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by thecity2 10y ago
I'm so pissed at your ex. What an a-hole.
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by thecity2 10y ago
"20 newsgroups" is a pretty ubiquitous human-generated data set for testing LDA and other NLP techniques. I've run LDA on it myself and it recovers topics fairly well. The thing is, reviews, messages, comments, etc, in genera
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by thecity2 10y ago
Where it's never gotten past 1955.
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by thecity2 10y ago
Not really a book per se, but Shakespeare's writings had a profound effect on me when I was younger. The idea that the English language could be used to such mind-blowingly-brilliant effect is something I've never forgotten. In ma
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by thecity2 10y ago
+1 for Thiking, Fast, and Slow. Definitely a life changing book.
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by thecity2 10y ago
Literally any application driven by reward, which is quite a lot. Robotics, self-driving cars, optimization problems, advertising, ... The list goes on.
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by thecity2 10y ago
Some knowledge of machine learning, especially deep learning.
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by thecity2 10y ago
I think the main issue with Sweden is that they invite a lot of refugees without a great plan to integrate them into their society.
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by thecity2 10y ago
Fake, I mean Fox News! http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/08/21/michael-phelps-unint...
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by thecity2 10y ago
Yeah, for now. But what if we live in Water World a few decades from now with climate change? Seee?!
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by thecity2 10y ago
I guess I'm one of the few people who stay in San Francisco because my family was here before tech was.
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by thecity2 10y ago
It's crazy that Python isn't considered old. It's been around for 25 years.
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by thecity2 10y ago
Yep, no getting away from SQL any time soon.
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by thecity2 10y ago
Facebook should hire this guy!
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by thecity2 10y ago
...and none of this will matter when most of us are using self-driving car services in the next 5-10 years. I mean, it won't matter if my Lyft or Uber is an ugly Bolt. As long as it's cheap and safe.
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by thecity2 10y ago
"because fluid dynamics is a leaky abstraction" No pun intended!
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by thecity2 10y ago
Backprop is just automatic differentiation. The end.
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by thecity2 10y ago
They don't. It's a complete PR sham.
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by thecity2 10y ago
Exactly. Furthermore, is this company claiming that they can predict electoral college distribution? Because we all well know that Hillary actually won the popular vote. So in fact the popular sentiment was actually on her side. Any analy
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by thecity2 10y ago
“Our analysis was showing something, but our beliefs were different,” says Vishal Mishra, CEO of Right Relevance, which sells a research platform focused on influence. “We thought, how is Trump going to win? But our analysis kept showing
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by thecity2 10y ago
Where's the "predictive" part? Just visualizing twitter networks isn't actually a prediction.
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by thecity2 10y ago
Dude yes! That's exactly what I thought too. Oh well.
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by thecity2 10y ago
Why not just use the "easy" parts of Haskell as a teaching language for functional programming? No monads, applicatives, etc. No category theory. Just immutability, laziness, pattern matching, and type classes. I feel like that ma
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by thecity2 10y ago
sure thing!
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by thecity2 10y ago
Followed the installation steps, but it doesn't seem to work for me.
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by thecity2 10y ago
This guy should have just sent this letter directly to Thiel. Would have been a much faster way to ask for a job.
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by thecity2 10y ago
Seriously. I mean the guy may employ Newt Gingrich, one of the main proponents of NAFTA, in his cabinet. But wait there's more. He may also make a 17-year Goldman employee his Treasury Secretary. Because hey, who needs internal consist
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by thecity2 10y ago
I think "Bayesian Inferential Programming" would be more direct terminology.
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by thecity2 10y ago
Curious since you say you work on deep learning/optimization. I'm a data scientist who does most everything in Python, but I've been interested in learning Rust. What is the state of "data science" toolkit for Rust
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by thecity2 10y ago
So this is not a Hadoop thing?

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