yetanothermonk

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by yetanothermonk 6y ago
Don’t know if you’ve looked into this yet, but you should check out Primer
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by yetanothermonk 6y ago
Thank god for Substack. My trust in incumbent media platforms continues to decrease. They seem to have been hijacked to propagate clickbait personality more effectively than ever.
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by yetanothermonk 6y ago
In practice though, there are control rods and MSRs have freeze plugs into drain tanks right?
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by yetanothermonk 6y ago
Nice explainer (I love his videos): https://youtu.be/pMjXAAxgR-M
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Count Down to Your Death(whenwillidie.wtf)
4 points by yetanothermonk 6y ago|0 comments
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by yetanothermonk 6y ago
Hey, Long here, I meant to keep this private for a while, but I’m building this thing. getpuritan dot com for now. My prototype is a chrome extension that blocks clickbait using a ML model that placed top 3 in a clickbait prediction competi
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by yetanothermonk 6y ago
What’s the next best step or resource for learning about symmetry & invariances?
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by yetanothermonk 6y ago
I’m making no statement on what your priors are, just that if you have the mean and variance, the max entropy distribution is the Normal. If you know skew and kurtosis, you’ll pick something else
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by yetanothermonk 6y ago
Thank you very much! Great idea!!
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by yetanothermonk 6y ago
Thank you!
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by yetanothermonk 6y ago
Great comment! You touched on something that got me wondering: do you know of something similar to MGF that determines a distribution but is not based on expected values?
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by yetanothermonk 6y ago
Very cool! Thank you for sharing. We can get to these distributions a bunch of ways, and I find every incremental way to look at something, the better you understand it. Now, I’m about to get nerdsniped by symmetry and invariances.
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by yetanothermonk 6y ago
Very good points. The Normal Distribution has very nice properties, which adds to its popularity, which, if I understand you correctly, adds to the significance we place on mean and variance.
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Maximum Entropy Intuition for Fundamental Statistical Distributions(longintuition.com)
95 points by yetanothermonk 6y ago|45 comments
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by yetanothermonk 6y ago
Not OP, but thanks for being constructive and not dismissive. Struck a great balance, clearly empathetic. Team zumu.
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The Lessons of History, Summarized(twitter.com)
2 points by yetanothermonk 6y ago|0 comments
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When Returns Go Poof: Modeling VC & Implications for Startup Employees(lastletters.substack.com)
3 points by yetanothermonk 6y ago|0 comments