lemondrops

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by lemondrops 9y ago
Also, this? https://twitter.com/SamiraEKahou/status/940085885101412352 I don't get why anyone but the wife herself should be offended by this.
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by lemondrops 9y ago
It's silly you're getting downvoted for this well-articulated and insightful comment. I think much of the negativity towards DS from the programming community is because the Data Scientist is what the programmer used to be ~15 yea
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by lemondrops 9y ago
I never saw it that way before -- but as someone who found programming in their early teenage years too, this sounds very familiar. I still feel a sense of excitement when I learn something new, but it wears off very quickly because most ne
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by lemondrops 9y ago
Analyzing data and deriving meaning from it is exactly what we, in science, mean by discovering something. Though from what I've gathered in recent discussions about Nobel prizes, it is rather common that the project leader is awarded
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by lemondrops 9y ago
Not really, see e.g. the 2012-2013 financial crisis in Cyprus, there was no "army" to enforce that people got all their money back... [1] The only thing that keeps the system working is trust (see other reply to my initial comment
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by lemondrops 9y ago
>> It is only worth something because other people say it is worth something That is actually the very definition of most currencies currently in use [1]. Money is actually just a promise that someone will provide you goods or service
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by lemondrops 9y ago
>> others will do just a monkey job using magical APIs. Isn't that what most of modern software development is like already? Many common use cases have been implemented in frameworks, and usually a developer's job consists m
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by lemondrops 9y ago
Creating features has not been automated by Deep Learning at all. Even for image recognition tasks, where your "features" are simply the pixels of an image, there's still lots of preprocessing work to get those images into a
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by lemondrops 9y ago
> annoyingly out of place Agree. I can't take an article seriously when the author is too lazy to type out Facebook.
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by lemondrops 9y ago
https://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/food_waste/stop_en
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by lemondrops 9y ago
I live on ~30% of my income, which I would consider a modest "upper entry level developer" in my country. I don't feel like I sacrifice anything, though it is true that I'm lucky to share an already cheap apartment with
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What you should know about AI(techcrunch.com)
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by lemondrops 9y ago
> Even the calmer takes on this are anthromorphizing the machines too much and attributing intelligence to the complete lack thereof. Exactly. I haven't read the details of the implementation of the system mentioned in the article,
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by lemondrops 9y ago
Would it implode if the conjecture was disproved?
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by lemondrops 9y ago
On the other hand I think it's quite strange that a talented entrepreneur and a physicist, among others, are considered as a source of expertise in a field they have nothing to do with, per se. I don't see any of the top AI/M
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by lemondrops 9y ago
Somewhat related: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/24/opinion/sunday/artificial...
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by lemondrops 9y ago
Not sure how to feel about this; but I also don't consider myself a women who suffers heavily under period symptoms. If I feel bad enough that I can't do my work properly, I would simply leave, periods or not. (Normal paid sick le