c_moscardi

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by c_moscardi 1mo ago
LADW saved me in undergrad, but I was pretty much exactly the target audience in an honors-level freshman math course: "[per Treil, LADW is for] a student who, while not yet very familiar with abstract reasoning, is willing to study mo
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by c_moscardi 1mo ago
Yeah, I am currently trying to work with Opus 5 to refresh myself on deep learning fundamentals, and... it's a mixed bag. I'm glad I already am familiar with the subject matter, as I can prompt for refinement and improvement. It i
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by c_moscardi 1y ago
Riding in the family rail car like it’s 1895 (and you’re a robber baron)
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by c_moscardi 1y ago
We chatted a few months back -- congrats on launch! Looks like a great UX.
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by c_moscardi 2y ago
Amazing! GitHub actions to compute a giant skim matrix is an incredible hack. I pretty regularly work with social science researchers who have a need for something like this... will keep it in mind. For a bit we thought of setting something
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by c_moscardi 2y ago
Worth noting that there already exists an ecosystem of these sorts of contracting firms (nava, skylight, truss I believe, forgetting even more) that, basically, pitch themselves as the antidote to beltway banditry People from the federal ci
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by c_moscardi 2y ago
Came to post this — it’s the same underlying technology, just a lot more compute now.
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Fine-tuning OCR works really well: Statistical Abstracts of the United States(christianmoscardi.com)
2 points by c_moscardi 2y ago|1 comments
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by c_moscardi 2y ago
Hi HN! I've spent a couple of months fiddling with OCR and wanted to share some of my findings. The approach I share here (fine-tuning recent deep learning models) is the first one that's gotten me anything resembling high-quality
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by c_moscardi 2y ago
Related reading; explains the same concept quite well IMO with NYC subway data. This is where I learned about this concept. [1] https://erikbern.com/2016/04/04/nyc-subway-math [2] https://erikbern.
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by c_moscardi 2y ago
Yeah, I think MS' is the best out there, but agree that the usability leaves something to be desired. 2 thoughts: 1. I believe the IR jargon for getting a JSON of this form is Key Information Extraction (KIE). MS has an out-of-the-box
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by c_moscardi 2y ago
Figures, too! Yeah you could write some logic essentially on top of a library like this, and tune based on optimizing for some notion of recall (grab more surrounding context) and precision (direct context around the word, e.g. only the par
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by c_moscardi 7y ago
Funnily enough, this is another great tactic for getting emails returned (looping in someone with more leverage than you or asking them to follow up for you)!
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by c_moscardi 8y ago
We should talk! I do work on automatically coding products for a shipping survey at the Census Bureau. One of the earliest production uses of ML here at Census :) 5 minute deck: https://github.com/codingitforward/cdfdem
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by c_moscardi 8y ago
Yep, my read too. The code he provides is definitely the Clopper-Pearson formula. [1] This confused me as well, since I've always used the normal central-limit-based confidence interval for binary outcomes. [1] https://en.wi
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by c_moscardi 8y ago
I feel like they're learning from the mistakes of their forbears and getting out before the getting's truly bad...
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by c_moscardi 9y ago
Author here! I'll keep an eye on this thread and would love to discuss anything in the post that's of interest to you.
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The Second Avenue Subway and Property Values(christianmoscardi.com)
2 points by c_moscardi 9y ago|2 comments
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by c_moscardi 9y ago
Awesome idea! Let me make a shameless plug for my web app that does something like this for ubuntu LTS distros: https://www.lilite.co/ I'd love for it to be made obsolete though :)
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by c_moscardi 9y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I wasn't particularly dedicating this to new users. This solves a problem for me, an experienced *nix user. I'm not even sure it /would/ solve a problem for new users (arguably ninite doesn'
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by c_moscardi 9y ago
Hi all, I created this site! The motivation was basically a version of ninite[1] for Linux. So very desktop-focused. I actually got in touch with the ninite folks, who used to run a Linux installer [2]. They said there wasn't enough in
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Show HN: Lilite, a Linux package autoinstaller(lilite.co)
4 points by c_moscardi 9y ago|3 comments
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by c_moscardi 11y ago
A few good ones here - another really interesting, current initiative is Bolsa Família, a Brazilian assistance program that functions similarly to a basic income subsidy - the main difference is that it requires families to demonstrate up-t
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by c_moscardi 11y ago
WRT the TWA flight center at Kennedy, this coming weekend is the last chance for the general public to see it before redevelopment, via Open House NY! http://www.ohny.org/
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Chef and Google App Engine(christianmoscardi.com)
2 points by c_moscardi 11y ago|0 comments
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by c_moscardi 11y ago
The issue here is the spec - no runtime errors at the source code level is, as I understand, a completely different specification than end-to-end implementation correctness. In particular, the Muen Kernel report itself [1] explains: By imp
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by c_moscardi 11y ago
To me, the interesting bit here is that you have to be honest with yourself about your limits as well - and in particular, be very good about understanding those limits. I think in this instance, ethics and economic incentives align - your
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by c_moscardi 11y ago
RASMI!!! Yeah, most of our curriculum uses regular old matplotlib. We only use this technique specifically in our D3 curriculum. In general I can't think of many use cases where this is actually better than just having a couple of file
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by c_moscardi 11y ago
IPython itself is a REPL with many, many convenience and magic functions, auto-completion, etc... If you write any amount of python, it's hugely useful! Then, there are IPython Notebooks, which give you the HTML, cell-based frontend fo
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by c_moscardi 11y ago
Very cool. I think this is, ultimately, what Jupyter hopes to move towards. Literally their first example is embedding D3... http://sharing.beakernotebook.com/gist/anonymous/e21582541d7...

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