s_Hogg

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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I can't remember ever seeing this work out well lol. Happy to be proven wrong one day, though.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Hang in there mate :) I really don't think you deserve a lot of the crap you've been given in this thread. Someone has to try something new.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I particularly like this part of the FAQ: I have an even cleverer point suggesting that I might not be able to trust workers' self reports. Might my clever rebuttal be right? Yes. But you are using this tool because you want to help en
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Related to this, Stanford created something so you can use Mechanical Turk without being overly exploitative (ensures you pay at least US$15/hr): https://fairwork.stanford.edu/
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
That makes sense, thanks for taking the time to expand on this point.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Is there a use case for this where it becomes uneconomic? I was working with AWS last year and found that in some cases it really was better to just have a single EC2 instance (or auto-scaling group) rather that ~9999999999999 lambdas to ha
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
That's reasonably hilarious, thanks for the info :)
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
As I state in the post containing my question - nothing :) just wondering is all
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I'm well aware of the start up incubator link, but you're definitely right otherwise in my case. When you get here it just looks like a nice lil' news site!
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Yeah I got here without having anything to do with Lisp at all either.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Oh really, that's interesting. Is that sort of info widely known among the HN user base and I'm an ignoramus or is it a case of some of the users of longer standing being vocal about Lisp?
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Do you reckon that's all there is to it?
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Yes 1) never take a position that can wipe you out, and 2) shut up and wait Steady accumulation will achieve most things for most people if you can handle the fact it's not exciting and you won't get to feel like an important inve
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Why is HN this interested in Lisp anyway? Not saying it's a good or bad language, just don't quite get why it receives as much attention as it does.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I'm very glad someone did this trawling. Corporations are, and have been, getting away scot-free with an unbelievable amount of reputation laundering.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
It's actually kind of interesting how obfuscated his point is. The idea that incentives are misaligned inside a company of more than negligible scale has been a known problem for as long as we've had companies, more or less. The w
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
It's also worth pointing out that there are situations where compound interest can definitely beat making more money.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I'd add something on to this. The simplest way to build wealth is also by far the most boring. The ones that can handle that boredom are typically the ones that get there in my experience. In my opinion, every financial literacy book&#
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Avoiding PU Learning(breakitdownto.earth)
1 points by s_Hogg 7y ago|0 comments
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
This feels to me like an echo of ancient arguments to the effect that it wasn't worth saying if it couldn't be said in Latin.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Well that's the coolest thing I've seen all day, then
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Another way to look at risk versus reward in binary classification(breakitdownto.earth)
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
> julia is a more productive language Source for this, please?
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Yes, though at least where I am it tends to be a legacy system these days. So that means governments and large corporations might reasonably feature some use of it somewhere within their walls.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
Exactly: you're talking about semantics. In a great many cases, they aren't a first-order issue - which is where my objection to a blanket "don't waste your time" claim comes from.
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
So? This whole argument over which programming language is the best all seems a bit tools-first to me. I used to program in R and was a package owner, but switched to python because it had stuff I needed (TF before it ever got ported to R).
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I accept all of what you're saying and also spend a lot of my day reading ML papers :) To boil it down a little perhaps, the point I'm making is that the incremental gain from new ideas coming out seems to be slowly decreasing, in
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
It's nice to see people managing to push BERT further and get SOTA on stuff, but I feel like a fair amount of this sort of thing is really just throwing more and more compute at a problem. Given that we still don't fundamentally u
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by s_Hogg 7y ago
I dunno he had an episode with Alex Jones that basically didn't press him on anything and gave him a really soft ride. I think that's the sort of thing people are alluding to when they call him a breadcrumb-dropper. Just because t
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Unwitting narrative fallacies when building ML models and how to spot them(breakitdownto.earth)
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