bigred100

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by bigred100 7y ago
Get something like music theory for dummies and read it
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by bigred100 7y ago
Is any sizable portion of these jobs interchangeable with deep learning? The best deep learning engineers with infinite hardware built Amazon’s recommendation algorithm, and it’s largely trash. I can’t imagine it’s magically thousands of ti
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by bigred100 7y ago
When I was in Butte they had a random distillery that opened into the street.
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by bigred100 7y ago
Why is liquor ultra processed?
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by bigred100 7y ago
Which usually require a Ph.D (at least in my field).
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by bigred100 7y ago
Since I don’t live in a dangerous area or work as an MMA fighter that stuff wouldn’t help me. Frankly my opinion of what’s scary about people is self-centeredness, social connections, whether they have willingness to throw me under the bus
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by bigred100 7y ago
Something I did as I did when younger that annoyed more ambitious friends: go to Wikipedia and find the incoming freshman class size for the top schools (say Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT). Add them together. Now look up the numbe
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by bigred100 7y ago
I can’t imagine any circumstance other than a Ph.D program where someone spends 5+ years studying in depth some tiny area of science and practicing research. And without doing that I’m having trouble believing almost anyone will do serious
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by bigred100 7y ago
“ 1. Start lifting weights and training Brazilian jiu-jitsu.” Are people more likely to buy if they’re afraid you’ll attack them or something?
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by bigred100 7y ago
As an employee I’ve felt like it’s hard in the past to take initiative and do things that aren’t immediately and clearly justifiable as strictly necessary work. Reading a book might or might not be useful but doing something boring but mand
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by bigred100 7y ago
We’re not compatible.
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by bigred100 7y ago
If I believed this were the case I’d be single for life.
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by bigred100 7y ago
At least in regards to your last paragraph, I’ll take that over freedom
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by bigred100 7y ago
Once you get to quadratic forms you can use it again.
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by bigred100 7y ago
Some folks in fact think you should do that quite a bit. For example, this guy wrote quite a well-regarded (in his community) book about it: http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/1696-1787,_De_Ligo...
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by bigred100 7y ago
I’m not a lawyer but in this case that guy’s data getting sent to DoJ doesn’t really bother me...
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by bigred100 7y ago
Is this guy a political dissident or something?
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by bigred100 7y ago
A function is (at least formally) a relationship between two sets of things. It doesn’t matter whether there’s any sort of algorithm that lets you input an object from the domain and calculate the corresponding image under the function, or
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by bigred100 7y ago
I agree completely. The only risk is that once you get to real analysis, your prof will yell at you for mixing notions of complexity and computability into your ideas of what a function is (happened to me).
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by bigred100 7y ago
This sounds like much more of a hell than sometimes having to chat with a coworker you don’t like (judges monitoring you and punishing you if you don’t work hard enough).
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by bigred100 7y ago
In my opinion just look around and see what the successful people are doing. Putting your head down and working is what I’d do for developing my own technical or something else skills. I.e. studying. Nobody I’ve met who gets high success in
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by bigred100 7y ago
This jogged my memory—they did the same with Obama and Dijon mustard. I don’t think it’s unique to Trump.
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by bigred100 7y ago
There was a big furor over Donald Trump eating pizza the wrong way (by New York standards) quite some time ago.
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by bigred100 7y ago
Can someone tell me why it’s socially acceptable to have these mindfulness things in work? I’m sympathetic to the argument that religions should be largely kept out of the workplace, so this isn’t a “checkmate atheists” argument. But if som
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by bigred100 7y ago
I think it must be something like stress and deteriorating mental health more than those frankly. They existed 30 years ago (and as I understand were more popular then) without as much negative effects.
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by bigred100 7y ago
At the end of the day it’s just a game. It exists for recreational value. As I see it a pro exists largely because 1) people enjoy watching these games played at the highest level 2) people think they can learn in some way from these people
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by bigred100 7y ago
Are the results different from just doing something like L1 regularization?
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by bigred100 7y ago
Jack Dongarra of perhaps most specially BLAS/LAPACK fame.
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by bigred100 7y ago
I don’t know much about industry but it seems to me there are two ways to look at ML. First is you learn some of optimization, stats, math, parallel computing, numerical methods. The second is that you learn a hell of a lot about fiddling w
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by bigred100 7y ago
Not sure about the top part. I know several programmers, mathematicians, etc. who think they are geniuses and other fields are trivial.

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