throw_away_777

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by throw_away_777 8y ago
The way TI is structured they invite one team from South America. So Pain is likely not in top 20, but still a very good team.
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by throw_away_777 8y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that humans have to process the game from the image on the screen and input through a mouse and keyboard. We have to move the mouse to react to things. The computer is super-human in part because it doesn't
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
Humans are nowhere near the limit of what is possible in chess, as evidenced by how much better computers are at the game.
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
I don't usually like to ask for citations, but he said the data was easily found which is clearly false in this case. And there are good reasons to believe google, a company which hires a "VP of Diversity" might be different
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
This is a straw-man argument, the point is that if women are predisposed to be less interested in a profession than maybe that explains why there are less woman in that profession. Also the memo is about evaluating everyone based on their m
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
There absolutely are people who are against any claims that men and women are biologically different, the president of Harvard got fired for even hinting that this was a possibility. Another way to look at it, if there are differences betwe
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
Show me the data that this is true at google, which is the company we are talking about. I would be very interested to see this data.
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
It may have been illegal to fire him, see this article: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/07/it-may-be-illegal-for-google...
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
See this article: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/07/it-may-be-illegal-for-google...
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
I'd like to see your data supporting the assertion that qualified diverse candidates are rejected at greater rates. The thing is he wouldn't of been fired for arguing the opposite claim, this is clearly discrimination.
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
Without knowing the distribution of the applicants, we can't say. Maybe 0.1% of all applicants are black, we don't know. In the same way, just saying 1% of tech roles are filled by black engineers doesn't imply that google&#x
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
Clearly scientific training does have at least some credence to scientific arguments.
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
The truth of what he said has nothing to do with why he was fired. He was fired for not being politically correct and offending people, not because his arguments were right or wrong. People are usually most outraged by statements which are
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
That maybe the theory, but it often isn't how it works in practice. Unfortunately people who claims this publicly get fired. I don't know the numbers, but it would be interesting to see if the acceptance rate of a google job inter
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
Reddit has the worst mobile site i've ever seen, with constant pop-ups that make the site basically unusable. Sometimes a good idea and first to the market is better than good execution.
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
This is why signing bonuses are so nice, firing someone on day 1 is just awful. If I was an employee at a company who did this to someone I would start looking for another job.
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
This statement: "Or in other words: the model, its size, hyperparameters, and the optimiser cannot explain the generalisation performance of state-of-the-art neural networks." is not true and very misleading. Careful selection of
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
The deep learning buzz-word applies to models which learn feature interactions in a fairly complicated manner. While it is possible to explain what a model is doing, the model is a black-box in the sense that without a computer you could no
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
You can do the same with deep learning, your model will fail when the train data and test data are systematically different. This isn't about understanding the model, it is about understanding the data. Understanding the data is much m
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
While I have nothing against black-box models and believe that interpretability is over-rated, deep learning is less interpretable than other models. But compare something like a simple linear model with a deep model and the linear model is
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
The body is fairly good at fighting off illnesses and disease. Not a doctor, but from what I have read often by the time someone is diagnosed with cancer it has progressed to a stage where the body's immune system has failed to fight i
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by throw_away_777 9y ago
I always assume this is just an excuse - they don't give you a reason because there is no reason for them to give you a reason. If there was some benefit for them to giving you a reason they would not fear the lawsuits. Maybe some peop
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
There are ways to detect cheating on chess websites, though these methods are not perfect. The two main signatures are: 1) Playing moves that the engine recommends consistently. This looks for people who are inhumanly good, even the top che
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
It really isn't that hard, pretty much you always just tip a standard amount (average tip is 15-20%).
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
I didn't mean in taxes, I meant that immigrants often send money home or buy from their native country, for instance when on vacation etc.
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
US citizens pay taxes, contribute to US companies and make the US more powerful. US citizens also contribute a higher percentage of their income to local communities than immigrants do. It is a myth that their is an infinite supply of jobs,
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Well it is a bad thing if you are an American student and have to compete with cheaper foreign students (Universities recruit foreign students because they pay more money). There are winners and losers in immigration.
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
That is a pretty strange way of defining profitable where you are losing money.
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
Points 2) and 3) seem limited in scope. For 3) that was only 1 competition that I can think of, but I agree that was a terrible competition format and executed poorly. For point 2), you can just ignore the exploratory notebooks if you so ch
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by throw_away_777 10y ago
That 500,000 developers is a vanity metric. The real number is around 50,000 who have completed a challenge, and around 5,000 who are active on the site. Also of those 5,000 users the large majority are employed somewhere else.

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