eegilbert

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HCC Is All You Need(arxiv.org)
2 points by eegilbert 2y ago|1 comments
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by eegilbert 4y ago
However, the paper does offer a compelling causal mechanism. Also, it appears they performed follow-up pilot studies on the effects of erythritol consumption—as opposed to its simple presence in the blood. The following quote from the artic
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by eegilbert 6y ago
Some of my immediate colleagues are hostile to this! Agree with the substance of your point: often the importance of classes varies with the structure of the program (e.g., quals).
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by eegilbert 6y ago
I need to fix that. Apologies. Somebody already caught it an earlier round of feedback, and I just haven't gotten to it yet with the pandemic. But will soon.
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by eegilbert 6y ago
This is my syllabus. :-) I tell all my prospective students to talk to my former students.
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by eegilbert 7y ago
That's You Need A Budget, which I love paying for.
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We think the Russian Trolls are still out there: identifying them with ML(medium.com)
2 points by eegilbert 8y ago|0 comments
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by eegilbert 8y ago
Page and Brin were both initially funded by the National Science Foundation to do the algorithmic work that led to Google [1]. Page was supported by an NSF grant from the 1994 Digital Library Initiative program; Brin was at Stanford on an N
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by eegilbert 9y ago
One of the authors here. That's correct. The spillover to other sites is not studied. Based on an (admittedly imperfectly) related paper with Stevie Chancellor & Munmun De Choudhury [1], I would expect that the spillover to other s
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by eegilbert 9y ago
Tanushree Mitra wrote a computational paper on this in 2016 [1], finding something similar: "Using four years of longitudinal data capturing vaccine discussions on Twitter, we identify users who persistently hold pro- and anti-attitude
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by eegilbert 9y ago
I agree with most of this. However, I might take issue with the motivation you ascribe to professors: "only car[ing] about increasing the number of academics who studied in their lab." Another explanation, one that I find myself f
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by eegilbert 9y ago
Here is the original SIGGRAPH paper and demo video: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/AudioToObama/siggrap... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yq67CjDqvw
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by eegilbert 9y ago
Perhaps. Although you could apply something like matching techniques [1] to find startups comparable to the big successes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_(statistics)
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by eegilbert 9y ago
I loved Founders at Work. However, it suffers from (somewhat severe) survivorship bias [1]. The next time around, it would be great to hear from more companies/founders that were "supposed to make it" but didn't for one
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by eegilbert 10y ago
It's really quite sad that someone with this much skill is spending this much time on a project like this.
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by eegilbert 10y ago
Yes. This is often, perhaps willfully given the incentives, overlooked by computer scientists (and people trained in that discipline). For a complete, cogent argument see: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/resea
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by eegilbert 10y ago
One example is this recent paper on learning (somewhat) high-level attributes of text from character streams alone (i.e., without telling the convolutional networks that things like words and punctuation exist). https://arxiv.org
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Box of games to instill math confidence in K-3 kids(geekmom.com)
1 points by eegilbert 11y ago|0 comments
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by eegilbert 11y ago
Much better.
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Traffic Jam, a program that helps track prostitution rings by using public data(broadly.vice.com)
54 points by eegilbert 11y ago|24 comments
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by eegilbert 11y ago
Yesterday, a startup incubator wants to be a research lab. Today, a government research lab wants to be a startup incubator. I'm confused.
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by eegilbert 11y ago
This looks great, as I would expect. However, a major hurdle at US universities is FERPA [1]. FERPA (but really the fear of litigation under FERPA) is one reason why universities host their own software. [1] https://en.wikipedia.
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by eegilbert 11y ago
Hey look, it's my paper. :-) Dunno why this caught back on now. Paper is from 2012.
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by eegilbert 11y ago
I just read the Methods section of that article. It does not use a RCT design; it's an observational study based on questionnaire data. All standard confound caveats apply (with the exception of the controls accounted for in the paper)
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by eegilbert 12y ago
Twitter lets your bot post thousands of times a day without then banning the account? Via the API?
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Ask HN: Ubuntu-friendly laptop comparable to MBP Retina?
6 points by eegilbert 12y ago|11 comments
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by eegilbert 12y ago
I share these worries. In addition, consider some of the potential social effects of flu season. You're on a crowded international flight and a handful of people are clearly ill. What are the odds someone on that plane freaks out about
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by eegilbert 12y ago
Reminiscent of folklore surrounding Airbnb's Craigslist campaign: http://davegooden.com/2011/05/how-airbnb-became-a-billion-do...
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by eegilbert 12y ago
I think we should revisit the meaning of the word "democratic."
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by eegilbert 12y ago
I sometimes use a personal OpenVPN install I have on AWS. I know from experience that Stack Overflow and Yelp block me; presumably, they block the whole range.

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