rm999

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by rm999 6mo ago
This article has more information - looks like this was from 12 years ago https://www.reuters.com/world/match-group-settles-us-ftc-cla... > The FTC said OkCupid users were never told their information - including
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by rm999 1y ago
A really short version of it is that you don't need an agent if you have a well-defined solution that can be implemented in advance (e.g. the 'patterns' in this article). Programmers often work on problems that have programma
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Trustworthiness in the Age of AI(jfkirk.github.io)
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by rm999 3y ago
> If they can make the average song listened to by a user just 1 second longer, they reduce that by about 0.5%. This isn't how music royalties work - rather, Spotify (and most other on demand streaming services) pay out a % of their
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by rm999 3y ago
There's a lot of confusion in this thread about "before the big bang". I was also confused and did some googling and found this explanation from a professor of theoretical physics. It seems that it's actually pretty norm
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by rm999 3y ago
I learned about this from Red Dead Redemption 2 (spoiler ahead), where the protagonist purchases a pre-built home from a catalog modeled after the Sears Home catalog. What I found particularly interesting is that what Americans today consid
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by rm999 3y ago
While my experience is not from the 90s, I think I can speak to some of why this is. For some context, I first got into neural networks in the early 2000s during my undergrad research, and my first job (mid 2000s) was at an early pioneer th
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by rm999 3y ago
Their business plan is to build custom models for clients/companies who want to own models built on their own data. No comment on the viability of such a business model. https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/16
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by rm999 4y ago
I agree, but can you imagine that Matlab, and then R, were the de facto ML languages before Python really took off? Putting R models into production was an absolute nightmare. Before R, I was writing bash scripts which called Perl scripts t
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by rm999 4y ago
Python did not win the ML language wars because of anything to do with front-end, but rather because it does both scripting and software engineering well enough. ML usually requires an exploration/research (scripting) stage and a produ
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by rm999 4y ago
Create view is a great V0.5 for a data warehouse and what I recommend people do if possible so they can concentrate on building the right schema, naming standards, etc. dbt is the V1. You get a lot of tooling, including a proper dag, loggin
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by rm999 4y ago
It's gotten much easier in the 24 hours because of this binary release of a popular stable diffusion setup+UI: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/rele... (you still need a Nvidia GPU) Ext
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by rm999 4y ago
If I am reading this correctly, a pawn past row 7 will automatically be replaced by a Queen: https://github.com/ehulinsky/AnalogChess/blob/main/analogche...
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by rm999 4y ago
The y-axis has actual meaning: it tells you the purchasing power of a public stock, which will never be 0. What you could do is normalize it by the value of the stock at the start of the chart, which would make the charts start at 1. On a l
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by rm999 4y ago
That's exactly right, he specified a style with each and cherrypicked out of 40-60 pictures: https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1512119623315075081 >Btw transparency for this now-viral thread: I didn
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by rm999 5y ago
>A "vector" in vector search solutions is a dense vector generated by a transformer model. Just a clarification that vectors are much broader than text vectors generated by transformer models. A more common application has been
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by rm999 5y ago
This doesn't seem right to me, why don't astronauts suffocate on the International Space Station? You can pressurize air in a spacecraft, I believe the ISS is kept at ~1 atm.
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by rm999 5y ago
>Google is about to introduce a next-generation Tensor chip, updating the ones found in the company’s Pixel 6 phones. It is basically an artificial-intelligence accelerator in your pocket, allowing your phone to adapt to you—your own per
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by rm999 5y ago
>Their business model incentivize them to have top notch quality. I worked at a competitor to Costco; I would argue this isn't quite accurate, and that this statement applies to Amazon about as much. The key distinction between Amaz
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by rm999 5y ago
tldr: this is expected. The article addresses everything I'm about to say, but I think the lede is buried: >Apple's NeuralHash perceptual hash function performs its job better than I expected When you are just looking for any t
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by rm999 5y ago
I couldn't find a picture of the fruit, but this article at least has a photo of the basket. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/02/fruit-basket...
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by rm999 5y ago
Ever since GDPR and then CCPA were announced I've had vendors trying to sell me on solutions to manage our data - often heavy-handed solutions that come at a high technical cost. The sales pitches always stand on scare tactics, that
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by rm999 5y ago
This isn't about software so I'm not sure "open source" is even the right terminology, but if it is then no it's not open source by any common definition. For example the open source initiative defines open source i
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by rm999 5y ago
The funny thing is I've recently noticed the exact same phenomenon on conservative media. A few days ago there were 4 posts at the top of r/conservative about liberals being 'slammed' for something or the other (for the
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by rm999 5y ago
I’ve always NULL’d values, not deleted rows. E.g. GDPR request? NULL out all identifying information, but keep the record. As long as your primary key has no business meaning you should never have to delete the row of a table.
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by rm999 5y ago
>Soft deletes This section is totally wrong IMO. What is the alternative? "Hard" deleting records from a table is usually a bad idea (unless it is for legal reasons), especially if that table's primary key is a foreign key
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by rm999 6y ago
Agreed - in law you can essentially get away with a single predictor for much money you make (given your level of experience): whether you work at a big law firm. This creates a natural bimodal distribution. In tech there are far more facto
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by rm999 6y ago
I usually avoid commenting on political stuff, but my advice is to please find a better source for information than Scott Adams. He's a smart guy, but he is a strong proponent of "persuasion", i.e. changing people's mind
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by rm999 6y ago
Good question. In the first case it was left vague but I understood it as being fired and then not trying to find a new ad tech job. In the case of my team it was finding better industries to work in.
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by rm999 6y ago
Back in the early 2010s I worked in ad tech on a data science team, and one of the things we were pushing for was causal A/B testing; basically turn off a campaign's advertising to a % of people and correlate it with sales to meas

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