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by genericpseudo 8y ago
I like "Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective" by Kevin Murphy more, but this really is a matter of taste; both are excellent.
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by genericpseudo 8y ago
Take as much probability and linear algebra as you can conveniently do – as much for the intuition as for the symbol-manipulation mechanics – and don't underrate the importance of domain expertise in any problem you get interested in!
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by genericpseudo 8y ago
The Shipping Forecast is a very significant cultural reference in the UK. It crops up all over the place. Britain is _fundamentally_ an island and a seafaring nation, and that's something Americans miss; you're never more than sev
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by genericpseudo 8y ago
Density functional theory, for example, is taught at undergraduate level as part of both chemistry and physics triposes. Probably materials science too, and it certainly used to be an option within earth sciences (as part of the mineral phy
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by genericpseudo 8y ago
Collaborative filtering is machine learning, so if you consider AI machine learning, definitely yes.
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
The team behind Detectron have published an enormous amount of really good research, but the Detectron codebase struck me as "good research code" rather than something you'd ideally want in production.
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
Not at the kind of resolution you'd want to be using on, e.g., Twitch. In that setting, you could just use chromakey, though? That's '70s technology, cheap and very reliable.
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
If you're interested in this but have no background, the best place to start is "Fully Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation" – https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jonlong/long_shelhamer_fcn...
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
> Stitch Fix makes it a major brand point that computers are an important part of the process (which even if you disregard everything else is a really good line to take if you're after recruiting good machine learning engineers!)
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
This means that codec development makes no sense for anyone who doesn't own either a large distribution platform or a large playback platform. (Much of the research has been done by middleware companies attempting to tax the two; t
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
Effective counterexample: the USPS. http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/~srihari/talks/Telcordia.pdf
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
One of four (MXNet and CNTK alongside TF and Theano), and the Amazon deep learning API forked Keras to default to MXNet support before it was really ready - which irked the Keras authors quite a bit.
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
Python has been the language of choice for many physicists (when not doing Fortran) since the early 2000s.
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
PyTorch, Theano (rip), TensorFlow itself, Numba/Blaze?
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
It's even more dramatic than that. Google make money on advertising, not direct sales, so what you're saying is "the (usage * advertiser desirability) from the entirety of group 2 is roughly equal to groups 1 and 3 combined&q
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
Absolutely, yes. Your moral argument there is pretty undeniable; I'm speaking purely to propensity-to-spend and that's a pretty narrow lens. In fact, I'd say "target the web" if you're going for maximum accessi
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
Turns out paying $700 is a pretty good proxy for "caring", though!
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
More "chooses to spend what money they have on a phone" plus "has the money to spend", which is almost but not quite what you're saying. I know some very rich people with whatever Android device the network gave the
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
This observation is the single most important thing you need to know if you work in consumer mobile. To first order, iPhone owners spend money. Android owners don't. This is because your average iPhone user cares more about what phone
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
Yes, when appropriate. Think of it as a Bayesian prior...
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
At a previous company, I worked with someone in a recent highly-public sexism scandal (if I said who or where, I would no longer be a genericpseudo). I knew that the person was extremely brash and was told that they indulged in "locker
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
The problem isn't the mods' local actions (though the mods are not nearly as assertive as I would like in this area); it's the Hacker News community's toleration of bigots and therefore the macro action of failing to r
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
Close but not quite. The difference between (soft) SVM and a kernel linear classifier is choice of loss function; SVM minimizes hinge loss, linear regression minimizes squared loss. (Choice of different loss functions will also give you Ela
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
Jobs has form for this kind of thing, too (breaking something to force developer behavior before reintroducing it when habits have changed). Best example: the original Mac had no cursor keys (to force developers to build mouse-based UIs).
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
Has Thunderbolt ports. The existing iMacs can drive external displays in addition to their internal one.
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
Running a data warehouse is a full-time commitment. Tons of real businesses have no software engineers. This is a great-looking product.
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
That would involve a) writing yourself an engine and that's actual work b) that engine not being one which is used in real research So "it depends" – for introductory teaching yes, for training researchers less so.
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
It looks (from the outside) like Etsy's core eng team, early, had its culture come from all of the ex-Flickr people working there. Flickr's other direct descendant, culturally, is Slack. Those are nerdy, charming, funny cultures.
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
Me of fifteen years ago would love this for lab classes on, e.g., classical molecular dynamics. The computational load of these simulations is, in modern terms, not large, so Emscripten-compiled simulations would be plenty fast enough, an
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by genericpseudo 9y ago
Totally would :-) They're an insurance company which monetizes through operating businesses rather than the traditional model of bancassurance.

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