tw1010

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by tw1010 8y ago
Really getting sick of using the internet with all these cookie, gdpr, paywall, newsletter, and ad popups. Starting to feel much more drawn to getting most of my knowledge from (pop-up free) books.
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Have you actually tried to implement outlier detection in production on any serious level? Most who do realize pretty quickly that deep learning is way overkill and finicky, and pretty soon head for resources like this.
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Guys, guys, guys, the opposite of "a divided nation" would be homogeneity, a lack of a diversity of ideas. That's not something we want .
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Oh great, an ad that covers the entire page on mobile. Guess I'm not reading this article then.
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That's not a sociological explanation. I want something "elephant in the brain"[1]-esque, something that shines light on poor incentive equilibrium on the game theoretic/social plane. [1] http://elephantintheb
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by tw1010 8y ago
I'm pretty good at what I do, and when people tell me they're jealous of my talent, and kind of hint that it's innate, I get a bit insulted. I had to work a shitton to get where I am, and comments like that makes it sound lik
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Very rarely will this stuff get past trials.
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With the right optimization function and the feature extractors, of course it could. I don't buy that at all.
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I know that's just supposed to be a complement, but sometimes that kind of a comment contributes to people thinking there's such a thing as a "math person" (or a "non math person"). Having comments like that th
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I can't bring myself to be in any way happy from reading stuff like this. We get articles like this every freaking day and probably only a fraction of them will ever get into production.
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What's HNs best sociological guess for why recommendation systems are still pretty crappy? It can't be that it's technically or mathematically too challenging to figure out. There are too many smart people out there for this
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That's a joke right? Those subtitles are fake.
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I don't see how that applies at all in this situation.
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Niall wanted some way to cash out on his vast knowledge about history, and decided to go after the current hype, facebook. He's not actually worried, he's just following the current public anxiety, and gets to promote his book in
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by tw1010 8y ago
I value art projects the same way I value scientific theories. A complicated theory explaining a simple idea is less valuable than an elegant theory explaining something complicated. If an art project is fundamentally simple, but its presen
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If you can't explain something in a different way from how you learned it, you probably don't understand it adequately.
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Sorry if this is blunt, but playing the long game still requires that you take into account common fallacies, like sunk cost. Maybe successful people who played the short game did so because they skipped from opportunity to opportunity once
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And the mistake a lot of people make is thinking that the long game is always dull and boring, while the short game is fun and exciting. But that's not at all necessarily true. The long game can be just as fun as the short game. You ca
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by tw1010 8y ago
Funny how skimming messes with how you read things. You kind of read things in pieces, at almost a random order, and then your brain tries to interpolate the missing pieces (sometimes successfully, sometimes not). When I first read this tit
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by tw1010 8y ago
"We always talk about learning disability, but never about teaching disability" - Eric Weinstein (paraphrased). Don't worry. There's a lot of shit out there and it's not at all your problem if they don't feel s
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People who don't read much tend to have developed an ability to learn through videos.
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I still play sometimes, so I get periodic reminders how it used to feel. (I don't dislike it. It's great fun in moderation.) But the things I spend my time on today are things I wouldn't had done when I was younger (be social
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I used to feel just like you. Now that I've escaped from video game addiction though, I'd totally admit the reason I felt that way was either due to implicit peer pressure from fellow nerds, or from lying to myself that there was
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I like how aggressive the tone of this was "Although people are free to disagree , this opinion has come about after more than two decades of constant research ".
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I guess I've fallen to the other side of the chasm (to use Geoffrey Moore terminology), because my initial reaction to this was disinterest and like it wasn't for me. Thank god for early adopters.
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It's likely illegal to "just say no".
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That totally sounds like gossip to me. I'm very sceptical that "he [created] a school [as a] kind of a middle finger to them".
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Founders should take into account the dirtiness of the investment commensurate with how much leverage they have. But we shouldn't ostracise or penalize small companies who can't afford to take into account where the money comes fr
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Everyone is happier if everyone works harder. It doesn't necessarily have to be that he's nefarious or hypocritical. Sure, in the short term people will be happier if they work less (assuming they dislike their jobs). But arguably
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I'm not expecting anything rigorous, of course. A first approximation is fine. There are some smart hardworking academics out there, surely they've thought about this question in some book somewhere. This what humanities excels at

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