sidrajaram

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by sidrajaram 8y ago
Their model was not logistic regression (the networks may have had a few logistic units in it, but it's hard to call that a logistic model). The logistic models they compared against were published models from the academic literature.
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by sidrajaram 8y ago
Depends on what you mean by "trust with money" - trust them to spend it on something that will give back to society? In that case, yes...I trust almost anyone more than Jeff Bezos.
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by sidrajaram 8y ago
I think the point was that the chair viewed as a per-employee "tax" has benefit to the employer, but this head tax doesn't.
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by sidrajaram 8y ago
Yes, the cost of things is more expensive in dense cities, but by 2x-3x for some services and not at all for buying a pair of jeans from a retailer - those prices are pretty much uniform everywhere, modulo state/local taxes. I'll
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by sidrajaram 8y ago
Walmart competes with Mom and Pop grocery stores. Google is competing with god damn Amazon. And possibly future startups that might otherwise try to enter the smart speaker space, but decide not to because they can't compete at that pr
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by sidrajaram 8y ago
> unpaid data gathering tool I get free unlimited google searching, gmail, google maps in return. I would pay a hefty amount if they starting charging for those and am happy to trade the use of my fairly benign data usage patterns in ret
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by sidrajaram 8y ago
Funnily enough, your post is also missing some important details. The Canadian system is very transparent with its scoring. Unless you're from a natively English/French speaking country, you need test scores to validate your profi
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by sidrajaram 8y ago
> well, at least the ones that don’t abuse the system, like FAANGs It's unclear whether you mean that FAANGs do or don't abuse the system. I've heard both sides of that.
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by sidrajaram 9y ago
That must've amounted to several tens of cents (per book) on the $200 price tag.
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by sidrajaram 9y ago
A CSR returns 4.5% on travel/dining, if you only redeem on travel through the Chase portal, which is not a ripoff based on when I've checked and what I've read (you can get even better effective rates if you transfer miles to
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by sidrajaram 10y ago
That seems to be a precursor to the work mentioned in the article. This is the one that was presented at NIPS this year: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/6182-fast-mixing-markov-chains-...
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by sidrajaram 10y ago
The first year or two of math (and physics, and to some degree, CS) are roughly standardized. There are variations, not only across colleges, but within the same college (honors vs. non-honors, calculus for business, calculus for pre-meds w
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by sidrajaram 10y ago
NIH too.
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by sidrajaram 11y ago
The current deep dreaming fad is going to last about one more week before everyone gets sick of looking at those stupid pictures. They really serve no purpose other than "look how crazy this stuff is" - deep learning is cray-cray.
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by sidrajaram 11y ago
I'm no expert, but afaik probabilistic programming isn't a new method or technique. It is just wrappers around existing statistical techniques, as an attempt to divorce the details of inference algorithms with model specifications