amch

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by amch 1y ago
Kudos to you for acknowledging your error and correcting it. We certainly do need more high IQ (>128) math PhDs with integrity, like yourself. Please do consider pursuing higher math in a full time capacity.
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by amch 5y ago
straight from the go kanye
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by amch 5y ago
What you're describing is similar to Pascal's Wager: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager
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by amch 5y ago
I really love this quote - thanks for sharing.
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by amch 5y ago
Would love to hear more about your analytics work in League of Legends. Is it fair to say that the "useful" numbers/stats tend to be low-hanging fruit and not particularly interesting / requiring of creativity? I imagin
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by amch 7y ago
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-t... Not exactly "anyone can do this," but the first paragraph in the above link: "The answer is an emphatic NO. In order to make good and usefu
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by amch 7y ago
The combination of getting romantic advice from movies and the statutory rape vibes of this comment would lead me to suggest not following this advice, OP.
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by amch 8y ago
Are there any particularly interesting exposes that you'd recommend? I'm curious to read more about this sort of thing.
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Facebook’s third act: Mark Zuckerberg announces his firm’s next business model(economist.com)
33 points by amch 8y ago|20 comments
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by amch 8y ago
Has the classic ML course been deprecated? I noticed that following link no longer works: https://course.fast.ai/lessonsml1/lesson1.html EDIT: looks like they've been moved to the following link instead: http:&#x
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by amch 8y ago
I believe the parent is referencing anti-semitism
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by amch 8y ago
As employee #1, presumably you had a say in choosing the tech stack - any particular reason why you chose F#?
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by amch 8y ago
Funnily enough, as of this writing, the top ranked google result (at least for me) is this post.
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by amch 8y ago
Walmart is the Fortune 1, FYI: http://fortune.com/fortune500/
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by amch 8y ago
2 decades
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by amch 8y ago
If you're going to take that stance, you should do a better job of qualifying your opinions. You think women "avoid tech because they think tech guys are unattractive" - simply asserting this to be true doesn't do much
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by amch 9y ago
[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/20/zuckerbergs-facebook-stock-s... [1] https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=fb (check "insider trading") towards the bottom half of the page
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by amch 9y ago
Does anyone know of any similar resources for Pandas? I've found the following to be quite helpful but would love to know if anyone knows of other resources in a similar vein: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/
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by amch 9y ago
Seems pretty easy to quantify - it looks like there are ~37K motor vehicle deaths in a given year [0] and "Approximately 6.2 million patient transport ambulance trips occur annually." [1] Ambulances would need to save their passen
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by amch 9y ago
Pray, do tell what this one skill is
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by amch 9y ago
Honestly, as an enthusiast of all things callipygian, Sir Mix-A-Lot's treatise (BGB) was groundbreaking. To your point about being unable to control his own reptile brain, however, I don't know how much I buy that. From the get-go
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by amch 9y ago
What's the harm? You're ripping off other people's content to advertise your "Founder Playbook" app. Do you really not see the issue here?