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News Corp gives up on its ‘Knewz’ aggregator after 18 months(theverge.com)
16 points by the_decider 5y ago|6 comments
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by the_decider 5y ago
The following data science book also does a great job of balancing problem solving with underlying theory. https://www.manning.com/books/data-science-bookcamp And it starts with sample-space probability problems in Pyt
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by the_decider 6y ago
I don't think you need a bootcamp. Foundational DS concepts can be self-tough given the right resources (such as Manning's "Data Science Bookcamp" https://www.manning.com/books/data-science-bookcamp
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Google fires second AI ethics researcher following internal investigation(theverge.com)
19 points by the_decider 6y ago|6 comments
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5 Oddities of Gaming's Strangest Streamer Controversy(cracked.com)
2 points by the_decider 6y ago|0 comments
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Facial Recognition(wired.com)
2 points by the_decider 6y ago|1 comments
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by the_decider 6y ago
“In the near future, it will seem unfathomably bizarre that one of the world’s most dangerous propagandists was allowed nearly unfettered access to the most powerful communication tools in human history, all out of some misbegotten allegian
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Amazon Spends $200M for SF Site Once Meant for Housing(sfchronicle.com)
1 points by the_decider 6y ago|0 comments
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by the_decider 6y ago
I agree with this sentiment. "Dark Hero of the Information Age" https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Hero-Information-Age-Cybernetics... lays out how both Weiner and Shannon created information theory independently but Wei
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The “statistical” portion of the Texas election lawsuit(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
2 points by the_decider 6y ago|0 comments
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by the_decider 6y ago
Reminds me of the story of Voltaire hacking the lottery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzr1TPmIJT8 History repeats itself!
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by the_decider 6y ago
Really cool!
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Video game lets you do nothing in particular in a suburban Russian tower block(calvertjournal.com)
234 points by the_decider 6y ago|87 comments
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AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world(technologyreview.com)
39 points by the_decider 6y ago|2 comments
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How Mark Zuckerberg Learned Politics(wsj.com)
1 points by the_decider 6y ago|0 comments
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Zuckerberg Throttled Traffic to Progressive News Sites(businessinsider.com)
67 points by the_decider 6y ago|15 comments
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Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself(newyorker.com)
35 points by the_decider 6y ago|66 comments
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by the_decider 6y ago
This Caravaggio lecture is both funny and informative. His paintings are filled with hidden symbols. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdXVWy6VAwA
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Scientists Advance on one of Technology’s Holy Grails: Designer Proteins(newyorker.com)
2 points by the_decider 6y ago|0 comments
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by the_decider 6y ago
I mentioned a “deep” multi-layer neural net, which implies more than just 2-3 layers. As far as I’m aware, this is the first eight-layer trained network mentioned in any publication. http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep
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by the_decider 6y ago
The first trained multilayer deep neural network was presented by the Soviets in 1970 in a paper titled “Heuristic Self-Organization in Problems of Engineering Cybernetics“ http://www.gmdh.net/articles/history/heur
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Can A.I. Understand Poetry?(fortune.com)
1 points by the_decider 6y ago|0 comments
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Hinder: A Dating App for Emotionally Unavailable Men(newyorker.com)
2 points by the_decider 6y ago|0 comments
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by the_decider 6y ago
I personally learn better through coherent code examples rather than math notation / jargon. Manning's excellent "Data Science Bookcamp: Five Python Projects" teaches data science basics using code, not greek symbols. Al
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by the_decider 6y ago
Seems like real-life more closely resembles Kepler’s “Marriage Problem” (later reformulated as the “Secratary Problem). https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/05/15/312537965/h... Its a sol
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by the_decider 6y ago
I’m working on a formula that factors ML model run-time cost (speed / memory-usage) into its performance evaluation. I generated a very simple scoring function from economic first principles. Now, I’m trying to test performance on cumb
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by the_decider 6y ago
Agree with this post 100%. There’s too much focus on parameter tweaking, and not enough focus on understanding/ inhancing the data. And feature engineering is considered by many DL practicioners to be“cheating” even though it clearly g
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Discovering Disease Outbreaks from News Headlines(manning.com)
1 points by the_decider 6y ago|0 comments
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Unemployment Checks Are Being Held Up by a Coding Language Almost Nobody Knows(theverge.com)
4 points by the_decider 6y ago|0 comments
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Death Squared: A Mouse Utopia Goes Wrong(youtube.com)
1 points by the_decider 6y ago|0 comments

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