xeRTRex

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by xeRTRex 3y ago
Sort of related, but my epileptic dog has most of his seizures right as he's waking up. Perhaps he's suddenly losing his "protection" as his short waves are disabling.
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by xeRTRex 3y ago
Hi - I submitted my application to the DS role, but am interested in the applied scientist role as well!
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by xeRTRex 3y ago
I love Pillars of Earth too, and he has turned it into a series (the Kingbridge series) with the fifth book expected this year. I've read each book and overall enjoyed each, particular his detailed research attempting to accurately dep
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by xeRTRex 5y ago
I have used airflow with two different organizations over the past couple years. When we had a complex orchestration with critical pipelines and enough human-power to manage the system, it was great. Trying to deploy it for a small team wit
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by xeRTRex 5y ago
And the esoteric notation!
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by xeRTRex 5y ago
The fundamentals of actuarial science: probability, time-value of money, and tail-risk have absolutely benefited me. I do gripe that much of the material is out-dated. I sat for all my exams within the past 15 years and (for example) we had
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by xeRTRex 5y ago
One of the most frustrating aspects of the process is that once outside of insurance/insurance-adjacent industries, the credentials are useless. I have my FSA (fellowship of the SOA) and CERA (chartered enterprise risk analyst) from th
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by xeRTRex 6y ago
I just checked out their website, it's really annoying. Zero information on pricing, you need to create an account to "try for free" to access that information.
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by xeRTRex 6y ago
I had experience developing automated underwriting models in the insurance industry. As the models are becoming more sophisticated and adapting machine learning, heavier scrutiny is coming from regulators. For good reasons, guardrails are r
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by xeRTRex 7y ago
Auto-encoders have been more successful in fraud and anomaly detection then supervised methods. For the uninitiated: the basic concept is to reduce the feature space (i.e. the things you know) to a lower dimensional space, then decode back
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by xeRTRex 7y ago
And the history of every life insurance application an individual filled is collected and shared through a company called MiB[0] to help mitigate fraud. [0]. mib.com
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by xeRTRex 7y ago
Speculators have shorter windows than retail investors looking to store value for long-terms gains. Owning a non-dividend stock in my retirement fund is not equivalent to speculation.
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by xeRTRex 7y ago
I have been using ProtonMail for a year now and am very happy with the service.
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by xeRTRex 7y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. PopOS was not yet created when I purchased mine, it came with Ubuntu 16.04LTS. I used Ubuntu up until a couple months ago and decided to make the switch instead of upgrading to 18.04. Honestly I think my battery l
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by xeRTRex 7y ago
I purchased one about 2 years ago. I am generally happy with purchase, but certainly don't feel like I saved any money. I did need to reinstall the operating system (and have since switched to Manjaro). The fan is loud and battery is l
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by xeRTRex 8y ago
Agreed, it is a little confusing. What makes it even more confusing is bias can be introduced as a regularization technique (to address overfitting) and these are not the same thing. Bias in this context can be simply interpreted as analogo
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by xeRTRex 8y ago
I haven't read the article thoroughly but I suspect part of the data preprocessing step included centering and standardizing. Those must be the mean weight and height values.