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I think it will serve better to think about it as a difference of emphasis, rather than a difference of category. Maybe the term has been introduced to make the subject seem more tangible to newcomers? I notice that University of Missouri d
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A key point that I feel is missing from this explanation is that the concept of distance becomes almost meaningless in very high dimensional space [1]. PCA is a means of dimensionality reduction, but the reason you want to reduce dimensions
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When I first studied this book, and other related bits of Engineering Maths, I remember being completely marveled by Laplace and Z transform methods. I could learn to manipulate them and use them to solve equations, it felt like black magic
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Something that I've used in the past: store the hierarchical data as a breadcrumb-like string in an ordinary column. This means the parsing is just ordinary csv parsing, followed by a relatively trivial extra step to parse the breadcru
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This reminded me of the following wonderful article. In it, the author traces the lives of a particular clan of wolves in a similar reintroduction program in Oregon. https://www.outsideonline.com/2255971/very-old-man-wo
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I don't think that entirely speaks to my point. You were speaking of a natural cycle of conglomeration and entrepreneurship, yet there are many examples of markets that have only become more of an oligopoly over time. It seems to me th
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... and yet there is no shortage of examples of ownership being consistently more concentrated over time. Are we are right around the corner from seeing "upstarts" in the television, telecoms, and food manufacturing industries?
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I've noticed a pattern in among python developers where the faux pas of assigning a lambda is used to signify "I'm going to use this function in a vaguely functional programming manner". For example, by passing it into m
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Similar is visidata. It's also a vim-like, but is geared specifically at tabular/relational data, so not a spreadsheet app in the strict sense. However, it can access SQL databases, and has a very flexible / intuitive approac
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I think you have it wrong. You make it sound like homeowners are tricked into thinking they will be grid-independent, which I don't think is a fair depiction of how the product is sold (at least in Australia, that is.) The value propos
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I think this comparison [1] in particular explains a lot of Python's continued success over the past 5-10 years. For a very long time, CRUD back-end programming was one of the biggest draws of new users to Python. In the last couple of
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Agreed. Nothing beats practice when it comes to math. I know that I spend far too much time watching course videos, and no where near enough working through problem sets.
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I've been reading a lot of JM Coetzee. Most recently The Life and Times of Michael K, and The Childhood of Jesus. He seems to have an incredible knack for both the unsettling, and the compassionate. It's close to the most thought
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If you want to keep up with the maths, the main prerequisites for more rigorous ML is typically undergrad-level calculus, linear algebra, and bit of basic probability and statistics. For calculus, google "MIT 18.01", "MIT 18.
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It's not doxing by any definition I'm familiar with. Also, this sentence... > Folks at Mozilla actively chose to find a touchy topic, and expose it to cause the "bad culture fit" argument. You are insinuating that fol
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What did they do exactly? I'm reasonably familiar with the story, but wasn't aware of Mozilla breaching his privacy. Do you just mean the act of speaking out against him in a public way?
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They are different statements. They just sound similar. "The sum of all human knowledge" would suggest that everything in Wikipedia is known to be true, and everything known to be true is in Wikipedia. In "a summary of all hu
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The article is talking about competitive multiplayer games, rather than mobile games. DOTA 2 and CS:GO are the examples used. Theres a few elements that, together, make it extremely problematic in my opinion. Using CS:GO as the example: 1.
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I would be interested in hearing peoples experience of Altair vs Bokeh. I've used Bokeh on a couple of very small vis products, but never really dived into it fully. Altair seems to have a similar goals, and a similar design philosophy
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All programming languages have a limited scope of applicability that is a natural product of the design choices that went into them. The idea of a general purpose language that is exactly the right fit for every task at hand is a myth. Ther
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> People always confuse sympathy with empathy. One side of this is just shifting of meaning over time. As this article points out, Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) gives the term "sympathy" a very central rol
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Yeah. The hyper parameter story that comes with Gaussian processeses is a big drawback. The choice of kernel has a massive impact. In practice, I've found GPs to be great for getting actual insight into an unknown function, but much le
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A tool that I've found myself reaching for more and more often is Gaussian Process Regression [1] [2] * It allows you to model essentially arbitrary functions. The main model assumption is your choice of kernel, which defines the local
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To be fair, they are only "dropping" it on a small subset of users for the time being.
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I've also gone over those lectures a couple of times. I'm not even sure why I started watching them, since I knew absolutely nothing about linear dynamical systems before hand, but it really changed my life! It taught me technique
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Man. That's a refreshingly humble outlook.
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Without knowing the details, the fact that multiple core developers quit seems to be some evidence that they were treated unethically. That's not something that happens in normal conditions.
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Leonard Susskind's Classical Mechanics course: http://theoreticalminimum.com/courses/classical-mechanics/20...
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Same in most of SE Asia.
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The structure of the international red cross movement is a bit confusing. There are completely independent national societies in most countries (E.g. The American Red Cross), as well international organisations based in Geneva (The ICRC and

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