willis77

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by willis77 12y ago
> People often ask how my business is going by asking if it keeps me "busy". They're using the wrong metrics. Or just being polite? Or following norms about not asking about money? Or just using "keeping busy" as
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by willis77 12y ago
> a measured amount of properly ground coffee. And it's not even doing this well. More accurate to call it "a measured amount of ground coffee, 'aged' 8 months in a warehouse."
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by willis77 12y ago
The problem with ascribing dollar values to data (a.k.a. facts) is that you can make up a million untestable hypotheses about how data could theoretically have worth. To give an extreme but illustrative example: let's say that by typin
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by willis77 12y ago
Ahh, but he only reads the first eight letters, so all he got from your email was "Greeting"
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National Data Science Bowl(datasciencebowl.com)
26 points by willis77 12y ago|0 comments
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by willis77 12y ago
Her blog is also a great resource to pick up some of the more useful parts of the language.
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by willis77 12y ago
Apparently a web search is not the kind of puzzle he wanted to solve.
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by willis77 12y ago
If you are 25 years old, this is how many weekends you have left in your life (on average): https://i.imgur.com/MA3YeuX.jpg Let's spend one on a plane so that we can make it into the gold lounge and get free yogurt-cov
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by willis77 12y ago
"I killed a pedestrian on the way home, but so glad I got your text about mac n cheese for dinner! Smells yummy, let's eat!"
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by willis77 12y ago
> should we be charging people more (effectively punishing them) for something outside of their control? Car insurers charge young people more money, despite their youth being outside of their control.
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by willis77 12y ago
I find comments like this unconstructive, and they always surface when people present forecasts. It's easy to play the shoulda-woulda-coulda game with data. "You should account for the breaking strengths of each team's player
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by willis77 12y ago
One of the things I despise about academia is the need (and sometimes the arrogance to) give every project/idea/framework, no matter its size or importance, some silly acronym.
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by willis77 12y ago
> "We know being active is important, so your Vessyl connects with popular activity trackers for more accurate net calories and hydration awareness." Phew, I was worried about this. If I can't sync my Vessyl to my fitbit t
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by willis77 12y ago
This is a tour like being handed a list of animals is a tour of a zoo.
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by willis77 12y ago
> reminds me of Michael Feynman Richard Feynman?
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by willis77 12y ago
* The algorithms must be MIT Open Sourced, so you are also welcome to take the results and make millions with them * There is no guarantee the algorithms will beat the betting line, so saying they are worth millions is not generally true *
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by willis77 12y ago
Unlimited breadsticks :-/
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by willis77 12y ago
Considering this is four months old and the only method implemented is still just knn, I think it's disingenuous to (a) call this a library and (b) write in such general terms (admittedly, hindsight is 20/20). I don't mean to
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by willis77 12y ago
I remember that case. Semicolon and Sons sued Sammy "Sentence" Splice, saying his single-sentence sagas seemed somewhat salaciously un-salubrious.
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by willis77 13y ago
I also hope their technical competency beats their writing competency.
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by willis77 13y ago
Precisely. Publications require data. Data costs time/money/brains. Grants/promotions/tenure/survival cost publications. It's not hard to see that data serves a role as currency, and there is little incentive t
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by willis77 13y ago
Also, don't forget that people like to come out on record for/against hot ideas/topics/predictions. In the event they are right, they ride the success all the way to the fame and monetary bank. If they're wrong, suc
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by willis77 13y ago
A lot of the hype has been around using Watson as a medical decision support system, so yes, they do need peer-reviewed papers before "throwing it at hospitals". In medicine, you can't "see if it helps" without a co
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by willis77 13y ago
You really think they are going to "get an overhaul of the their mobile platform and, as a result, their business" from a three day hackathon? You underestimate Salesforce's size, the complexity of business in general, and ab
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by willis77 13y ago
It hasn't been solved because it's not one problem. People have different wants and needs and expectations and banks and tax codes and tolerances for entering data, and are lazy when it comes to testing existing options. Why spend
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by willis77 13y ago
Your opinion doesn't matter; you have not spent the required 10,000 hours to become a Hacker News comment expert.
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by willis77 13y ago
Sure, they may have solved the cat problem, but the well-documented challenges of "pug face" and "slobber smudging" makes dog recognition an order of magnitude harder. Some say the Clay Institute is pondering a $1M prize
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Create an algorithm to distinguish dogs from cats(kaggle.com)
135 points by willis77 13y ago|73 comments
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by willis77 13y ago
It's a free country and you are free to measure productivity however you want. That said, is this slow societal descent into short, insincere, 140 character coke-addict emails with expected instant response times a positive thing? I&#x
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by willis77 13y ago
Why is that argument stronger? You think Starbucks hasn't run the numbers/experiments to test whether a warm body on a laptop is better than the same body ducking in and out? I would bet money they have done a frightening amount o

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