ronald_raygun

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   by ronald_raygun 10y ago

   My guess is that gave just implies transfer of something, but gifted specifically implies giving something as a gift.
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   by ronald_raygun 10y ago

   I would try to do math and finance earlier. I think calculus is usually underrated when people consider "most important inventions", and the idea of investing for fractional ownership in an enterprise turned out to be non-obvious
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   by ronald_raygun 10y ago

   "Conspiracy theories" are pretty broad, and some of them are crackpot, but some of them are reasonable, and some are still true. FWIF, the term didn't have a negative connotation until the CIA started to use it to discredit t
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   by ronald_raygun 10y ago

   I'm really happy to see the books on game theory and auction theory on there.
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   by ronald_raygun 10y ago

   You can assign a score based off of what they said, and how confident they were. Check out this article https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/how-to-assign-part...
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   by ronald_raygun 10y ago

   I'm not too familiar with FPGAs, but isn't the tradeoff that since they are flexible they are usually much slower than CPUs/GPUs and it is usually used to prototype an ASIC? How is FPGA-in-CPU going to be a good thing?
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   by ronald_raygun 10y ago

   I would take a look at this argument done by Obama's main economist. He basically argues that UBI isn't actually that good because it doesn't shrink the gap as much as current systems (progressive taxes and the like). Plus it
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   by ronald_raygun 10y ago

   I think that the big play with SpaceX is that it will open up tons of avenues of that we haven't even thought about. Going back to his keynote a few days ago he is assessing multiple parts of space travel and trying to bring costs down
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   by ronald_raygun 10y ago

   I think there is a market for both. I think that you will see systems bifurcate (like you see right now with games -- high end rigs and consoles vs mobile) to high end systems and low end systems.
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    by ronald_raygun 10y ago

    Don't forget cars that drive themselves
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    by ronald_raygun 10y ago

    There is a paper on this! http://www.icml.cc/2012/papers/597.pdf
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    The Commoditization of Deep Learning(medium.com)

    4 points by ronald_raygun 10y ago|0 comments
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    by ronald_raygun 10y ago

    "7, knowledge bases, is particularly concerning on that list. A truly intelligent AI shouldn't require humans to input knowledge about the world into it, it should be able to learn it itself." Isn't that the point of sch
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    by ronald_raygun 10y ago

    It turns out a convolution can be thought of like a special type of matrix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toeplitz_matrix#Discrete_convo... You could imagine do the backprop through the matrix multiply, and you are goin
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    by ronald_raygun 10y ago

    I dont think it does - It deploys a small amount of capital, but >These companies now comprise 38% of all employees, 57% of the total U.S. market capitalization, and account for 82% of all R&D spend — a proxy for further innovation g
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    by ronald_raygun 10y ago

    So something that no one usually admits is that there are three types of reasoning about stuff (frequentist, bayesian, and nonparametric), and each of them has their pros and cons and circumstances to use them. So with frequentist statistic
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    by ronald_raygun 10y ago

    I don't think Spark would be core data science. The way I see it is that data scientists usually fall somewhere in the range of [software engineers who are good at math, statisticians who are good at coding], and the projects done at e
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    by ronald_raygun 10y ago

    There can be a lot of trickiness in this. I worked on A/B testing framework at one of the big software cos and me and all my team had a masters or phd in math or stats. While 95+% of our job was data infrastructure and ETLs there is an
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    by ronald_raygun 10y ago

    My two cents - I got a BS in math and an MS in stats. A ton of this stuff is really hard and takes a lot of time to understand, and it really does help to have a bunch of time to dedicate to it, a professor to guide you, and friends to try
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    by ronald_raygun 10y ago

    I've found some tricks to get it to learn really well (by gen 20 they all finish really fast) 1. Using a relu, return value => value >= 0 ? value : 0.0; 2. Bumping it up to 30 cars (if you use too many, it slows down, and you don
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    by ronald_raygun 10y ago

    I really enjoyed An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus - by Greg Michaelson It helps you build it up through basic building blocks
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    A Primer on Quantum Computing and Algorithms(medium.com)

    12 points by ronald_raygun 10y ago|0 comments