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by rpedela 8y ago
Definitely a better fit for idiots like me. BTW that is a compliment. It is very hard to make something complicated easy to understand. You succeeded.
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by rpedela 8y ago
No one is trying to make their children slaves.
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by rpedela 8y ago
Probably easiest to talk about the NER for search keywords. I have found 1000-2000 examples per label is enough to get >80% accuracy. I don't remember the exact before/after adding pre-trained word vectors, but it was a 2-3% im
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by rpedela 8y ago
I train NER and text classification models using Spacy. You can give Spacy word vectors and the accuracy usually increases 1-5% in my experience. I use NER to classify entities within search keywords, text classification for determining if
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by rpedela 8y ago
Does anyone know if this applies to PACER and its fees?
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by rpedela 8y ago
Alpaca looks awesome, but doesn't support after hours trading. Does anyone know of a good API that does?
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by rpedela 8y ago
I'm going to offer a contrarian contrarian viewpoint. I certainly agree that engineers should not be shut out of the process, by default. There are some engineers who are good at UI design, like you and me, and their deep technical kno
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by rpedela 8y ago
As others have said, sleep deprivation is the norm in certain fields like healthcare. There are also jobs where you work 40 hours but the schedules are so random that they can also screw with your sleep such as retail. And a lot of top perf
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by rpedela 8y ago
Agreed, but its not obvious to me how you would bridge that gap without a lot of custom code.
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by rpedela 8y ago
I believe GitHub uses ES, and currently allowing users to perform regex can bog down the entire cluster if the regex is malformed. This is a problem with Solr too. I believe there was some effort to resolve this at the Lucene level, but I a
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by rpedela 8y ago
This is awesome! I think the hand tool needs some work though. To me, it should be used to move specific shapes or text around rather than scroll the entire whiteboard. Also some way to select multiple objects and move them around would be
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by rpedela 8y ago
Good idea. I would take it one step further. I would use a ML-based language detection tool which should return a list of languages and a confidence score. Whichever language has the highest confidence score wins. The FastText project has a
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by rpedela 8y ago
Those other things don't typically require approval from local governments and neighborhoods. That is a fight entrepreneurs rarely win even successful, famous ones.
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by rpedela 8y ago
I have definitely run into memory bugs in managed languages that someone without my experience would have no clue how to debug since the managed language hides that information. Having said that, learning to be "careful" is much m
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by rpedela 8y ago
There is still a good reason to teach C and assembly even if they end up never using it in the real-world. Just having to manually manage memory teaches one how to be careful because the result is a hard-to-debug segmentation fault if one i
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by rpedela 8y ago
I'm in that 30-40 range and been programming 20 of that. I definitely would shy away from anything with FTP in the name because of the protocol's historical problems even if that wasn't a fair assumption for the service. Not
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by rpedela 8y ago
I think upfront is better because you should be charging based on value. So what if something only takes you a few hours. If it generates enormous value for the client then you should capture a percentage of that value regardless of the cos
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by rpedela 8y ago
Honestly, I bet 6.x doesn't work well at PB scale. There may be different problems with different solutions, but I bet it would still need custom shard balancing, etc. I work at TB scale and 6.x largely works well with the exception of
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by rpedela 8y ago
Definitely depends on the route. I used to live in Indiana and flying out of Indy was as you described. I now live in Denver and I always need to upgrade if I want to guarantee sitting next to my wife.
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by rpedela 8y ago
I find presenting your experience can help a lot at local dev meetups and conferences. If you can find a venue for pitching your product, then great! But most of the time, people don't want to hear a product pitch. Instead, present ide
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by rpedela 8y ago
I definitely agree you should add more documentation to how the word vector model(s) is generated. Also you may want to have a set of models that the user can choose from. For example, Wikipedia is good for a general language use case. But
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by rpedela 8y ago
And there are people who know exactly what they want to be at age 10. The goal isn't to graduate everyone who wants to be a surgeon. The goal is to graduate only the best people. If someone gets to med school, decides they want to do s
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by rpedela 8y ago
Yes, maybe med schools should also do physical tests as part of an entrance exam for surgeons. That would likely solve the problem, and it would also signal to kids interested in becoming surgeons to get good at hand/eye coordination,
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by rpedela 8y ago
That's like saying a pro soccer team should just teach you how to play. Surgeons need pro-sport level dexterity and it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to achieve that if you start training in your 20s.
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by rpedela 8y ago
There isn't a grant process as far as I know. They don't have to worry about money.
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by rpedela 8y ago
One of things I like about the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is that they find great scientists and just fund them. The scientists can research whatever they want as long as they keep producing. I always wondered if a hybrid approa
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by rpedela 8y ago
Yes, all you have to do is wash your hands and no more flu. /s
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by rpedela 8y ago
Yes, median would be better than mean. However what is most important is the overall trend. Child mortality trending downward worldwide is a great thing and says the world is getting better in terms of nutrition, disease, etc for children.
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by rpedela 8y ago
It can go both ways. I have seen bad management and I have seen bad engineers. "Bad" meaning hard to work with in this context. Usually the bad behavior I see from engineers is arguing pedantically every little point, not doing th
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by rpedela 8y ago
Walking a lot = exercise

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