sanchezdev

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by sanchezdev 6y ago
"Bullshit is the junk food of experience." Well put!
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by sanchezdev 6y ago
I'm currently taking a graduate class in Applied Cryptography and will definitely use this as another resource for reference. Love that they've opened it up and made it free.
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A Bayesian Shops on Amazon(github.com)
11 points by sanchezdev 6y ago|1 comments
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by sanchezdev 6y ago
I use a Jupyter notebook to explore how a Bayesian might compare two products on Amazon with the goal of finding the probability that one product is better than another.
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by sanchezdev 7y ago
That makes sense. I'm coming from the angle of applied ML where solutions need to solve a business problem rather than advance the field of ML. In consulting many problems can't be solved well without a labeled dataset and in lieu
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by sanchezdev 7y ago
I didn't mean to make it sound incidental although I do see your point. Just wanted to chime in with how important having a labeled dataset is for a successful ML project.
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by sanchezdev 7y ago
I don't disagree with your point, but the unsupervised aspect of NLP typically isn't useful on its own. Usually it's a form of pre-training to help supervised models perform better with less data. From Google in 2018: "O
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by sanchezdev 7y ago
Those are certainly important advances, but they don't really apply to most business needs for AI or ML.
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by sanchezdev 7y ago
I basically agree with this rule. I find that my colleagues who overly hype unsupervised approaches typically don't have much experience working on ML problems without labeled data. My suspicion of this comes from the fact that wheneve
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by sanchezdev 7y ago
Time will tell, but as a machine learning engineer, when you see results this good it's more probable that a mistake was made. They could be reporting the training error on an overfit model or data leakage could be occuring due to an i
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by sanchezdev 7y ago
I appreciate this thoughtful and detailed reply. I was thinking all those things in my head while reading as well, but couldn't bring myself to invest the time to address them all. I got the impression that the author wasn't someo
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by sanchezdev 7y ago
I partially agree. Perhaps you comment is related to Brieman's Two Cultures? Paper: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1009213726 I think you're right that they are two different things, but I'm not sur
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by sanchezdev 7y ago
I'm excited to see a couple lectures with Swift. All the work to add interoperability with Python and make swift-jupyter is very appreciated and feels like it's Xmas in June.