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by yellowcake0 3y ago
Good lord, AI engineers get paid a median salary of $243,500, while non-AI engineers only get paid a median of $166,750, how can it be so much more? Is it because AI jobs are more concentrated in big tech?
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by yellowcake0 3y ago
Hedge funds exist to manage risk. Suppose I offered you a choice of either a guaranteed 10 million dollars, or a 50% chance to win 20 million dollars, which would you choose? Probably option one, now suppose I slowly increase the dollar amo
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by yellowcake0 3y ago
One of my favorite math books, there's also the companion text, https://web.mit.edu/~jadbabai/www/EE605/additional_exercises... , which contains a lot of interesting applications, presumably compiled by B
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by yellowcake0 3y ago
That's admirable that you didn't spit in anybody's food, but why is it stingy not to tip for counter service, or did you have wait staff at your cafe?
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by yellowcake0 3y ago
Well it's certainly in keeping with the view he has of himself as an under appreciated scientific genius, however I don't think it makes for a very compelling critique of peer-review. Frankly, all his boohoo-hooing about being shu
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by yellowcake0 3y ago
I'm not sure total lack of knowledge can ever be encoded into a prior distribution, and if it can, I think Jeffreys prior makes a more compelling case than a uniform prior. After all, to believe that all possible values of the prior pa
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by yellowcake0 3y ago
This isn't always possible, but sometimes you can define what's called an improper prior p(µ), such that even if ∫p(µ) is not finite, the posterior distribution p(µ|x) is. A common example is when p(x|µ,v) is a Gaussian dist. with
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by yellowcake0 3y ago
It is indeed a sorry state of affairs - even venerated journals such as Nature regularly publish papers which contain methodological errors so egregious as to be considered fraudulent and deserving of retraction. There's also a lot of
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by yellowcake0 3y ago
During graduate school I interacted with academics working in math education who felt similarly, that math should be taught through essay questions, e.g. "explain the concept of a limit", and the like. I've always felt it was
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by yellowcake0 4y ago
It sounds like it is working for that company so more power to them I suppose, and I've certainly done my fair share of coding tests and take home assignments, however I consider it personally disrespectful to automate the initial inte
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by yellowcake0 4y ago
A DB Cooper inspired ending for Don would have been great, and possibly a more fitting conclusion to his story arc. The show began to decline in quality in the 5th season, and really started to come apart at the seams by season 7b. At the t
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by yellowcake0 4y ago
> It's important to know whether or not the authors picked BsaI & BmBI blind, before looking at the genome. You could never convince me that these restriction enzymes were picked blindly, no bioinformatician I have ever met does
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by yellowcake0 4y ago
This reminds me a bit of the New Math pedagogy, popular in the US during the 1950s-1970s. Without the proper context, group theory and abstract algebra are deeply uninteresting subjects. It would be like trying to read Bertrand Russell befo
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by yellowcake0 4y ago
I know the contribution of the higher order imaginary terms are negligible in the result, but dual numbers are the more appropriate choice in this instance correct? since the higher order terms will vanish.
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by yellowcake0 4y ago
Coffee in NYC has gone up by a significant amount, both at places like Starbucks and canned coffee that you can buy at CVS or the grocery store. I know this because I buy it everyday, and have been for several years.
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by yellowcake0 4y ago
what a terribly written, self-indulgent article. Basically unreadable.
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by yellowcake0 4y ago
This really is putting the cart before the horse though, we will have whole genome assembly technology long before we understand functional genomics well enough to do the type of restorative genetic engineering that you propose.
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by yellowcake0 4y ago
Your coworker from MIT left to be a quant/software engineer at a hedge fund, or was the role non-technical?
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by yellowcake0 4y ago
Writing det(W) in terms of an implicit parametrization of the eigenvalues is elegant, I think it's unlikely there's a better approach. Brute-forcing it would be to write down the multivariate polynomial in full generality, as th
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by yellowcake0 4y ago
They are used quite a bit in computational genomics. Indeed, genomics is full of latent variable problems where one has a good model for the underlying phenomena but often not a lot of labeled data.
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by yellowcake0 4y ago
> MusiCares, a charity that helps musicians recover from addiction Of all the causes in this world, this has got to be just about the least deserving
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by yellowcake0 4y ago
both R and Matlab also use 1-based indexing, if anything among languages used for data science and scientific computing, it's Python that is special.
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by yellowcake0 4y ago
You may also be interested in the Yeast 2.0 project, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5894084/ which is an attempt to redesign the genome of the model organism S. cerevisiae, i.e. standardize codo
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by yellowcake0 4y ago
Well, depending on how broad your definition of life is, viruses have the most stripped down genomes of all. In the smallest viruses, with genomes of just under 10kb in length, nearly every basepair is dedicated to either infection or repli
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by yellowcake0 4y ago
I know for me personally YouTube Premium is well worth the $11.99 per month, no way I would ever consider going back.
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by yellowcake0 4y ago
That's an odd lesson to take away from your anecdote about Bob. What Bob should have done was just told a white lie that wouldn't have raised any red flags or follow up questions, and left it at that. There will always be a stigma
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by yellowcake0 4y ago
gets is not a contraction, it's the conjugation of the verb "to get" when the subject is singular.
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
the big three are housing, healthcare and education
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
You realize you can go to food banks and soup kitchens right?
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
> But you make the assumption that the data can be generated by your model Yes > you also make assumptions about the parameter distribution No > your variance estimate only holds asymptotically Don't follow

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