eddotman

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by eddotman 8y ago
Wow - great paper! Very readable / accessible. I'm working on some stuff for NLP in materials science academic literature, but we haven't tried anything beyond the usual word embedding -> supervised classifier approach. I&
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by eddotman 9y ago
Pretty compelling arguments. I do think that the ML / CS / etc. community is actually more open than other academic fields, and so this is definitely the right subfield to start in. Putting open access preprints online is not comm
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by eddotman 10y ago
Good call. Decided to do the same.
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by eddotman 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Boston, MA Freelance data science work (applied machine learning and NLP). I'm a PhD student at MIT in materials informatics (i.e. applied ML), and I'd love to do some interesting data science on the side.
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by eddotman 11y ago
If OCW is too advanced to start, try Khan Academy first. It's great for K-12 material.
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by eddotman 11y ago
I've hung out with Ahaan at school several times -- some people in the comments here are speculating that going to university this young might make it hard to adjust (socially), but honestly I assumed he was like ~20 (i.e. just like an
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by eddotman 11y ago
Another Gryphon! I think you might be the first I've seen on HN. A few of my friends did Nanoscience co-op and I've pretty much only heard good things (I did the non co-op stream though since I didn't want to take the extra y
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by eddotman 11y ago
That sounds strange. Pretty much all the top STEM PhD programs (MIT, Harvard, Stanford, etc.) offer a liveable stipend and full tuition reimbursement with medical insurance. e.g. MIT gives like $30k/yr, which is reasonable to live on i
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by eddotman 12y ago
I've never taken economics, but is it possible that this is sort of a combinatorial reason? Like, adding the N+1th person implies coordinating with N other people, so that's a quadratic growth. I'm not really sure if that&#x2
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Using Python as a scientist(nanodatum.wordpress.com)
2 points by eddotman 12y ago|0 comments
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by eddotman 12y ago
1) Sometimes big life decisions are no-win scenarios: there isn't always a solution that leaves every party happy. 2) It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that what you're doing is 'harder' than what others a
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by eddotman 12y ago
Yeah, I guess he can say a lot based on replays and Elo. Still, I feel like many people would feel awkward saying that they are better than their peers - even if it's true. Well, maybe that's partly a cultural thing; I'm sure
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by eddotman 12y ago
The brevity and bluntness in his responses is pretty amusing. I'm surprised he so candidly rates his own abilities and the abilities of his peers - I feel like many people would dodge those questions in public interviews.
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by eddotman 12y ago
Pretty cool stuff, dude. I filled out the form (which, I assume, sent you an email). I'll be around Berkeley in January, so if you like chatting about science stuff, then that could be fun. You have really good initiative (especially n
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by eddotman 12y ago
I skimmed through it, and most of the advice sounds pretty solid. However, I suspect that following all this advice at once is not humanly possible (or at the very least, leaves you little time for anything else in your life). I did like th
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by eddotman 12y ago
As others have said, $60k sounds steep for this. I wonder if these data science programs will catch on. Having done my bachelors in 'nanoscience' - I feel that these data science courses are a little buzzwordy in a similar fashion
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by eddotman 12y ago
Sounds really cool. Are there any technical articles/papers available for the public to read on what you're doing? Or are all the details (understandably) under wraps?
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by eddotman 12y ago
The head researcher here, Yi Cui, is a pretty baller dude. I met him at a PhD admit visitation weekend, and his group was the most popular by far. Some of the admitted students joked that competition to get into his group was harder than ge
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by eddotman 12y ago
Love the creativity in this - reminds me of the book Ready Player One, except with less 80s references and much harder (well, in some sense) puzzles.
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by eddotman 13y ago
I have a nice, clean version that I wrote up in LaTeX, and another 'fancy' version that I did in Illustrator.
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by eddotman 13y ago
You're right, there are many people (including you) who benefit greatly from prizes. But I'm more concerned about the mindset of attendees (i.e. those that "play only to win"). It's also worth noting that prize-winn
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Hackathons don't need prizes(medium.com)
2 points by eddotman 13y ago|2 comments
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by eddotman 13y ago
Hey, this looks really great! Very clean layout. Looks like you have a typo under "competitor analysis" though.