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by timy2shoes 3y ago
Similarly, I recall a talk by Daphne Koller where she talks about a heart attack predictor using X-rays as input. They found that stents were the biggest factor for positive prediction. Which is useless because the doctor would know if the
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by timy2shoes 3y ago
In addition to their excel errors, their analysis required excluding the Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Once these countries were included in their analysis, their argument falls apart. To me, it's clear that this was a case of
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by timy2shoes 3y ago
I think a lot of things in the past ~10 years were a zero interest rate phenomenon. VC driven start-up culture is definitely included in that. Growth for the sake of growth, rather than business fundamentals.
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by timy2shoes 3y ago
Just like the book, that summary was too long; didn’t read.
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
They give your rabies back.
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
Thank you Captain Obvious. The parent comment was about classes at UT in general, not about one specific class.
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
The enrollment at UT Austin is ~50K. No way you can grade that many tests by hand. Source: I went to UT for grad school and was a TA.
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
The SEC determined that since ICOs trivially satisfy the Howey Test, ICOs are securities and must follow security regulations. Of course, if anyone were to follow security regulations and have a legitimate offering they would just do an IP
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
They go full Musk and colonize Mars so that they can achieve the exponential growth that investors expect.
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
I was with you until the rant about taxes and regulations. I was under the impression that child labor laws are a form of regulation and that loosening these laws would be a form of deregulation.
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
Solvency and liquidity are two different things.
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
Lehman was a symptom of a larger problem associated with mortgage backed securities, not a cause of the problem.
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
A big issue is that the customer base is highly correlated/undiversified, in the sense that they're all funded by a small set of VC's telling them to withdraw their money. SVB was uniquely exposed to the whims of a small set
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
Even a healthy bank had a run they would not survive, because fundamentally banks borrow short (deposits) to lend long (loans, bonds, etc). The old Bagehot quote comes to mind: "Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is wo
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
They are related in that crypto (and ftx) and the massive explosion of start-ups are a low-interest rate phenomena.
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
Reminds me of my number theory professor. Open book take home exam, 20 problems and you choose 4 of them to answer. He graded us on how much we were able to do, and not just the answer itself. 6 of the problems were equivalent to the Ri
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
First year is general classes (e.g. in economics that would be Micro, Macro, Econometrics, etc), 2nd year is classes more specific to your area of study.
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
Can't be worse than Saturday's storm, right? Right???
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
What’s the trade-off though? If an Apple Watch sends an emergency call every time a skier or snowboarder falls, that’s several calls per day. I would think that would be too much and we should hold Apple liable for that level of false alert
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
RealPage is Cartel As A Servics (CAAS), by allowing landlords to collude through a 3rd party to raise rents.
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
As a hiring manager in the field, my opinion is yes. Companies are realizing reliably obtaining and processing data is harder and more critical than model built. Especially for early stage companies.
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
That’s the sense I got too, especially after reading the fellatious piece on SBF from sequoia capital. Trying too hard to justify getting rich, because that would theoretically help the world, in the end, regardless of the means to get the
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
> We should stop treating cancer as foreign tissue that needs to be killed, destroyed or eliminated. ....but that's how t-cells work.
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
The HN hug of death.
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
About as separate as Tesla is from Twitter.
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
> From a Bayesian perspective the answer is “early peeking is fine”. That’s definitely not true. Early peeking increases your type I error rate, even with Bayesian methods. For a full explanation see http://varianceexplained.o
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
Usually the worker portion comes from either TAing or RAing. In these cases you would most definitely be a worker.
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
I think the equivalent is the test set. A test set is used to evaluate the performance of the model, after all the tinkering. As such, you need to take great care to make sure that you don't have train-test leakage (e.g. taking a ran
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. - Yogi Berra
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by timy2shoes 4y ago
Real French brie is unpasteurized, which is illegal in the US. See https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/articles/fancy-...

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