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by shas3 9y ago
Ed Witten, arguably one of the greatest mathematicians/physicists/mathematical physicists alive majored in liberal arts, worked for Nation and New Republic, enrolled in the economics PhD program at UW-Madison, before he switched t
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by shas3 9y ago
Also, hyperparameter optimization is a bit painful. Zoubin Ghahramani of Cambridge is a champion for Gaussian process models which are as flexible as SVM/SVC, but have more disciplined approach: via well-chosen priors (Bayesian structu
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by shas3 9y ago
This is one of the dumber articles I've read on Uber. I don't think the author has used cabs much and is just theorizing. In a mid-size American city, I've had cabs cancel on me around half the times I've called them, le
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by shas3 9y ago
Dunno if this is his real account, but it is supposedly not working out https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/877341760812232704
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by shas3 9y ago
This has happened to me several times (not always in interviews). Especially when someone asks about machine learning and I start the explanation with regression, they get pissed. Nothing shows that you are trying to jump on a bandwagon tha
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by shas3 9y ago
These lectures are different from his famous Lectures on Physics. The lectures you linked to were compiled in "Character of Physical Law" and are not related to his Caltech undergraduate courses where he presented his "Lectur
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by shas3 9y ago
#3 is very hard if you are living more than 8 hrs drive from the totality zone. Population-wise way more than 10% of the US lives more than 8 hrs from the totality zone.
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by shas3 9y ago
Eh? He and others were looking at a rape victim's medical records, apparently with the conviction that she was making it up and was paid by their competitor to smear them. If that doesn't raise concerns about the company's cu
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by shas3 9y ago
I see that no one points this out: Dan Luu and others in this post are using 'Public Company' to refer to only a small high-growth subset of all public companies, namely Google, FB, Netflix, etc. (and perhaps Apple and Microsoft).
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by shas3 9y ago
I subscribe to The Economist and WSJ and have pretty much stopped visiting Google News, except when there is important breaking news. Google News really isn't for someone who subscribes to news journals. Apple News is much better for t
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by shas3 9y ago
I'm super excited about Vive and general VR support for Macs. My interest in VR is not airplane mechanics, gaming, or anything of that sort. I'm just interested in the VR experience. Conceivably, there'll be many VR documenta
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by shas3 9y ago
Given the R&D firepower of Oculus and Facebook, they are in a better position to execute. I'd bet on them winning the VR/AR/MR race. I think with continuing hardware developments, PC VR will plateau and become a commodity
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by shas3 9y ago
I am deeply skeptical that anything other than R&D and patents will come out of this move by Apple. I am bearish on the prospects of using technology in healthcare. Primarily for these reasons: 1. Regulation: it is very hard to innovate
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by shas3 9y ago
I've seen colleagues try < 100% work and what would end up happening is that they would work the usual hours, but just get part-pay. There are really no solid checks and balances other than a manager's goodwill when you start w
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by shas3 9y ago
Honestly you can take the $10k+ difference and donate it to charity or save it up for your kid's college, if you have children. $10k can buy malaria nets for 4000 kids in Africa, if you donate to some place like Against Malaria Foundat
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by shas3 9y ago
Lovely piece! The addictive element of chess reminds me of Satyajit Ray's movie "Shatranj Ke Khiladi" (The Chess Players). The movie is set in the 19th century at the onset of British colonization of the Indian heartland. It
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by shas3 9y ago
Jagadish Bhagwati of Columbia has a ton to say about how India screwed up on trade. Basically there are many trade-unfriendly laws dating back to 60s and 70s which are hard and slow to undo because they have to be done via parliamentary pro
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by shas3 9y ago
Great read! Many Asian countries have the concept of live-in housekeepers. I think the 'best' (scraping the bottom, here) arrangement is in Singapore, where the government, laws, and law-enforcement ensure that immigrant live-in h
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by shas3 9y ago
Thanks for the link to Kiparsky's paper on mAheshvarasutraNi. Starting from the system of grouping and ordering, sandhi rules became straightforward to understand. When I first learned the sutras in school, we were presented with a lot
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by shas3 9y ago
Elad's pretty clear in laying out how pre-deep learning denoising research is differently elegant compared to CNN, etc. You should also consider the context, SIAM- the applied math community, which has seen a lot of work in deep mathem
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by shas3 9y ago
I am one of those people who got horrible nausea eating a couple of batches of the Soylent bar. I really liked the taste and the nutrition profile. But I simply cannot tolerate any Soylent products after the episodes of nausea. There is onl
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by shas3 9y ago
Jeez. High skilled jobs outside software engineering pay approximately 10-20% less than software. How do you account for that in an 'auction'-based system? It is just a hard truth that unlike a software company, individual talent
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by shas3 10y ago
United has a history of being a company with a crappy culture. Basically, Uber today is the United of the tech world and United has been the Uber of the airlines industry for the last few decades. Stacking metaphors, even when there were ma
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by shas3 10y ago
Greyhound is super sketchy. Service is terrible. About 10 yrs ago, I made the near-mistake of taking a Greyhound to a different city to catch a cheap international flight. I was going from a remote city to a big one. Luckily I had given mys
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by shas3 10y ago
Well, there are two ways of looking at this: 1. Decision to use Python created unnecessary extra work (your point); 2. Executing (not just prototype) with Python, then re-writing and re-optimizing your code in a 'leaner'/lowe
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by shas3 10y ago
Mirror in brain surgery reminds me of Ted Chiang's (he's been mentioned on HN a fair bit of late) story Exhalation http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/exhalation/
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by shas3 10y ago
While it's hard to believe, there are entire fields where top journals can take 2 years to publish (no early publications, no culture of preprints, etc.) For example, in one subfield of EE where I once worked in mid oughts, the choice
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by shas3 10y ago
That was my point, only my wording was suboptimal.
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In case you missed it, John Baez's collaborator in that post is Greg Egan, who is well known for his brilliant and visionary science fiction. http://www.gregegan.net/
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by shas3 10y ago
[Spoiler] A rather technical and intricate story is generically spiced (masala) up with typical thrill-tropes to make it appealing to the masses: military attack on aliens (wise aliens only send video-conference units to the earth in Chiang

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