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by schmit 2y ago
Even more hilarious given their own charter: > We will attempt to directly build safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome. > Our primary fiduciary duty is to
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What's Wrong with Feature Flags?(geteppo.com)
2 points by schmit 2y ago|1 comments
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Eppo, a product experimentation platform, raises $19.5M for expansion(techcrunch.com)
8 points by schmit 4y ago|5 comments
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by schmit 9y ago
My point is not that this work is flawed, or that there should not be an article reporting on this research or the topic of interviewing. Rather, I think it'd be better for a third party to write about the topic in a more objective man
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by schmit 9y ago
Sorry I was not more clear. What I meant was that the NY Times employs journalists and fact checkers and editors to validate stories, say on politics to make sure, to the best of their abilities, that the articles they post are correct. Why
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by schmit 9y ago
I find it quite problematic that researchers get to talk about their own research and present it as facts without anyone taking a critical look. Over time I’ve become more skeptical about this kind of psychology research (as more studies fa
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by schmit 10y ago
One quick comment: in general it is a bad idea to compute the inverse of a matrix (to solve a linear system). It's much better to compute the QR factorization or SVD instead (or simply call least square solver). See for example: https
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by schmit 10y ago
Funny how Google is paying for data
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by schmit 10y ago
This short course is taught every quarter at Stanford, usually by a PhD student in ICME (Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering). This is the course page for the class as was taught a couple of years ago. Edit: google CME1
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by schmit 11y ago
In short: For a voting system (ranking of some candidates based on preferences of voters), it would be nice if: - A single voter cannot determine the ranking (as a dictator) - For every possible set of voter preferences, there is an outcome