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by urish 9y ago
tl;dr by Laura Norén (@digitalFlaneuse on twitter): Stanford professor, Ilya Strebulaev, and Will Gornall of the University of British Columbia recalculated the valuation of 100+ companies known as unicorns (startups valued at $1bn +) and s
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Squaring Venture Capital Valuations with Reality(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by urish 9y ago|1 comments
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Hackers Came, but the French Were Prepared(nytimes.com)
3 points by urish 9y ago|1 comments
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The Shape-Shifting Army Inside Your Cells(quantamagazine.org)
1 points by urish 10y ago|0 comments
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by urish 10y ago
My only disagreement is with: >Human processes just add additional bias Bias with respect to what? As you say, there is already bias baked into the data collection and the algorithmic choices. The bias that human editors introduce is d
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Who would transparency in search algorithms benefit?(medium.com)
1 points by urish 10y ago|0 comments
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Arvind Narayanan's New Textbook: “Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies”(piazza.com)
4 points by urish 11y ago|0 comments
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by urish 11y ago
Weird that the filter didn't catch it - it seems to be exactly the same URL in both cases.
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Use micromorts to fight terrorism(blog.arty.name)
31 points by urish 11y ago|12 comments
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A Little More on the Graph Isomorphism Algorithm(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
60 points by urish 11y ago|3 comments
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by urish 11y ago
I wonder at what point does using fewer words become detrimental to understanding.
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Taking away a damaging tool(johndcook.com)
2 points by urish 11y ago|0 comments
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Trolling ISIS: How an Internet scam could stymie ISIS’s online recruiters(slate.com)
2 points by urish 11y ago|0 comments
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The Surprise Examination Paradox and the Second Incompleteness Theorem [pdf](ams.org)
9 points by urish 11y ago|0 comments
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Beware the Man of One Study(slatestarcodex.com)
4 points by urish 11y ago|0 comments
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Competing in a data science contest without reading the data(blog.mrtz.org)
37 points by urish 11y ago|4 comments
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Adversarial Scenarios and Economies of Scale(machinedlearnings.com)
1 points by urish 12y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Not as Unstoppable as It May Appear(nytimes.com)
7 points by urish 12y ago|5 comments
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Half the papers at NIPS would be rejected if the review process were rerun(mrtz.org)
141 points by urish 12y ago|49 comments
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Teaching Deep Convolutional Neural Networks to Play Go(arxiv.org)
71 points by urish 12y ago|17 comments
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by urish 12y ago
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber. I'm cautious to say it changed my life, but it definitely changed my view on many things. I'm more aware of the ubiquity and power of debt, and I can no longer take those for granted.
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by urish 12y ago
I second that. A CS PhD without student funding (at least a few 10K $ a year) is suspect.
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OpenCV computer vision challenge(opencv.org)
2 points by urish 12y ago|0 comments
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by urish 13y ago
I'm surprised by how relatively little machine learning research they have. Microsoft, Google, IBM and Yahoo seem much better represented at the core ML conferences like ICML and NIPS.
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by urish 13y ago
But why would you equate "lazy" with unethical? That's already an assumption that could be challenged. We now don't deem someone who's unwilling to work from sun up to sun down in the rice fields as lazy or unethica
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by urish 13y ago
I'm a PhD student working in machine learning, on the border of mathematical optimization. I also have a research project about mapping influence and innovation in the history of contemporary music, with ML tools. I heard about HN from
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Proper engineering blog: Iron Dome (Israel's rocket defense system)(hemiposterical.blogspot.co.il)
2 points by urish 14y ago|1 comments
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by urish 14y ago
http://developer.rovicorp.com/docs does some of this stuff, albeit it's a bit cumbersome. I'm still using them since they have some metadata available which is unique. (these are the guys behind http://www.allmusic.com )
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by urish 14y ago
Got it! I'm so happy...
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by urish 14y ago
"The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name". A really interesting history book. I'm now in a great part, about how knowledge of geography (and map projections)

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