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by it_does_follow 4y ago
Not to mention that the entire class of Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques only form a subset of general uses for Markov chains. Markov chains form the basis of n-gram language models, which are still useful today. Markov chains are also
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by it_does_follow 4y ago
Being reputable and being a vanity division are not mutually exclusive. You could argue that at it's peak Bell labs was a vanity division. That research may have changed the world, but very little of it likely ended up benefiting AT&am
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by it_does_follow 4y ago
My guess is this is ultimately about money. Facebook/Meta stock lost 30% of it's value a few months back and may not recover any time soon. Many of these people are high level, so I'm guessing (based on a quick skim of levels
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by it_does_follow 4y ago
You've never had to any kind of factor analysis in your work or done any searching for latent variables that map to customer/stakeholder question? Given the number of people I've worked with that are interested in modeling &q
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by it_does_follow 4y ago
It's very clear if you read the article that what the author is calling "feature selection" might be better termed "feature generation ". He explicitly calls out what he means in the post: > When used for featur
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by it_does_follow 4y ago
Am I alone in really disliking Towards Data Science? While their articles always look nice, their content is all written quickly by data scientists wanting to polish their resume with the ultimate aim of rapidly generating content for TDS t
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by it_does_follow 4y ago
> And I sometimes wonder why. Numpy. I honestly think it all boils down to numpy being developed long before matrix libraries became a standard part of software development. Ruby's early "killer app" (remember that term?)
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by it_does_follow 4y ago
I believe the parent is attempting their own demonstration of Poe's law. I was impressed by the quality (and really hope I'm not wrong).
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by it_does_follow 4y ago
"I'm having kids because of the movie Idiocracy, and inspired because Elon Musk did the same" has to be peak Poe's law[0]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
I'm surprised this argument is so hidden in the comments. All things being equal I would prefer permanent standard time, but it's pretty obvious that a very rational way to solve this problem is just choose whichever setting we us
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> They point to evidence, notably from the Nordic nations, that economies can continue to grow even as carbon emissions start to come down. This a pretty laughable piece of "evidence" given that the most important export from
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> That if someone really wants to understand where we are with all those Libya, Syria, Iraq, ... Ukraine. I appreciate Mearsheimer's perspective, but for a self professed "realist", I find it strange that he talks a lot ab
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
Putin/The Russians aren't insane, they're looking after oil/NG interests. That's the entire reason they captured Crimea in the first place. The Ukrainian government then stopped the flow of water to Crimea to make i
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
I second this question. In the last few days I've heard pretty heavy reference to "people cheering on nuclear war" but haven't seen it first hand anywhere. A link to an opinion piece that explicitly states this, or even
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
I'm presuming the link is supposed to be about this book https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259360/economic-weapo... There's a review with the same title as this post here: https://www.for
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
I think Bishop et al. WIP book Model-Based Machine Learning [0] is a nice step in the right direction. Honestly the most important thing missing from ML that stats has is the idea that your model is a model of something. That how you const
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
No, this is the second volume of "Probabilistic Machine Learning", the first volume of which was just published this week. The 2 volume set can be seen as a complete rewrite/replacement for "Machine Learning: A Probabili
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
For clarification, Murphy's first book is just Machine Learning: A probabilistic perspective this is his newest, 2 volume book, Probabilistic Machine Learning which is broken down into two parts an Introduction (published March 1
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
Kevin Murphy has done an incredible service to the ML (and Stats) community by producing such an encyclopedic work of contemporary views on ML. These books are really a much need update of the now outdated feeling "The Elements of Stat
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
I've had tinnitus for about 20 years now and I don't notice it most of the time and when I do don't really mind it too much. The only thing I really miss is perfect silence. One of the things I've noticed people struggle
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
I haven't done or even really touched front end work in a decade and I believe that this would have been an interesting interview. Given his perfect answers I probably would have been able to come pretty close to passing. If you know a
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
No, these are always the tools used to convince people to go to war, and later to justify the results. They are part of the ways power maintains power. Every first king is just a warlord, a thug more brutal than the rest, and after defeatin
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
I'm surprised to see so many moral narratives, like this one, surrounding war start popping up. I thought it was pretty well understood and established that the narratives we tell about war are mostly propaganda/myth making after
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
Curious what's delusional about this? Russian and Ukraine combined account for 29% of global wheat exports, much of that to the EU. Near term climate change will most certainly lead to massive crop failures, particularly in currently b
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
Not if Russia takes Ukraine and controls the majority of wheat following into EU. Near term impacts of climate change will very likely leads to crop failures in many of the EU's largest producing regions. When you don't have enoug
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
I don't think Russia is going to lose this one. People on HN tend to be in denial about the current state of the world, but I don't think Putin is. We're already starting to see some food shortages across the globe due to cli
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
I had a similar reaction to this post, this is not a new way of leveling, this is how leveling was done at most companies for a long time. State Universities and the Federal Government are still very much this way, with a very similar amo
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
If you train for endurance sports you'll definitely lose weight without much attention to your diet. For example, with marathon training, once you start to hit the 6 plus mile your daily run eats up over 1,000 calories. Near the end of
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> There are also lots of libraries but the quality of the documentation is often sub par. One thing I think R does not get enough credit for is really strong enforcement of documentation. If you want to get a package in CRAN it is going
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> Doing work like this for other people is completely and utterly different from working on your own projects. To be fair this same logic likely is the source of stress for a lot of software engineers. Loving to program and programming f

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