jlamberts

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by jlamberts 4d ago
Engineering is about creating something that serves a purpose, while operating within a set of constraints. Part of that is realizing that "100% correct/reliable in all circumstances" is an unrealistic goal, since implementat
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Translating a prophecy between two constructed languages [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jlamberts 18d ago|1 comments
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by jlamberts 18d ago
Stumbled upon this randomly and found it very interesting. Apparently it's part of what's essentially a big game of telephone using fictional/constructed languages https://conlang.org/language-creation-confere
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by jlamberts 1mo ago
I think it's mostly that he's a vocal critic of AI/big tech at a time when much of the public is anti-AI and anti-big-tech, so his message is resonating with people and he's popular.
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by jlamberts 2mo ago
This is actually a well-known phenomenon in ML, called "The Bitter Lesson". > One thing that should be learned from the bitter lesson is the great power of general purpose methods, of methods that continue to scale with increas
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by jlamberts 4mo ago
I'd agree with you if this applied to primary residences, but it seems like this only applies to secondary residences? I find it hard to reconcile "middle class" with "has a second home in NYC"
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by jlamberts 8mo ago
Re: existing model, for recsys, as long as the product already exists you have some baseline available, even if it's not very good. Anything from "alphabetical order" to "random order" to "most popular"
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by jlamberts 8mo ago
Yes, it's just really nice to be able to push a button and have it hold at the right temperature; sort of like how boiling water on the stove or in the microwave and using an electric kettle are functionally equivalent but the kettle i
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by jlamberts 8mo ago
Guessing the hygenics depend on your local water supply, but some varieties of tea (and coffee actually) want to be brewed at below-boiling
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by jlamberts 8mo ago
A little desktop app that lets me upload transaction csvs from my bank and figure out how much I need to split with my partner. Mostly because I always forget to charge her for utilities or flight bookings and I hate going through the bank
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by jlamberts 8mo ago
I don't see how their analogy is stupid. Aeropress and french press are pretty similar from an "enthusiast coffee device" perspective. Lots of room for variability in grind size, coffee choice, and specific brewing technique
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by jlamberts 2y ago
Might have been k-nearest-neighbors rather than k-means. Knn can be used for "recommended because you bought X" or "users like you also bought X" type recommendations that relate user to user or item to item. K-means cou
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by jlamberts 2y ago
With free games (which make up a pretty large portion of competitive online games), cheaters who get banned usually just make or buy new accounts.
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by jlamberts 5y ago
As part of the Intuit purchase Credit Karma had to sell off their tax service, which Square bought. I'm guessing that's what OP is referring to.
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by jlamberts 5y ago
I have also recently been playing around with Julia coming from numpy/pandas. I found that 1.6.1 felt way smoother on startup and import than 1.5.x. Might be worth trying to upgrade if you haven't already. At the very least it&#x
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by jlamberts 6y ago
This is actually the idea behind Direct Primary Care[1]; basically the idea is that by not taking insurance the overall cost of care goes down due to the decreased overhead around the claims process. My dad is a PCP who switched his practic
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by jlamberts 6y ago
I've heard "the tallest blade of grass gets cut first" in the US, although Google says it's either a Russian or Assyrian proverb originally.
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by jlamberts 7y ago
I was also curious. Using an out-of-the-box weighted random forest, I got an f-score of ~.85 using a 75:25 stratified train-test split.
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by jlamberts 7y ago
To encourage active participation, I have created a private repo where all future edits and entries will be made starting November 2019 after which this project will be deprecated. To join indefinitely you have to submit two unique open so
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by jlamberts 7y ago
I tried a few: runbox, protonmail, and fastmail, and ended up staying with fastmail. The web interface isn't pretty but is functional and the service has been great so far. Very easy to set up with my own domain.
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by jlamberts 7y ago
I graduated from the program in December. Overall, the program was absolutely worth it for me. Based on my experience I'd say that the online program isn't quite at the same level of instruction quality as an equivalent in-perso
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by jlamberts 8y ago
For anyone who's interested in a more long-form, intuitive explanation of the fourier transform and how you can use it to multiply polynomials, I'd highly recommend Erik Demaine's lecture on the topic: https://www.
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by jlamberts 8y ago
In my experience, it's a combination of a couple of things. First off, the field is heavily regulated (in the US anyway) and the penalties for violating regulations like HIPAA are incredibly high. Second, the field is currently domin
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by jlamberts 9y ago
By the utilitarian argument, wouldn't the answer just be to stop eating meat and eat whatever we're feeding to livestock (or some other food grown in its place)? Meat is a pretty inefficient source of food compared to large scale
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by jlamberts 9y ago
I think the idea for the original product (I.e. non cypto) is that it's target the "little guy" with no commission on trades. So people feel like they're taking from the rich institutional investors.
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by jlamberts 9y ago
I think they're saying that they're being taxed as if they were getting 4% interest on their savings, when in reality they're getting less than 1% because rates are low. So even though it's nominally a tax on interest e
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by jlamberts 9y ago
Well, it's a resume service. Gotta include at least one JS framework to make it past HR.
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by jlamberts 9y ago
I would love this as an individual when learning new languages on my own projects. I find it really hard to tell if I'm actually doing things the "right" way without talking to someone more experienced.
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by jlamberts 9y ago
ML flows nicely into RL, although I've heard ML4T is a gentler intro if you have no experience in machine learning at all (I haven't taken it yet)
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by jlamberts 9y ago
I'm currently in the program with a BS in Industrial Engineering. I highlighted the CS side of my job in my application, and had done a lot of learning on my own time between my BS and application. So it's definitely possible if

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