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by zwaps 5y ago
I really do like the practical challenge that Vapnik poses and based on what you wrote I support the agenda. In the face of the trial&error mentality prevalent in ML, it does strike me as a wise approach towards advancement. However, th
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by zwaps 5y ago
This is always an interesting discussion. I think what you say is probably right "in practice" - that is, it is where ML should move now to improve its ability to generalize. However, from a more statistical viewpoint, this approa
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by zwaps 5y ago
Well, to test the system sure. That's normal. However, the issue not quite as simple when training a model. For instance, the increasingly popular Transformer architecture pushes around internal representations when fed new training sa
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by zwaps 5y ago
GDPR fines are insignificantly small for companies such as Facebook. They will just keep doing illegal things.
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by zwaps 5y ago
Would a linear decision barrier not be fit by the logistics model?
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The logistic regression would likely pick up on that if it were a stratification issue.
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by zwaps 5y ago
Clicked on one of the feature tabs (Pricing study) while the widget was open, and the widget crashed. Just fyi.
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by zwaps 5y ago
It is actually 1 year, not 6 months. I believe it's this one: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL... codified in Germany as §477 BGB (other countries accordingly) edit: Arti
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by zwaps 5y ago
This is why consumer protection needs laws, but also laws that are effective. It isn't just about laws existing: In this case, it sure ain't legal for Newegg to sell a broken motherboard as working, and then decline the RMA. Howev
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by zwaps 5y ago
Good article but not something to read if you want to have a happy Monday. Well, except if you have the emotional detachment ability of an Amazon employee, that is.
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by zwaps 5y ago
Can you be specific then? Like, you are aware that you have a 2 week period minimum, and a 6 month period for defective wares. There's also many shops that have more than a 2 week period because it's good customer policy. It'
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by zwaps 5y ago
You have, by law, two weeks to return any item you bought online for any reason whatsoever, and you have 6 months essentially "no questions asked" return for defective items - on top of the actual warranty periods (that, again, ar
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by zwaps 5y ago
In the EU? For the first 6 months, the legal assumption is that any defect was present at purchase which means - in practice - you can return pretty much any defective item no questions asked. What did you want to return and could not?
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by zwaps 5y ago
Can someone speak to the generality of assuming c-isoperimetry for the distribution of features? Without knowing anything about this in particular, this seems to be a rather pertinent restriction of the result related to things like samplin
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by zwaps 5y ago
Why tho? Do you think German citizens have more privacy in Germany than in the US, where the US legislature clearly states that non US citizens have zero privacy rights whatsoever? I don't think it's delusion, I think it is litera
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by zwaps 5y ago
The point is though that a EU citizen has zero privacy rights when data is transferred to the US. Zero. Not US level protection, not EU level protection - just fair game. For that simple reason the EU has to step in. There is no other way.
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by zwaps 5y ago
Not once humans adapted to it afaik. AlphaStar got to top grandmaster level and then that was it, as people found ways to beat it. Now, it may be that the team considered the project complete and stopped training it. But technically - as it
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by zwaps 5y ago
Let me try to explain it: One usually thinks of open sets as collections of numbers without a "boundary" - the boundary of the set is not part of the set but outside of it. If we look at the open set, we see that it's just &
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by zwaps 5y ago
Not really, there's some basic information in what is popular - say Sauvignon Blanc in NZ or Zweigelt in Austria, but that doesn't mean these need to be the best regions in terms of taste. Generally, some grapes do better with sun
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by zwaps 5y ago
ît is not about making experiences better, it's about modeling behavior as to sell stuff
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by zwaps 5y ago
There are experimental Game Theorist experimenting with such schemes, I suspect because they get a great amount of enjoyment from taking things away from people ;-)
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by zwaps 5y ago
Then I don't get it. If you accept first principles, then the world of structural econometrics is open to you. Cake having, and cake eating - at the cost of structural assumptions. All you are doing then is filling your models with som
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by zwaps 5y ago
Interesting, although a bit dubious. The claim is that there are no microstructure models in banking, and in the paper he cites two econ 101 textbooks. I mean, I guess the introduction is technically correct in stating that these textbooks
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by zwaps 5y ago
A representative sample features the same external validity issues you have in many (any) experiments, including in the hard sciences. That's part of science, and it would be unfair to attribute it otherwise. One experiment won't
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by zwaps 5y ago
Economists do plenty of experiments. As for Econometrics, I agree that studies employing observational causal inference in statistics are much harder (and harder to swallow) than experiments. Usually. But perhaps, if you dig a bit deeper an
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by zwaps 5y ago
It even blocked the "go back" action of my browser. Like, just, a nice f''k you for good measure. Amazing
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Maybe SICP will not be better for using Javascript, but perhaps Javascript programmers will get better for reading SICP? That would be very nice.
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What is the meaning of HD and ultra HD for music?
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LogSeq: We are privacy first Also LogSeq: "It seems that your browser doesn't support the new native filesystem API, please use any Chromium 86+ based browser like Chrome, Vivaldi, Edge, etc. Notice that the API doesn't suppo
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I think we have have a folk song about this saying. Not Finnish...

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