srconstantin

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by srconstantin 14y ago
This makes sense. It's a "The way to Tara is via Holyhead" kind of thing.
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Look -- as long as "data scientist" is a sexy job title, a lot of different jobs are going to claim they fall under that umbrella. I have an applied math background, and I'm fine with scientific computing, but I have much less experience w
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by srconstantin 14y ago
First, most poor people still don't live in projects. Second, I don't know if degradation matters more than material possessions.
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I'm kind of the villain of this piece -- a relatively novice coder who expects to apply for programming-heavy jobs in the future. Here's why I think I'm not actually a villain: 1. I'm not under any illusions that people should pay me mega-
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by srconstantin 14y ago
There's a difference between optimizing for current conditions, and changing future conditions. Optimizing for current conditions: right now, a lot of the best job applicants have degrees from top-tier schools, and if you need to hire someo
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Secret I believe to be true: A good deal of experimental research is a cartel on resources and data. The "open access" movement in biology is not what programmers would think of as open; you can get access to many "open" data sets only by
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I think people should seriously consider that not all women want children. Women aren't idiots. We think about the tradeoffs.
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Violence against women and violence against men are different. Men are more likely to be the victims of violent crimes, and especially more likely to be attacked by strangers. Violence against women is more likely to be rape or domestic v
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I don't think "snake oil" is the right paradigm here. In ML/AI, lots of honest researchers are wrong; being a scientist who's wrong doesn't make you a criminal. That said: Hawkins' principles are very different both from what the brain does
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Read the paper; HTM's don't seem to do better than other object recognition algorithms at recognizing shapes, especially because there are visual properties it ignores (curvature, global topological properties, etc.) The accuracy for the p
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by srconstantin 14y ago
How much of this will work on a Mac?
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Systems are your friends. 1. Track the things you want to accomplish. Joe's Goals is good for that. If your problem is working enough hours a day, track hours. 2. To-Do lists. I use ToodleDo religiously. 3. Block distracting internet s
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by srconstantin 14y ago
The lowest stress, highest paying per hour job I can think of is tutoring high school students. $50 an hour is normal, $100 is possible in affluent neighborhoods if you have a good pitch about why you're worth it; I have even heard of $500
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I don't have personal experience on this, but my take is that leaving school is a risk. Exceptional people can sometimes take career risks and win. The rest of us should avoid them.
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I think the prevailing mood among people who think of themselves as "business people" is nowhere near risk-averse enough.
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by srconstantin 14y ago
This is an example of something I've been wondering about for years. We have cryptography and cryptanalysis. But while we have machine learning, we don't really have an established science of "anti-learning" -- creating examples that are h
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Oh, I think so too. For a while that was what I wanted to work on, except that I figured Whitetruffle were too good to compete with. One critical part of a business like that is connections with the recruiting industry, because you're esse
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by srconstantin 14y ago
The bottom line: go to school. I'm well aware of the drawbacks of academic science. I'm aware that some of the best progress happens outside of academia. It's not about that; it's about resources. I've been doing some consulting for a comp
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by srconstantin 14y ago
http://www.knewton.com/ , education platform.
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by srconstantin 14y ago
www.whitetruffle.com is the best I've found so far. It matches based on skills and a few other attributes (like location and whether you have a US visa.) I've talked to them, since this is a subject close to my heart and I'm curious, and t
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I'm trying to get into that business myself, and it's good to know where the remaining gaps in my knowledge are. (For me it's the "logistics" part.)
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Honestly, I think introductory courses are useful. This looks like a good program, and focused on getting you to the point where you can build something simple. At the risk of (gasp!) admitting ignorance, I think I'd probably find a progr
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Not in that case. I think it's really algebra that looks very different after the 50's.
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by srconstantin 14y ago
BTW, I'm a she, and yes, that was my point.
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I probably phrased it too strongly, but I'm legitimately confused. Something seems...unsettlingly short-term here. I shouldn't have called it a "Ponzi scheme." But perhaps "speculation."
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by srconstantin 14y ago
You don't see something...Ponzi-scheme-ish about the industry? I may not be especially familiar with this, but it sounds like: 1. Man makes short-lived company that makes him rich quickly. 2. Man makes money investing in other short-liv
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by srconstantin 14y ago
I went to school with these guys. I don't have a lot of sympathy for them, but I do have a little . They did find a place in the sun. Right now their skills match what the market wants. So, like everyone else , they're going to remake
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by srconstantin 14y ago
This is true. My guess is that the "bro culture" is designed to attract a different population of men, who ordinarily would have gone to Wall Street or similar industries, but are attracted to the present web boom. When the bubble's over, I
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Agreed. Until I see evidence that "bro companies" are more successful than normal ones, I have no qualms about shunning them.
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by srconstantin 14y ago
Often the different notation from older books makes them harder to learn from, but sometimes I've found them useful. (Watson's "A Treatise on the Theory of Bessel Functions" was the only place I could find certain formulas derived.)

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