rudyl313

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by rudyl313 9y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that predicting a downturn in the short-term is different than predicting long-run performance over 10, 20 or 30 years. I think the website is trying to do the former and your article is talking about the latter
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by rudyl313 9y ago
"If you really want to own a stock that gives you no profits, no income from dividends, no voice in how its run, and actually no value what so ever other than the greater fool theory then go ahead." While I see you sentiment here,
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by rudyl313 10y ago
I've written up my philosophy on beating the market, which is a little less conservative with respect to believing that markets are efficient and investing in the indices is the only prudent way to invest: https://docs.googl
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by rudyl313 10y ago
Using ReLU units is a newer advancement and I agree that changing the activation function does change the cost function. However, before Hinton got all excited about ReLU units, he was still showing huge improvements just by using pretraini
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by rudyl313 10y ago
But the tricks/advancements I mentioned are not changing the function. They changed the initial weights and how the cost function was explored.
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by rudyl313 10y ago
If these claims are true (specifically, that every local minimum is a global minimum), then why did the earlier neural networks have poor performance? Why did we need advancements like pretraining via stacked RBMs and dropout in order to ma
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by rudyl313 10y ago
The market movement can be explained somewhat by the fed's rate hike expectations changing (worsening economic conditions means that the fed is more cautious about raising rates, so discount rates are lower and valuation models are hig
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by rudyl313 11y ago
Unfortunately this talk is kind of dated already. Most people don't stack RBMs or autoencoders to pretrain the weights anymore. If you use dropout with rectified linear units, you don't have to pretrain, even for large architectur
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by rudyl313 11y ago
A placebo won't work if you know it's a placebo.
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by rudyl313 14y ago
Very cool! Thanks for sharing that
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The Wisdom of Crowds: Using Ensembles for Machine Learning(blog.factual.com)
56 points by rudyl313 14y ago|5 comments
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Setup rails dev environments on any OS with vagrant and the rails cookbook(github.com)
1 points by rudyl313 14y ago|0 comments
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Tech talk sources
5 points by rudyl313 15y ago|1 comments