thinkr42

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by thinkr42 2y ago
This entirely. You can't eat using "good feelings" / "impact" alone.
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by thinkr42 2y ago
Genuine curiosity here and trying to temper my own selective memory : does it seem like skepticism is growing on the AI front in the news recently?
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by thinkr42 4y ago
This mostly makes me wonder about the varying definitions of NLP. Most business folks I’ve worked with in this field don’t even know the question to ask or prompt- the implementation details of models like GPT are the easy part.
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by thinkr42 5y ago
I've personally encountered this quite a bit circling around tech, in most of the cases I've seen it was due to _deeply seated_ insecurity more than anything else. Usually it corresponds with folks who find themselves in a positio
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Marshall Island Stick Charts(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by thinkr42 5y ago|0 comments
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by thinkr42 5y ago
Though verbose and somewhat strange at times, one thing I love about SQL is that the query statements read like a set definition from set theory. That declarative nature is pretty powerful IMO, sure there are hiccups but it is a different w
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by thinkr42 5y ago
Skeptical to say the least, only because I think this person would likely get a Nobel Prize if this was proven to the be the case. Bell's theorem is huge in QM, usually introduced very early in the Quantum track. It'd be awesome i
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by thinkr42 6y ago
Company "culture" always makes me a little skeptical, particularly when they're used for hiring decisions. I can't help but think it is just another way to discriminate against folks - I mean if you're saying some o
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by thinkr42 6y ago
"For the love of God, don't use Feynman lectures to learn physics. That's something you read after you know physics, for relaxation and conceptual stuff..." Agree with this 100%. To learn math or physics you have to do i
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by thinkr42 7y ago
So some of these graphs remind me of benford’s law, something you see in a lot of number sets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law
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by thinkr42 7y ago
What’s so powerful for me is that my old company’s “brand” is exactly this style
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by thinkr42 7y ago
I’ve been in a workplace where we supposedly followed this. It was often used as a veil for passive aggressive toxicity. There was a lot wrong with that place, and this certainly isn’t the cause of it, but I’ve seen this used as a weapon to
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by thinkr42 8y ago
That is something I hadn’t thought of before
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by thinkr42 8y ago
It is remarkable how frequently “unreasonable effectiveness” is thrown around.
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by thinkr42 8y ago
I hadn't thought of this to be honest, but I do faintly remember the IT / Dev team using the "not technically feasible" line a bunch whenever Marketing would come through with stuff. Used to get me angry quite a bit and
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by thinkr42 8y ago
I saw this a bunch in my next job after Marsh, which was analytics consulting. I'm not sure about Marsh doing this (at least internally), but who knows with Sun.
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by thinkr42 8y ago
I worked at Marsh from 2005-2015 in both corporate and the store. We were always skeptical of Sun, the CEOs that would cycle through didn't grasp the basics of grocery, and as an organization we failed to invest in basic infrastructure
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by thinkr42 9y ago
Do you think that some of the hiring practices are out of whack as well? I've heard it claimed that sometimes the government treats hiring as welfare employment programs - which adds a whole new spin on this.
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by thinkr42 9y ago
If only we could use it to travel around the world instantaneously.
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by thinkr42 9y ago
Used this to detect tax fraud for a state government and uncover a breach (by poor suppression techniques) of medicaid data. This little law is extraordinarily useful!
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by thinkr42 9y ago
This is a relatively small problem - that sure is one ugly red knob on the side. I don't think it jives with the design at all and looks cartoonish. Otherwise, seems like a decent upgrade
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by thinkr42 9y ago
Is this sort of analysis technically allowed by Twitter's ToS and Privacy Policy? Don't get me wrong, what you post on social media is public and that's that, but I know there are sometimes interesting rules around this sort
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by thinkr42 9y ago
This is great, but think "Probably is in there" should be replaced with "Might be in there".
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by thinkr42 9y ago
Surely there's a Chart.ly (or alternatively 314Chart.io) that is in the works somewhere - disrupting this market using tensor flow deep learning networks to produce the best pie charts possible.
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by thinkr42 9y ago
Absolutely agree. This weighting is pointless considering the interdependent nature of the items being weighted.
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by thinkr42 9y ago
Completely agree. The examples are incredibly narrow and likely document and context dependent overall.
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by thinkr42 10y ago
This is awesome!
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by thinkr42 10y ago
Byzantine hiring processes in the government itself doesn't help this problem. This isn't a politica statement, if you compare USAJobs to an average tech company you'll see an over emphasis on certifications and the like. The
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by thinkr42 10y ago
You are absolutely right about that!
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by thinkr42 10y ago
I respectfully disagree. While I understand where you're coming from, I don't agree with your distinction between an analyst and a scientist. Given the data scientist's typical compensation and expected experience, there shou

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