't very useful, I prefer to look at total marketcap. They IPO'd at 15 dollars with a valuation of 1.23 billion dollars, which means they're now about 1.97 billion dollars. https://techcrunch.com&#x
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by rm999 10y ago
From the context of the article I don't think the author is proposing removing the default "vacation" functionality of grouping photos by time/location; that could just be one of many modes (e.g. spending several days in
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by rm999 10y ago
I used to work in the industry - mobile ads can be quite targeted. My guess is apps like clash of clans appeal to a wide range of people and are backed by heavy ad spending. This means a wide variety of people will be targeted with their ad
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by rm999 10y ago
A big example is the almost-universal rent control in the USA during WWII to help keep wages down and production up. This was an emergency measure designed to be temporary (although there was never a guarantee it would be). https:/&#x
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by rm999 10y ago
No, that makes no sense because you wouldn't see that kind of variance in the prices. I think in your quote they're saying they're using oil changes as a unit of time. This is because oil changes are usually done on a regular
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by rm999 10y ago
Yes exactly. I only brought up the money to transition to my rant about how I think bootcamps are a cash grab :) I also think thaumasiotes is missing my overarching point, which is that the data science bootcamps didn't actually provid
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by rm999 10y ago
I hire data scientists, my experience interviewing through a boot camp for a year: the top 1-2 students in each class are great, the remaining 10-15 are anywhere from under-qualified to woefully unqualified. The one guy I hired from the boo
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by rm999 10y ago
To put it in perspective Michael Jordan is one of the pioneers of the modern approach to statical machine learning. It's very cool to see his course notes from 12 years ago when many schools didn't even offer basic machine learnin
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by rm999 10y ago
I know a couple people in NYC who do something like this. It works fine for two smallish niche groups: well-off childless couples who prefer not to spend much time in their city, or very well-off couples with children. Single people don&#x2
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The headline really should be reworded, even the article states the shutdown was a theoretical. > if a forced upgrade happened and crashed our pc's while in the middle of coordinating rangers...
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by rm999 10y ago
I used to work in bank fraud detection/prevention. In general, adding a small barrier is often enough to cut crime rate drastically. This is why people lock their doors even though a robber can break a window, or why people hide their

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