elliott34

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by elliott34 6y ago
amazing!
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by elliott34 8y ago
Spotify doesn't pay artists. They pay the labels. And labels pay the artists. What artists get paid has nothing to do with Spotify.
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Ask HN: Is there a product that can randomly surface Kindle highlights?
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by elliott34 10y ago
I have a lot of experience with this problem. The simplest way is via data munging in python/ pandas etc by finding what percent users convert/churn after doing an event N times within the first X days, and all the permutations th
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by elliott34 10y ago
Because the author draws a lot of parallels between computer science majors and physics majors, citing that physics majors are better prepared for the type of work ML requires. I am a physics major turned data scientist, and my argument is
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by elliott34 10y ago
Doesn't really seem like the author spoke to a lot of actual physicists to write this article. Don't get me wrong, physics majors attract a certain type of intellect, but the vast majority of curriculum (quantum, EM, mechanics) ar
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by elliott34 10y ago
And this is thanks to Yann LeCun whose vast experience at Bell Labs experience has shown him how mixing engineer/business requirements/deadlines with research produces shitty results, and so he designed it this way.
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by elliott34 10y ago
I think one of the only companies doing this right, and that has the resources to do this right, is facebook, as they seperate AI research and teams that are focused on putting these things into production (i.e. ML engineers vs Ml researche
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by elliott34 10y ago
2001: A Space Odyssey Sunshine Blade Runner, gattaca, the matrix, alien etc.etc. basically just google "best sci fi movies of all time"
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by elliott34 10y ago
Disagree about motivation. See Steven Pressfield's "War of Art" and "Do the work." Motivation is ephemeral. Hard work, habit, consistently applying yourself regardless of your motivation, is key.
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by elliott34 10y ago
Not dangerous, in my experience. It doesn't take deep theoretical knowledge to provide value (i.e. value to a customer or to a business) through machine learning. Assuming here that one knows how to cross validate, check for overfittin
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by elliott34 10y ago
I wish everyone on r/MachineLearning and those preparing for data science careers would read this comment and heed the advice of those of us who have actually spent time on data science teams and have experienced all of this first hand
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by elliott34 10y ago
Would love to see this post if you have it handy.
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by elliott34 10y ago
I read Murakami books not because they are entirely entertaining WHILE I'm reading them, but because the dream-like memory of the experience sticks in your mind for years.
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by elliott34 10y ago
After reading this, I recommend reading the following: https://yanirseroussi.com/2016/08/04/is-data-scientist-a-use...
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by elliott34 10y ago
It's really challenging, people are trying. Are you specifically referring to auto, health, life...all of the above? See http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/23/11097642/google-shuts-down... .
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by elliott34 11y ago
The good news is you don't have to bookmark this blog because when you're writing scala and googling questions, it's going to come up on page one, because it's one of the best.
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by elliott34 11y ago
Yeah I mostly agree with this. There are some small wins though like how BigML allows you to export random forests into plain text node.js and you can just deploy in shitty php pipelines and boom you're doing machine learning.
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by elliott34 11y ago
I think the best part of this article is the approach to learning new things he presents--going beneath the surface, learning the fundamentals below the “API” layer (abstractly speaking). Really great explanation of that insight! The part I
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by elliott34 11y ago
Anyone using dl4j? http://deeplearning4j.org/
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by elliott34 11y ago
The last two screen shots are the same
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by elliott34 11y ago
yeaaaaaahh but is that really the most annoying? dimensional modeling, getting all the joins right, scripting all the transforms (the T in ETL) is pretty annoying. Getting data into redshift is like, just the beginning. Not to mention, ski
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by elliott34 11y ago
Call me a snob, but after reading too many beautifully typeset LaTeX books/papers, trying to reading math in fonts like this is very off putting.
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by elliott34 11y ago
Is anyone on HN using Julia professionally?
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by elliott34 11y ago
Check out whetstone labs. Their Bayesian grid search tech is awesome
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by elliott34 11y ago
The ideas of PID theory are really useful in a lot of operational/automation contexts. For example, if your business is using any sort of machine learning model to govern a process, and you have some sort of idea of how you want this p
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by elliott34 11y ago
It's 90$ for a single web page that's not considered a web application, which has a dubious definition "A web application is a website that has customer specific data or charges for its use."
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by elliott34 11y ago
Out of curiosity, whereabouts do you live/work?
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by elliott34 11y ago
"Sometimes I wish that I was like an air-cooled Porsche mechanic or something very stable and non-computer related, so I could just work away in my shop and not have to ever touch this fucking demon box." What was nice about worki
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by elliott34 11y ago
I always wind up making a mess everywhere with mine

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