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The State of Machine Learning Competitions – 2025 Edition(mlcontests.com)
3 points by willis77 7mo ago|1 comments
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by willis77 3y ago
The fine folks at <checks notes> FOPEAS would never tarnish their good name by stooping to such a stunt. I mean, we might expect such shenanigans from the likes of SMURGBLOZ, KINSURGE, or GSIROOZ, but not FOPEAS, fine purveyors of `F
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by willis77 3y ago
The year is 1900. College-bound nephew says "what's the point of a physics major anymore?" I asked "what do you mean?" and he goes "Newton's Laws".
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The State of Competitive Machine Learning – 2022 Edition(mlcontests.com)
1 points by willis77 4y ago|0 comments
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by willis77 4y ago
Each year Kaggle creates a for-fun, Santa-themed optimization problem. This year's is about controlling a robotic arm to efficiently print cards.
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Kaggle's Annual Holiday Optimization Problem – The Christmas Card Conundrum(kaggle.com)
3 points by willis77 4y ago|1 comments
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by willis77 6y ago
The digits of pi contain every pdf that ever could and ever will exist.
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Kaggle’s 5 remote-first tips for new WFHers(dev.to)
6 points by willis77 6y ago|1 comments
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by willis77 8y ago
Any dog ever would gladly trade a few zaps for a wide open place to explore outside. Cruelty is depriving dogs of exercise and outdoor time and stimulation and the chance to run, not invisible fences.
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by willis77 9y ago
Same issues here. I dread having to unplug or shutdown my MBP connected to 2 external monitors because it means I'll have to reconfigure the displays.
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by willis77 9y ago
As of 2015, there were 9 car models without recorded deaths - https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/record-9-models-have-... I'm not sure how statistically significant the numbers are, but it's somethin
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by willis77 9y ago
Yeah, my above comment was not using a text search, hence no "relevant" option (i.e. if you just drilled down the department hierarchy to, say, the TVs department). > the core need, is that you want control over the model that
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by willis77 9y ago
Amazon has the default "Featured" sort (I'm not sure what is behind this, but it intuitively seems like some combination of popularity + availability + rating). If this default doesn't fit your needs, your only option is
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by willis77 9y ago
Anyone here have thoughts on why, all these years later, Amazon still doesn't have a sort option along the lines of these proposals? It seems like such an easy win and an easy technical change. Do they have some business reason not to
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by willis77 9y ago
Nothing warms our icy, cold, statistical hearts quite like hearing that a randomly chosen person is near the median. <3
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by willis77 9y ago
I don't know who this James Mickens fellow is, but I like the cut of his jib.
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by willis77 9y ago
Sort by rating you say? Sure, here's 3 pages of sketchy, out of production, third-party seller items with one 5-star review, followed by the 4.97 star item with 3,880 reviews that you actually should buy. Enjoy!
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by willis77 10y ago
> Our results suggest that automated systems for monitoring demographic trends may effectively complement labor-intensive approaches
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by willis77 10y ago
But who has access to writeStatus.txt? Classic rookie mistake. You needed a writeStatusWriteStatus.txt.
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by willis77 10y ago
I agree, and suspect many people (outside of the statisticians who have had the time and space to digest the philosophical underpinnings) who claim to love Bayesian methods do so because they have been told it's the right thing to love
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by willis77 10y ago
Can confirm. I've been running this bot for 8 minutes and currently have a $7.8 million short position against the fake NYT. SEE YOU IN COURT, @maxbbraun!
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by willis77 10y ago
Hey, wait, aren't you that guy that does the funny nerd keyboard thing? Type me a sentence. Dance monkey, dance!
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by willis77 10y ago
> Sorry, but, this required a new study? Yes, it requires study, unless all of this is obvious to you: "The twin cohort displayed distinctive pathway enrichment based on sleep duration differences. Habitual short sleep was associate
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by willis77 10y ago
I always said the hallmark of a great tool is something that can do 50 things in a shitty way. "ALEXA. ALEXA. SIRI! OKAY GOOGLE? Come here self-driving roomba. Play NPR podcasts and brew me a tepid cup of brown Keurig water while engag
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by willis77 10y ago
Having worked in the field, the model that works well is decision support = augmenting an expert with a computer-aided diagnosis. This can work in a couple of ways, but the two classic ones are: * Following behind the expert to give a secon
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by willis77 10y ago
> Given a list of time-dependent coordinates of obstacles A tree falls in an intersection because some carpenter ants chewed through trunk. Cars swerve to miss the tree and collide in an inelastic ball of nonlinearity, showering debris e
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by willis77 10y ago
"Shelf Overflow"?
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by willis77 10y ago
> A machine learning researcher, a crypto-currency expert, and an Erlang programmer walk into a bar. Facebook buys the bar for $27 billion. https://twitter.com/ml_hipster/status/438418306769244160
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by willis77 10y ago
There was a time when Reddit did not have subreddits (or even the ability to comment). During this time, Reddit's community was very much like HN is currently. It was mostly techy people who found Digg was getting a little too "lo
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by willis77 10y ago
> that physics thing from that Swiss patent clerk guy I think you're thinking of Carl deGrasse Feynman.

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