turingbike

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by turingbike 5y ago
people want to go back to monoliths, but don't want to lose the upsides of microservices. once you get a taste of serverless, it's really hard to go back to overprovisioning. at the same time, distributed state and logic that cros
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by turingbike 6y ago
I bounced a bunch of times too for similar reasons. Is it worth checking out? emphatic yes Summarize? I will try, and probably not do a great job; I'm still digesting it. The world is both "nebulous" [1] and patterned; observ
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by turingbike 6y ago
The Fed's policies (at least since 2008) could be described as "socialism for the management upper class" - they got free money that they gave to themselves as bonuses. Their companies were buoyed up, regardless of what the m
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by turingbike 6y ago
There was a great article on the front page yesterday, When to Assume Neural Networks Can Solve a Problem, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22717367 . Case 2 is very relevant here, basically: if you have solved the prob
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by turingbike 7y ago
Given this perspective, I would postpone investment as long as possible then.
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by turingbike 7y ago
I think you will also like this quote/thought then: > The theory is this: Infinite Jest is Wallace's attempt to both manifest and dramatize a revolutionary fiction style that he called for in his essay "E Unibus Pluram: Te
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by turingbike 7y ago
I assume you have never explored your own literal blind spot [0] and how the brain just plasters over it with some hacky texture filling... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_spot_(vision)
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by turingbike 7y ago
Google's AutoML produces black box models that are only available over a network call. This services seems to produces downloadable models, and a notebook with Python code that creates the model. If that is the case, this is substantia
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by turingbike 7y ago
This is called regulatory capture. Once you know the term, you can find some good content on it, like this https://www.thisamericanlife.org/536/the-secret-recordings-o...
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by turingbike 7y ago
They give examples of problems their model could solve that Mathematica couldn't (within a 30 second timeout) - and that's awesome. Destroy Mathematica. But, I did anyone notice if there were problems that it couldn't solve t
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by turingbike 7y ago
I was hoping that this would be related to Colah's "Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming" https://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-NN-Types-FP/ (but it is not). In it, he establishes corr
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by turingbike 7y ago
I think the reason the parent mentions GraalVM instead of Jython is that Jython can't use C libs like numpy. But GraalVM lets you compile JVM to a native binary, so maybe there is some way to use Cython in JVM.
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by turingbike 7y ago
* Search "Who's Hiring?" for remote - https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com/#%22remote%22 https://weworkremotely.com https://remoteok.io/ and of course, word-of-mouth / loose social c
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by turingbike 7y ago
Leo Breiman [0] (inventor of bagging and random forests) wrote a paper called "Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures" [1], and since I read it, I see it everywhere. The basic idea is that Statisticians place(d) too high an emphas
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by turingbike 7y ago
This is a good first-order approximation, but there are other cannabinoids which influence the effects: CBN, THCV, and others [0]. Additionally, based on first-hand anecdata, I think there is good reason to believe that the terpene profile
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by turingbike 7y ago
Stamets' book, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World [0] is very good, and his enthusiasm is definitely contagious. I will check out the podcast, thought tbh Joe Rogan is pretty hit or miss for me. [0] https:/&#
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by turingbike 7y ago
Named parameters _might_ be my favorite part of Python. I don't understand why every language doesn't have them.
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by turingbike 7y ago
This is the funniest satire that has ever made it to the fp of this site. I was literally LOLing at the videos.
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by turingbike 7y ago
I have been looking for exactly this content for years! Thank you!
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by turingbike 7y ago
> What if future humans check all the planets in the universe Nope! Imagine a shell around us, defined as "how far we could go, if we left right now, traveling at near the speed of light, given that the accelerated expansion of the
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by turingbike 7y ago
I don't know why it isn't as popular, but CatBoost should be on the list too https://catboost.ai/
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by turingbike 7y ago
The article recommends RF for tabular data because it is easier. In general I agree, but newer tools are making NN for tabular data as easy as can be... see, for example, fastai https://docs.fast.ai/tabular.html
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by turingbike 7y ago
Surprisingly, there are a lot of good tips in the US Gov's Plain Language Guidelines https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/
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by turingbike 7y ago
This is not a bad pitch
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by turingbike 7y ago
Regardless of similarity to Wolfram products, this looks cool. I feel like I could be in the target audience, but the documentation is quite sparse. I feel like > Your data ends up being represented as nodes in a graph that can be traver
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by turingbike 7y ago
> plus then you lose voice typing completely which is not acceptable to me I use GBoard on iOS, and on the iPhone XS with iOS12, you can still use the native voice typing while using GBoard
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by turingbike 7y ago
Aren't Jupyter notebooks R notebooks? Jupyter stands for "Julia, Python, R" I believe
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by turingbike 7y ago
I'll be honest, it's been a long time since I was studying classical mechanics, but 15 years ago I remember answering a similar question with "read the Feynman Lectures Volume I!" They are the edited version of the intro