s_Hogg

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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Yes the competence of PUA types makes them a perfect fit for an analogy with the inefficiency of the ad tech industry. Both creepy, both not particularly good at what they do
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> If I were to, e.g., scientifically study which words and clothes to use to optimize the odds of getting college girls to sleep with me, the outcry would be deafening Nah you'd just be a pick up artist
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I'm not sure he's really talking about actually having to see ads with his post. I know I don't particularly mind, companies kind of have to do it to some extent. It's the invasion of privacy that now goes with it that i
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Another way to look at this is something analogous to a Fourier transform. Given a function, try a frequency and see what you get. So maybe some of the things that conceptually make that nicer might also have an analogue here? This paper re
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I realise this is pedantry but it's definitely "Bayes' theorem" not "Baye's theorem" dammit. Sorry about that.
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apologies, reading further they refer to: > a randomly-initialized LSTM [12] with a learned linear output layer can predict time series where traditional RNNs fail
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Is there meant to be a direct link between this sort of thing and the randomly-initialised approach to Echo State Networks?
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> But isn't that still a count per bin? Since it's a count it has a Poisson uncertainty. Yes, as presented there. But in a binary classification setting, that's not how the data would be presented to the model. Instead you
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Hi - the reason there are no error bars for the number of customers in that 2x2 table is because there is no associated uncertainty. Those numbers are as you might find them in a dataset from summing with this particular problem. The proble
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OP Here, glad you liked it! The thing you're talking about definitely happens heaps as well, because of a fundamental mental blind spot we have. I'd definitely love to hear if you've got any more stories along these lines. Th
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Unwittingly obfuscating the fact that you're not doing AI(breakitdownto.earth)
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