querious

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by querious 7y ago
One of our simplest “screening” questions for DS roles at my company is: “your model is 100% accurate. How do you feel?” If the answer is anything other than deep skepticism (Data leakage, trivial dataset etc), it’s a big red flag
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by querious 8y ago
These guys are saying something like 17M thefts in 2017, which to me is a bit concerning and almost incredible, even if they’re off by a factor of 2. I mean, it’s not the end of the world if someone assumes my identity but it certainly seem
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by querious 9y ago
What I'm psyched about is OpenStreetMaps data queryable with Athena. It's traditionally kind of a pain to convert PBFs to a queryable format.
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by querious 9y ago
Apache Airflow defines and runs DAGs in a sane way, IMO. Takes some configuration, but worth it for more complicated projects.
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by querious 10y ago
The UK's NHS recently opened up a large amount of its data to Google [0]. In parallel efforts, a company called Nuna is gathering and unifying data from state level Medicaid programs so it can be analyzed similarly [1]. 0) https:&#x2F
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by querious 10y ago
Actually a pretty good way to understand manual transmission. Very cool.
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by querious 11y ago
Does anyone know whether this is a degenerative disease or a condition one is born with? It's possible the whole brain is necessary for learning, (including learning how to learn more abstract things), but then can be pruned heavily to
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by querious 11y ago
Whenever automated transportation becomes feasible, which is on the order of 5-10 years, a good chunk of a multi-trillion dollar market will go to the few players ready to capture it. At this point, Uber is arguably the most promising bet:
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by querious 11y ago
Original paper: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/EVO-DesignOpt/groupWebSite/uplo... Basically how the "Data Science Machine" works: 1) "Feature synthesis": features related to the target are discov
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by querious 11y ago
http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.06172
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by querious 11y ago
Should there be an intermediary the client needs to sign that the summary isn't a perfect representation of the contract? Kidding, of course. Mostly.
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by querious 11y ago
Would love feedback and ideas on the concept. The target audience is lab managers in the live sciences field, and we're looking for beta testers.
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Show HN: LabQuo – A marketplace for lab equipment services(labquo.com)
12 points by querious 11y ago|1 comments
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by querious 11y ago
I think of it as an arms race between traders and regulators. The more complex the security, the longer it will take regulators to pass rules against its misuse, figure out taxation, etc. In the meantime, the inventor stands to make an enor
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by querious 11y ago
A) 20% growth in revenue per year is not "flattening out". It's massively exponential growth. B) Google is at the cutting edge of robotics and computer vision. I'd say they are in an excellent position to cash in on the
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by querious 11y ago
The words "Something All Our Own" come to mind (the name of Grant Hill's collection of African American art). The motivation to defy expectations has been there for a long time, and makes sense on several levels. It's th
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by querious 11y ago
On a similar note: anyone know of a tool for generating SQL queries by example?
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by querious 12y ago
This is pretty incredible work. There are SO many modules and they all seem to work very robustly and cleanly. Very impressed.
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by querious 12y ago
Well, theoretically a brute force universally solves any set of constraints, just takes too long. Intelligence is really only about efficiency and timescales, i.e. the dumbest algorithm would look insanely smart to us if it ran fast enough.
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by querious 12y ago
I can't recommend a browser extension like Vimium highly enough. It allows you to browse the web efficiently without a mouse. Also: shortcat for navigating OSX dialog boxes, and Divvy for resizing windows with the keyboard. I hardly to
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by querious 12y ago
Python and NLTK :)
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by querious 13y ago
The question that comes up for me at this point is whether there is much that is dispensable about humans when it comes to exhibiting intelligent behavior (running on 100 watts, no less). It turned out that for abstracting useful flight dyn