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by boxy310 6y ago
Yes, it's quite clever. An equivalent proof is dividing 0.999... by 9 using long division, which comes out to 0.111... which is equal to 1/9. Now use fraction notation and it simplifies to 9/9 = 1. Not quite as robust as the
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by boxy310 6y ago
> How can the US have that little protection of their workers..? The US has spent the last 65 years chipping away at unionization rates and other pro-employee protections. The overall rate of unionization in the US peaked in 1954 [1]. [1
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by boxy310 7y ago
Yes - this is a major function of private equity in general. They even have investment banks and firms that specialize in "buy side" versus "sell side" of the transaction.
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by boxy310 7y ago
I once had a consulting gig where the customer desperately wanted to build a Spark/Scala ML pipeline, for a dataset that was 10 MB. We spent 3 months hammering it together for a flat Python process that would've taken us 2 weeks.
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by boxy310 7y ago
Neil Postman was my single most favorite find in a thrift store.
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by boxy310 7y ago
Long-haul trucking would be a great use-case. Even if you need humans for local pilot guidance, you can queue them up to a "cell phone lot" and courier the last-mile drivers in between shifts of going back & forth. It would al
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by boxy310 7y ago
Cash or a bank demand account is not without their own inherent risks. A fire, robbery, or forced currency exchange could destroy the value of the physical commodity of cash, and the FDIC only insures individual account bank deposits up to
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by boxy310 7y ago
Drinking multiple _liters_ of water in a relatively short time can cause water intoxication [1] due to the drop in relative electrolyte levels. I got it once at scout camp where, unfortunately, the medic misdiagnosed me with dehydration and
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by boxy310 8y ago
Most MLM's tout a flexible working schedule which women tend to prefer due to being saddled with a higher average proportion of the child-rearing and elder-care responsibilities.
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by boxy310 8y ago
Over time the attrition rate for attention increases. As a result it becomes harder to justify further investments in usability features or content quality because you can no longer leverage the increased attention of more users in the futu
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by boxy310 8y ago
I think we would have to understand better how instinctive behavior ends up affecting this kind of cognitive processes, but I think it would be possible. Examples that immediately come to mind would be some cats' aversion to cucumbers
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by boxy310 8y ago
DOB and date of last checkup are highly schematizable. This specific example is very well-suited to a SQL solution dumping into an autocaller queue. Maybe this was a terrible example, and the author didn't grasp a good example of legit
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by boxy310 8y ago
Funny - half of my experiences talking with nonprofits were telling people with an Access database to migrate to a proper SQL database.
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by boxy310 8y ago
Mid-tier Midwestern cities are quickly gentrifying with bikeshares, kombucha shops, craft breweries, and bookstore/brewpub combos. Madison, Indianapolis, & Cincinnati often get mentioned in these conversations, but I know Detroit i
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by boxy310 8y ago
I would add that humans also integrate gyroscopic & acceleration information from the inner ear to understand relative balance. Multiple sources of sensor data is a net benefit, not a drawback.
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by boxy310 8y ago
Fascinating. I've used my own hacked-together unsupervised learning to facilitate topic labeling, and this seems to address the bottleneck problem for supervised learning. Will have to dig in deeper though to pick out specifics. Also i
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by boxy310 8y ago
Logistic regression is also referred to as a "supervised classification" problem, which this book only addresses in the specialized space of document clustering or image classification. They do also address Support Vector Machines
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by boxy310 8y ago
Well - there _is_ a bit of Student's Paradox involved in requirements-gathering for machine learning or analytics, and it's not always apparent that you're using the right algorithm for the problem or what specific metrics yo
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by boxy310 8y ago
I found it simply fascinating when I learned that Blue Wildebeests are born knowing how to stand within minutes of their birth, and within a day can outrun adult hyenas: "Extremely precocial species are called "superprecocial&quot
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by boxy310 8y ago
What would you propose as being a "market-decides" approach to health care, beyond abolishing any-party insurers and revert to a 19th-century model?
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by boxy310 8y ago
We have lots of examples of governments doing this with ranges from poor to fair to good results. To my knowledge, the US is the only widescale attempt at market-based health care, with results of 2x the OECD average of health care cost per
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by boxy310 9y ago
I had a very bitter argument about whether Kansas was Midwestern or not. An important distinction is that what's now considered the "Midwest" used to be just called the "West", and that the Great Plains formed a n
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by boxy310 9y ago
Neat observation. The "3-longest-words" approach probably works well because grammatical words tend to be elided down to as short of an implementation as possible, while longer words tend to be more demonstrative of the actual top
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by boxy310 9y ago
Eh, that really comes down to applied theory vs. pure theory. There's no one Grand Unifying Theory of Natural Language Processing, and not likely to be a strong candidate for a while yet. Until then, there can still be a lot of good pr
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by boxy310 9y ago
The specific instance I was remembering was from interviews Hinton's given about these papers, but this is the section of the arXiv paper that's relevant: >Now that convolutional neural networks have become the dominant approac
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by boxy310 9y ago
Was very pleased to find this out when I first started studying word embeddings (the abstract principles of word2vec). Essentially it comes down to words having similar verbs and objects that come up most frequently together, so they end up
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by boxy310 9y ago
>Anaphora resolution is one of the really hard problems not only in NLP but in linguistics in general. This was one of the most frustrating parts of studying Latin rhetoric. The speakers would keep referring to "That thing I was tal
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by boxy310 9y ago
Well, there's also observations from neuroscience. CNN's were directly inspired by observations of closely-grouped neurons firing when detecting certain images, and capsule networks are directly inspired by cortical columns.
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by boxy310 9y ago
The major advantage proposed for capsule networks is the ability to train off far fewer number of observations, not necessarily the full accuracy. At this point CNN's are consistently approaching or even exceeding human levels of accur
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by boxy310 9y ago
Before the printing press, there was dramatic variation in regional dialects of European nations. After the printing press, standardization and state centralization have been grinding these regional dialects into the ground. Even traditiona

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